$30? what?

so the san francisco international asian film festival is coming up next month, and there’s some good stuff, like the new takeshi kitano film dolls , a bunch of asian music videos, as well as your chance to see a stephen chow double feature of the still miramax-delayed but hilarious shaolin soccer as well as the popular god of cookery (ok, but not as good as the leslie chung/anita yuen film the chinese feast, imo).

but what’s the deal with their headline film, the showing of the much-heralded zhang yimou film hero, with the all-star cast of jet li, maggie cheung, tony leung, zhang yiyi and donnie yen? sure, it’s the opening night film with a reception gala, but even if you want to skip all the frills and just see the film, it’s a whopping $30. for $30 i usually can get a film and a lap dance.

and it’s not even like i’m asking to meet jet li. i’ve met him before. he’s shorter than me.