≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Drama
Director: Ringo Lam
Year: 1997
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Full Alert succeeds from beginning to end as a realistic police procedural. The plotting is tight and the characterizations are believable. Lau Ching Wan is his usual reliable self as hardnosed and hot tempered Inspector Baau Wai Hung. Francis Ng dials down […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Year: 1965
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Up until now, I’ve been very impressed with Japanese movie series from the 60s and early 70s, if they portray either the Edo or Meiji periods, and less so for the modern era. Series like Lone Wolf & Cub, The Wicked Priest, Red Peony […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1990
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A Chinese Ghost Story II may lack the sublime moments of the first film (Wu Ma’s impromptu song and dance, Leslie Cheung hiding in the bathtub with Joey Wang), but it doesn’t have a lousy first act either.
A […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Germany, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Uli Edel
Year: 2008
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I have mixed feelings about The Baader Meinhof Complex. On the one hand, the physical production is impeccable. The sense of place and time is palpable. The action sequences are crisp, exciting, yet realistic. The violence isn’t exaggerated, but isn’t softpedaled either. The acting is […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Japan, Martial Arts, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Year: 1964
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Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword has the best opening sequence yet in the series. Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) is trying to get some shuteye while numerous flies are buzzing around. In the meantime, a bunch of punks across the room are trying to get […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Cash Chin
Year: 1994
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It is tempting to dismiss the events of 1941 Hong Kong on Fire as grotesque exaggeration. The film is a bloodbath, with Japanese slaughtering folks in hospitals, skewering babies, and raping every woman in sight. But I’m afraid that the Japanese […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1976
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Young, Violent, Dangerous puts me in a bit of a quandary. It’s tightly and logically written by Fernando Di Leo, well acted, and professionally directed by Romolo Guerrieri. And yet, I have a hard time buying the central concept.
Lea (Eleonora Giorgi) shows up at […]
≡ Category: Action, China, Comedy, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Xinyan Zhang
Year: 1984
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If you’re going to watch Shaolin Temple 2, it helps to start with the right expectations.
Don’t expect a complex story or subtle acting. Do expect gorgeous scenery, an innocent atmosphere, and tons of super high quality martial arts of the Wudang swordplay […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1990
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Regular readers of this site will know that I don’t generally think that Hong Kong comedy and drama is strong enough to stand on it’s own. Usually, it needs liberal doses of kung fu inspired action and stunts to sustain interest.
To a large extent, this […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Action/Comedy
Director: Yuen Bun
Year: 1993
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Incredibly, after the disappointing Once Upon A Time In China 3, the filmmakers decided once again to concentrate a large part of the plot on lion dances, which were profoundly uncinematic the first time around.
Surprisingly, Yuen Bun does a better job of making them […]
