Incase everyone didnt hear... Mr. James Hong is finally getting his STAR on the walk of fame.... Well deserved this man has been in the biz for many many many moons... Over 600 credits to his name Congratulations James Hong 🤙🤙🤙🤙

@horror_fam0847

2 жыл бұрын

Awwe Mr. Ping is FINALLY getting his 🌟 on the walk of fame, it's been a long time coming. 😊

@crazyralph6386

Жыл бұрын

He’s got more credits than voice actor Frank Welker

@jasonbrown6113

8 ай бұрын

I don't get why it took so long but I was not brought upon this world to "get it" as Lo Pan would say.

@defblinders9585

3 ай бұрын

INDEED!!

@joe-zj8js

3 ай бұрын

​@jasonbrown6113 who are these ppl? Friends of yours? Now this really pisses me off to no end😂

Its seriously the best movie ever made. Fuck, I miss being a kid in the 80s. What an awesome time.

@user-sc4jz8vr3o

3 жыл бұрын

The 80's had the raddest movies.

@eugenew6717

3 жыл бұрын

Dam right👍👍

@firebythewater4477

3 жыл бұрын

From the movies to the music to the clothes and let us not forget the hair and roller skates...will never be duplicated!

@captainn2094

3 жыл бұрын

@@firebythewater4477 the 80’s was in beast mode when it came to entertainment with music, movies, video games, sports, wrestling entertainment, man I can go on with childhood memories 🥲 how I miss it

@firebythewater4477

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainn2094 Absolutely!!!

I’ll never get tired of this movie! 80’s baby! This and Goonies probably my top all time faves.

I can't believe James Hong is 92. I realize he's done up in makeup but he seems a lot more lively than one would expect at 92.

@briantruck2284

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

@jeffdemas9521

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's an Asian thing, we age 10 years, to their 1 year.

I have this movie on my normal rotation of monthly watches. Highly underrated, yet influenced one of the biggest video game franchises in history.

@mikeconnors1599

2 жыл бұрын

What you talking about. Mortal Kombat ???

@trentdawg2832

2 жыл бұрын

Sub zero

@mr.nightshade8465

Жыл бұрын

Raiden

@Snuffpoo

Жыл бұрын

Same 👍🏻

James Hong. What a legend!

@x-crisis

3 жыл бұрын

When he had her strike the pose was great.

This is ABSOLUTELY one of my favorite movies! 😃🍿🎥🎞🎬 I love how Kurt Russell mimics John Wayne as he talks. 😂 ENJOYED the interview at the end. What a great surprise.

@paulstolp6350

8 ай бұрын

Absolutly

I too am a huge fan of Big Trouble. Probably in my top 3, 80's movies. Me and my brother quoted it to each other on a daily basis for years until he passed. Now when I make a reference to it most just scratch there head. Glad there are still huge fans out there. Meeting Mr. Hong what an honor for you (I'm way jealous).. Great stuff...

Big Trouble in little China was truly a great film. Easily one of my favorite all time. Thanks for another awesome video @Grimmlifecollective, keep it coming!

The part with James was SO special. It's incredible that he's not only still with us, but also obviously sharp as a tack still and in love with his profession. So happy that the both of you were able to do this interview with him. He was a true gentleman, and you did a fine job interviewing him -- perfect balance between being a fan and being a professional! I foresee the Grimm Life Collective blowing up over the next couple years!

I definitely appreciate all the time you both spend on research and every detail you put into your videos. Keep up the amazing work.

@grimmlifecollective

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tim, that means a lot

@OOBEJuanKenobi

2 жыл бұрын

@@grimmlifecollective One of the best movies ever made. And also Bloodsport. lol

Lo Pan needs dancers with GREEN EYES.

@Stupid_you_so_stoopid_UHF

2 жыл бұрын

That's what he should of had wrote in that autograph . Get a movie quote! So awesome watching these reviews. Just came across this channel and this is my 3rd.

My favorite movie of all-time. Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but Egg Shen's firehouse is the same one used in Ghostbusters, even though it's in New York. There are side by side comparisons of the interior. Pretty awesome.

@calebclunie4001

2 жыл бұрын

Egg ain't 'fraid of no ghost.

@projectzip

2 жыл бұрын

The interior is actually in a disused LA firehouse. The exterior in Ghostbusters was shot in New York. 👍🏻 The LA firehouse is under going renovation as its been left to ruin.

19:18 LMFAO! * edit On a serious note, James Hong is like 91 years old and he's still got a very sharp mind just by listening to him talk to you. What an awesome man.

SF's China town is awesome you can spend days just wondering around and finding little cool shops and stuff , hell I would not be at all surprised if you actually could find a Mogwai in the back corner of one of those little shops.

