Bruce Lee

He is my hero. When I was child, I saw his movie. I didn’t forget that feeling. It was so exciting! After that I still love action movie. He was master of ‘Jeet Kune Do’(It is martial art.) His action was not fake. I mean it is real martial art.

His first movie was ‘The Big Boss’. In this movie, he was not main character. But his act was impression. So he got known for people from this movie. And he acted lots of movies. ‘Fist of Fury’, ‘The Way of the Dragon’, ‘Enter the Dragon’, ‘Game of Death’. He died during acted ‘Gme of Death’. So the movie was finished with substitute actor.

Chow Yun Fat

He was born small island in Hong Kong. His parents are emigrant, so he can’t receive regular education. When he was 17, he quit the school and began actor in TVB. The movie that he got spotted first is ‘God of Killers’ which is made by Ann Hui.

‘God of Killers’ was succeeded. After that he act ‘A Better Tomorrow’ by John Woo. ‘A Better Tomorrow’ was beginning of ‘Hong Kong Noir’ in 1980’s~90’s. So he is famous actor.

He act ‘A Better Tomorrow 2’, ‘City on Fire’. So he is a idol of Asia youth. And he go to America, enter the Hollywood. After that ‘Anna and the King’, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ are made he world star. Recently he act ‘Captain Sao Feng’ who is captain of Singapore pirate in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End.’

The God Father : The Father of Gangster Movies

If you are interesting in the movies, you must hear about the movie, "The Godfather". Although this movie is released in 1972, pretty old, many of Americans remember this movie as a masterpiece. This movie has a well-weaved plot and scenary. We can think that this is a just one of a gangster movie, however, many of audiences refuse it.
Why many of them think that "The Godfather" is so great? At that time, we know, there is not good equipments like today`s. This movie shows the magnificent scenary and plot with this! It has a long running time like "The Lord of the Ring", it is attractive enough to enjoy it. If you want to feel the father of gangster movies, then feel it!

Leslie Cheung

He is star of Hong Kong. He act Hong Kong noir movie like ‘A better tomorrow’. ‘Farewell My Concubine’(It is movie name) made he world-famous star. And he was famous for singer. He released several record, and held lots of concert. He was an idol of people.

1 st, April 2003. He killed himself. When I heard that news, I didn’t believe it. Because that day was April fool’s day. Many people were shocked. And they and I hoped it is not true. But he was gone. When he died, people said various opinion of the cause of dead. Suicide or murder. Also people said various reason, if he killed himself. First one is melancholia. Another one is stress from breaking up with his boyfriend(He is bi-sexual.). But that opinion and reason are still opinion and reason.

He act in ‘A Better Tomorrow’, ‘Days Of Being Wild’, ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’, ‘Farewell My Concubine’ and so on. He acted man’s side such as tough, charisma in ‘A Better Tomorrow’, ‘Days of being wild’. But also he acted woman’s side in ‘Farewell My Concubine’. He is great actor.

The Matrix - Simulated reality

The picture above is the most famous scene from the movie "The Matrix". This 15 seconds length scene where hero "Neo" dodges bullets created a sensation in the world. The Matrix has 3 series (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolution) and is still the best SF/action/thriller movie ever. It was produced by Andy and Larry Wachowski, who are brothers. With excellent special effects, this movie won Oscars and many other awards. And also, Keanu Reeves became more famous than ever he was.

The thing that is very interesting in this movie are not only the special effects and cool martial arts but also, the plot and the background of it. The movie shows us the world that is simulated by the machines. Everything is fake and there is not a thing that we can actually call real. The famous lines in the movie "What is real?" (by Morpheus), and "There is no spoon." (by a boy in Oracle's house) give us hints to understand the main aspect of this movie.

If you look on the names of the heroes, locations, and ships they ride on, you can easily find that they are all related to mythicism. For example, the main characters like Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity, the city zion where the people fighting against machine lives and the ships - Avatar, Brahma, Nebuchadnezzar, Logos, Osiris, Prometheus and more. Each of them has religious meanings. They are the names from various religions and myths from Greece, Egypt, India and more oriental civilizations. I think the directors wanted to put a lot of hidden messages in the names.

I believe this movie would become a bible of the SF/action movies. I guess almost every one of you had already seen it, but if you want to understand the profound view of the world of the Matrix series, you must see the Ani-Matrix and you must also play the video game "Enter the Matrix" and "The Path of Neo".

Jackie Chan - The true action star

Since I was a little kid, I was a fan of Jackie Chan. The way I see it is that every boys who grew up watching his films love him. He was one of the greatest heroes of the kids. Every one were amazed to the way he moves, jumps, and fights. Boys played imitating him. I think he is one of the most influential person in the world. The good news is he still is working as an actor, making films that will entertain the ones who are waiting to see him.

Jakie is often compared with other Chinese action stars like Bruce Lee (known as Lee So-ryong in Korea) and Jet Li (known as Lee Yeon-gul). Bruce lee and Jet Li's action style is more concentrated on showing martial arts. However Jakie has done his training from the Chinese opera academy, therefore his actions are more like acrobats. His strong point comes from his stunts which are, for the most part, humorous.
One of the characteristics of his movie is that he shows funny NGs(No Good - scenes that are not in accordance to the script) film parts at the end of the movie. There are a lot of stunt scenes in his movie so he also gets injured a lot of times. He got numerous times of surgeries. It is his passion that makes people like him. Not only taking the funny roles, he always tries to show the audience his mental acting which I found it very nice. The fact that he is also a singer who has many music albums released shows that he is an all round player, a Jack of all trades ans master of all

Why People Watch Thriller Movies

To find out the reason why people watch thriller movies, we have to find why people get frightened. Each person has a feeling of uneasiness and tense inside, and when it comes out to your body and your mind, person begains to feel scare.

Then let's talk about why people watch thriller movies although it's frighten. Actually human being has a mentality of enjoying fear. It's little bit similar to the reason why people want to ride fearful vehicles like Viking and Roller coaster, etc. Also Seeing their misery at the thriller movies, we can feel relief thinking of this; "I am not in a terrible situation like a protagonist of that horror movie." And we can contrast this situation with a mental state of people who crowd at the scene of the car accident.




Human also has a basic mental sate of commit the crime. While you are watching triller movies, first you will think the victim at the movies is so poor, but as time goes by, you will jump into offender's shoes, and feel joy, which can be offender's feels. It's instict of destroy or murder which every human has inside of their unconscious mind.







P.S. And this is bonus story. If our market of society falls down, people spend time to watch thriller movies much more.