Four years after the second installment to arguably Jackie Chan’ most popular franchise, the actor would reprise his role as police inspector Chan Ka-Kui in “Police Story 3: Supercop” (or just “Supercop” in some areas). Perhaps due to his busy schedule in front and behind the camera, working on other projects such as the equally successful “Armour of God”-films, Stanley Tong took over directing duties from Chan, who would still be a producer for the project. This collaboration turned out to be quite fruitful for both them, setting the foundation for features such as “Rumble in the Bronx”, which would give the actor the breakthrough with US-American markets after years of trying. Although the previous entries into the franchise had already set quite a high level when it came to action set pieces, “Supercop” would see Chan in the middle of some of the most ambitious and costly action scenes of his career,...
- 8/7/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The second “Drunken Master” may share a title, a protagonist in Jackie Chan, a main character in Wong Fei-hung, and the concept of Drunken Boxing, but in reality, is a completely different animal than the original, on a number of levels, with Lau Kar-leung aiming intensely in a number of sociopolitical comments, in contrast to Yuen Woo-ping’s work, which focused mostly on entertainment. This approach has led the former to be named one of the top 100 best films of all time by Time magazine in 2005, while the British Film Institute (BFI) selected it as one among the ten best action movies of all time.
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The story is set in early 20th century China, when Wong Fei-hung, along with his father Wong Kei-ying and servant Tso, return to Canton after a trip to the Northeast. The troubles start from the train already, as Fei-hung ends...
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The story is set in early 20th century China, when Wong Fei-hung, along with his father Wong Kei-ying and servant Tso, return to Canton after a trip to the Northeast. The troubles start from the train already, as Fei-hung ends...
- 1/28/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of Sammo Hung’s groundbreaking Hong Kong hit wherein comedy, horror and martial arts elements are brought together in a wholly successful way. This show has it all: kung fu action, duelling mystics, hopping vampires, hungry zombies, haunted mirrors and a sympathetic everyman whose danger-fraught narrative trajectory is littered with moments that are genuinely funny. Excellent production values complete this near perfect picture.
Encounter of the Spooky Kind
Region B Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment
1980 / Color / 2.35 / 103 min. / Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Spooky Encounters, Gui da Gui / Street Date, 21 June 2021 / £17.99
Starring: Sammo Hung, Fat Chung, Lung Chan, Huang Ha, Suet-Mei Leung, Ching-Ying Lam, Biao Yuen.
Cinematography: Yu-Tang Li
Film Editor: Peter Cheung
Written by Sammo Hung, Ying Wong
Produced by Raymond Chow
Directed by Sammo Hung
“Fat Guts” Cheung (Sammo Hung) is a rickshaw driver in rural China. The “Fat Guts” moniker came about...
Encounter of the Spooky Kind
Region B Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment
1980 / Color / 2.35 / 103 min. / Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Spooky Encounters, Gui da Gui / Street Date, 21 June 2021 / £17.99
Starring: Sammo Hung, Fat Chung, Lung Chan, Huang Ha, Suet-Mei Leung, Ching-Ying Lam, Biao Yuen.
Cinematography: Yu-Tang Li
Film Editor: Peter Cheung
Written by Sammo Hung, Ying Wong
Produced by Raymond Chow
Directed by Sammo Hung
“Fat Guts” Cheung (Sammo Hung) is a rickshaw driver in rural China. The “Fat Guts” moniker came about...
- 8/17/2021
- by Lee Broughton
- Trailers from Hell
Having a movie that revolves around a tragic love story whose actual protagonists and Hong Kong cinema legends tragically died 15 years later have deemed “Rouge” a legendary film. Apart from its non-cinematic significance, “Rouge” was an international and local success, winning six awards in from Hong Kong festival and a plethora of others in festivals all over the world.
The script is based on the homonymous novel by Lilian Lee, and unfolds in two periods. The first one takes place during 1934, when we are introduced to Fleur, a high-class, extremely popular courtesan and Chan Chen-pang, a rich playboy who frequented the opium dens of Hong Kong at the time. The two meet and soon fall in love, but his family objects to the affair. In their desperation, the two lovers decide to commit suicide and meet again in the afterlife.
