Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob
Speaker 1: Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And today's film for
Speaker 1: Weird House Cinema is the nineteen eighty seven Taiwani is
Speaker 1: action fantasy film Child of Peach, A truly special work
Speaker 1: of art, without a doubt, I will say, one of
Speaker 1: the most frenzied and feral movies we have ever watched
Speaker 1: on this show. This movie is so bizarre, so much
Speaker 1: and so fast, and it certainly has a reputation online
Speaker 1: for being just a tornado of weirdness that I'm genuinely shocked.
Speaker 1: I had never heard of this movie before you selected
Speaker 1: it for today's episode, Rob, So how did you find
Speaker 1: Child of Peach. Well, I think my earliest exposure to
Speaker 1: it was and Everything is Terrible Bowl two minute clip
Speaker 1: mash up of scenes from the movie. And I watched
Speaker 1: this at some point and was just blown away by
Speaker 1: the weirdness, but also just assumed, well, these are just
Speaker 1: the highlights they took the You know, get a weird movie.
Speaker 1: If you get all the weirdest moments, you probably got
Speaker 1: about two minutes worth, and so I laughed and then
Speaker 1: I kind of moved on. But then when we were
Speaker 1: talking about Thrilling Bloody Sword, another Taiwanese fantasy film in
Speaker 1: the last year or so on Weird House Cinema, I
Speaker 1: ran across it again when I was looking into Taiwanese
Speaker 1: cinema in general, and some of the extras on that
Speaker 1: disc from Blue Justin to Clue of the Gold Ninja video,
Speaker 1: and that put it back in my radar, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, well, if we've enjoyed Thrilling Bloody Sword
Speaker 1: this much, then I guess we've got to come back
Speaker 1: around to a Child of Peach. There are certainly some
Speaker 1: esthetic ways in which this movie did remind me of
Speaker 1: Thrilling Bloody Sword, but I'm going to make a very
Speaker 1: strange comparison. I kept thinking it had an other kind
Speaker 1: of bizarre but familiar energy, and I finally realized what
Speaker 1: it was, and it's that this movie kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of Morosco aka Jack Frost, the nineteen sixty four
Speaker 1: Soviet fantasy film that we covered a couple of years
Speaker 1: back around Christmas, and we can get into more of
Speaker 1: the similarities and differences in a bit, But I was
Speaker 1: trying to think why that isn't. I think one reason
Speaker 1: would be, despite the fact that you could argue these
Speaker 1: are both kind of, whether intentionally or not, a kind
Speaker 1: of psychotronic cinema, they're both actually based on folk tales,
Speaker 1: so they have a kind of old soul to them,
Speaker 1: despite how weird they are. Absolutely, yeah, And there's something
Speaker 1: we always have taken into mind when we're looking at
Speaker 1: at a quote unquote weird film from another from another
Speaker 1: country's film tradition, you know, like how much of it
Speaker 1: is genuine weirdness? And I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: genuine weirdness in this movie. Oh yeah, yeah, But then
Speaker 1: there are you know, there's certain aspects of it that
Speaker 1: are entrenched within a different film culture than one might
Speaker 1: be used to. And then there is this aspect of
Speaker 1: it it comes from folklore, and of course folklore is
Speaker 1: also it's a it's a rich twelve of wonder but
Speaker 1: also weirdness. Well, yeah, fairy tales are like all fairy
Speaker 1: tales are kind of weird if you're unfamiliar with them.
Speaker 1: There's just like the set you grew up with, so
Speaker 1: they don't feel weird anymore. But you experienced the fairy
Speaker 1: tales of an unfamiliar culture, and you're like, whoa, that
Speaker 1: is odd. Yeah yeah, and yeah the ones in your
Speaker 1: own culture are weird too, you just don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: the distance to realize that. Oh yeah, the idea of
Speaker 1: Paul Bunyan and a giant blue ox, that's strange. That's
Speaker 1: strange stuff. Yeah. But anyway, the particular folk tale here
Speaker 1: the heart of this is a Japanese folk tale, the
Speaker 1: folk tale of Momotaro. This is about a hero child
Speaker 1: born from a giant peach, and it's actually quite famous.
Speaker 1: It was I was reading that it was utilized in
Speaker 1: World War two war propaganda animation in Japan. It's been
Speaker 1: it's been echoed in various video game adaptations. In fact,
Speaker 1: I was astounded by this. My son super into Pokemon.
Speaker 1: He's super into this Pokemon Scarlet and Violet game. It's
Speaker 1: the latest switch game for Pokemon. And there's DLC coming
Speaker 1: out that is going to have three characters in it
Speaker 1: that are based on three magical animals in this story
Speaker 1: that are also in this movie. So it's like it's
Speaker 1: it's actually the Momentaro folktale casts a long shadow is
Speaker 1: just one that not everyone is exposed to or doesn't
Speaker 1: realize they're looking at it. Wait, Rob, are you telling
Speaker 1: me that the three Guardians of the Garden in this
Speaker 1: film are now pokemon. Yes, I've seen the photographs, my god,
Speaker 1: or they're not photographed. They're still they're not actual like
Speaker 1: wildlife photographs. But yes, they're on the way. This will
Speaker 1: become more hilarious as we proceed to explain the plot.
Speaker 1: I also thought it was interesting because, Okay, in this
Speaker 1: basic idea child a baby and urges from a giant
Speaker 1: peach and is raised by old people. This story is
Speaker 1: also reminiscent of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, another
Speaker 1: Japanese tale listens about a baby found inside a stalk
Speaker 1: of glowing bamboo, which has also been been adapted many times,
Speaker 1: including in the twenty thirteen Studio Ghibli film The Tale
Speaker 1: of Princess Kaguya from twenty thirteen, which I watched not
Speaker 1: too long ago, and it was it's quite good, beautifully animated. Well,
Speaker 1: that's another thing that makes Child of Peach unique. It
Speaker 1: is mostly this, yeah, a wild, madcap dance of monsters
Speaker 1: and giant peaches peeing on people and stuff. But it
Speaker 1: also there are moments where it really has kind of
Speaker 1: a sweet core to it, especially with the story of
Speaker 1: the old couple who lives in the bamboo for us,
Speaker 1: who end up adopting the peach kid as their son.
Speaker 1: There were moments there where we were genuinely like, this
Speaker 1: is so sweet. Yeah, it's a movie that tacks a
Speaker 1: lot in. I mean, it's just bulging at the at
Speaker 1: the stitches. There's so much packed in here, and and
Speaker 1: you know, it feels like a very full meal, but
Speaker 1: very satisfying one. Okay, maybe we should do the elevator
Speaker 1: pitch though this is one of those movies where you
Speaker 1: have to see it to understand it, just like explaining
Speaker 1: what happens, and it doesn't really communicate the vibe. But
Speaker 1: the pitch goes like this, When the King Devil steals
Speaker 1: the Sword of Sun from the peach garden, it's up
Speaker 1: to a baby hatched from a giant, obnoxious peach to
Speaker 1: kill the devil and recover the sacred mcguffin. That's it,
Speaker 1: that's the quest. And now there's also some rescuing of
Speaker 1: a princess somewhere in there. There's there's a big, old
Speaker 1: rotund knight named Knight Melon you'll hear a lot more
Speaker 1: about him. There are guardians that turn into animals, so
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. And this is another thing
Speaker 1: that kind of reminds me of the Soviet fantasy film Morosco,
Speaker 1: because whereas in that movie you get the feeling that
Speaker 1: they're just combining so many different kind of fairy tale
Speaker 1: elements together into a single narrative, this movie, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they actually come from fairy tales in every case,
Speaker 1: but this does have that very like lots of different
Speaker 1: stuff thrown together into a blender feeling. Yeah, almost kind
Speaker 1: of a circus feel like, well, you gotta have this act.
Speaker 1: You gotta add your flowns, you gotta have you gotta
Speaker 1: have your lion tang, right, you gotta have this And
Speaker 1: so it's all there, three rings, all at once. Look
Speaker 1: where every your eyes take you. Their similarity I think
Speaker 1: has to do in part with the gorgeously weird sets
Speaker 1: and costumes and the onslought of peculiar supernatural images and themes,
Speaker 1: which again I think these are partly unfamiliar to us
Speaker 1: because they are based in the fairy tales of a
Speaker 1: culture that we're less familiar with in childhood. But Also,
Speaker 1: they just contain a lot of strange original elements that
Speaker 1: I suspect would be weird to anybody watching. So there's
Speaker 1: that in common. But then I think there's another similarity,
Speaker 1: one that's kind of hard to explain but really does
Speaker 1: color our experience of a film, and that is about
Speaker 1: the piecing of the introduction of unusual imagery and ideas.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about here, Rob, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's kind of a feeling like you're hit with one
Speaker 1: supernatural element and one speculative element and then wham, here
Speaker 1: comes a faery and to narrate things from the other direction,
Speaker 1: and you can feel a little struck by it exactly.
Speaker 1: Both of these movies have this habit of kind of
Speaker 1: throwing a strange new character or image or statement or
Speaker 1: behavior at you, and it usually does not give you
Speaker 1: time to be like, wait, what is this? You don't
Speaker 1: have that sinking end time. It's still just ripping ahead
Speaker 1: at full speed to the next thing, right right. Another
Speaker 1: thing about this movie, and this is partially a warning.
