02.17.09 I THINK THIS MEANS IT WILL BE AWESOME
Saying it’s too violent, the director of Jackie Chan’s latest movie has declined to release his film in mainland China, where public executions for shoplifting are still considered fun for the whole family (limit 3).
Hong Kong director Derek Yee said he considered toning down the violence in “Shinjuku Incident” so it could pass censorship in China, but decided not to because he thought it would hurt the integrity of the movie.
Yee said the $25 million Chinese-language movie, in which Chan plays a refugee who escapes to Japan and becomes a killer for the mob, has scenes that show characters getting a hand chopped off and pierced with knives.
“We tried to cut the violent scenes to meet the requirements of the Chinese market, but producers I invited to watch that version thought it was incomplete,” he said. [Yahoo]
“It’s not something I want my child exposed to,” said Chiang wo-Ping, an exotic animals butcher from Guangzhou. “He should remain focused on his job at the chemical factory.” The shelving of the film is also said to be a blow to the Jackie Chan memorabilia industry, which has been booming ever since the release of the Rush Hour trilogy, or as it’s known in Chinese, Good Cop, Black Cop: Negro Policeman Lacks Discipline. You can read about all this and more in my upcoming book, Jokes about China Really Write Themselves.

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I THINK THIS MEANS IT WILL BE AWESOME
“We tried to cut the violent scenes to meet the requirements of the Chinese market, but producers I invited to watch that version thought it was incomplete,”
Later, the Chinese man returned to his dull, whitewashed life of getting beer and porn out of the same vending machine, squatting to shit in a hole in the floor, and eating Kung Pao Corgi.
In Japan, this gets a Gi rating.
Reading this makes me glad I got rid of my Shitty Trilogy Memorabilia stock.
I bet if you took the chinese lettering in the banner pic and translated them back to english it would read something like “Once a year, black man brings many happiness in your lives”.
I’ve never seen a child as happy as the one in the banner pic.
I didn’t know that censors in China were so yellow-bellied.
The Chinese loved the Rush Hour movies so much that they once declared it Year of the Ratner.
Alas, Year of the Ratner was canceled a hour later when China’s only Mexican restaurant ran out of nachos.
In China, the Foreman Grill is called: “Black Man Hot Surface For Cats”
As part of his preparation for playing a Japanese mobster, Jackie Chan used scotch tape on his eyelids and played Dance Dance Revolution.
After this movie, a one-handed Jackie Chan regretfully agreed that he should have used a stuntman.
Japanese mobsters make “agreements for refusal would make blood kill.”
When CHinese people say they are “down with OPP”, it’s because they ate their neighbour’s cat.
They really do write themselves! Thanks Vince!
“So I tried explaining to the censors that all the characters getting brutally tortured were Tibetans and they told me they weren’t interested in approving another documentary.”
I find it cute that a country that has no qualms about injecting female newborns with poison through their soft spots at birth would find ANY-FUCKING-THING too violent.
So cute, those Ching Changs.
In China, Asian fusion restaurants give you radiation poisoning.
“Alas, Year of the Ratner was canceled a hour later when China’s only Mexican restaurant ran out of nachos.”
i.e. cross-eyed cats
Next week will be the announcement that the movie is being shown as is because the smog made the violence impossble to make out.
Kim Jong Ill thinks Yee should ratchet up the violence a little.
How much fucking fat can there really be in rice, for Christ’s sake?
Stupid dinks. They’ll buy anything.
:roots around garage for bicycle tire pump:
Hey Wang, you wanna buy this dick pump? Just stick this end up your ass, pump like crazy, and it’ll turn your Gecko into a Dragon!
We tried to cut the violent scenes to meet the requirements of the Chinese market, but producers I invited to watch that version thought it was incomplete.
They didn’t like the new “hands-on” approach that the director took.
<—————- Plays rimshot.
Tiananwatchmen will be released as scheduled.
When asked about the possibility of putting the movie on the internet for the entire free world to view for a fee, Derek Yee said “The intahne-huh wha, what is this you speak of?”
Hey JHC, how much for the dick pump?
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