The second period takes place 50 years later, when a disgruntled Fleur,...
The script is based on the homonymous novel by Lilian Lee, and unfolds in two periods. The first one takes place during 1934, when we are introduced to Fleur, a high-class, extremely popular courtesan and Chan Chen-pang, a rich playboy who frequented the opium dens of Hong Kong at the time. The two meet and soon fall in love, but his family objects to the affair. In their desperation, the two lovers decide to commit suicide and meet again in the afterlife.
The second period takes place 50 years later, when a disgruntled Fleur,...
- 5/4/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The second film directed by Jackie Chan himself, after “Fearless Hyena”, was a testament to most of the characteristics that accompanied him for the rest of his career. He is great in comedy but rather bad in drama. He can take a beating like no other. He probably does not have bones in his body while he manages to appear as close to a cat as a human being could ever be. Thankfully, for the most part at least, “The Young Master” focuses on his pros.
Dragon and his big brother, Tiger, are two orphans who have been taken up since childhood by Master Tien, who runs a martial arts school with an iron fist. During the lion dance competition, which the school has been winning for years and is one of its main sources of income, the start of the school, Tiger, is seemingly injured felling from a ladder,...
Dragon and his big brother, Tiger, are two orphans who have been taken up since childhood by Master Tien, who runs a martial arts school with an iron fist. During the lion dance competition, which the school has been winning for years and is one of its main sources of income, the start of the school, Tiger, is seemingly injured felling from a ladder,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Fox’s free streaming service, Tubi, offers over 30,000 movies and TV shows from nearly every major studio and is available on over 25 devices including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast Xfinity, and more. The service offers free movies to residents of Canada and the USA with intermittent commercials when streaming content.
With a huge collection of foreign-language film Tubi has plenty to offer for those who want watch a movie in honor of the Lunar New Year. You can browse the their collection of foreign titles over at Tubi.tv. We have highlighted a few titles currently available below.
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) by Herman Yau
“Ip Man : The Final Fight” is a kung-fu melodrama following Ip Man’s move to Hong Kong in 1949. The story is told in a series of vignettes, sketching out incidents and dramas of Ip Man’s time in Hong Kong, entwined with the stories of his students.
With a huge collection of foreign-language film Tubi has plenty to offer for those who want watch a movie in honor of the Lunar New Year. You can browse the their collection of foreign titles over at Tubi.tv. We have highlighted a few titles currently available below.
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) by Herman Yau
“Ip Man : The Final Fight” is a kung-fu melodrama following Ip Man’s move to Hong Kong in 1949. The story is told in a series of vignettes, sketching out incidents and dramas of Ip Man’s time in Hong Kong, entwined with the stories of his students.
- 2/11/2021
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
While his previous features “The Big Boss” and “Fist of Fury” had established Bruce Lee’s fame in his home country as well as overseas, the two roles also gave him the influence and financial means to start his own production company and finally have the kind of control he had always wanted about the projects he was interested in. Their company’s first project and Lee’s debut as a director was to be “Way of the Dragon”, a movie which, despite its tight budget, introduced movie audiences to a style that would become famous for an entire generation of martial arts-actors such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li. On the outside a typical feature of the genre, including the fight of the good guy against an evil boss and his henchmen, it also combines action sequences, artful fight choreographies as well as a specific kind of Hong Kong...
- 1/5/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of Ricky Lau’s Hong Kong comedy horror show-cum-mystical martial arts romp. Introduced to the vampire mythos are some novel ideas, like scary-looking vampires that get around by hopping on two legs. Effective horror scenarios include expertly choreographed martial arts routines. However, the score on the genre mash-up front is “two out of three ain’t bad:” the brand of broad comedy that Mr. Vampire peddles is hit and miss when it comes to generating genuine laughs.