@grimmlifecollective

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same exact thing about finding a Mogwai. Sadly, went home empty handed lol

@sickofthestupid1067

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimmlifecollective well thats probably a good thing , The two of you with a Mogwai , well I think we all know how that would end .

@eugenew6717

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣👍

@johndough3125

3 жыл бұрын

There’s a few places I’d wanna live, china town is one.

@350125GOW

3 жыл бұрын

A little shop of horrors literally.

One of my childhood movies I use to watch a lot back in the days with my friends. Nice to see how all the locations look like today.

Fun fact. Egg Shan's place where they entered the sewer below Chinatown is actually the interior of the same firehouse for Ghostbusters 1 and 2.

I love John Carpenter movies, most of his are my favorites.

I lived on Waverly PL in San Franciscos' Chinatown as a non-Chinese person for 5 yrs until 2013. What an experience.

I had to stop the video and Google James Hong. He looks so good and sounds great. The man is 92. Awesome.

This is in my top 20 films a excellent classic and really surprised it hasn't been remade they've remade just about every other classic film.

James Hong decked out as Lopan was the icing on the cake in this vid!!! Thank you for sharing your travels the way you do. Maybe cover Prince of Darkness in a future episode, and see if you can tour its interior. I know the basement scenes aren't actually part of the building but still...

Loved this .. Jessica is just a diamond, you're a lucky guy. Congrats to you both.

The Grimm collective in the pork chop express and you’re talking to whoever’s listening out there!

Love this whole vid....but just gotta say what a class-act that the great James Hong is. He embraces the fans in a very open way. He seemed so cool.

Great interview with James Hong!

I only recently discovered your channel. Big Trouble in Little China is one of my favorite movies as well. Thanks for doing this. Now if you really want a challenge then let's see you do this with John Carpenter's best, The Thing!

Crazy how James Hong doesn't look like he aged at all. Do you think he ever needed makeup. Very great video.

@UnitTheory

3 жыл бұрын

wtf i know right i was thinking the same thing!

I always wondered why they never made a sequel. It’s one of my & my girlfriend’s favorite movies. She loves this movie. I am so glad to see Mr. Hong. Thank you.

BTILC is my ALL-TIME favorite movie! I've seen it so many times, I can quote it word for word 🤣 in jealous of you meeting Mr. Hong. He's such a great actor. This was one of my favorite videos you have made! Great work and thanks for the tour! ☝🏻

Big trouble in little China is one of John Carpenter's finest films. The mixture of fantasy, humor and Chinese mysticism made it such a visceral spectacle, it is impossible to forget. Great video of one of the 2 best Carpenter classics. Oh, the other classic? The THING! Awesome video, awesome commentary,.... Just plain awesome. Thanks for the content. Grimmlifers rule! Happy Halloween!

@grimmlifecollective

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kodiak. Really happy you liked the video

@kodiakbearson8815

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimmlifecollective You're so welcome Michael. The way you and Jessica bring reality to the Hollywood magic makes, in my opinion, some of the best content on youtube. You two never disappoint your collective. Grimmlifers rule and Happy Halloween!!!!

Im at a loss of words for the nostalgia of being taken back to this movie. One of my favorites! I watched many, many times, and can recite lines from movie. I actually met one of the character actors from the alley fight scene wearing the blue turbin(GEORGE CHEUNG). I was in awe!!!!!

We can get along great lol Kurt Russell is also my favorite actor as well lol Escape From New York is My Favorite Movie of ALL Time

@Star_Dragon92

3 жыл бұрын

This would be my 2nd top movie of Kurts! Big Trouble in little China is a Classic

@grimmlifecollective

3 жыл бұрын

Snake is one of my all time favorite movie characters. Love Escape from NY and yes…even LA

@Star_Dragon92

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimmlifecollective yesss I'm ok with LA as well lol it just don't get no better than Snake. Great cast for all these movies

Michael Jessica I Was Born In 89 & U Bring BAK So Many Memories Showing Us These Locations. What I Mean Is U Bring BAK Memories Of My Childhood It Is Almost As If Ur Shining Light BAK On My Kid Days Ty Michael Jessica Fur Bringing Us BAK To These Amazing Places. U Revive The Kid In Me Watching What These Places Look Like In The Present So Amazing

Awesome video Michael.Big Trouble is a huge child hood favorite of mine.I still love it!!

