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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Cash Chin
Year: 1994
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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 […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Action/Comedy
Director: Yuen Bun
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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 […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Tony Liu
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
If there was ever a movie that deserved the epithet action-packed, that movie would be Lady Assassin.
It seems like there’s a blistering kung fu/swordplay battle every five minutes or so. The thing is that it never seems gratuitous. Credit that to a […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Romance, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Romance/ Exploitation/ Martial Arts
Director: Cha Chuen-Yee
Year: 1985
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Too bad. If Journey Of The Doomed had sustained the invention and energy of the utterly gonzo 1st act, it would have been a trash classic.
Check this out. Shui Erh (Fu Yin-Yu) is a maid at a brothel. She objects to Big […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Wei Han-Tao/ Stephen Shin
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
This mainland/Hong Kong coproduction should have been a slam dunk. The underlying story is a doozy, the epic tale of the David and Goliath battle between the upstart Chu against the Qin Dynasty, followed by the internecine infighting between the Chu and […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Phillip Ko Fei
Year: 1992
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I really wanted to give Fatal Chase the benefit of a doubt. The print I saw looked like it was mastered from a fifth generation video copy, so I couldn’t tell you if the cinematography was any good. Also, since the subtitles […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The opening images of Chatter Street Killer are of modern skyscrapers in Hong Kong: gleaming, cold, impersonal. Then the camera pans down. At street level, the working class is still living in old Hong Kong neighborhoods that feel more like small towns. Everyone knows […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Yuen Biao
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Kid From Tibet starts off with several advantages. First, there aren’t many movies made in which one of the main protagonists is a Tibetan monk. That’s pretty novel to start with. And director/star Yuen Biao managed to get amazing access to Lhasa, the […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Girls With Guns/ Comedy/ Satire/ Action
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1988
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The main subject of Operation Pink Squad is the absolute terror than Hong Kong men had in the 80s of career women. It was the humiliation of women taking their jobs, the diminution of their sense of manhood, an assault on […]
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Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1997
Rating:
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 […]
