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moviegyrl
05-18-2007, 04:16 PM
While watching ENTER THE EAGLES (1998: Shannon Lee, Michael Wong), I spotted Vin Diesel lighting a match to fire up a Hummer. :b Obviously cast as an "extra," he was on camera for only a split-second.

Have you come across a Western actor you weren't expecting to see in an Asian-produced film?
killer meteor
05-18-2007, 06:08 PM
Jane Seymour and Jack Klugman - Drs Quinn and Quincey respectively - turn up in Challenge Of The Tiger

Gig Young is credited with producing the Wong Tao Assualt Of Final Rival, but somehow i doubt that...
Chen Zhen
05-18-2007, 08:02 PM
r u sure that was actually vin diesel?
theportlykicker
05-18-2007, 11:49 PM
Vinnie Jones in Survive Style 5+. :lol
Markgway
05-19-2007, 01:07 PM
Gig Young is credited with producing the Wong Tao Assualt Of Final Rival, but somehow i doubt that...

:rollin
moviegyrl
05-19-2007, 06:23 PM
Absolutely positive, it was him (albeit, with hair and a lot less massive)! 'Sorry I can't put up a screen-cap.
rdenn
05-20-2007, 06:26 PM
you have robert patrick in the movie future hunters with bruce le & hwang jang lee, robert patrick actually fights hwang.
moviegyrl
05-20-2007, 08:25 PM
'Twas not Vin Diesel, after all! :o But, the guy in question could be his twin.
kungfood
11-24-2007, 09:38 PM
In Taiwan, I saw a Japanese/Chinese co-production called The Setting Sun, that I believe was filmed in China and starred a Japanese actor speaking Mandarin. It co-starred Diane Lane, Yuen Biao, and had a very brief appearance by Kiefer Sutherland's father, actor Donald(?) Sutherland.
AlbertV
09-22-2009, 09:56 PM
I just learned about The Setting Sun and the Japanese actor you are mentioning is none other than Masaya Kato from DRIVE, MUSCLE HEAT, and recently THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT. Amazon seems to have this...will have to check it out soon.
Markgway
09-23-2009, 12:29 PM
Paul Rudd in Gen-Y Cops(!)
ekisha
09-26-2009, 11:29 AM
There is a film Z Men, co-prodcution between Australia and Taiwan.
Mel Gibson and Sam Neill are starring in this one.
butcher wing
09-30-2009, 08:26 PM
Jeremy Irons as Billy the Kid in Once Upon a Time in China and America with Jet Li the last of the series.
AlbertV
09-30-2009, 10:21 PM
Jeremy Irons??? I think you mean Jeff Wolfe.

Did you mean Jeremy Irons in Chinese Box?
GoldenPigsy
10-01-2009, 01:59 AM
Richard Kiel makes appearances in a few Hong Kong/Taiwanese flicks, the weirdest being War of the Wizards with Betty Pei Dee.

http://goldenpigsy.blogspot.com/2009/07/war-of-wizards-cheung-mei-gwan-1980.html
xiongya
10-01-2009, 02:28 AM
Richard Kiel makes appearances in a few Hong Kong/Taiwanese flicks, the weirdest being War of the Wizards with Betty Pei Dee.

http://goldenpigsy.blogspot.com/2009/07/war-of-wizards-cheung-mei-gwan-1980.html

He was also in Aces Go Places 3, along with Peter Graves.
butcher wing
10-01-2009, 11:52 AM
AlbertV my bad I had a slight brain freeze on that one..
Markgway
10-01-2009, 03:23 PM
I'd love to see Jeremy Irons in a Kung Fu movie. lol
butcher wing
10-01-2009, 04:56 PM
I'd love to see Jeremy Irons in a Kung Fu movie. lol


he could play a good head bad guy. maybe, I would love to see a lot of the Hollywood type do one good martial arts movie. Hong Kong style not Hollywood style.