戦士 WARRIOR | A Cinemax Original Series [ From the Creator of Banshee & Bruce Lee ] | Apr. 5 戦士

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In the aftermath of the Civil War, a young martial arts prodigy, newly arrived from China, finds himself caught up in the bloody Chinatown Tong wars.
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Nobody caught this last night? I enjoyed it, a lot of characters were introduced already and it seems to be moving at a pretty fast pace
 
It was good.

Seemed close enough to accurate.

Schooled me on onion and itchy onion being a derogatory term.

These dumb Irish dudes were calling thebchinese spooks.
 
‘Warrior’ Review: A Bruce Lee Vision Brought to Vivid Life
A new Cinemax series marries a concept dreamed up by the martial-arts master with all the bells and whistles of modern TV — to stirring effect

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Joe Taslim as Li Yong and Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm in 'Warrior.'
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https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/warrior-cinemax-review-815723/

Among the more fascinating legends in the short but memorable life of Bruce Lee is the TV show the martial-arts icon pitched in the early Seventies about a Chinese immigrant traveling through America in the late 19th century. The studio politely declined, the Lee family story goes, then stole key elements of the pitch to make Kung Fu, a Western-meets-Eastern where the immigrant was played by the Caucasian actor David Carradine.

On April 5th, the legend becomes fact in an unexpected, wonderful way with Warrior, a new Cinemax drama inspired by Lee’s notes for that unsold/stolen pitch, executive produced by Justin Lin and Lee’s daughter Shannon. A lush action drama, set in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1878, Warrior feels like someone asked, “What if The Knick, but with hatchet fights?”

Our Lee-esque hero is Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), just off the boat in search of his estranged sister. Faced immediately with the intense anti-immigrant prejudice of the time, he displays his martial-arts skill in a way that lands him in the employ of one of the local Tongs, run by the dandyish Father Jun (Perry Yung). Before he’s had a chance to begin his quest, he’s decked out in a slick suit, partnered with heir apparent Young Jun (Jason Tobin) and asked to battle a rival crew that’s cutting in on Father Jun’s opium trade.

As envisioned by creator Jonathan Tropper (Banshee), the city’s many legal and illegal businesses are all interconnected, so in time Ah Sahm tangles not only with the other Tong and its frontwoman Mai Ling (Dianne Doan), but local madam (and part-time vigilante) Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), unallied fixer Wang Chao (Hoon Lee), reluctant Chinatown cop Bill O’Hara (Kieran Bew), racist Irish strongman Dylan Leary (Dean S. Jagger) and even Penny Blake (Joanna Vanderham), wife to the city’s very corrupt, very kinky mayor (Christian McKay).

It’s a sprawling cast of characters, many of them played by actors of Asian descent who have rarely had the opportunity to take on roles like this. Tropper deploys the Hunt for Red October trick of having the Chinese characters speak perfect, unaccented English whenever white people (or, as the Chinese call them, “ducks”) aren’t around. (When the two groups mix, the Chinese characters’ dialogue is subtitled, though a few of them speak English with varying degrees of skill.) On the one hand, it’s a device to make it easier on the audience of a fundamentally very pulpy, unpretentious action show. On the other, it’s a striking way to normalize people who are in a setting where they’re demonized and othered. The names and faces are different, but none of these characters would be out of place in a crime drama filled with white actors(*). (Change the setting and the ethnicities and, for instance, Walton Goggins might once have been able to play a Young Jun type with the same cocky yet endearing energy that Jason Tobin brings to the role now.)



(*) The bushy period mustaches that many of the Irish and WASP characters wear obscure their mouths enough to occasionally create the illusion that they’re the ones speaking a foreign language and having their dialogue dubbed into English for the local marketplace. Whether intentional or not, it’s a nifty role reversal.

“These are strange ****ing times,” Father Jun suggests. “The ducks think we’re less than human. We can’t own, we can’t vote, and yet somehow, we’re responsible for the economic woes of their entire nation.”

Speeches like that draw a painful line between the show’s period setting and our own. But even though Warrior never loses sight of the many sociopolitical reflections of today, its primarily goal is to kick *** and take names, which it does splendidly throughout.

Even though its run overlapped with Game of Thrones and a few dozen different comic-book dramas, Banshee consistently had the best-choreographed, most viscerally exciting fight scenes on television. (Case in point: the long, nasty one embedded above.) Having Lee’s name attached raises the bar even higher, but the work that stunt coordinator Brett Chan does with Koji and the other actors (particularly Joe Taslim as the rival Tong’s top enforcer, Li Yong) more than clears it. The show’s directors (including Assaf Bernstein and Loni Peristere) favor longer takes and clean compositions to make it clear just how much skill is on display, whether Ah Sahm and Li Yong are waged in gladiatorial combat, or two Tongs are engaged in a massive hatchet brawl in an alley.

