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Actor, producer, martial artist – Sammo Hung has loomed large in Hong Kong’s film industry since the 1960s. We bet you don’t know about some aspects of his long movie career.

Wuxia films 1905-1982: Quasi Non-Fiction Wrapped in Fantastical Fight by Dr. Craig D. Reid The coolest wuxia film of the 1920’s, Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928) Who could have guessed that the fate of the first 44 years (1905-1949) of wuxia cinema was heavily affected by the sexist attitudes of the Ching Dynasty? It all started in 1772, the year the Ching government banned females from performing on stage, which created the tradition of female impersonators in Beijing Opera. However, r...

Major Hollywood studios had a serious issue at letting a woman be an action star in the '60s and '70s. Yet in Hong Kong, there were quite a few women playing le

We review King of Wuxia, the definitive documentary about the life and career of director King Hu, who defined the wuxia movie as we know it, which launches the 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York City.

For two years, we've seen a revival of Martial Arts epics from the legendary Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest coming to Blu-ray. What if you have a chance to se

We interview Goran Tavolavic, co-founder of Subway Cinema and programmer about Taiwanese Wuxia movies in the 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest and its major lineup of premieres.

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Cheng Pei-pei, David Chiang, Kara Hui and more on the good, the bad and the ugly of living and working at the fabled Shaw Brothers’ Movietown studio complex.

It’s the second birthday of the Post ’s weekly Hong Kong martial arts film feature . To mark the occasion, we look back at some of the movies and stars we’ve enjoyed writing about over the past year. An elegant and elegiac take on the kung fu genre, Wong Kar Wai ’s delicate masterpiece combines martial arts history and romance...

Come Drink With Me (Hong Kong, 1966) Even if you’re not a big fan of wuxia, or Chinese historical martial arts films, you’ve certainly seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, so you’re aware of their distinctive visual style. That style, of course, didn’t come out of nowhere, it developed over time, and can be traced back to the work of one man, writer-director King Hu, the creator of the modern wuxia movie. This week we’re looking at Hu’s first three hugely influential films, which e...