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Asian cinema is synonymous with the action genre, thanks to its rich legacy of kung fu, wuxia and samurai dramas. Recently, Asian martial arts have enjoyed a high profile in Hollywood, thanks to franchises including The Matrix and John Wick . At the same time, not much new martial arts talent has emerged. Nevertheless, markets like Thailand and Indonesia have...
Mixing comedy and kung fu – humour and violence – could be considered a strange idea, and some kung fu comedies work better than others. The two films which popularised the genre, Snake in The Eagle’s Shadow (1978) and Drunken Master (1978), poked gentle fun at the kung fu itself and were amusing as a result. Others, like The Prodigal...
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...
OVER Easter I had a taste of what I imagine it must have been like queuing for food in the dog days of the Soviet Union. Hours spent on a freezing street in Moscow circa 1989 hoping to pick up a loaf of black bread would have been pretty miserable I guess. Especially if they had run out by the time you got to the front of the queue. Almost as bad as queueing outside the White Horse fish and chips place in Northallerton on Good Friday evening. A perfect storm of the appropriate religious holiday and a fire which meant the Victoria Grill further up the High Street was out of action had th...
Eureka Entertainment Winners and Sinners, My Lucky Stars, and Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars, a trio of lowbrow comedies with martial arts scenes, were big Hong Kong cinema hits in the early 1980s. Directed by Sammo Hung Kam Bo, who also starred in them, the films mixed comic actors such as John Shum Kin Fun and Eric Tsang Chi Wai with martial arts stars, and gave a lot of screen time to Jackie Chan. The stories feature Hung as the leader of a gang of ex-cons working on the right side of the law, with some help from Chan, who plays a cop.