GIANT ROBOT #23

The latest issue of the only Asian and Asian-American pop-culture publication that matters is packed with some of the most interesting people you'll never get to meet. Wong Jing is the director of Hong Kong movie classics like the God of Gamblers and The Naked Killer; Sonny Chiba crushed vocal boxes in the Street Fighter flicks from Japan in the groovy '70s; Daewon Song is an incredible skateboarder with some funky hair; and the Japanese Groovisions company is turning out some of the most amazing design work that you'll ever see. In addition there's cheap travel in Vietnam, writing by renegade Chinese author Wang Shuo, and Hong Kong's coolest actor Francis Ng. Plus, the stuntman for John Woo, the truth behind Asian sweat, and rolling with the cult of orchid fetishists.

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