Tag: Hong Kong
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Joseph Lai’s Space Thunder Kids is an incomprehensible animated feature cobbled together out of parts of other Lai-produced cartoons which were themselves incomprehensible. more ›
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The classic tale of a young scholar who falls in love with a snake spirit gets the Tsui Hark treatment in this lush fantasy film, full of wild effects, gorgeous… more ›
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Interpol 009 has everything you’d want in a 1960s spy movie, except for a memorable villain, a spectacular crime, and audacious action set pieces. more ›
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You can’t go home again At first — and even second — glance, Last Tycoon is a movie that seems custom-made for me and based entirely on some of my… more ›
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Jane Bond films, such as Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa, blended martial arts action and James Bond-inspired espionage thrills, became a staple of Cantonese cinema and created a thoroughly entertaining body… more ›
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The Black Rose takes the female-centric swashbuckling of wuxia cinema and the heroics of Chinese folklore and places them in a contemporary setting. It also pays service to the James… more ›
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The Shaw Brothers put a James sexy, psychedelic Bond-inspired spin on the French supervillain Fantomas in this anything-goes caper. more ›
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The Shaw Brothers take a crack at the jet-set spy genre and come up with a film full of judo, sunglasses, slinky cocktail dresses, secret lairs, gadgets, and of course… more ›
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