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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Year: 1985
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Just because a movie was extremely popular with the Hong Kong audience doesn’t mean it’s any good. Think of all the early Stephen Chow nonsense comedies or Jackie Chan’s Lucky Star flicks. On the other side of the ocean, Porky’s […]
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Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1997
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while there, I thought that Jail In Burning Island aka The Jailbreakers was going to be a superior prison flick, maybe not at the caliber of Prison On Fire, Cool Hand Luke or The Shawshank Redemption, but what […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Johnnie To
Year: 1993
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Even by the wacky standards of Hong Kong cinema of the 90s, the tone of The Heroic Trio is bizarre.
It takes place in a Hong Kong of the imagination. Some of the city does indeed look like the real thing, but […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1980
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Close Encounter of the Spooky Kind’s biggest claim to fame is probably that it was the first Hong Kong flick to combine the supernatural, kung fu, and comedy in one picture. Not to mention that Close Encounter of the Spooky Kind marks […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a movie which is almost universally lauded as a deathless classic of Hong Kong’s Golden Age, A Chinese Ghost Story has a pretty lame first act.
The problem isn’t so much the story.
Scholar Ling Choi San […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Wong Wai-Yip
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When it comes right down to it, The Way Of The Lady Boxers aka Madam The Great is a pretty lousy movie. The plotting is lame, many of the actors are pure amateur hour, and the drama is embarrassing. What […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Chris Lee
Year: 1991
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WORTH A LOOK
What Queen’s High has going for it is one indelible image — a furious Cynthia Khan in a white wedding dress blasting away with a machine gun — and not much else.
The script by Frank Kong and Shum Wai […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Wellson Chin
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
What comes to mind when you’re watching Naughty Boys is that it’s like a Jackie Chan film without Jackie Chan.
There’s a good reason for that. Naughty Boys is one of only a few films not starring Jackie Chan that utilized Jackie Chan’s […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Drama/ Action
Director: Jeng Cheong-Woh
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
How can you not love 5 Fingers of Death AKA King Boxer?
The first big laugh comes seconds into the picture when composer Wu Da-Jiang appropriates a snippet of the theme music from the old Raymond Burr television series Ironside (now we know […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Action
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1979
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m beginning to rethink my aversion to old Shaw Brothers flicks. I guess it’s like any other type of cinema–the bad flicks outnumber the good flicks by a wide margin. Mad Monkey Kung Fu is one of the good ones.
The foundation, as […]