Comments on: Passed on in 2022.

By: Blake Matthews

Blake Matthews — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 02:46:42 +0000

Notable deaths in Asian/Chinese cinema:

Ni Kuang – Wrote many of the Shaw Brothers films; racked up 221 credits, most of which were between 1967 and 1984

Peter Yang Kwan – Actor, did a lot of old school kung fu movie

Alan Chui Chung-San – Actor and fight choreographer

Kenneth Tsang – Actor; played Danny Lee’s partner in “The Killer” (which you reviewed) and the villain in films like Supercop, The Replacement Killers and Die Another Day.

Chor Yuen – Director; directed lots of classic wuxia films at the Shaw Brothers, played the villain in Police Story

By: Blake Matthews

Blake Matthews — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 02:35:09 +0000

In reply to Nathan. Yeah, the one name that sticks out to me in terms of "not quite in the prime, but still could have done a lot of productive work" is Ray Liotta.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:47:01 +0000

In reply to RK. At least most of the names on this list are people who served a good, full life, and were past the period where they had done the things they were famous for -- they weren't cut down in their prime. (Dave Farland, an older but still productive novelist and writing coach who died from an accidental fall, is one notable exception.)

By: RK

RK — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:44:32 +0000

What really hurts about this list is that of all the names I recognize on this list, not a one is anyone whose name I’d actually want to see on this list. As the late P.J. O’Rourke once said concerning the 1960s (while threatening to aim his shotgun at any attempts to revive the culture if that era), not only was the number of people dying in that era awfully high, but the deaths seemed bizarrely selective as if someone were culling out all the best and brightest of his generation and leaving only the “stunted goat mutants” to carry on its legacy. Here’s hoping this doesn’t mean we’re about to go through the same kinds of upheavals in our time as his generation did.