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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Stephen Tung Wai
Year: 1995
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Fox Hunter lacks some of the usual virtues of films from the Golden Age of Hong Kong, but more than makes up for it in other ways.
Scripts in Hong Kong action films from that era were often loose […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Yiu Tin-Hung
Year: 1995
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here is yet another Oshima Yukari flick in which the actress is ill-served.
Drugs Fighters is yet another HK film pitting drug dealers against cops. The biggest novelty is that the movie takes place in the People’s Republic of China […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: To Pak-Hon
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There isn’t a whole lot to Come From China. You won’t find any great themes, cultural significance, or moving human drama. But one thing screenwriter James Fung does well is set up a situation that practically guarantees non-stop action and director […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Year: 1967
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the title character’s quest to become acknowledged as the best swordsman in Japan.
The movie has beautiful vistas, fluid camerawork, and decent martial arts choreography, but that pretty much exhausts my praise.
The huge problem at the center is […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You’ve got to hand it to Ann Hui. She’s been making films since 1979 and she just keeps improving. Night And Fog is the more assured film I’ve seen her direct yet. The compositions, the camera movements, the cinematography, the music, are all […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Wu Ma
Year: 1990
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In 1930s Shanghai, the genteel art form of “chaste” opera is already long passé, so the performances of Pops’ (Wu Ma) all female opera troupe are sparsely attended, and then only by underworld types who don’t really appreciate their artistry. These […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Tony Liu Jun-Guk
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I saw Devil Hunters under very poor circumstances: a vcd sourced from a crappy Ocean Shores pan and scan videotape which cut off a good part of the subtitles, which were white and tended to blend into […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Chan Chuen
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Chinese Cop Out starts out as a woefully generic Big Circle picture about Chinese gangs set loose in Hong Kong, but it turns into something just different enough to warrant a recommendation.
The first thing that saves Chinese Cop out is the casting. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Joe Hau
Year: 1995
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Black Dream is an excruciatingly dull genre exercise, the very type of half-assed triad drama that sank the Hong Kong film business back in the 90s.
Black Dream features three of the most boring actors I’ve ever seen: Michael Tong, Raymond Tso, and Ng Shui-Ting. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Romance/ Martial Arts
Director: Wilson Tong
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In Hong Kong gambling movies, there generally isn’t a whole lot of actual gambling going on. Really, it’s a competition over who can most cleverly cheat. Adding to the fun, in the best gambling movies, there’s also stunts, gunplay and […]
