Boob Toob Supplemental: All-Asian Edition

What’s happening Boobers and Toobers? It’s Dan, comin’ at’cha with an all-Asian edition of Boob Toob Supplemental! Apologies to our readers (all two of you) for not having done one of these for a while but the first entry below should explain things. Let’s get to it!

Psy, HyunA & 4Minute or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love K-Pop

It started off with this awesome little music video that some of you may have seen...

After doing those kickass dance move a couple dozen times (this is a lie, I don’t dance... ever), there was some talk regarding who the girl in the video was. After extensive research i.e. a quick Google search, we found out that the girl in question is none other than South Korean idol, singer, dancer, rapper, model, designer (you had me at hello) Kim Hyun-a (also known as HyunA). She actually has her own version of Gangnam Style and a bunch of other music videos such as the newly released Ice Cream (sort of like the Korean version of Milkshake by Kelis). Check out who makes a cameo...

Don’t let that fool you though, she’s not just a pretty face with one or two sexy dance moves. Case in point...

It didn’t take long before finding out that she’s part of South Korean girl group 4Minute which is made up of some very talented ladies. Apparently they're big around Asia. The video below gives a very brief intro on 4Minute.

More than a week of being mesmerised by them and hypnotically consuming HyunA/4Minute related media and I’m now slowly starting to get back to normal life. I am watching their very funny travel show though (Travel Maker) so that might make it into the show/blog at some point.

A grown man listening to some K-Pop... who’d have thought?

Dragon (Wu Xia) trailer

Apparently it came out in China (and possibly some other Asian countries) last year but it’s just now getting a US release.

Check out the blurb below.

Liu Jin-xi (Yen) is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper’s life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu (Kaneshiro). Convinced that Liu’s martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region’s vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy hero—and draws the attention of China’s criminal underworld in the process.

Martial arts noir starring Donnie Yen. AW YEAH! Takeshi Kaneshiro ain’t half bad neither.

Tangent: Anyone remember Takeshi from that Onimusha game which also had Jean Reno?

I just realised that it’s October 31 so I should’ve done an all-Halloween episode. Screw it! I’m too far into this already!

The Bladed Hand trailer

Looks like a neat documentary on Filipino martial arts. It says it came out in 2010 so I’ll have to track it down. I knew Matt Damon used it for the Bourne films but I don’t really know a lot of the history.

 

The Man with the Iron Fists

Here’s another movie that I’m dying to see. It is RZA’s directorial debut and it stars him along with Byron Mann, Cung Le, David Bautista, Jamie Chung, Lucy Liu, Rick Yune, Russell Crowe and a bunch of other people who will most likely get killed at some point in the movie. Check out the blurb:

Making his debut as a big-screen director and leading man, RZA—alongside a stellar international cast led by Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu—tells the epic story of warriors, assassins and a lone outsider hero in nineteenth-century China who must unite to destroy the clan traitor who would destroy them all.

Since his arrival in China’s Jungle Village, the town’s blacksmith (RZA) has been forced by radical tribal factions to create elaborate tools of destruction. When the clans’ brewing war boils over, the stranger channels an ancient energy to transform himself into a human weapon. As he fights alongside iconic heroes and against soulless villains, one man must harness this power to become savior of his adopted people.

Here’s the red band trailer (red band = unrated).

Here’s some fun time TV spots.

And check out this kickass music video for The Baddest Man Alive by The Black Keys & RZA.

I can’t wait! Until next time, keep kicking ass and taking names!