Jiong Ma with Russian Characteristics

This an old poster I never got around to posting before:

囧妈 (Jiǒng Mā)

What makes the movie title unique is that it incorporates Cyrillic letters into its Chinese characters. I’d never seen this kind of thing before, so I liked it. I’m no expert on Russian, but I can recognize Д and Э in there!

Anyway, the movie is called 囧妈 in Chinese, Lost in Russia in English. It’s part of a “Jiong series” of comedies which I won’t go into but are easy to find.

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John Pasden

John is a Shanghai-based linguist and entrepreneur, founder of AllSet Learning.

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