The Complete Works Podcast

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-Pi...

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 t...

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 buri...

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 mo...

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 deliver...

This week, the Mikes are taking a break from Yeoh and getting back in the Cage - Nicolas Cage recently shot two westerns back-to-back in Montana, and the first of those has just been released: THE OLD WAY! Nicolas Cage is a retired gunslinger when the son of a man he killed returns for revenge - also starring Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Noah Le Gros, Nick Searcy, and Clint Howard!

This week, Michelle Yeoh goes international with her first English-language film -  the 1997 action blockbuster TOMORROW NEVER DIES! Featuring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Yeoh appears as Wai Lin, today considered one of the best Bond Girls of the entire series. We dive into why that is with resident Bond expert Nick Wermuth on this week's episode!

This week, Michelle Yeoh takes on a supporting role in a historical retelling of the revolutions and unrest of early 1900s China, THE SOONG SISTERS! The three Soong Sisters were influential figures in Chinese history, and this film - also starring Vivian Wu and Maggie Cheung (becoming the first to join the Yeoh Five-Timers Club!) - seeks to tell their story. 

After a series of on-set injuries, Michelle Yeoh slowed down a bit and took on a more dramatic role in 1996, one that closely reflected her own life working in the Hong Kong film industry - and in the process, she actually suffered her worst injury yet. It's time to talk Ann Hui's THE STUNT WOMAN!

This week, Michelle Yeoh pops up in a small cameo in 1994's SHAOLIN POPEY II: MESSY TEMPLE! And boy, what a messy temple it is - two six year olds must save their master after he's kidnapped by hired killers, and shenanigans ensue!

This week, it's the movie that got Michelle Yeoh to slow down on her action career after yet another spinal injury - WONDER SEVEN! Featuring Yeoh, a team of elite government agents, dirt bikes, espionage, and one of the craziest final action sequences we've seen yet!

This week, Michelle Yeoh reunites with legendary action filmmaker Yeun Woo-Ping, and she's taking center stage in WING CHUN! When her ex-boyfriend (Donnie Yen) returns to town and mistakes another woman for her, shenanigans ensue - plus, bandits are constantly attacking, so you know Michelle Yeoh will need to teach them a lesson. Featuring some of the best action sequences we've seen on this podca...

This week, Michelle Yeoh takes on a supporting role in TAI CHI MASTER, starring Jet Li as Junbao, the titular Tai Chi Master. It's her first collaboration with acclaimed director/choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping, and features all of his signature wire-fu fighting style on full display - get ready for wild action, shenanigans, and some surprising brutality!

This week, Michelle Yeoh spins off of the POLICE STORY franchise to take center stage in SUPERCOP 2! Director Stanley Tong returns, and Jackie Chan pops in for a quick cameo (though the marketing would have you believe he's a main character). This one's a little grittier and a little more focused on realism than some of the other franchise entries, and it proves a to be a great solo showcase for M...

This week, Michelle Yeoh reunites with Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui for a sequel to THE HEROIC TRIO, released just seven months after the original, EXECUTIONERS! Johnnie To returns to co-direct with Ching Siu-tung for this story that takes our heroes and places them in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a nefarious madman has taken hold of the city's clean water. (Did George Miller see this at some...

This week, Michelle Yeoh teams up with director Wong Jing on the absolutely insane wuxia action film HOLY WEAPON! Also starring Maggie Cheung, Damian Lau, Simon Yam and more, this one's got everything: insane action setpieces, wacky hijinks, unfortunate humor, gender-bending, a Voltron-inspired climax, and even an interlude where it just becomes THE EVIL DEAD. 

This week, Michelle Yeoh stars in BUTTERFLY AND SWORD, a 1993 wuxia which also features a couple of other Hong Kong superstars, Tony Leung and Donnie Yen! Inventive action, romantic hijinks, and a truly wild twist ending make this one to keep an eye out for - plus, Mike Smith gives his brief thoughts on an upcoming Nicolas Cage movie, BUTCHER'S CROSSING!

This week, Michelle Yeoh joins Hong Kong superstars Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui in acclaimed filmmaker Johnnie To's wuxia superhero movie, THE HEROIC TRIO! An Evil Master is kidnapping babies in a plot to name China's next emperor - and it's up to these three superheroines to kick, shoot, clash, throw dynamite, spin motorcycles in midair, and more in order to stop him! 

This week, Michelle Yeoh emerges from retirement and returns in a big way by taking on the co-lead role in a Jackie Chan movie - it's time to talk POLICE STORY 3: SUPERCOP! Featuring some of the most insane stunts of both stars' careers, SUPERCOP played a big role in both Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh finding success in Hollywood cinema later in the decade and ushered in Yeoh's Hong Kong comeback....

This week, we're talking Michelle Yeoh's final film... or at least, it was her final film for a while. After suffering an injury on the set of MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS, Yeoh takes on a non-action role this time around. This time, she's starring as the lead in a Hong Kong-spin on THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, 1987's EASY MONEY! After this, she retired from filmmaking for five years, so this was the last tim...

This week, we've reached the conclusion of our second "We Made It, Ma" Trilogy with 1987's MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS! Michelle Yeoh stars as a cross between Indiana Jones and Han Solo, aiding a small group of resistance fighters against Japan in pre-World War II. Is there any part of that sentence that isn't incredible? From the writing and directing team behind ROYAL WARRIORS, too!