Speaker 1: Love this movie, but it does have these major who
Speaker 1: is this? Or issues? So you look at this, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, this would be good to show my
Speaker 1: kids I would not recommend that it's so it has
Speaker 1: a very silly, zany tone and subject matter that would
Speaker 1: seem to indicate that this is a movie for kids,
Speaker 1: but I think it is not at all. It is
Speaker 1: full of inappropriate content. There is almost constant swearing in
Speaker 1: the hard baked subtitles. So it has these subtitles much
Speaker 1: like Thrilling Bloody Sword. At least in the version we watched,
Speaker 1: they seemed like they like burned into the film itself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I and just to just give ahead just a
Speaker 1: little bit on quality like this is that there aren't
Speaker 1: really official there's no official release of this film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: outside of Taiwan, is my understanding. So any copy you
Speaker 1: find of it seems to be like the same sort
Speaker 1: of slightly degree. It's very watchable content. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's not restored, it's not pristining by any stretch.
Speaker 1: And it has the subtitles and I believe Mandarin and
Speaker 1: English just hard baked in there, and sometimes you can't
Speaker 1: read them because those are white subtitles against white backgrounds. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so there were parts where I really don't know what
Speaker 1: was happening in the plot because it's being explained there's
Speaker 1: like exposition dialogue and it's just white text on a
Speaker 1: white background. So I don't know, But Okay, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of swearing in the subtitles. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that means there is swearing in the original dialogue
Speaker 1: or if this is a translation issue. Obviously, the as
Speaker 1: we will note in several ways, the hard coded subtitles
Speaker 1: we saw had a lot of I don't know what
Speaker 1: felt like very approximate translations. Yeah, the subtitles are very
Speaker 1: rough around the edges anyway, and then they hit way
Speaker 1: too hard, especially with the swearing at times. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I guess I'm willing to attribute this possibly to
Speaker 1: just you know, the crude nature of the subtitles. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like what if, what if any of us
Speaker 1: were given the task of trans insulating Bart Simpson's insults
Speaker 1: into a foreign tongue that we're not a master off.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a certain nuance that has to be
Speaker 1: in place where you know, Bart is saying crude things,
Speaker 1: but they're not too crude or you want to imply
Speaker 1: this thing but not stated outright in clinical terms. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of I've attend to give him a break
Speaker 1: on that and chalk it up to less than perfect
Speaker 1: subtitles in translation. Okay, so you got the swearing. There's
Speaker 1: also some kind of jarring nudity, not of a sexual nature,
Speaker 1: but just like Peach kid running around naked a lot.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a scene where your night Melon
Speaker 1: character gets pranked by just getting his pants pulled down
Speaker 1: and stuff. There is occasionally really gory violence, but mostly
Speaker 1: not like it. It's just these suddenly surprisingly gory moments
Speaker 1: interspersed with mostly more cartoony martial arts action. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: generally the violence is directed at some sort of a
Speaker 1: demon underling. Yeah, but still you know, heads will pop,
Speaker 1: brains will bleed, that sort of thing. Also, I don't
Speaker 1: know whether this one goes in the kids movie column
Speaker 1: or the anti kids movie column, but the movie is
Speaker 1: obsessed with urine. There is so much pep on everything.
Speaker 1: How many Pepe scenes were there? There's like Peach the
Speaker 1: giant magic peach peeing on people. There's the dog like
Speaker 1: animal creatures peeing in people's food. There's other monster there's
Speaker 1: a lot of monster pe. I think there are at
Speaker 1: least four or five pe scenes. Oh really, I counted three,
Speaker 1: but I might have missed one in there. This is
Speaker 1: ironic though, because okay, the day of publication this happens
Speaker 1: to be Saint Patrick's day. And originally we were thinking, well,
Speaker 1: we should do an Irish movie, and that ended up
Speaker 1: being a whole slog trying to figure out what Irish
Speaker 1: movie would be appropriate and would be fun. And for
Speaker 1: a little bit we were looking at nineteen eighty six
Speaker 1: is Rawhead Rex, which features famous features a urine scene,
Speaker 1: and we were like, I don't know, really I want
Speaker 1: to talk about that urine scene. So we pivoted to
Speaker 1: Child of Peach, which has at least three urine gags.
Speaker 1: But like we were talking about before we came in here,
Speaker 1: I would say Rawhead Rex is a urine movie and
Speaker 1: Child of Peach is a pee pee movie, and there's
Speaker 1: there's a big difference between the two and often what
Speaker 1: is in fact, in almost every case, the thing that's
Speaker 1: peeing in Child of Peach is not a human. It's
Speaker 1: big into animals peeing and peaches peeing, and Peach based
Speaker 1: Mex peeing, yes, and very much played for comedy. Earlier,
Speaker 1: I did describe the weirdness of this movie as an
Speaker 1: on slot and I think that really is the right
Speaker 1: term for it. When we were watching it, we had
Speaker 1: to rewind many times because there'd just be something that
Speaker 1: was like what and then it was so bizarre. But
Speaker 1: then it was over too fast and we had to
Speaker 1: take it back and were like, what just happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's this is actually a good movie to watch it
Speaker 1: like a YouTube type format, because you need to be
Speaker 1: able to go back and re examine things you think
Speaker 1: you saw and think you might halfway understand. It is
Speaker 1: indeed just a NonStop sort of picture. I mentioned that
Speaker 1: Everything is Terrible two minute cut of Childhood Peach, and
Speaker 1: I'll embed that in the blog post for this episode
Speaker 1: at from utmusic dot com. Casey, anyone wants to check
Speaker 1: it out. Like I say, with any other film, I
Speaker 1: would think, well, you got the weirdest moments, and that's
Speaker 1: two minutes worth the footage. Fair enough, pretty fun, But no,
Speaker 1: there's so much more weirdness in the film. Like if
Speaker 1: you just watch those two minutes with Everything's Terrible and
Speaker 1: you think you've seen it all, you haven't. You can
Speaker 1: then go and watch the full film and it's still
Speaker 1: got so many things to exclaim about. Yes, the treats
Speaker 1: just abound. Now. As we discussed in our episode on
Speaker 1: Thrilling Bloody Sword, it's our understand that Taiwanese cinema at
Speaker 1: the time was kind of the underdog versus Hong Kong cinema,
Speaker 1: and so there's this feeling in Taiwanese movies of this period,
Speaker 1: particularly fantasy action films, like the filmmakers really felt they
Speaker 1: had to go big. They had to be weirder than
Speaker 1: Hong Kong, they had to be riskier, and the stunts
Speaker 1: had to maybe be a bit more dangerous. And I
Speaker 1: think you can totally see all of this in Child
Speaker 1: of Peach and a film that you can well imagine
Speaker 1: critics of the time and of the intended region thinking
Speaker 1: it might even be trying too hard, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like like like, oh, well, they just they
Speaker 1: just really are trying too hard in this film. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's what most contemporary viewers make of the film,
Speaker 1: though it has certainly become a cult classic, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means trying too hard, Like think of
Speaker 1: some outrageous comedy that not only has to have just
Speaker 1: a gag a minute, but also really wants you to
Speaker 1: make sure you got that gag? Hey, did you get
Speaker 1: that gag? We just did. Let me remind you of
Speaker 1: you know it, like that energy of just like I'm
Speaker 1: going to assault your senses and I just really want
Speaker 1: you to like me kind of energy, which can be
Speaker 1: very obnoxious if you're encountering a film in its time,
Speaker 1: it hasn't had time to sort of, um, you know,
Speaker 1: cure in the in the in the in the in
Speaker 1: the Seller or anything as this film has. Like maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'm thinking of something like an ace Ventura, you know,
Speaker 1: And I don't know to what extent ace Ventura has
Speaker 1: matured in the Seller either the Mad Dusk, Yeah, nineties
Speaker 1: Jim Carrey movies. Yeah, yeah, not exactly the same energy,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't know, just trying to think
Speaker 1: of movies that are a lot and maybe that changes
Speaker 1: over time and with different audiences. Okay, I get you now.
Speaker 1: But at any rate, this film, like we said, it
Speaker 1: seems to have been a hit because it spawned at
Speaker 1: least one sequel, Magic of Spell from eighty eight and
Speaker 1: perhaps Magic Warriors from eighty nine, both starting the same
Speaker 1: actor and both from one of the same directors. Now,
Speaker 1: there's no actual trailer that I could find for this film.
Speaker 1: So we're just going to listen to just a little
Speaker 1: bit of the audio from the film, just give you
Speaker 1: a little little taste. So this isn't going to be
Speaker 1: our normal trailer audio treatment, but heavily listen. All right,
Speaker 1: Hopefully what you got from that, it's fun. Now if
Speaker 1: you want to watch the film before continuing on with
Speaker 1: the episode, just have to remind you that this one,
Speaker 1: this one's hard to come by. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: anything like an official release, I think you're generally going
Speaker 1: to be looking at imported DVDs or burnt discs. I
Speaker 1: know Video Drum in Atlanta that they say they have
Speaker 1: an acceptable copy of it, and you can find its
Speaker 1: streaming in various formats online. It's exactly the sort of
Speaker 1: film that I keep expecting Golden Ninja Video to put
Speaker 1: out at some point, but it hasn't come to fruition.
