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From the Danwei article: "A group of American students of Chinese has produced a spoof kung fu film and posted it to Youtube. Apparently shot in Vermont, the film is titled House of Flying Bananas. The dialogue is in laowai-inflected Mandarin, with English subtitles."

It's a fun piece of silliness, which you can watch below or on YouTube.
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On March 20, 2007, the Asian Film Awards held its inaugural Awards Gala in Hong Kong. Organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and held in conjunction with the territory's third Entertainment Expo - the umbrella event name for the HKIFF, the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART), and the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) - the Asian Film Awards (AFA) is certainly an unprecedented affair.

A new film set to air on the UK's Channel 4 next week is causing all sorts of stirs in the Middle Kingdom as it shows evidence that upwards of 70,000 children are abducted a year, destined for parents willing to pay for a (usually male) child.

Lou Ye's controversial movie, Summer Palace, showed at the Toronto International Film Festival. Lou defied Chinese officials when he submitted Summer Palace for competition at the Cannes Film Festival before the film had been cleared by the country's censors.

The China Film Journal says masturbating for 94 minutes would be better than watching Jackie Chan's new movie The Forbidden Kingdom.

Louis Cha is the number one kung fu fiction writer in China according to a biennial poll of the top ten most widely read authors in the country conducted by the Chinese Publishing Science Research Center.

Book review:

"Chinese claims that they were responsible for hundreds of mankind's most familiar inventions -- including explosives, printing, the compass, hydraulics, ceramics, suspension bridges and even toilet paper -- were long viewed with skepticism by Westerners who were smugly certain that these ancient people were incapable of such advanced innovations.

Jet Li and Jackie Chan are planning a martial arts action movie where the two will face off for the first time.

Jet Li said his latest film, "Hero" would be his last martial arts film. Jackie Chan says he's too old to fall out of a fourth story window and land on his feet, then back, then face....

The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li and Taiwanese pop sensation Jay Chow.

The movie is about Chinese imperial politics and will open up in NYC and LA right before Christmas. I wonder if they will market ...