Jackie Chan raises $3.3 million dollars for Japanese relief efforts

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Jackie Chan organized a fundraising event in Hong Kong to support Japan after the tsunami disaster. The event made around $3.3 million dollars in just 3 hours, and included Andy Lau and Donnie Yen, as well as Korean and Japanese musicians, and a satellite performance from Jackie’s long term friend, Lionel Richie.

Jackie is known to be a philanthropist, and in his own estimation has donated somewhere between 10 and 100 million US dollars. Jackie payed for the plane tickets and accommodations for the performers and contributed around HK $5 million (US $643,000)

Proceeds are to go to the Salvation Army, which will be used to prepare and distribute relief packs containing two weeks worth of food and water, hygiene items and blankets.

Good luck to the people of Japan. Go Jackie!

Original article from the Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jackie-chan-raises-33-million-174410

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It’s the least he could do since the Japanese occupation created such a rich source of cinematic themes.

But good for him.

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glad to hear he’s raising money for a good cause.

…i’m still not totally over the whole “chinese people can’t handle democracy” thing, though.

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[QUOTE=Snake Plissken;2533183]It’s the least he could do since the Japanese occupation created such a rich source of cinematic themes.

But good for him.[/QUOTE]
I think it’s good to see the Chinese helping the Japanese- there’s a lot of older people that still have animosity towards the Japanese because of the occupation, but the young people don’t feel that way. When I was younger, the old Asian guy who worked at the local market would go on anti-Japanese rants, and would sometimes pull up his shirt to show that his back was covered in scars from being sprayed with machine gun fire.

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[QUOTE=Permalost;2533189]I think it’s good to see the Chinese helping the Japanese- there’s a lot of older people that still have animosity towards the Japanese because of the occupation, but the young people don’t feel that way. When I was younger, the old Asian guy who worked at the local market would go on anti-Japanese rants, and would sometimes pull up his shirt to show that his back was covered in scars from being sprayed with machine gun fire.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, much like older Japanese Americans would and should have animosity for the internment camps, Older Chinese would and should have personal animosity for mistreatment.

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In Chan Kong Sang’s honor, here is his best fight sequence, in the best movie he ever made.

//youtu.be/YdnCwym0uPs

1975 Hand of Death

Been hit and lost consciousness

1978 Drunken Master

Eyebrow bone hurt, eye corner bloodied

1978 Snake In Eagle’s Shadow

Kicked and lost a teeth; arm injured by a sword with lost of blood

1980 Young Master

Nose bone broken; almost lost breath and died from a palm hit on the throat by a movie opponent

1982 Dragon Lord

Lower jaw hit

1983 Project A

Neck bone seriously injured; nose bone broken

1985 The Protector

Hand and finger bones hurt

1985 Police Story

The 6th to 8th section of the spine and the pelvis hit and shifted position, almost paralyzed

1986 Armour of God

Brain hemorrhage, skull near left ear sunk, broken bones inside skull - most deadly injury

1990 Armour of God II: Operation Condor

Breastbone cracked and shifted

1992 Police Story III: Supercop

Cheekbone hit and shifted

1993 City Hunter

Knee injured; right shoulder sprained and dislocated

1993 Crime Story

Sprain thigh

1994 Rumble In The Bronx

Foot bone cracked; toe bone pierced the skin and exposed

1995 Thunderbolt

Foot bone cracked

1996 Police Story IV: First Strike

Mouth cracked

1997 Mr. Nice Guy

Nose hurt while jumping down a bridge; Fell from height and hurt neck bone

1998 Who Am I

Left-side ribs hurt; ankle hurt

2001 Accidental Spy

Tail bone cartilage hurt and resulted in lower body temporarily paralyzed

2002 The Medallion

Face below eye hurt and bloodied

2006 Rob-B-Hood

Chest bone hit by a stuntman wearing wrong shoes with cartilage damage

http://jc-news.net/articles.php?id=69

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[QUOTE=W. Rabbit;2533209]In Chan Kong Sang’s honor, here is his best fight sequence, in the best movie he ever made.

[/QUOTE]

It seems you accidentally put a link in there to Rumble in the Bronx, rather than the correct link to Police story:

//youtu.be/SF_mzYMlrkc

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have neither of you guys seen Gorgeous??

drunken master 2 is up there too, but gorgeous is his best work, hands down.

edit: and clip.

//youtu.be/R5Wca_hedfQ

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Jackie Chan - exemplifying the best of MA <3

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Jackie’s from Hong Kong and from all accounts is a stand up guy.

Kind of like the Chuck Norris of China.

Anyone his age still doing his own stunts is some kind of awesome.

…disclaimer…

I’s a Jackie and Chuck nutrider.

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For some reason I have never been able to get into most of Jackie’s movies. I liked Drunken Master, I liked Forbidden Kingdom, I liked Big Brawl, but, oddly enough, I would say my two favorites of his would be New Police Story and Around the World in 80 Days.

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I like Jackie. Before him, the big Asian kung fu star was Bruce Lee. Lee was all about kicking ass. If you saw Bruce step into a room of 20 guys, you knew there would be screaming, snapping noises, and people getting their faces kicked in. Jackie was different though- if he stepped into a room of 20 guys, you knew that he was gonna escape their capture through amazing acrobatics, and he would look panicked and flustered instead of Lee’s war cry badassery. I always thought that was what made Jackie so likeable- when facing crazy odds, he was flustered and didn’t want to fight, but he was so good at it! You might call it “the art of fighting without fighting”.

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I like the man.

Most of his movies suck.

As do Chuck’s.

As do most others ):

Are there any, err, adult material martial arts movies? Is there hope?

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with or without story? with or without good film-making?

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Don’t be silly.

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[QUOTE=Odacon;2533329]It seems you accidentally put a link in there to Rumble in the Bronx, rather than the correct link to Police story:

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Oops. Here, let me fix that for you!

//youtu.be/Ho5DRa80qto

There ya go!

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Oh hai guiz.

//youtu.be/uZ9DJZAoq3g

and fight scenes are all well and good but he made some of the best training scenes ever.

//youtu.be/zAP0ULBPL50

//youtu.be/hzyJyIkTpUg

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Need more Fire and Steel. Thats right I’m claiming the sequel has the better fight scene!

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Well done Jackie. Top Bloke.

I’ll have to check those vidz now. Thank’ee kindly.

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And the Japanese once told him there are no poor people in Japan.