Speaker 1: So look around. There's there's some good places to find it.
Speaker 1: And also there's that everything is terrible two minute cut.
Speaker 1: If you just want to want to sample platter of
Speaker 1: what the full film would consist of, all right, you
Speaker 1: want to talk about some of the people involved, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to go as in depth on
Speaker 1: the cast, but there are some interesting folks to discuss. Now,
Speaker 1: just a note before I go to I had to
Speaker 1: use multiple databases to to get some of this info,
Speaker 1: so IMDb, TMDb and also the Hong Kong Movie Database.
Speaker 1: Um so some things, especially the movie like this, some
Speaker 1: things are listened on one database and they're not on another,
Speaker 1: or can be slightly different. So just keep that in
Speaker 1: mind as we proceed, all right. Starting at the top here,
Speaker 1: one of the two directors and also one of the
Speaker 1: stunt coordinators is Chung singh Chow. Dates unavailable on this
Speaker 1: particular director. Taiwanese director and his stunt coordinating and directing
Speaker 1: credits include both Peach films, so you know this one
Speaker 1: and then the Definite sequel, as well as nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: ones twelve Animals, which I've heard good things about, nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five's Drunken Dragon had nineteen eighty five's Hello Dracula,
Speaker 1: which is a hopping vampire film and film franchise that
Speaker 1: is gonna We're gonna mention it multiple times in the
Speaker 1: art discussion of the people in this movie. I was
Speaker 1: looking this up. I think there is also a Korean
Speaker 1: TV series of the same name, that is, as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell, unrelated. Yeah, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of questions about Hello Dracula, like is it a definite
Speaker 1: franchise or is this like the Italian zombie franchise where
Speaker 1: it's all about how these movies have been released outside
Speaker 1: of the original market. Well, I was looking for a
Speaker 1: stream of Hello Dracula to try to see if I could.
Speaker 1: I don't just get a little flavor of it, because
Speaker 1: I loved the name when you told me this, I
Speaker 1: first heard it in the big bopper voice. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this looks like a franchise. I would love to check
Speaker 1: out if I can actually get a copy of this movie.
Speaker 1: The other director is Chun Lang Chen, who lived nineteen
Speaker 1: forty two through twenty sixteen. Additional planning and directing credits
Speaker 1: include dragon Ball The Magic Begins from nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: and yes, this is connected to dragon Ball Z. So
Speaker 1: as somebody who was never a Dragon Ball Z van,
Speaker 1: I've only seen little bits of it and heard other
Speaker 1: people talk about it. I did have friends who were
Speaker 1: into Dragon Ball Z. It seemed like a show that
Speaker 1: was very oriented around the concept of powering up. Is
Speaker 1: that accurate? Yes, I think, and I think it has
Speaker 1: almost as large, if not as large a footprint in
Speaker 1: many people's sort of pop culture upbringing as Pokemon. But
Speaker 1: I personally don't know a lot about it. My son
Speaker 1: has not gotten into dragon Ball Z. But I know
Speaker 1: this is the kind of thing like if you have
Speaker 1: dragon Ball Z in your childhood, then it is a
Speaker 1: part of who you are for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Seems like it provides a useful set of metaphors for
Speaker 1: whenever you're getting ready to do something important, you know,
Speaker 1: like you're going into dragon Ball mode. Maybe you're powering
Speaker 1: up for this test at school. Yeah. Yeah, So this
Speaker 1: is a live action nineteen ninety one adaptation of the
Speaker 1: dragon Ball manga and TV series that led to dragon
Speaker 1: Ball Z. So, for instance, this movie from ninety one
Speaker 1: has Goku in it, if that means anything to you
Speaker 1: out there. But anyway, Chen also worked on Hello Dracula,
Speaker 1: all right, And then the writer for this film is
Speaker 1: Ching Kang Yao born nineteen forty six. Extensive screenplay credits
Speaker 1: between forty nine and fifty three films, depending on the
Speaker 1: database you're looking at. His earliest credit is the Bruce
Speaker 1: I know, I've it's Bruce Lee l I. I've also
Speaker 1: seen this pronounced Bruce Lae, which is kind of fun
Speaker 1: because it's not really Bruce Lee. It's just a guy
Speaker 1: who looks almost exactly like him. I guess are close
Speaker 1: enough to market him as such. But anyway, he is
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy five film super Dragon Versus Superman. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: a good title and you know, implies some certain things
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure the movie's going to deliver on.
Speaker 1: He also wrote Hello Dracula, dragon Ball, The Magic Begins,
Speaker 1: One Armed Swordsman versus Nine Killers from seventy six, The
Speaker 1: Seven Commandments of Kung Fu from seventy nine and nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty ones Chivalry, Deadly Feud. Okay, a few good sounding
Speaker 1: titles in there. All right. Our star, though, is wrapped
Speaker 1: up in this character of the peach kid, peach boy,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call him. Basically, like we said
Speaker 1: in the movie, a male baby is born from a
Speaker 1: peach and is rapidly grown up into a youth. That
Speaker 1: youth is played by the female actor h Saolo Lin
Speaker 1: or Lamsu Lao or also Sharon Foster. So the name
Speaker 1: is listed different ways. I think these are maybe different
Speaker 1: aliases certainly. Sharon Foster is an americanized alias that was probably,
Speaker 1: you know, used as some of these movies were marketed
Speaker 1: and in other parts of the world. But this movie
Speaker 1: was apparently big enough a deal for her that it
Speaker 1: kind of earned her the nickname Peach Baby. So I
Speaker 1: think we can we can call her Peach Baby if
Speaker 1: we want, or we can just call her the kid
Speaker 1: however you want to cut it. But she doesn't play
Speaker 1: the baby. She plays like the grown up peach boy
Speaker 1: who is ready to fight evil. Yes, playing a male character,
Speaker 1: but definitely has this kind of punky Brewster kung fu
Speaker 1: spirit to her, very very peppy. I've seen her described
Speaker 1: as a kung Fu wondertand of her time. She apparently
Speaker 1: attended a peaking opera school in Taiwan, but quickly made
Speaker 1: a name for herself as an adorable fantasy action movie performer.
Speaker 1: On various databases, her acting credits go back to nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty but her career seems to really take off with
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six. Is Kong Fu Wonder Child a Wu
Speaker 1: Shaw film in which our youthful hero battles evil forces. Okay,
Speaker 1: could also describe the movie we're talking about Today or
Speaker 1: probably many others Yep, yep, and then comes child to
Speaker 1: Peach in eighty seven, which apparently earned her the nickname
Speaker 1: Peach Baby. The Peach sequel follows, as do some other
Speaker 1: general youth versus demon films, including Twelve Animals, sometimes with
Speaker 1: the actor playing a female youth, other times of male youth,
Speaker 1: and she seems to cross over into Hong Kong productions
Speaker 1: for a while as well, which isn't surprising given the
Speaker 1: apparent exchange that went on between the Hong Kong and
Speaker 1: Taiwanese films seen during this time. As Justin Daclue discusses
Speaker 1: and some of the extras, I'm thrilling bloody Sword, but
Speaker 1: I think I've even seen one of the Hong Kong
Speaker 1: film she's in. I don't think it's a very big
Speaker 1: role at all. But nineteen eighty nine's The Iceman Cometh,
Speaker 1: a movie about frozen then thoughts swordsmen from the Ming
Speaker 1: dynasty who then have to battle it out in modern
Speaker 1: day Hong Kong. WHOA, that's a good premise. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't remember much about it, but I remember I ended
Speaker 1: up watching it because it became highly recommended from some
Speaker 1: particular like Hong Kong film enthusiasts who were like, if
Speaker 1: you want to see a sword fight, watch this movie.
Speaker 1: Set your highlander aside because the ice man cometh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Peach Baby's tremendous, so much energy. Yeah, just wonderful charisma.
Speaker 1: She's wonderful. Totally agree. Peach Kid rules all right. Now
Speaker 1: we have an old man and an old woman who
Speaker 1: are going to be important to the plot. They end
Speaker 1: up raising Peach Baby, and the old man is played
Speaker 1: by Tu Chen who lived nineteen thirty two through two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. Beijing born actor known for such films
Speaker 1: as Dragon Ball The Magic Begins. He plays Gohan If
Speaker 1: that means anything to you dragon Ball fans. He was
Speaker 1: also in Hello Dracula one, two, three, and five. Note
Speaker 1: they to go up to six, so he's a very
Speaker 1: fun actor in this. He has a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: old man act kung fu comedy. Uh. He has one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy acting credits on the Hong Kong Movie database.
Speaker 1: He's also in Magic of Spells. This is one half
Speaker 1: of our Bamboo Forest Power couple who who end up
Speaker 1: adopting Peach Kid from the Peach Oh yeah, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're a lot of fun there. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of nuances to them in their relationship. Yes, old Woman
Speaker 1: and again there. I think these are their names, at
Speaker 1: least in the subtitles, because they refer to each other
Speaker 1: as such, a like old man to do this, and
Speaker 1: then he's like old woman, do this, and so forth.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the Old Woman is played by Yo Ma
Speaker 1: Fong born nineteen fifty eight. She's apparently only in eight films,
Speaker 1: including Magic of Spell and Hello Dracula three. But I
Speaker 1: thought she was delightful and this very funny. Obviously a
Speaker 1: much younger actor playing an older woman, but it was.
