Arab Labor

Arab Labor is a sitcom written by a palestinian and produced by an israeli... already in its second season, it airs on israeli tv and uses humor to portray the challenges arabs in israel face every day...



you can buy the first season doovde online at AliveMindMedia or at CinemaPurgatorio

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Jackie Chan

i miss the old Jackie Chan movies. drunken master II, rumble in the bronx, first strike, etc. i miss the comedy, the crazy stunts, the nonstop action, and the bloopers real at the end. a Jackie Chan movie was a feel good package (TWSS) that was guaranteed every year.

but now Jackie is 54 years old and he can't abuse his body as much as he used to so the style of his movies has changed considerably. all good things come to an end i guess but hopefully newer better things take its place.

i hope his latest film, Shinjuku Incident, does just that. the movie is a crime drama that steers clear from the typical Jackie Chan comedy/action genre. Jackie plays an illegal Chinese immigrant in 1990s-era japan. he gets involved with the local yakuza and is forced to commit crimes against his conscience in order to survive.



official website: shinjukuincident
release date April 2009 (Hong Kong)

what else has Jackie been up to? why looking for a disciple of course. apparently he's found one too.

Fighting Spirit

Fighting Spirit (aka Hajime no Ippo) the boxing manga returned to television this month in a new anime series.

the original 76 episode boxing anime (released in 2000 through 2002) tells the story of Ippo Makunouchi. a shy high school student who helps his mom with the family fishing business and gets frequently picked on by a group of bullies. Ippo joins a boxing gym and becomes awesome. i know i got lazy with that last sentence but does it really matter? the new series will pick up where the previous one left off.

two Fighting Spirit movies were released as well. the following clip is a recap of the last round of the fight between Sendo Takeshi and Makunouchi Ippo from the movie 'Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road'
WARNING: the level of awesome found in this video may be too much for sensitive viewers. do not view if you have heart disease, high blood pressure, malaria, typhoid fever, or difficult urinations due to an enlarged prostate gland.

Legend

The Legend of Bruce Lee is a tv show shot in china, hong kong, macau, the us, italy, and thailand over nine months and starring a mixed cast from different backgrounds. the series encompasses Bruce Lee's teen years in hong kong, his move to the us where he taught kung fu and entered hollywood, and his return back to hong kong where he became a film star prior to his early death in 1973.
the full series (50 episodes) aired in china in 2008.



UPDATE:
the actor portraying Bruce Lee in the series is Danny Chan Kwok Kuen who also depicted Bruce Lee as the goalie in the 2001 movie Shaolin Soccer. the best way to describe Shaolin Soccer while ignoring the plot is that it is a real life Captain Tsubasa (aka Captain Majid).