(No, really!)

For those of us old enough to remember Mark Cousins when he had the unfortunate task of stepping into Alex Cox’s luke warm shoes hosting BBC2′s Moviedrome, his series on More 4 – the appropriately titled The Story Of Film: An Odyssey – has been an absolute delight.

He’s taken a global view of film throughout, encompassing not only America and Europe, but Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East, including the work of Yasujirō Ozu, Nagisa Oshima and Satyajit Ray, but the latest episode is a real treat for fans of Asian action movie fans, as he looks at the (literal) impact of Hong Kong cinema on film in the 1970s and 80s, particularly King Hu, Bruce Lee, Tsui Hark, John Woo and Yuen Woo-ping (as well as an interview with Stanley Kwan)…

(Even if he does seem to confuse Yuen Biao with Jet Li in a clip from Once Upon A Time In China – oh Mark, wtf?)

Catch the full episode here on 4OD while you can.

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