Mr. Vampire
CineSavant Guest Review
Region B Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment
1985 / Color / 1.85 / 96 min. / Geung see sin sang / Street Date, 20 July 2020 / £19.99
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Ricky Hui, Siu-Ho Chin, Moon Lee, Billy Lau, Ha Huang, Wah Yuen, Siu-Fu Wong, Anthony Chan.
Cinematography: Peter Ngor
Film Editor: Peter Cheung
Production Designer: Sai Kan Lam
Original Music: Melody Bank
Written by Ricky Lau, Cheuk-Hon Szeto, Barry Wong & Ying Wong
Produced...
Mr. Vampire
CineSavant Guest Review
Region B Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment
1985 / Color / 1.85 / 96 min. / Geung see sin sang / Street Date, 20 July 2020 / £19.99
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Ricky Hui, Siu-Ho Chin, Moon Lee, Billy Lau, Ha Huang, Wah Yuen, Siu-Fu Wong, Anthony Chan.
Cinematography: Peter Ngor
Film Editor: Peter Cheung
Production Designer: Sai Kan Lam
Original Music: Melody Bank
Written by Ricky Lau, Cheuk-Hon Szeto, Barry Wong & Ying Wong
Produced...
- 9/1/2020
- by Lee Broughton
- Trailers from Hell
Produced by Sammo Hung, Ricky Lau’s debut film was an immediate box office hit that led to the formation of a huge franchise including four sequels, a plethora of remakes, a theatrical play, a video game and even a board game. The film was also very successful in Taiwan and Japan and established many of the genre’s distinct characteristics.
Master Kou is a Taoist priest who specializes in ghost busting. He has two disciples, Man Choi and Chau Sang. When asked to rebury a rich man, Yam, he eventually discovers that he is a vampire and, subsequently, Man Choi is infected by the vampire virus. Furthermore, Chau Sang is haunted by a female ghost who “forces” him to pleasure her sexually. Master Kou must exorcise the ghost while facing the vampires.
Chinese vampire legends have nothing to do with their Eastern counterparts, and this film clearly demonstrates that fact,...
Master Kou is a Taoist priest who specializes in ghost busting. He has two disciples, Man Choi and Chau Sang. When asked to rebury a rich man, Yam, he eventually discovers that he is a vampire and, subsequently, Man Choi is infected by the vampire virus. Furthermore, Chau Sang is haunted by a female ghost who “forces” him to pleasure her sexually. Master Kou must exorcise the ghost while facing the vampires.
Chinese vampire legends have nothing to do with their Eastern counterparts, and this film clearly demonstrates that fact,...
- 7/23/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kungfu master, cross-cultural comedian, prolific film director; pop star, multi-millionaire, Ccp conspirator, global philanthropist. No one wears as many hats as Hong Kong-born Jackie Chan, the Peking Opera fallout turned into a more affable Bruce Lee. In short, Chan is an icon in both Asian and international cinema.
So we at Amp take our hats off to Chan’s 50+ year and 100+ movies career with our newest list, honing in on what he’s best known for: his movies. Some star, some are directed by, but all include the Hong Kong-born superstar. Watch this kick-ass stunt double rise the ranks to become the legend he has become today.
1. Spiritual Kung Fu
Yes, it is kind of strange that this one is here, since there are definitely many better movies in Jackie Chan’s filmography. However, somewhere among the Shaolin monks, the book with the ultimate style of kung fu, and the...
So we at Amp take our hats off to Chan’s 50+ year and 100+ movies career with our newest list, honing in on what he’s best known for: his movies. Some star, some are directed by, but all include the Hong Kong-born superstar. Watch this kick-ass stunt double rise the ranks to become the legend he has become today.
1. Spiritual Kung Fu
Yes, it is kind of strange that this one is here, since there are definitely many better movies in Jackie Chan’s filmography. However, somewhere among the Shaolin monks, the book with the ultimate style of kung fu, and the...
