Asian language support

Last night I went to a screening of Kung-Fu Hustle at the Sony screeening room. It was ok. I'm not a fan of Stephen Chow. One thing I noticed, which Lillian confirmed, is that increasingly people are speaking their own language in Chinese films. In 2046, characters speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Thai to each other, all without blinking an eye. In Kung Fu Hustle they speak Mandarin and Cantonese. So I experienced the strange sensation of understanding the dialogue in the beginning and then suddenly thinking that my vocabulary had left me completely as the words became intelligible.

The film opens stateside in April. But Lillian said that when she returned home, her mom was brandishing the DVD. She had bought an import in Chinatown for two dollars. Posted by eku at February 18, 2005 1:01 PM