Bob Strauss May 4, 2021Updated: May 5, 2021, 5:34 pm
Alain Uy plays a divorced dad in the martial arts action comedy “The Paper Tigers.” Photo: Well Go USA
“The Paper Tigers” is a likable example of grit and determination, both onscreen and behind the scenes. Writer-director Tran Quoc Bao said he turned to Kickstarter to help finance his first feature film rather than give in to Hollywood’s suggestions that he cast white actors to play the lead roles he wrote as Asian Americans.
It took nearly a decade, but now Tran’s kung fu comedy/drama is out Friday, May 7, in the way he envisioned it. Any similarities to “Cobra Kai” are superficial.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), and Yuji Okumoto (
Cobra Kai).
The Paper Tigers below:
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan) and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges (and a dangerous hitman still armed with ample knee cartilage) if they are to honorably defend his legacy.
The Paper Tigers answers the burning question, What if the Karate Kid got old and out of shape? Well, middle-aged, but definitely rusty as hell.
Three teens receive private kung-fu training from bona fide master Sifu Cheng (Roger Yuan) and become the kings of the local martial-arts scene. On the brink of attaining widespread recognition, something splinters best friends Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan) and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins), and they part ways for decades. When Cheng is killed, the now-past-it schlubs put their differences aside to solve the crime â only to find that spinning hook kicks ain t so easy when you re 45 and haven t stretched.
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MIC introduces first online notarisation platform CCOL 09:34 | 26/04/2021
With the countryâs acceleration of digital transformation, more Vietnamese-made digital platforms, such as the newest online notarisation service, are now available, making business activities and peopleâs life more comfortable and efficient.
Tran Quoc Bao, director of CCOL, shared the advantages of the online notarisation platform at the Vietnam Digital Technologies Forum
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on April 23 introduced the online notarisation platform CCOL at Vietnam Digital Technologies Forum to facilitate daily notarisation activities.
CCOL is the first online notarisation platform capable of connecting customers with notarisation service providers nationwide to conduct administrative work entirely online. It also enables notarisation service providers to manage their activities as an independent business.