Speaker 1: It's a very spirited performance. She does great. There's a
Speaker 1: whole like chase scene between her and the peach where
Speaker 1: it involves the peach peeing on her. It involves her
Speaker 1: butt catching on fire because she's going too fast at
Speaker 1: one point. But it's great, and she and the old
Speaker 1: Man have some really great exchanges that I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly what is getting lost in the translation, but like
Speaker 1: the moments where she says like I could born a
Speaker 1: melane and the old man says, you can't even born
Speaker 1: a potato. Yeah. Yeah, they're one of the main themes
Speaker 1: with her character is that, yeah, she desperately wants to
Speaker 1: raise a child, and at one point and their their
Speaker 1: agent as they remind each other, but yeah, they're like,
Speaker 1: should we just raise Melan Knight? What if we raised Melanknite?
Speaker 1: What if Melan knighte was our son sent from the Buddha?
Speaker 1: And they seem to entertain this idea until something better
Speaker 1: comes along. Melan Knight, who is a very large, full
Speaker 1: grown man, yes, yes, but they do note that he
Speaker 1: looks cute like a baby. Yes, yes, he does have
Speaker 1: those big cheeks all right. One of the villains we
Speaker 1: counter in this is Um. I've seen her credited as
Speaker 1: Zombie Mother, but I think we can think of her
Speaker 1: as the Witch. She's very much a witch character. There's
Speaker 1: some big Boba yaga energy to this role, and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it was a drag performance for the entire
Speaker 1: my entire viewing of the film. It wasn't until I
Speaker 1: started looking through the credits that I realized this was
Speaker 1: the case. Played by actor Lindquang Young dates unknown to me,
Speaker 1: but a stunt performer and actor who has a lot
Speaker 1: of fun as are over the top hell Escape matriarch
Speaker 1: of evil. Yeah, there are multiple really good cross gender
Speaker 1: performances in this, and yeah, the witch is fantastic. She
Speaker 1: wears a ziggy stardust wig. Basically, am am I right
Speaker 1: about that? I believe, so yes, yeah, So she has
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of pizzazz. She's a fun
Speaker 1: witch and basically she just wants to find a good
Speaker 1: match for her her two sons, a nice princess for
Speaker 1: one of them or both of them to marry. That's right.
Speaker 1: She kidnaps a princess from a castle and like brings
Speaker 1: the princess back to Hell and he's like, well you
Speaker 1: will marry my two sons now, and the princess is
Speaker 1: not interested, and then she yells at the printers. She
Speaker 1: calls the princess some cuss words, but she also says,
Speaker 1: you're engaging in fault finding with my sons. So yeah,
Speaker 1: fun performance this particularly actor. I think it looks like
Speaker 1: maybe did a lot of like smaller roles, but maybe
Speaker 1: some bigger ones as well. So a lot of like swordsmen,
Speaker 1: a lot of thug credits. So you know, in action films,
Speaker 1: one of the underlings who gets into fights with the
Speaker 1: hero that sort of thing. Oh, but then let's talk
Speaker 1: about Night Melon, also sometimes credited as Watermelon Boy. This
Speaker 1: is played by the actress Saan Ping. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: a movie like this will just cast a big guy
Speaker 1: because they like he looks funny in the scenes, or
Speaker 1: so they think, but it's it's not actually as funny
Speaker 1: as they think it is. In this case, it is
Speaker 1: like this guy has a lot of moment I mean,
Speaker 1: his character is written in a hilarious way, but also
Speaker 1: he has a lot of just kind of look into
Speaker 1: the camera moments where I don't know it works, he
Speaker 1: just looks funny. Yeah, yeah, I mean they also he
Speaker 1: has kind of a ridiculous haircut. He's constantly in kind
Speaker 1: of silly looking clothes, so it's really played out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is we're talking about a guy who's you know,
Speaker 1: obviously a heavy set comedic Taiwan. He's actor, and you
Speaker 1: look at the various roles he's played and you see, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, in Hello Dracula, he just plays fat cop,
Speaker 1: which there's no way that that's not just a comedic
Speaker 1: bit part. You know, I'm imagining just a cop that
Speaker 1: is frightened by a vampire and runs away. I would
Speaker 1: bet money on that. Being the case. But in this movie,
Speaker 1: while he is certainly the butt of jokes and pranks
Speaker 1: by the demons and so forth, he's also a genuine hero.
Speaker 1: So he's, like he is in this film both a
Speaker 1: figure of fun and a figure of strength and courage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I think something that really is
Speaker 1: telling about this is that this actor also played the
Speaker 1: character Pigsy from Journey into the West in at least
Speaker 1: three films. Pigsy, for anyone who's not aware, this is
Speaker 1: one of the major characters and Journey into the West
Speaker 1: alongside the Monkey King. And you know, I think this
Speaker 1: is that's kind of the energy of that character. It's
Speaker 1: like a rotund, poor sign of a character who is
Speaker 1: humorous but also is a hero, is also you know,
Speaker 1: very much fighting on the side of good. So that
Speaker 1: that might be part of it. And we was maybe
Speaker 1: seeing some Pigsy energy in this role, because yeah, he
Speaker 1: certainly gets to act cowardly at times, he some prat
Speaker 1: falls and lots of humor, but he also gets to
Speaker 1: just really kick butt too. He busts out of souplex
Speaker 1: at one point, there's a part where he does like
Speaker 1: a really killer Sinton drop. This is where like there's
Speaker 1: a demon on the ground and he jumps and brings
Speaker 1: all his weight down on the demon, like back first
Speaker 1: onto him. So yeah, he gets to whoop some butt
Speaker 1: as well. He also gets powered up for extra heroics
Speaker 1: at the end of this movie, and I thought the
Speaker 1: mechanism they chose here was interesting. The way they power
Speaker 1: him up is they have the little fairy like do
Speaker 1: a Cupid's arrow into him and the princess, so they,
Speaker 1: against all odds, fall in love with each other, and
Speaker 1: this brings him extra strength to fight the devils to
Speaker 1: rescue her. Yes, yes, love is his energy source. And
Speaker 1: then once she's out of her jail cell, they're just
Speaker 1: like kissing through the entire final battle. Yeah. So lots
Speaker 1: lots of fun with that character. I ended up. It
Speaker 1: grew on me, Like at first I thought, it's like,
Speaker 1: this is just going to be a one note, one
Speaker 1: dimensional comedic character. But they're at least two dimensions in
Speaker 1: play here. Oh totally. I love night Milan. I think
Speaker 1: he's great. Okay, now, this is a much smaller character,
Speaker 1: but at one point, one of the demon underlings that
Speaker 1: they battle is referred to, at least in the subtitles
Speaker 1: as hercules. He's very much this kind of muscley ogre
Speaker 1: character played by Huang Jin Wi. And if you're wondering, hey,
Speaker 1: is this the same big muscled ogre dude there was
Speaker 1: in Thrilling Bloody Sword that got stabbed up the butt
Speaker 1: with the Thrilling Bloody Sword, Well, let me assure you
Speaker 1: that it absolutely is no way, Yeah, it's him. He
Speaker 1: has a sixteen bulging acting credits on the Hong Kong
Speaker 1: Movie database, playing mostly like giants, musclemen and bodyguards, you
Speaker 1: know the type. His earliest credit his nineteen seventy three's
Speaker 1: Kung Fu Inferno, and this is actually his penultimate role
Speaker 1: before nineteen eighty nine's King of the Children aka Hello
Speaker 1: Dracula four. What does he play a vampire? I'm assuming
Speaker 1: he plays a muscle dude. I don't know what kind
Speaker 1: of muscle dude. Maybe a muscle vampire in this so
Speaker 1: he's a muscle demon here. But in Thrilling Bloody Sword,
Speaker 1: he was a statue that came to life. It was
Speaker 1: in that scene where like each statue had only a
Speaker 1: specific place on their body where they could be wounded.
Speaker 1: And then with the I think he was the last
Speaker 1: one left and it's like, oh wow, we cannot find
Speaker 1: his weakness until finally The Thrilling Bloody Sword also had
Speaker 1: a little fairy character that ya strange thing in common.
