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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Year: 1985
Rating:
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: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Johnnie To
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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: 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: Fantasy / Martial Arts/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Yu Mang-Sang
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I really don’t know how good Zen of Sword is. I know, that sounds like a cop out, but hear me out. It can be really hard to get decent copies of these old Hong Kong flicks because the producers often […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Fantasy/ Girls With Guns/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chi Li Tang
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Bury Me High is nothing if not ambitious. What else do you call an adventure story about Feng Shui that incorporates a cast of thousands, military ordinance, voluminous explosions, kickass martial arts, and nutty stunts?
The plot […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Clarence Ford
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Iceman Cometh is an endlessly imaginative riff on the 1986 hit Highlander.
Back in the time of the Ming Dynasty, when Feng San (Yuen Wah) rapes and murders the cousin of the King, palace guard Fang Shou Zheng (Yuen Biao) […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Bullet Ballet/ Fantasy/ Romance
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Try to imagine this: a Chow Yun-Fat film with action choreography by the great Phillip Kwok and co-starring the gorgeous Ng Sin-Lin and Gordon Liu that is completely, utterly worthless and unwatchable. Doesn’t seem possible, does it?
I would have never […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Director: Stephen Chow
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
How much you appreciate Kung Fu Hustle will depend largely on how big a fan you are of the fantasy wuxia and triad genres. If you don’t know what those are, you’ll have to make due with context-less broad comedy and action, ala The […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Fantasy
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I can’t quite recommend The Magic Crane, but that doesn’t mean it lacks entertainment value. The Magic Crane is one of many fantasy wuxia movies that were popular in Hong Kong during the early 1990s. I actually thought it was filmed in the late 1980s […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I can’t really recommend Green Snake to the typical reader of Trash Cinema Club, but not because it isn’t any good.
Some flicks just don’t translate well to a Western audience. China has a tradition of animism, which holds that animals have souls. It also has a […]