In many movies, heroes may suffer, but joining them on their journey is easy. In What Price Honesty?, the director, Patrick Yuen Ho-Chuen, paints a bleak moral world that forces the viewer to ask themselves just how far along the hero’s path they’d be willing...
“One person getting fame over thousands of dead bodies. For this vain title, how many lives have been sacrificed?” There is an ultimate question the plagues the film industry. How do you make a sequel to a film that breaks barriers, connects with its audience, and...
Rest in peace, Chin Ping! Shaw Brothers actress Chin Ping passed away earlier this week. She began her career with the Shaw Brothers actor training class at 14 years old, and appeared in many beloved films including "The Crimson Palm," "The Bells of Death," and "The...
Chang Cheh's Golden Swallow is a sequel to King Hu's Come Drink With Me, but it is most certainly not more of the same. It is a film defined by Chang's artistic drive more than anything else. In Chang's memoir he called the The One-Armed...
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There is a large part of me that simply wanted to take this article, write a brief introduction, and then proceed to list everything in The Magic Blade that is absurd. However, that’s a lot of work. For those of you that haven’t had the...
I first saw Bastard Swordsman a few years back when a new theater in town attempted to jump-start a revival film community. They presented the film via the only surviving 35mm film print, and it was glorious. The theater's plans would eventually fail due to...
As the Venoms Mob filmography grew, Lu Feng employed a new weapon during the end fight which would reappear as the dominant weapon in future movies. Examples include the Sword (Life Gamble > Legend of the Fox), the Guan Dao (Shaolin Rescuers > Magnificent Ruffians)...