Speaker 1: But the little the little fairy in that movie like
Speaker 1: used her X ray vision on him to do herman
Speaker 1: that he had to be stabbed and I think, I
Speaker 1: think youphimistically called it the thigh and then but when
Speaker 1: they show it, he stabs him in the butt. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a different person on subtitle translation duties for
Speaker 1: that film. Yeah, I feel like the subtitles for Child
Speaker 1: of Peach would have been a little Cruider. But speaking
Speaker 1: of that fairy, not the same actor playing the fairy
Speaker 1: in this film. Shadau Lou plays the fairy born nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight, a child actor who is in I think
Speaker 1: mostly Hello Dracula movie. She played ten ten in Hello
Speaker 1: Dracula's one, two, three, and five, and I think she
Speaker 1: is actually a Dracula, a vampire, a hopping vampire. Oh
Speaker 1: cham in that movie you mean the actresses in real life?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe? And then finally, there are other wonderful cast
Speaker 1: members in this But the last one I'm gonna mention
Speaker 1: is Huang Chung You playing the Demon King or the
Speaker 1: Spirit King their various ways. He has described the main
Speaker 1: villain born nineteen sixty one Tai when he's actor who
Speaker 1: seems to have played a fair number of wise masters,
Speaker 1: vampires and so forth. He was also a martial arts
Speaker 1: choreographer and director. King Devil also rules. The villains in
Speaker 1: this just across the board have awesome Hellish charisma. King
Speaker 1: Devil is great, The Witch is great, all the all
Speaker 1: the little demon fighters. We should get into more about
Speaker 1: the individual demon fighters as we talk about the plot,
Speaker 1: but yeah, everything from Hell is good in here. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's break down the plot here. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: it gets right into it. We just start somewhere in
Speaker 1: the mountains, and it is clearly it's an indoor set
Speaker 1: meant to represent the mountains. It's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like the guts Agro Crag, but with with with
Speaker 1: like trees and and happy vegetation everywhere. Yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: telling this is somewhere in the Himalayan Mountains. It's the
Speaker 1: peach garden. It's lush and warm due to the power
Speaker 1: hour of the Sword of the Sun, which is embedded
Speaker 1: in the hilltop. Ex Caliber style. Now pretty much right
Speaker 1: off the bat, you start figuring out that you're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to read some of the hard
Speaker 1: burned subtitles because it tells you, you know, we're here
Speaker 1: in the Peach Garden. And then you see, but right
Speaker 1: there in the peak there is a different world, the
Speaker 1: Peach Garden as the natural power absorbed by the Sword
Speaker 1: of sun It. And then it's just a white text
Speaker 1: on white background. So something about the garden, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But then a song kicks off and I rewound and
Speaker 1: listen to the opening song probably fourteen times. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a great tune, really puts you in the mood
Speaker 1: for happy, happy, fighting, and we get to see all
Speaker 1: of the Guardians of the Peach Garden going about their
Speaker 1: business and doing transformations. So who are the guardians here? Well,
Speaker 1: the subtitles tell us that they are. Well, the songs
Speaker 1: that the song that sells tells us they are the
Speaker 1: Naughty Angels, right that the Guardians of the Peach Garden.
Speaker 1: It says, it says turning into rainbows. Something can't read that.
Speaker 1: Dad and moms start playing magic. Naughty Angels dance on
Speaker 1: the roof. Yeah, that's that's exactlyurate. So, yeah, these three
Speaker 1: Elfish guardians. The subtitles tell us that they are tiny cock,
Speaker 1: tiny dog, and tiny monkey. I believe in general these
Speaker 1: characters are associated with the pheasant with a domestic dog,
Speaker 1: and with a monkey of some sort, and we encounter
Speaker 1: them in their animal forms, and then we see them
Speaker 1: in this scene transformed into their human forms. And don't worry,
Speaker 1: they have a third form that we won't find out
Speaker 1: about until the final battle. But they are the guardian
Speaker 1: angels of the Garden. And the Garden is ruled over
Speaker 1: by what is described as an intimate couple. I take
Speaker 1: that demeano cult power couple who are raising a plump,
Speaker 1: cute baby boy on the magic nectar of a giant
Speaker 1: peach aka the Holy Peach. So Mother Peach tends to
Speaker 1: the baby while Father Peach makes swords fly around their
Speaker 1: cavern home. Yeah, he does sword telekinesis in the cave
Speaker 1: while the mother like harvests the nectar that drips off
Speaker 1: of I don't know if there's a word for this.
Speaker 1: What is the little nub on the bottom of a
Speaker 1: peach called? Oh, that's a good question. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's prominently featured in many of the peach designs
Speaker 1: we see in this film. Yeah, okay, so the little
Speaker 1: peach nub drips nectar into a big glass punch bowl.
Speaker 1: It's a punch bowl, and then I guess she gets
Speaker 1: it from the punch bowl and then does she feed
Speaker 1: it to their baby? I believe so this is like
Speaker 1: the sacred elixir that is making peach baby strong. But
Speaker 1: these two are the masters of the garden. And then
Speaker 1: so they're living in peace and harmony. It seems like
Speaker 1: almost kind of like a perfect existence it's implied to be.
Speaker 1: But then oh, they one day something something feels amiss
Speaker 1: and they say, stranger is coming. What is this? And
Speaker 1: then like four big balls just roll into the garden yep,
Speaker 1: and they explode, and out of them come Devil's where
Speaker 1: this is the devil King or King Devil and his cronies.
Speaker 1: They have come to claim the magic sword better protect
Speaker 1: the baby. And just another myth note or folklore note here.
Speaker 1: I think this character is generally referred to as an
Speaker 1: one in the Japanese tradition and certainly has has ony
Speaker 1: notes into the character design here. So how to describe
Speaker 1: the King Devil He's wearing armor is this kind of
Speaker 1: a Samurai armor. Yeah, it looks very very Japanese and
Speaker 1: it's an inspiration, which makes sense given the origin of
Speaker 1: the folk tale. And has big ony teeth, huge fangs
Speaker 1: that it almost like fangs that look funny to try
Speaker 1: to fit inside his mouth. Yep, yeah, like it's a mouthful. Like. Luckily,
Speaker 1: this guy's not actually having to too much live vocal acting.
Speaker 1: I think he's just kind of goes ah and somebody
Speaker 1: dubs over it. But he's got a huge wigs, a redhair,
Speaker 1: gigantic bushy red eyebrows, he's got pale makeup on his face,
Speaker 1: the sort of samuraish armor. His helmet has a big
Speaker 1: oh what do you call that kind of the upward
Speaker 1: facing crescent moon shape on it, like horns. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: cuts a great profile. Oh yeah, King Devil is so stylish.
Speaker 1: And so he gets there and he says, I want
Speaker 1: the sword, and of course, you know the master is
Speaker 1: the gardener not just going to give him the sword.
Speaker 1: So he manifests, he has his balls explode and they
Speaker 1: transform into these devils with green hair and horns who
Speaker 1: are wielding these long like polarm weapons. And then there's
Speaker 1: a big battle that breaks out and the battle is amazing.
Speaker 1: I watched the first ten minutes of this film multiple times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a film where I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people you might not expect the martial arts action to
Speaker 1: be this good, but the martial arts action and this
Speaker 1: is great. I think maybe the martial arts is stronger
Speaker 1: in this film than Thrilling Bloody Sword that was still
Speaker 1: really impressive and thrilling Bloody Sword. Like, now, no matter
Speaker 1: what your issues are with like not being you know
Speaker 1: they about to understand all the subtitles or know what's
Speaker 1: going on plot wise, well at any given point, the
Speaker 1: action sequences absolutely makes sense. Like they have they have
Speaker 1: build to them, they have callbacks, They tell a story
Speaker 1: with the action, and I think it's kind of a
Speaker 1: testament to just the tradition of Taiwanese and Hong Kong
Speaker 1: cinema at the time that this was just sort of
Speaker 1: this was so important to making a film. So it's great.
Speaker 1: Highly recommend the action. We'll keep talking about it. But
Speaker 1: while the battle is going on with so you get
Speaker 1: the Master, the man from the Cave, and the three
Speaker 1: guardians fighting off the devils. The King Devil goes up
Speaker 1: to the sword of Sun and pulls it out of
Speaker 1: the stone, I guess, and then it's like shooting this
Speaker 1: green electricity all over the place. So as soon as
Speaker 1: he takes it, the garden turns dark and snow starts falling.
Speaker 1: So again, I think it was established earlier that the
Speaker 1: sword is what makes the top of the mountainhabitable and
Speaker 1: a lush garden instead of just a you know, snow
Speaker 1: capped rock. Yeah, and then things go downhill from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the King Devil, unfortunately, he kills the man and
Speaker 1: the woman, murders them, and casts the guardians off of
Speaker 1: the mountaintop, but not before Mom makes a plan for
Speaker 1: Peach baby. She pikes peach baby, puts him inside, puts
Speaker 1: the baby inside of the holy peach, and the holy
Speaker 1: peach flies off. That's right, So it is you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's Moses in the basket, except it's a baby
Speaker 1: in a peach. Yeah. And you know, since the peach
Speaker 1: is alive and his personality, it's not just like random
Speaker 1: like where will this baby wash up? It's like, no,
Speaker 1: the peach must find a suitable parents for the baby.
Speaker 1: That's right, It's it does a sentient peach. Also, while
Speaker 1: the peach is flying away. This is where we first
Speaker 1: meet the fairy. I think fairy just randomly shows up
Speaker 1: and just says, it's strange the peach garden is gone.
Speaker 1: She's mostly here, I think to move the plot along, Yeah,
Speaker 1: in multiple ways. Oh and also as the peaches leaving,
Speaker 1: she goes and talks to the dying woman in the cave,
Speaker 1: who she calls the woman landlord. I thought was interesting.
Speaker 1: It was like, is the is the fairy paying rent?
Speaker 1: But okay, we cut from here to meet the old
Speaker 1: man and the old woman. They are living together in
Speaker 1: the bamboo forest and they are going to a shrine
Speaker 1: of the Buddha to pay homage. We see that they
Speaker 1: are a you know, they kind of crack wise, but
Speaker 1: they are also in many ways a pious and kind
Speaker 1: hearted couple. And they go to the shrine of the
Speaker 1: Buddha and have a conversation about how they are unable
Speaker 1: to have children. But when the woman goes off to
Speaker 1: wash clothes at the side of the river, she comes
Speaker 1: across a giant peach and from here unfolds an amazing
Speaker 1: chase scene. Rob. I don't know if there's anything you
Speaker 1: want to mention about this, but it well, it goes
Speaker 1: over sea, not see over river, water, air and land.
