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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1992
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Underground Express AKA Long Arm of the Law IV isn’t quite as great as it’s predecessors, but you shouldn’t hold that against it.
One advantage the film has is a rich premise. In the aftermath of the Tienanmen Square massacre, Chinese pro-democracy […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Category III/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Horror/ Exploitation/ Martial Arts/ Suspense
Director: Johnny Lee
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In A Day Without Policemen, screenwriters Laai Gwong-Fai, Goo Bing-Git, Desmond Wu, and Johnny Lee come up with many intriguing ideas. They pit the natural instinct for self-preservation against the desire to protect women and family. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1990
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have a love/hate relationship with Wong Jing, leaning heavily towards the hate side of the equation. Wong Jing loves toilet humor, he pretty much has contempt for the screenwriting verities, and his taste is firmly in the gutter. To give […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Horror/ Category III
Director: Tsang Kan-Cheung
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One of the heartbreaking things for fans of movies from Hong Kong’s Golden Age (1985-1995) is that the owners of these films often neglected the negatives. The movies from that time had a very distinctive aesthetic in terms of art direction, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I have to admit, when I sat down to watch Long Arm Of The Law III, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot. The third entry in the series is fairly obscure, unlike it’s more famous predecessors, which I thought […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama/ Romance/ Suspense
Director: Wong Gam-Din
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
How is it possible that The Most Wanted is so weak? You’ve got a cast that includes Lau Ching Wan, Kent Cheng, Bowie Lam, and Robin Shou. In fact, the cast is uniformly strong. The basic plot is interesting, too. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Raymond Lee
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Blue Lightning was one of the first Hong Kong flicks I ever saw, and it impressed the heck out of me at the time. I saw it on the big screen instead of on video, which probably made a difference.
Back then, I was […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you’re expecting one of those wildly exciting Hong Kong action pictures from the Golden Era (1985-1995), Organized Crime & Triad Bureau will probably disappoint you. Director Kirk Wong is going for something entirely different here. For Hong Kong cinema in the […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/Suspense/Drama
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Year: 2004
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
A perverse wallow in Asian female psychology from screenwriter Susan Chan, I hesitate to recommend Koma because so much of it will fly right over the heads of the average Western viewer.
Take for example the scene where the delicate and delectable Ching (Angelica Lee) takes off […]