#502 Flowing with Perry Yung

Bruce Lee Podcast

Shannon Lee

Bruce, Philosophy, Podcast, Lee, Tv & Film, Shannon, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Shannon’s guest on this week’s episode of the Bruce Lee Podcast is actor, musician and activist, Perry Yung. You may know him as Father Jun from our show Warrior on Max! But Perry was the founder of the Asian American performance collective SLANT Performance Group and has been a member of La Mama’s Great Jones Repertory Group since 1993 where he has performed leading roles in Andrei Serban and Elizabeth Swados’ Fragments of a Greek Trilogy around the world. Perry is also a traditionally trained Japanese shakuhachi flute craftsman and musician. He leads meditation flute making and playing workshops in Zen temples and theater workshops across the United States. More recently he has been integrating the sound of the zen flute into film and television such as in Warrior for Cinemax/HBOmax and A Father's Son directed by Patrick Chen.

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0:00.0	My guest on this episode of our special Bruce Lee Foundation edition of the Bruce Lee podcast is none other than one of our amazing stars of Warrior and my friend Perry Young.
0:12.5	We recorded this episode while we were filming in South Africa for Season 3, which debuts on Max, June 29th, by the way.
0:21.0	On Warrior, Perry plays Father June, a salty flute-playing gangster who runs the Hopway Tong in San Francisco's Chinatown.
0:31.0	But in addition to being a wonderful actor, Perry is a musician and an activist, or as he likes to call himself an archivist.
0:40.0	Perry was the founder of the Asian-American Performance Collective, Slant Performance Group, and has been a member of Lemama's Great Jones Repertory Group since 1993.
0:51.0	Perry is also a traditionally trained Japanese Chakuhachi flute craftsman and musician.
0:57.0	He leads meditation flute-making and playing workshops in Zen temples, as well as theater workshops across the United States.
1:05.0	And yes, that is Perry playing the flute on Warrior, and yes, Perry did make those flutes.
1:12.0	Perry uses all his talents to create marvelous art and also speak to social issues.
1:19.0	I am so pleased that you will get to spend the next little while with my very talented friend, Perry Young.
1:28.0	Sent to your mind, mind, and form.
1:35.0	Show pleasure.
1:38.0	Like Mortemore.
1:42.0	Now what if I want to know?
1:45.0	I want to know where.
1:49.0	Welcome to the Bruce Lee Podcast, a podcast about Bruce Lee's life and philosophy.
1:58.0	And Mortemore.
2:00.0	Hi, everyone. Shannon here. Welcome to the Bruce Lee Podcast.
2:05.0	Today, for this episode, our guest is Perry Young.
2:11.0	Hi, Perry.
2:12.0	Hey, Shannon.
2:14.0	Hello, everyone.
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