Speaker 1: It has like a sort of dragging scene where the
Speaker 1: lady's butt catches on fire. It does involve the peach
Speaker 1: peeing on her, but she also does sort of catch
Speaker 1: it in the end, right right, It is a frantic chase.
Speaker 1: This this chase sequence is well represented in that two minute.
Speaker 1: Everything is terrible cut and yeah, it's just includes a
Speaker 1: lot of antics with indeed the peach peeing on her
Speaker 1: to put out fire and so forth. But eventually she
Speaker 1: catches it and kind of locks it in a room
Speaker 1: back at the house, and so when the old man
Speaker 1: shows up, she's like, old man, you gotta get in
Speaker 1: here and deal with this peach. And he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: old woman, you're just making things up. I can handle this,
Speaker 1: and then goes in and encounters the peach. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: says he's gonna eat it up. I'm gonna go in
Speaker 1: and eat the peach up. Oh. There's also a very
Speaker 1: funny moment where in the foreground the old man and
Speaker 1: the old woman are talking and he's saying, you know,
Speaker 1: that's okay, I'm hungry, prepare a meal for me, and
Speaker 1: she's like, no, there's a haunted Peach. And then in
Speaker 1: the background, if you just see the Peach zooming around
Speaker 1: like behind their backs, it's like a ghost and a
Speaker 1: horror movie. Yeah, just just zooming around ominously in the back.
Speaker 1: They have no idea what's about to happen, and it's
Speaker 1: doing poultry gey stuff. It makes the furniture dance and
Speaker 1: spin around in the air, almost exactly like Trumpy from
Speaker 1: Pod People. It has similar powers. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: the fight stops when the fairy shows up to convince
Speaker 1: the Peach to stop doing satanic black magic. Is Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's kind of a fight that happens where like the
Speaker 1: old man jumps up on the rafters and the Peach
Speaker 1: chases him and he's like, you stink Peach. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so good. But yeah, then the fairy shows up and
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, Peach, cut it out. These are some
Speaker 1: good folks. I think you need to open up and
Speaker 1: let them raise the baby. That's all right, he says,
Speaker 1: this couple are good persons. And then so the peach
Speaker 1: cracks open, it hatches this beautiful holy light comes out
Speaker 1: of it, and then there's the baby, and so the
Speaker 1: old woman grabs the baby and she says old man,
Speaker 1: take a look at it. Real cute. And from here
Speaker 1: they adopted the baby. They make it their own, and
Speaker 1: it is actually shockingly sweet. Like there's this sort of
Speaker 1: montage of her rocking the baby and singing to it
Speaker 1: as it falls asleep, and then we see the baby
Speaker 1: growing older and in this bontage and Rachel and I
Speaker 1: were watching this and she was like, what and why
Speaker 1: am I having feelings? I know I felt the same way,
Speaker 1: like the baby is very adorable and she's there's the
Speaker 1: part where yeah, she's singing, touching your head and touching
Speaker 1: your hands like a little lullaby, and it's very sweet's
Speaker 1: legitimately sweet. Oh and we should mention earlier when they
Speaker 1: were at the Buddhist shrine in the forest before they
Speaker 1: get Peach Kid. This is when they meet night Melan.
Speaker 1: So they're like, they're saying, oh, we wish we could
Speaker 1: have a son. And then I don't know where night
Speaker 1: Melon comes from. It's like he falls out of the sky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's on some sort of adventure, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he drops down and at first you're like, who
Speaker 1: is this? But they're like, oh, here's a big baby,
Speaker 1: let's raise him. And then they realize like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: he is cute like a baby, but this is a
Speaker 1: grown man. And then we discovered this is night melon.
Speaker 1: He's out hunting birds, i think, with his retainers, and they, oh,
Speaker 1: he shows off his strength by chopping down a giant
Speaker 1: stalk of bamboo, like a tree sized one with his
Speaker 1: hands to get the bird out of it. Yeah. Now
Speaker 1: there's a wonderful jarring transition because we have this wonderful
Speaker 1: lullah by you know, rocking my sweet, my sweet peach
Speaker 1: kid into into slumber, that sort of thing. But then
Speaker 1: immediately we cut and it's like, meanwhile in Hell, in Hell,
Speaker 1: So the King Devil returns to Hell where there is
Speaker 1: a frozen old witch and all her evil demon children.
Speaker 1: And this scene is actually, I think quite atmospheric and spooky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is supposed to be one of the cold hells. Now,
Speaker 1: there are numerous cold narakas in Buddhism. I've seen. I've
Speaker 1: seen it listed that they're a total of like maybe
Speaker 1: eight cold hells, and they're defined by the cold sounds
Speaker 1: that the inhabitants make and or what sort of damage
Speaker 1: it does to the body. So, are your teeth chattering
Speaker 1: at at in the cold, or are you going ha
Speaker 1: ha in pain? Is your body merely covered with cold blisters?
Speaker 1: Are those blisters bursting and then the pus freezing over
Speaker 1: your body? Or are you so cold that like parts
Speaker 1: of your flesh have fallen away and we can see
Speaker 1: your internal organs. I don't know. It's one of those.
Speaker 1: It seems real bad here because the demons are crying
Speaker 1: out for relief. You see the demon children walking up
Speaker 1: to a mound, and then this old witch comes up
Speaker 1: out of the mound, like she pushes away the earth
Speaker 1: the top of it. And the demons are saying or
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're demons, that maybe they're damned
Speaker 1: people that I don't know. The people there they're saying,
Speaker 1: get up, mom, get up mom, And they say Mom,
Speaker 1: we don't want to stay here. But the witch says
Speaker 1: it's destined because we've done evil things before. I think
Speaker 1: that means like in life, maybe they did evil things
Speaker 1: so they're stuck here in jail. She says, we're all cursed.
Speaker 1: We're locked up in jail. And they say, Grandma, get
Speaker 1: us out of here. And then she says, it's impossible.
Speaker 1: Let's spend our life like this again. I think maybe
Speaker 1: something is getting lost in the subtitles here. But then
Speaker 1: the King Devil shows up and he's got the sort
Speaker 1: of son with him, and with the power of the
Speaker 1: sort of sun, he turns Hell into a kind of
Speaker 1: peach garden. Like He's like, Okay, now Hell isn't cold anymore,
Speaker 1: y'all can chill out. Yeah, So he's recruiting himself some
Speaker 1: nnions here with the power of the sort of the sun,
Speaker 1: and yeah, instantly all of these newly won demonic minions
Speaker 1: take on a new air, a new likeness. So the
Speaker 1: old mom, the old witch here is suddenly suddenly has
Speaker 1: the ziggy stardust Wig. We see Hercules, the big muscly
Speaker 1: ogre dude. There's some other specialized demon troops as well.
Speaker 1: I think one of my favorites is the wind guy.
Speaker 1: He's like this demon underling that has a big sack
Speaker 1: of wind that he uses in battles either to blow
Speaker 1: his adversaries away or to create a really stiff wind
Speaker 1: that they can't walk into, kind of comedically, and the
Speaker 1: payoff on the wind bag demon is fantastic. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: But so the King Devil has defrosted the demons of hell,
Speaker 1: and the Witch says, thank you, my King Devil, you
Speaker 1: give us new life and interesting, interesting take on the
Speaker 1: harrowing of hell here, and so the witch is obviously interested.
Speaker 1: She's like, King Devil, what's the sword in your hand?
Speaker 1: And the King Devil explains that he's taken it from
Speaker 1: the peach garden. And I think he explains what he
Speaker 1: plans to do with the sword, But most of the
Speaker 1: subtitles here are against a white background, so I do
Speaker 1: not know what he says his plan is, but it
Speaker 1: seems to me that his plan is to do evil
Speaker 1: maybe and to rule over the people of the world
Speaker 1: and make them miserable. Yeah. I mean, not to get
Speaker 1: too deep on this, but in freeing these people from
Speaker 1: one of the hells, like in the from the Buddhist perspective,
Speaker 1: like he's interfering with like the natural order of the universe,
Speaker 1: because again in Eastern traditions, the hells and hell realms
Speaker 1: are more about transforming into something better like this is
Speaker 1: No matter what the subtitles might say, I think we
Speaker 1: might infer that these are people who are being processed
Speaker 1: through this realm and eventually, in another incarnation will be
Speaker 1: better for it. So he's interrupting that he's in. He's
Speaker 1: breaking them out so they can continue to be bad
Speaker 1: in a way that's out of the line with the universe.
Speaker 1: I think in one of the subtitles they do say, well,
Speaker 1: we've got a thousand more years here. Yeah, but yes,
Speaker 1: he breaks it breaks it off short. They clearly are
Speaker 1: not redeemed. They have not improved their souls at all,
Speaker 1: so that they still just want to do evil and
Speaker 1: they're gonna help King Devil in that regard by brutally
Speaker 1: attacking a village. This is the next thing we see
Speaker 1: them do. Like the Witch shows up and she says,
Speaker 1: m I get a thrill as I smell these people.
