Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, are you ready to laugh?

Because we're going to laugh talking about Stephen Chow.

Who is Stephen Chow?

Stephen Chow is the Jim Carrey of Hong Kong if Jim Carrey's career didn't stall after about five

movies.

And he was also forced to make hundreds of films, usually under mafia involvement.

In Stephen Chow's case, the triads.

Okay.

And Stephen Chow, you may know him from films like Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu

Hustle, maybe CJ7, and I think that's pretty much it as far as North American

penetration goes. And the tricky master. Oh yeah. Oh, the classic tricky master. Or you may

know him from The Mermaid, which until recently was China's highest grossing film

of all time.

But he did not star in that one.

He directed it.

He actually hasn't started a movie in almost a decade, if not more than that.

So Stephen Chow was in the 90s the biggest draw at the Hong Kong box office, more so even

than Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan had more prestigious films. He had bigger budget

films. His movies were bigger events. But Stephen Chow just was churning out movies over and over

again. Every one of them, without exception, was a blockbuster. He's also somebody who, when

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