If you hear James Hong talk and see how he moves you'd never guess that this legend is 92 y/o

Love this one, Chinatown looks like a fun place to visit. 🥢🥡

At 18:00 holy crap, I didn't even realize that was the guy who played Cassandra's dad in Wayne's World 2! 😃

Two girls with Green Eyes. Indeed!! Great road trip guys, You can’t wrong with Carpenter and Russell. What a classic movie…

That was so cool with James Hong! My best friend that lives in LA is very good friends with Steve Johnson the special effects guy James referred to :)

I saw this movie when it was released in the cinema and have loved it ever since. I love your walk and talk tour of China Town it looks fabulous your enthusiasim really brings it to life its infectious and Mr James Hong was great 😂 love it !! ❤

you have way more resources than I do. If you like that movie Cherry 2000 one of the locations is in Henderson outside Las Vegas. Really interesting location that looks almost exactly the same.... the thing is, there is a scene where the villain Lester (Tim Thomerson) drops a van into a large pit... well 34 years later that exact van is still there and you can walk right up to it! Sounds like something you would like to do... I have a crappy video on it... but you would be able to show that much better.

I did see this movie in a theater in Riverside California when I was still stationed at March AFB when it was a SAC base. I wish I had known about this Fortune Cookie bakery when I was in SF when I was there in the late 80s. Been watching James Hong perform since the mid-1960s. He deserves all the accolades presented to him. Thanks for sharing your adventures and interviewing him about the movie.

i love john carpenter movies and big trouble in little china is one of my favorites. next to halloween and christine.

@dennydeckerful

3 жыл бұрын

I was disappointed with Escape From LA, though. Watched it once, and don't care to see it again. Tried to be too campy.

@davidmerlin3344

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget The Fog!

My Favorite 80s Movie. Seen it the first time in the mid 90s as a Teen. It is somehow timeless and a perfect mix of diffrent genres with a B-Movie Charme. Also unbelievable James Hong is allready 92 and still in great shape. Thanks for the path down memory lane!

YESSS!!! BTILC is, and will always be one of my favorite movies. When "Lightning" dies if you look close you will see a Chinese character formed by the lightning that roughly translates into the word "Carpenter"

You guys are killing it, Fright Night, Salem's Lot, and now BTILC. Awesome. Binged watched last weekend and am now this weekend.

Oh, by the way, I've heard the opening shots of Jack's truck driving in the rain storm on the hilly terrain was shot on a section of Highway 84 just off the 680 at the Scotts Valley exit not too far from where you did the video. Happy Halloween again!

One of my all times favorite 80’s movie 💪🏻 I remember when I saw it for the first time in 1987. Thank you grimmlifecollective for this great filming locations video🔥

Man, thank's so much for the upload. Big Trouble in Little China is my all-time favorite movie. Can't believe you got to interview the man himself, Mr.James Hong. That was totally unexpected, so glad to see he's in such good health at the age of 92.

The score to this film is 80's epic.

@dennydeckerful

3 жыл бұрын

I believe John Carpenter wrote the score as he did with Halloween.

@NITE_SHIFTING

3 жыл бұрын

@@dennydeckerful I don't doubt it. That's a great score aswell.

@brannan43

3 жыл бұрын

@@dennydeckerful He wrote and performed all of his scores. He recently released a third collection of lost themes. He is the godfather of "retro-wave".

To have met and interviewed James Hong was legendary. I'd be thrilled to meet meet him.

Great, I adore pictures of folcklore. Love to see the dressers. Greetings from Brussels. With Love !!

James Hong still rocking the low pan...brilliant

when James Hong said the film was way ahead of its time, he is not wrong, the film was just too much for general audiences of the time, but because of that, it's become a timeless film, I've never heard anyone ever have anything bad to say about it, other than it "kicks ass" and is "so much fun".

Yesss! One of my favorite childhood movies! Thanks for sharing!!!

The 80 s Rocked it was TRULLY a great time To grow up from movies to music 😎💙

Michael doing "Spooky Hands" with James Hong was Priceless!! And now I'm craving fortune cookies!🤤 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! 💀🎃🖤

Love it. That line he said always stuck in my mind too….”Shut up Mr Burton”….and “And you can go on to rule the universe from beyond the grave. Or check into a psycho ward, whichever comes first, right”

Thanks for this!! My roomate and i watched it after this!! You resparked our love 4 this!! From one Grimm to another Grim! Sincerely, kenny grim! Ann arbor michigan

WOW! James Hong (Lo Pan) in character! Man that's just about THE coolest!

I was only 8 when this movie came out. Like so many movies of that era, absolutely loved it. From about 2009-2013, I worked in SF's financial district and did exactly what you're doing here. The way the city changes/evolves at such a rapid pace is noteworthy. High rises, even entire new blocks just seem to sprout up over night. Thanks for doing this because I didn't have much luck when I did it.

Did not expect a interview with James Hong, bless him. Simply amazing stuff.

The eighties were EPIC! Going back to the boulevard of memories and seeing that James Hong is still tied to that masterpiece is nothing short of exciting. When he asked why the film is still so popular it's because, in my opinion, there was real cinematic magic at the time.

How cool that James Hong was there.