Speaker 1: I want to taste their blood, and she gets all excited,
Speaker 1: and they just attack all these people in a village.
Speaker 1: That one part, they're like setting fire to houses and
Speaker 1: beating people down and just slaughtering them. And there's one
Speaker 1: part where I think a demon attacks some kids that
Speaker 1: are swimming in a lake and their dad is on
Speaker 1: the lake shore and he I think he calls them
Speaker 1: like Bobby and Denny or something in these subtitles, and
Speaker 1: then he jumps into the water to save them. And
Speaker 1: then they send like a mutant shark after him. Oh
Speaker 1: have their shark demons, that's right, Yeah, those will come
Speaker 1: up again later. Yeah. So they just they burn this
Speaker 1: city to the ground or this town to the grounds village.
Speaker 1: And this is something this film has in common with
Speaker 1: Throwing Bloody Sword. Both films have, at least in my eye,
Speaker 1: terrifying fire effects. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to this
Speaker 1: kind of thing now, but I'm like, oh jeez, it's like,
Speaker 1: like that's that's not just a magic staff shooting a
Speaker 1: little bit of flame. I think they're using a flamethrower
Speaker 1: that looks like jelly gasoline. Yeah, and we do see
Speaker 1: what seemed to be unsimulated footage of like houses burning down,
Speaker 1: so they burned some real huts and stuff for this.
Speaker 1: So the Devil is up to some bad business and
Speaker 1: it really needs to stop. We need a hero, is
Speaker 1: what we need. We need a hero. And what do
Speaker 1: you know, back in the bamboo forest, peach kids all
Speaker 1: grown up, super strong. Now he's splitting wood with his
Speaker 1: bare ends. He goes and he digs out a well
Speaker 1: for his parents so they can have water. Now at
Speaker 1: this point, yeah, that the fairy has intervened, sped up
Speaker 1: the development of Peach Kid, because if she's the Fairy's like,
Speaker 1: this isn't happening fast enough. We need to hear pronto.
Speaker 1: And so by this point it is the grown actor
Speaker 1: peach Baby playing the peach Kid. Oh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there'd been some earlier scenes where they were just like, wow,
Speaker 1: peach kid sure eats a lot, but needs to grow
Speaker 1: up faster. Yeah. And the grandma and the grandpa, the
Speaker 1: old man and the old woman, they couldn't be happier
Speaker 1: because there's like, oh, our son is so strong, he
Speaker 1: can carry us around. Yes, So we see peach Kid
Speaker 1: carrying are I think they work as like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: loggers in the forest. We see peach Kid, I think,
Speaker 1: by himself carrying a whole tree that has been felled.
Speaker 1: But then also just yeah, carrying the old man around
Speaker 1: in the forest, and the old man says, this is
Speaker 1: my son. He bears me up. Yep, yep, he's very proud,
Speaker 1: very proud. Now somewhere in here, the King Devil and
Speaker 1: the Witch attack a castle and kidnap a princess. I
Speaker 1: recall this going by very fast, but suddenly they've just
Speaker 1: got a princess captive. Yeah, And then I forgot about
Speaker 1: the princess for a while until she becomes important again.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it comes by very fast. But the witch says,
Speaker 1: it's your luck to have a chance to marry my son,
Speaker 1: and princess doesn't want to marry her sons, and which
Speaker 1: doesn't like this. She cusses the princess out as she says,
Speaker 1: you're indulging in fault finding on my good sons. And
Speaker 1: then the son say, mom, I want the princess. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the fact that the King Devil has kidnapped the princess
Speaker 1: leads to the organization of a gigantic rescue effort. So
Speaker 1: they're like these armies as symbol they're going to go
Speaker 1: to Devil Island to get the princess back. And who's
Speaker 1: in charge of this rescue plan but Night Mellon himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of other kind of military individuals
Speaker 1: who there's one one guy that is referred to as
Speaker 1: Bowie in the subtitles for a smug priest, the Dallas Priest.
Speaker 1: He's very yeah, he's very like full of himself. When
Speaker 1: he shows up, he's like, I will defeat you know,
Speaker 1: I will go with you. We will defeat the King Devil,
Speaker 1: and night Melon taunts him by saying, like, what, You're
Speaker 1: going to defeat him by praying at him? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's very cowardly in this too. The first peeing scene
Speaker 1: comes about though, because our hero, the peach Kid, shows
Speaker 1: up and it's like, I'm strong, I'm ready to help.
Speaker 1: There's also a lot of back and forth where the father,
Speaker 1: the old man, is like, I will go to war.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to go to war and fight the tavil,
Speaker 1: and but then they realize, oh, the old man is
Speaker 1: too old, he can't do it. It's got to be
Speaker 1: peach Kid. So tears in their eyes. Peach Kid goes
Speaker 1: off to join the army, but then aren't The generals
Speaker 1: in the army are like, you're too young, you can't
Speaker 1: do this. And then the three Guardian animals show up
Speaker 1: and they're like, how can they bully our master? Like that,
Speaker 1: let's go pee in their drinks and so that's all right.
Speaker 1: The monkey and the dog go and pee in their
Speaker 1: drinks that are set out without anybody, you know, looking
Speaker 1: out for them. And then they show up and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's have our our alcohol now, and so they start
Speaker 1: drinking their their drinks that now have animal urine in them,
Speaker 1: and they start making comedic gross faces about how weird
Speaker 1: it tastes. I think they have to run a night
Speaker 1: Melon and Priest Bowie have to run behind a curtain
Speaker 1: to vomit. Yeah, a good time has had by all.
Speaker 1: Oh but Peach Kid eventually, so yeah, we assemble the characters.
Speaker 1: So you've got night Melon and Priest Bowie in the armies.
Speaker 1: And then Peach Kid eventually proves his worth by wrestling
Speaker 1: a bull. I think, is that right? Yes, yes, slams it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: slams a bull down. And then also Peach Kid is
Speaker 1: joined by the three animal guardians from the Peach Shrine
Speaker 1: on the mountaintop. So they're allied with peach Kid. Now,
Speaker 1: I think maybe we're they recruited by the fairy. I
Speaker 1: think so yeah, yeah, because they were a part of
Speaker 1: the original guardian crew for the Peach Baby. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're loyal. And they also eventually tell Peach Kid what'sop like,
Speaker 1: tells Peach Kid about Peach Kid's birth parents and so forth. Right,
Speaker 1: so they pee in the food and all that. But
Speaker 1: eventually Peach Kid is accepted into Night Melon's retinue here
Speaker 1: and they're going to go attack the Devil Island together,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately, Night Melon's forces are decimated by a vicious
Speaker 1: witch attack on the army encampment that involves an attempted
Speaker 1: seduction of Night Melon the destruction of his forces. Rob,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have described this in some more detail. What
Speaker 1: all goes down here? Oh? I mean it's a frenzied
Speaker 1: action sequence. Well with also that seductive sequence of where
Speaker 1: the witch shows up pretends to be the princess Knight
Speaker 1: Melon's like, oh, I will kiss you, and then she
Speaker 1: transforms into the witch before he can kiss her, and
Speaker 1: hilarity ensues. But then yeah, the Demon force attacks and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great action sequence. Stuff flaming in the night.
Speaker 1: We get to see the wind Demon and yeah, I
Speaker 1: think one of my favorite mini battles in the whole
Speaker 1: picture is Peach Kid versus Wind Demon, And we see
Speaker 1: this first tussle between these two in this sequence, and
Speaker 1: Wind Demon kind of gets the better of Peach Kid
Speaker 1: by blowing the wind out of the bag through a pipe,
Speaker 1: right yeah, and we realize like this isn't over. These
Speaker 1: two have a score to settle later on. So Night
Speaker 1: Melon survives this tag I think, does Priest Bowie just
Speaker 1: run away? I think he's like, I better pretend to
Speaker 1: be dead so I can survive, and then he does
Speaker 1: that and then he kind of crawls away. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the forces that are going to pose the Devil King
Speaker 1: are decimated, but our key hero survive. And at this
Speaker 1: point it becomes clear that this this effort is not
Speaker 1: going to succeed as a as a pure military venture
Speaker 1: with siege equipment like it originally was was headed. Now
Speaker 1: this is going to be have to be a hero
Speaker 1: squad oriented action. We're gonna have to send our heroes
Speaker 1: in to the inner sanctum of the Devil King and
Speaker 1: stop him. That's right. So for the final for the
Speaker 1: Final showdown, Peach Kid, Night Melon and the three Animal
Speaker 1: Guardians mountain assault on Devil Island. And I don't know
Speaker 1: we can talk about the various elements of this, but
Speaker 1: I will just say the final battle is a religious experience.
