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Ashura

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Fantasy fun from director Yojiro Takita, but seriously, it’s no When The Last Sword is Drawn… (more…)

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Buddha’s Palm

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

A fun filled pantomime from the Shaw Brothers - with super extending legs that can deliver a kick from a distance, dwarfs that squirt Alien-like acid puss from their spots and pet dragons… (more…)

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Come Drink With Me

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

If you ever wanted to know where Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon came from you only need to know one name, King Hu. This ground breaking film, possibly one of the greatest of the martial chivalry genre, started it all… (more…)

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Deadful Melody

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

Campy, explosive fun from the film that influenced the Lyre sequence in Kung Fu Hustle. Well, it’s not completely dreadful but… (more…)

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Death Duel

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Chor Yuan directs Derek Yee in this classic Wuxia tale from Shaw Brothers… (more…)

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Dreadnaught

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Yuen Biao makes a martial art out of doing the laundry, but this mashup of genres goes too far for anyone to come out clean… (more…)

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Kung Fu Hustle

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Shaolin Soccer’s Stephen Chow is back and this time he’s doin’ the Hustle… (more…)

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Kung Fu Super Sounds

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Fancy a bit of kitsch to kick-off the year? Then look no further than this collection of previously unreleased soundtracks to Shaw Brothers movies from the De Wolfe music library… (more…)

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Master of the Flying Guillotine

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

Saturday night’s all right for fightin’ as Jimmy Wang Yu plays a one-armed warrior with a problem (again!)… (more…)

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On DVD and Blu-ray today: The Forbidden Kingdom

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Okay, sure it’s Hollywood! Sure it’s a kids movie! But this Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little, The Lion King) movie starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan – together for the first time ever – is a whole lot better than you’d expect! And with action scenes directed by Yuen Woo-ping, there’s plenty for adults too, so if you missed this at the cinema it’s well worth catching up on…

You can read our review here »

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One-Armed Swordsman

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

Zhang Che directs Jimmy Wang Yu in the Shaw Brothers classic that made both their careers… (more…)

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Seven Swords

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

The latest Tsui Hark movie is more than a decent stab at a ‘wuxia’ movie in the wake of Zhang Yimou’s Hero and House of Flying Daggers - but does it fall short of being the epic he intended?… (more…)

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Shinobi

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

A nicely played and well-directed swordplay film – but haven’t we seen it all before? (more…)

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The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Gordon Liu (Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2) stars in a kung fu classic that is so much more than your average revenge movie… (more…)

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The Blood Brothers

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

A morality tale from the master of the ‘extreme close-up’ Zhang Che on why its best not to shag your best mate’s wife… (more…)

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The Butterfly Murders

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

The impressive feature debut from Tsui Hark (Seven Swords, Zu: Warriors from Magic Mountain) that kick started the Hong Kong ‘new wave’ of the 80s… (more…)

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The Fearless Hyena / Hand Of Death

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Hong Kong Legends launch their ‘Ultra-bit’ tag with two formative films from the career of Jackie Chan… (more…)

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The Forbidden Kingdom: UK Preview

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Jet Li and Jackie Chan - together for the first time ever…! (more…)

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The Knight Of Knights

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

An early Zhang Che script with a typically macho bent - well what else would you expect?… (more…)

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Young at heart

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Hong Kong directors are ditching young stars for old veterans who’ve hardly been on screen in twenty years or more, but the real surprise is they’re giving them the best roles (more…)

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