James Hong doesn't look much different from when he was in the movie. Man, that is great that you were able to chat with him! That was a moment I'm sure you will always cherish. Thanks for sharing that with us.

Jessica needs to start her own flip flop line

Well done. Always amazing to see then and now movie locations. Big Trouble in Little China is legendary!

I love how you point out all the little details that are still there and then match up the movie scenes. You really do so much to get all the shots you can and it is appreciated. You both have a zest for life, enjoying the little things, and are great together. I'm so glad I found your channel. Whether you are talking to spirits or enjoying nature, your videos are so entertaining.

Wow this was so interesting! I can’t get over how James Hong looks. He more or less looks the same! Amazing

You guys and your videos have somehow helped ease my depression. Thank you

Great!! nice to see Mr. Hong is still here. Great memory for you guys.

Very cool. Awesome that you 2 got to meet James Hong. Such a great movie. I seriously need to see it again.

I have been going to the Fortune Cookie Factory since I was a kid, we actually handed out custom cookies out at our wedding, iI had no idea Big Trouble in Little China was filled there, So cool, love your channel.

two of my favorite movies with with both Kurt Russel and John Carpenter: Big trouble in little china and the remake of the thing.

Awesome!! I Love the interview, Amazing seeing him in costume again! Thank you both for the Great video.

It’s all in the reflexes!!! I love that silly movie! I have a tshirt with the movie poster on it. And that’s the only tshirt I ever get reactions on! And it’s always positive! People who know these weird phantasy, action comedy horror flick, love it. And specially being a 70s kid, doing karate in the 80s, this really was up my ally (pun intended) as a 13/14 year old. And after the movie me and my other karate friends went out and sparred many of those iconic scenes. What a great time the 80s were.

Awesome location video, and interview🖤💜🖤 I loved this movie (saw it on vhs as a kid in the 80's) Humor, horror, fantasy, and action. Perfect combination ✨

oh Lord ive seen this movie countless times!! glad to see James still kicking around, he was half the movie's charm to say the least. dont know why, but love to watch this while eating Chinese food.

I worked in San Francisco for at&t long before it was just at&t. The day in 1985 or 86’ Huey lewis and the news filmed one of the alley scenes in the Bad is Bad video, I was on the roof of the building over that alley on Rowland at Broadway. It was Rowland or Barton, I can’t remember which one now. You know how you can feel someone looking at you? Huey lewis looked right up at me between takes.

Great video! And to hang out with Lo Pan himself is legend!!

One of my all-time favs as well. I came from Sydney Australia to go to San Fran China Town because of this movie... My wife was bitching half the time haha. But so worth it!

I have this movie on Blue-Ray, great extra's including extended ending and deleted scenes, its really great! James Hong is amazing too, first saw him in "The Sand Pebbles" (1966) with Steve McQueen, he was great in that too.

wow, didnt expect Hong! Nice surprise! that was awesome to watch and how cool was it to see him in character too. This movie had to be the inspiration for Mortal Kombat. Jack Burton inspired Johny Cage, the flying guys with lightening became Radian and there are plenty of others youll notice next time you watch.

These are the only videos I watch on KZread where I hit the Like icon before watching the video. Absolutely love them. Thanks so much. From Australia 🥰

@grimmlifecollective

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and your support. So many more adventures coming

James Hong is still sharp as a whip. Love it.

Love Kurt Russell! My fav line - "don't mock me round-eye"

Absolutely love your content! Every video is so packed full of information about movies and the actors. Keep up the outstanding work!

My favorite all-time Movie, first watched it in 1989 when I was seven.

That was awesome. BTILC is one of my favorites. Meeting James Wong would be amazing.

maaan you got to meet Mr James Hong. Thank you sooo much for this . I don't know how many times i have watched big trouble .. and i'll watch it again and again.

How amazing to have that interview at the end

Brilliant tour, there was an almost magical quality to many films made in the 80's, that is why we remember them today, in recent years many films become very throw away and forgettable but a film like 'Big trouble in Little China' just lives on, it is great that you took time to go to a filming locations so we can all see, i live in England so it is not easy for me to get to San Fransico.

Whoever created Raiden in Mortal Kombat MUST have been a fan of this movie.

@jimboswamps5602

3 жыл бұрын

Totally. They even said they were inspired by it. The whole game.

Fantastic video! I love Big Trouble In Little China, and the interview at the end was the icing on the cake.

I tried my best to like that movie, but I just can't. That doesn't mean I didn't watch this video all the way through!!!! Great content!

This is also one of my all time favorite movies!

Cool movie Another great video Was at that bridge , always windy and cold ! Lol

Thanks for covering the movie. It is great that you could talk with James Hong too.

My favorite movie with my kids. Sonoma county is home. Yea! Great shoot with history!