Midway through the season, Ah Sahm and Young Jun are sent out of town for an episode that finds them battling stagecoach rustlers inside a Wild West saloon. It’s a delight, and the closest Warrior comes to stepping directly into the territory of Kung Fu. But even if Lee had been able to sell his own script back then, television in the Seventies wasn’t equipped to recreate the past and stage epic martial-arts battles on the scale that Warrior does throughout. This is the right time and place for Lee’s vision to come to thrilling life, even if he’s not around to star in it. Warrior is a blast.
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that was cold that the cops really wrote them down as "John ********"

we find out mayor got his wife from her pops as a business deal pretty much

I like Job from Banshee's character in here
 
Ep 1 finished. I'm in breh. Whorehouse lady took those ducks out like the angel of death man. Outside of Ah Sahm I'm going to struggle with the names :lol:
 
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Ep 3 last night was my favorite so far

Penny looked disgusted when her husband the mayor was trying to get some ***** from her, its only a matter of time before she bust it open for Ah Sahm

Ah Sahm fight scene with the 3 Irish goons in the jail cell was dope

Chao still most interesting character to me on that Littlefinger playing all sides

The Hop Wei Tong be having some pretty lit parties at the brothel that @dr. Truth would love to be at
 
Ah Sahm got that white *****, Jacob was trying to cock block even while leading his way there but Ah Sahm ain't let him stop him. Btw in those days, fornicating with a white woman was probably 1 of the biggest crimes for any black, chinese or native american man. How Skinemax didn't have Penny take her clothes off and show them ******* and *** tho

Actress that plays Mai Ling was the chinese princess in Vikings that somehow got sold into slavery and Ragnar was getting high with her off opium for that whole season

Next ep looking like a kung fu spaghetti western theme

Mayor was in that brothel bout to get caught up in the raid with a dildo in his *** if Buckley didn't get him right in time

I guess Ah Toy can speak english just like Chao
 
I love this show, Cinemax has been fairly consistent the last few years with shows. Banshee, the Knick and strike back come to mind
 
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really? I've watched all 4 eps on Max go without any problems
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Logged in on my phone just to test it. It worked but when I tried logging in on my computer it said Im not authorized to use the resource. Now it says it when ever I try and login from anywhere
 
This ep didn't disappoint, focused on Ah Sahm and Young Jun building their bond on this mission going thru Carson City, NV during wild wild west days

Ah Sahm had to really hold back in the beginning sitting in the carriage since he understood all the **** those white ppl were talking about them

Masuka from Dexter sighting, owns this Saloon in Carson City, came to America for the gold rush only to end up getting his version of gold in a white woman. At least he got a real rider tho, she was running that saloon with him during wild west era, tending the bar and acting as Madam for the 2 girls they had working the rooms upstairs.

Young Jun got his 1st taste of Native American P from the saloon working girl and immediately was sprung, found out she too was a rider when she came back and slit the big outlaw's throat to save him. I'm surprised he didn't try to bring her back to SF with them

Ah Sahm seeing Masuka with his white woman is going to go see Penny for some of that white P again once he gets back to SF

Father Jun had them smuggling gold with no intentions of cutting them in risking their lives in the wild west from Outlaws, i wonder who tipped off Harland French and his gang of outlaws

That was dope when Ah Sahm ripped Harland French's throat out with his hand, that was a nod to the Nola vs Burton fight in Banshee for those that watched

"I'm a ******** who's never been to China. I was born in San Francisco but I'm sure no ****in' American. I don't belong anywhere." from Young Jun was a part I think manyl can relate to in 1 way or another
 
As I called it last ep, Ah Sahm wasted no time making that visit to Penny after last week's ep

The Chinese new year festival set they opened this ep with was well done - lighting, set design and ambiance were all well done

We finally got to see Bolo really do work and catch all those bodies this ep

Mai Ling and Buckley got the Tong War they wanted now

We see Buckley got bigger ambitions than the Mayor with the Senator in DC after getting him into the White House hence his scheming

Bill starting to realize he turning more and more into a crook due to his gambling vice
 
i dont kno why i keep thinking long zhi gonna get got in one of these fights

so they dont know it was asam's sister plotting? not the head of the family?

bill in worse trouble w the chinese aint he?

they gonna kill him and its gonna look like the chinese are killing cops on purpose

was that a sign they left for him on the floor?
 
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