Speaker 1: It will open eyes you did not know you had,
Speaker 1: oh Man so much. There's so much to talk about
Speaker 1: it just for starters. Since I mentioned the first part
Speaker 1: of it already, we get the second half of the
Speaker 1: Battle of Peach Kid versus the wind Demon. And in
Speaker 1: this one, like Peach Kid has learned the tricks and
Speaker 1: like the language, like the physical language of the fight
Speaker 1: sequence is so great. And eventually peach Kid gets the
Speaker 1: upper hand and they do this bit where they both
Speaker 1: have this tube and they're blowing into the tube and
Speaker 1: Peach Kid can blow harder and stronger at this point
Speaker 1: than Wind Demon, and she makes the Wind Demon's head
Speaker 1: explode scanner style and we get a freeze frame of
Speaker 1: head chunks and gore exploding from this creature's head. Peach
Speaker 1: Kid as Michael Ironside as Darrell revoc Yes, Yes, absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: Like if the movie had ended at that point, I
Speaker 1: would have been like, fine, that's great, I can go
Speaker 1: home happy. Oh. Also, before the fight starts, to get
Speaker 1: a return of the mutant sharks, yep, there's a brutal
Speaker 1: fight with them in which one of the sharks has
Speaker 1: the Shark mutants, has their fin sliced off by Peach Kid.
Speaker 1: And then after the battle they're like, hey, where where'd
Speaker 1: Melan go? And then Melan comes swimming up with like
Speaker 1: a bunch of shark fins from the Shark demons, and
Speaker 1: he's like these are nutritious. I'm going to eat them.
Speaker 1: So we get a shark fin soup joke in there,
Speaker 1: which you know, I wasn't crazy about that. I guess
Speaker 1: we have to keep in mind this was the eighties,
Speaker 1: and I think the messaging against the you know, the
Speaker 1: ecologically harmful and ethically problematic practice of shark finning, it
Speaker 1: didn't really come into like two thousand and five or so,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, and then also, I guess it's better
Speaker 1: in that at least it's played up. Is kind of
Speaker 1: a dufus move on Melon's part, because they're like, don't
Speaker 1: eat that melon, You're gonna poison yourself. And he's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: oh yes, because they're demon shark fins, not regular shark fins.
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh I didn't think of that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they get him to leave the shark fins and then
Speaker 1: they keep going into the inter sanctum for this big battle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the battle ensues. The action is just sizzling.
Speaker 1: We get that that final encounter between Peach Kid and
Speaker 1: the wind Demon. Meanwhile, we have Melan going to rescue
Speaker 1: the princess, and we mentioned earlier how that the Faery
Speaker 1: uses love to power him up and and it's also
Speaker 1: in this sequence where he has to battle Hercules. Hercules,
Speaker 1: remember is the is the demon from hell who's got
Speaker 1: big muscles and like a spiked club. Yeah, very much,
Speaker 1: this kind of ony ogre, kind of a figure brute strength,
Speaker 1: and it's it's ultimately a really fun fight because Melan
Speaker 1: holds his own his own pretty well against Hercules, but
Speaker 1: he's he's just not getting it done. But after the
Speaker 1: love sinks in and takes effect, he's able to just
Speaker 1: kind of like casually kill Hercules like he's walking away
Speaker 1: with his princess, and then he kind of like flicks
Speaker 1: a spear with his foot back behind him and impales
Speaker 1: Hercules through the heart. Is beautiful. That's the power of love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could have played it and it would have fit perfectly.
Speaker 1: But but but we haven't gotten yet to the most
Speaker 1: amazing thing that happens in this film, which is the
Speaker 1: emergence of Mecca Peach. Oh. Yeah, because everybody's at this
Speaker 1: point trying to tell I think the Witch gets dispatched.
Speaker 1: She gets blown up with a rocket shot by one
Speaker 1: of the three Animal Guardian kids, and then it's so
Speaker 1: it's just them against the demon. King. But the Demon
Speaker 1: King has this magical sword, and it's quickly becoming obvious
Speaker 1: that the crew cannot take him out. Like he's busting
Speaker 1: busting out against Melan. Melan hits the dirt. The three
Speaker 1: kids take on hybrid forms, which are hilarious because one
Speaker 1: has long monkey arms, one has like a dog claws,
Speaker 1: and the other one has a single of pheasant wing.
Speaker 1: And so they jump into battle. And these these sort
Speaker 1: of wild form path of the Beast of weapons seem
Speaker 1: to work well against the demon underlings, but they are
Speaker 1: no match for the king. The he's punching him with
Speaker 1: the wing. Yeah, and so in even wings are good
Speaker 1: for I don't know, but they can't they can't do it.
Speaker 1: They can't pull it off. And even Peach kid it
Speaker 1: seems unable to get the upper hand against demon King.
Speaker 1: So they've got they've got a power up. We get
Speaker 1: we get a power up here. Yes, it's the return
Speaker 1: of the Holy Peach. Peach comes flying back in um
Speaker 1: Demon King. What slices the Peach up with the sword
Speaker 1: and the slices become other peaches. I forget exactly how
Speaker 1: we get the transformation into Mecca Peach? What what is
Speaker 1: the sequence here. Yeah, I think Peach shows up, Peach
Speaker 1: gets sliced by the sword, but then the Peach pieces
Speaker 1: a symbol vultron style into this large kind of like
Speaker 1: a peach golem, like a big Peach marionette. Every time
Speaker 1: Mecca peaches on screen and on the screen in this movie,
Speaker 1: it manages to be the weirdest scene ever committed to screen.
Speaker 1: It's just such a god Balker's presentation. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's and it looks so weird but also so familiar.
Speaker 1: This is something we were talking about before we started.
Speaker 1: I was like, Mecca Peach feels like something I've seen before,
Speaker 1: even though I know I haven't. I think it's just
Speaker 1: that Mecca Peach in its puppet form has like some
Speaker 1: visual similarities to other objects. Yeah, Like I was getting
Speaker 1: notes of mister Bill, notes of a cupie doll, and
Speaker 1: notes of Panic Peach, that squeeze toy with the bulging eyeballs.
Speaker 1: That's really good. But then very much is its own
Speaker 1: thing as well off. And it's it's got a weird
Speaker 1: energy too, because it laughs with a Donald Duck laugh
Speaker 1: or something very much like a Donald Duck laugh, going
Speaker 1: like so like the King Devil tries to rush it,
Speaker 1: but Mecca Peach blows a bunch of I don't know,
Speaker 1: the fog in his face and knocks him back. And
Speaker 1: then Mecca Peach peas on him. Yeah, but peas right,
Speaker 1: and the Devil King's face and he makes he makes
Speaker 1: a weird face about it, and the subtitles say piss
Speaker 1: off and that. But the Devil King's not gonna, not
Speaker 1: gonna stop. He comes in again with the sword. This
Speaker 1: time there's some like back and forth with the sword,
Speaker 1: and then the Mecca Peach like bites the sword out
Speaker 1: of his hand and seems to swallow the sword, and
Speaker 1: then we get this awesome moment so that there's like,
Speaker 1: I think the first thing that happens is Mecca Peach
Speaker 1: just like knocks the Devil King away and like slams
Speaker 1: him through a pillar, which is a pretty spectacular looking
Speaker 1: stunt on its own right. And then he gets up.
Speaker 1: He's standing in front of his devil throne and Mecca
Speaker 1: Peach opens its mouth. Out of his mouth comes flying
Speaker 1: Peach Kid with the Sword of the Sun in hand,
Speaker 1: and Peach Kid violently skewers the Devil King like through
Speaker 1: his torso and steers him to the throne in just
Speaker 1: an absolutely quality kill. Magnificent. I don't know what else
Speaker 1: we could say, just great, Like the only really way
Speaker 1: to close things out at that point is to have
Speaker 1: a jumping freeze frame ending, which they do. They do, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the credits are all we get the song again, yes,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and it's just so yeah, so delightful
Speaker 1: to end on that note where here are heroes, here's
Speaker 1: the peach monstrosity still standing behind them. Which again, is
Speaker 1: this this perfect balance of like awkward weird. I guess
Speaker 1: it was a marionette, like a large marionette that they
Speaker 1: used like cranes or scaffolding to to create Like this
Speaker 1: was not a it's not stop motion, it's not you know,
Speaker 1: certainly not CGI. So it has a it looks kind
Speaker 1: of bad as you might expect, but also wonderful, and
Speaker 1: it definitely has a physical reality that you can get behind.
Speaker 1: Naughty Angels dance on the roof once again. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: do you have anything else? Or should we wrap it
Speaker 1: up there? Oh? We should probably wrap it up there.
Speaker 1: But there's I mean, there's so many little details in
Speaker 1: this movie. It's like, I say, you can watch the
Speaker 1: two minute cut, but you won't. You certainly won't get everything.
Speaker 1: And then once you watch it you may have to
Speaker 1: go back through it and watch it again to appreciate
Speaker 1: all of the stuff that they just pack into this
Speaker 1: this picture. Child of Peach truly a monumental achievement. I've
Speaker 1: never seen anything quite like it. Yeah, yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. So you know, maybe it's not the most
Speaker 1: um Saint Patty's Day of movies we could have picked,
Speaker 1: but a lot of fun. And you know, also like
Speaker 1: today is also this is my fifteen year working aniversary
Speaker 1: since I started with house stuff work, so you know,
Speaker 1: this movie is a party, so it's my party. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. All right, well, we're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and close this one out, but we'd love to hear
Speaker 1: from everyone out there. Are you familiar with Child of Peach?
Speaker 1: Were you familiar with it? Or are you familiar with
Speaker 1: it now? What are your thoughts on it? We'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Also love to hear from anyone
Speaker 1: who's just more more expertise in like Taiwanese cinema in general.
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