With the success of City Hunter, writer-director Wong Jing capitalizes on the use of Street Fighter II inspiration, along with some other pop culture inspirations to unleash this hilarious yet campy sci fi-action-comedy. It is the year 2043 and the General, a notorious crime lord has been imprisoned. The judge who will reside the case […]Read Post ›
Hong Kong filmmaker Dennis Law, best known in the West perhaps for his martial arts action film Fatal Contact, combines the Triad gangster film with more technical martial arts fighting courtesy of former Jackie Chan Stunt Team leader Nicky Li. The end result is more of a mixed bag, but like Fatal Contact, brings a […]Read Post ›
There are some great films revolving around the world of firefighting, such as Ron Howard’s Backdraft and Johnnie To’s Lifeline. You can add Derek Kwok’s latest film to that list, thanks to great performances from the cast. One year ago, an investigation was held involving three firefighters. Sam disobeyed orders and went to save a […]Read Post ›
Simon Yam, one of Hong Kong’s top actors, stars in this film that took two years and four directors to complete. Lee Leung, a lowly man arrives to the Hong Kong police station to confess killing three people. He considers himself God’s agent and he claims that he only killed them because his victims had […]Read Post ›
A mysterious presence inside a movie theater leads to this meshing of genres from the creative mind of Manfred Wong with direction by Raymond Yip. Thirteen years ago, the Kong Family Acrobatic Troupe performed for Gu Wei-Bang, the son of a local general on his birthday. However, that night was also a fateful night where […]Read Post ›
The lives of seven strangers on a minibus to Tai Po undergo a radical change in this film from auteur Fruit Chan that melds various genres with a sense of politics towards the end. On one fateful night in Hong Kong, seventeen people hop on board a minibus going to Tai Po. They are an […]Read Post ›
This semi-biographical film on the famous Wing Chun master who would become the mentor to the legendary Bruce Lee won the Best Picture Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. After seeing this film, you will see why it deserved the award. The film begins in 1930s Foshan, where many martial arts masters run local […]Read Post ›
