The Three Storms

The Three Storms from Big Trouble in Little China are; Thunder, Rain and Lightning. Thunder is the storm that blows up at the end of the movie, when he sees Lo Pan dead. He is played by the great Carter Wong, who has worked on so many martial art films. He was also the fighting instructor for Rambo 3 and the martial art instructor for the Royal Hong Kong Police Department. So, a really tough guy someone you won’t mess with even now when he’s in his seventies.

Rain is played by Peter Kwong, the storm with the long hair, which is a wig and was Peters idea. He came into mass audition, cattle call they it because he knew Martial Arts, he was so good John Carpenter said I think we are going to upgrade you to one of the storms.

He also played Tommy Tong in The Golden Child that came out the same year as Big Trouble. He has done so many other movies and TV shows. He also served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and many others boards. He also likes to dance you can see him in Ed Sheeran music video Sing, as the guy singing karaoke. A very talent guy who has liked a couple of my posts on Instagram, so that’s cool.

That brings us to Lightning played by James Pax. He always wins the vote when I ask who’s your favourite storm on my Instagram page @biggertroubleinlittlechina and is also my favourite storm. Every time I post about him someone will make the comment, Raiden from Mortal Kombat which the creators do claim they based it on Lightning.

James Pax is great as Lightning doesn’t get to say much but plays it so well. He has appeared on many TV shows and films. He also starred in documentary The First Emperor; The Man who made China which is funny because the first emperor is who cursed Lo Pan.

Egg Shen kills lightning and the last bit of lightning you see is a Chinese symbol meaning for Carpenter. So, who’s is your favourite storm?