Martial arts matinee idol Jet Li portrays a real life turn-of-the-century Cantonese patriot, the dauntless Fong Sai-Yuk, in The Legend. This is a much more blunt and straightforward effort than Tsui Hark's flamboyant Once Upon a Time in China films, but codirectors Ann Hui (Song of the Exile) and Yuen Kwai (Yes, Madam) deliver many lively and funny sequences. The film's revelatory performance, however, comes from Josephine Siao, a Cantonese star of the 1960s in both comedies and high-flying swordplay films, who here plays Fong Sai-Yuk's martial mother. Siao disguises herself as a man to enter a martial arts competition and ends up winning both the prize and the heart of a high official's daughter--mostly because the girl has never met a hero with so much poetic sensitivity lurking just beneath the surface. Chu Kong (Sidney in John Woo's The Killer) plays Fong Sai-Yuk's father as an anti-Manchu patriot so unbendingly upright that he's a bit of a prig. As the action heats up, political stakes emerge more clearly. In the grand finale, Fong Sai-Yuk squares off against a Manchu killer played with great panache by newcomer Chiu Man-cheuk. --David Chute, Amazon.com
The man known as Shaking Eagle is back in one of his best films. This time he is taking on a group of hardened drug traffickers led by Lo 'King Boxer' Lieh whose army of fighters include Jack Long Blackie Ko and Lung Fei. Has Shaking Eagle met his match? All will be revealed in the 'Secret Of Chinese Kung Fu'.
Many heads have rolled at the hands of Fung and his terrifying weapon - the Flying Guillotine. Only one man a one-armed man is capable of devising a technique that can combat it...
Chow Yun-Fat is the mysterious Ko Chun invincible God of gamblers. A freak accident results in amnesia but leaves his supernatural skills unscathed. Unaware of his true identity small time hustler Andy Lau sets out to explore Chun's talents on Hong Kong's notorious gambling circuit only to find himself the target of vicious gangsters hell-bent on eliminating them both and unsurping Ko Chun's crown. Director Wong Jing blends violent action intense drama and classic Hong Kong comedy into the perfect backdrop for Chow's bravura tour-de-force as the enigmatic idiot-savant; a classic!
A wacky chop-socky slugfest from Taiwan where the laughs come as fast as the fists! Iron Neck Li is a brave man who sticks his neck out for the weak. A young Emperor takes Li along his travels righting wrongs. But they encounter a clan so powerful that Li has to risk his life to save the Emperor.
Policeman Chin is badly beaten in a confrontation with a street gang. A young martial artist comes to his rescue and takes Chin back to his master. When the young man is also defeated in a street brawl the Kung Fu master decides to teach both the wounded men the art of the 'Sleeping Fist'. After the training is complete they set about avenging the beatings. However an 'Eagle Claw' master has been hired to break the 'Sleeping Fist'...
Popular singer-actor Takeshi Kaneshiro stars in the Japanese crime thriller Sleepless Town (Fuyajo). Director Lee Chi-Ngai provides noir lighting and a gritty urban setting against which his hero struggles with the forces around him. Kenichi (Kaneshiro) is a low-level crook making his living as a fence for stolen goods. He is enveloped into a gangland dispute when an old friend Fu-Chan returns to town years after killing the partner of mob boss Yuan. At the same time Fu-Chan's g
Fist From Shaolin: Once again the honorable Master Wong Fei Hung is up against intrigue and tension plaguing late 19th century China; foreign forces are pressing on the local population and opium is finding its way onto the streets... The warm-hearted Kung Fu Master concentrates his efforts on fighting these oppressive dangers and defending his hometown; here his work is further complicated when he meets his future sweetheart Auntie Yee and becomes embroiled in aiding two street children who are fleeing from the slavery trade... The Final Duel: To avenge the death of his brother at the hands of the shaolin priests a ninja master and his forces travel to China to destroy the Shaolin. Two Japanese monks and a black monk from Harlem join the Shaolin in battling the ninja. A classic martial arts film Ninja: The Final Duel has garnered considerable notoriety from afficionados for its combination of wild martial arts action and rarely seen oddities. Of Cooks & Kung Fu: A zany martial arts flick in the tradition of Jackie Chan's classic action comedies. The film opens as the family and crew of the empress' head chef are suddenly and mysteriously murdered leaving only an infant nephew as the massacre's sole survivor. As the child grows up he is schooled by his uncle in the fine arts of cooking and kung fu all the while preparing for the day when he will wreak vengeance upon the killer of his family - which seems imminent with the recent murders of several prominent chefs!
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