The Complete Works Podcast

This week, Michelle Yeoh reunites with TOMORROW NEVER DIES director Roger Spottiswoode in 2008's THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, a historical drama depicting a time period that we've covered pretty extensively on this podcast in the past. Yeoh plays a supporting role in the story of reporter George Hogg alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, and Chow Yun-Fat!

This week, Michelle Yeoh gets possibly her biggest English-language showcase yet as the lead in Asif Kapadia's survival drama FAR NORTH! Also featuring Michelle Krusiec and Sean Bean, Yeoh stars as a woman cast out by her tribe and forced to make some difficult decisions while living in the snowy Siberian wasteland. If we told you how this movie ends, you would not believe us.

No movie to talk about this week (blame Mike D, he's the one that forgot to watch it), but guess what - Michelle Yeoh won an Oscar! So this week, the Mikes are talking about Yeoh's Oscar win, the astounding success of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, and what they thought of this year's Oscar ceremony as a whole!

This week, newly-minted Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh joins the ensemble cast of SUNSHINE! Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, this tense space thriller also stars Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong, and more. Also, it might just be one of the best sci-fi movies of the last 25 years? 

This week, we're talking about a movie that Michelle Yeoh is technically not in... at least in the theatrical cut. But if you watch the director's cut (which runs about 40 minutes longer), Yeoh makes a quick appearance at the beginning and the end of this film which means we've got to talk about it! Billed as Jet Li's final martial arts epic and reuniting Yeoh with Li and choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping, it's time to talk FEARLESS!

This week, Michelle Yeoh dives back in to American films with a story steeped in Japanese culture... or at least, the filmmakers would have you believe that. We're talking MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA today, winner of three Oscars but a film that was heavily criticized for its inaccuracies regarding Japan, starting with the fact that its three lead actresses are... not Japanese. But is there still enough that works in this handsomely-produced period film to recommend it? 

This week, it's time to talk about the second and final film produced by Mythical Films, Michelle Yeoh's production company from the early 2000s - SILVER HAWK! A superhero movie starring Yeoh as the title character, also featuring Luke Goss, Richie Jen, Li Bingbing, and Michael Jai White!

YOU'VE GOT THE TOUCH! This week, Michelle Yeoh uses her post-CROUCHING TIGER clout to launch her own film production company. And her first film as a producer is 2002's THE TOUCH - also featuring Ben Chaplin, Richard Roxburgh, and Dane Cook, Yeoh stars as a circus performer whose family has guarded a mystical treasure for thousands of years. The movie was not well-received and was effectively buried in America for many years - but now there's a whole hour-long podcast about it!

This week, it's time to talk about a major movie in the Michelle Yeoh canon - nominated for ten Academy Awards, the first foreign-language movie to gross over $100 million in the US, it's director Ang Lee's CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON! Michelle Yeoh stars in this beautiful martial arts epic alongside Chow Yun-Fat, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen (and bonus: the movie is returning to theaters this month!).

Celebrate Michelle Yeoh's recent Oscar nomination by revisiting a role that truly utilizes her star power - MOONLIGHT EXPRESS, also starring Leslie Cheung, is a Hong Kong-Japanese co-production that Yeoh did for free, as a favor to a friend, during a quiet period between TOMORROW NEVER DIES and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Though she's only in the movie for about 10 minutes, she ends up delivering a terrific dramatic performance.