- 5/13/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with a Region B review of Tsui Hark’s mystical tale of derring-do in ancient China. Hark revived a once popular variant of the wuxia film form — the Chinese shenguai wuxia films from the late 1920s — which paired chivalric martial arts with more overtly mystical and mythological elements. The groundbreaking and stylishly executed result is said to have been John Carpenter’s chief inspiration when making Big Trouble in Little China.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment
1983 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 98 min. / Shu Shan – Xin Shu shan jian ke / Street Date April 20, 2020 / £17.99
Starring: Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Damian Lau, Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Moon Lee, Judy Ongg, Sammo Hung, Norman Chu, Corey Yuen.
Cinematography: Bill Wong
Film Editor: Peter Cheung
Original Music: Sing-Yau Kwan
Written by Cheuk-Hon Szeto
Produced by Raymond Chow
Directed by Tsui Hark
Reviewed by Lee Broughton
Ancient China: civil...
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment
1983 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 98 min. / Shu Shan – Xin Shu shan jian ke / Street Date April 20, 2020 / £17.99
Starring: Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Damian Lau, Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Moon Lee, Judy Ongg, Sammo Hung, Norman Chu, Corey Yuen.
Cinematography: Bill Wong
Film Editor: Peter Cheung
Original Music: Sing-Yau Kwan
Written by Cheuk-Hon Szeto
Produced by Raymond Chow
Directed by Tsui Hark
Reviewed by Lee Broughton
Ancient China: civil...
- 5/12/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Before inventing the “Heroic Bloodshed” genre in the 80’s, with films that shaped action cinema for decades, like “A Better Tomorrow” and “The Killer”, John Woo was directing martial-arts films for the two biggest studios in Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, under the guidance of the great Chang Cheh. “Last Hurrah for Chivalry” in particular, was a testament to both his past, as the film functions as a tribute to his mentor, and his future, as one of the most important elements of the “Heroic Bloodshed”, male friendship/comradeship also has a central role here. Lastly, the main character Tsing Yi is an inspiration taken from the real-life assassin Jing Ke, who is historically remembered for his failed assassination attempt of Qin Shi Huang, and has “loaned” his story to a number of movies, including “The Emperor and the Assassin” and “Hero”.
The story begins...
The story begins...
- 6/12/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Before inventing the “Heroic Bloodshed” genre in the 80’s, with films that shaped action cinema for decades, like “A Better Tomorrow” and “The Killer”, John Woo was directing martial-arts films for the two biggest studios in Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, under the guidance of the great Chang Cheh. Although traditionally shot, “The Hand of Death” manages to highlight the fact that Woo was destined for greater things, particularly due to the way the action was shot. Furthermore, the film features performances from Sammo Hung (who was also the stunt coordinator), Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao on a minor role. Let us take things from the beginning, though.
The story revolves around Yun Fei, the best student of a Shaolin master, who is tasked with taking down Shih Shao-Feng, a Manchurian warlord who is set on eradicating the Shaolin from China. Before dealing with his arch enemy however,...
The story revolves around Yun Fei, the best student of a Shaolin master, who is tasked with taking down Shih Shao-Feng, a Manchurian warlord who is set on eradicating the Shaolin from China. Before dealing with his arch enemy however,...
- 6/9/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
All the world loves Jackie Chan, whose cinematic action pictures bridge the gap between silent-era virtuosity and slick modernity. As light comedy entertainment these first two Police Story smash ‘n’ bash epics of eye-popping jeopardy are suitable as ‘family entertainment’ as well. Jackie is a marvelous hero, while Maggie Cheung is an old fashioned girl who doesn’t mind being threatened, kidnapped and occasionally having her scalp split open. You will believe that men can tumble from high roosts onto concrete, and smash through acres of glass countertops without receiving a scratch necessarily going straight to emergency surgery. Criterion has created beautiful new masters, with original soundtracks and extras to make every foolish Jackie Chan fan try some ridiculously dangerous stunt for themselves!
Police Story / Police Story 2
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 971, 972
1985 & 1988 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 100 and 122 min. / Ging chat goo si / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap /available through The Criterion...
Police Story / Police Story 2
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 971, 972
1985 & 1988 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 100 and 122 min. / Ging chat goo si / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap /available through The Criterion...
- 5/25/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Let me start with a very personal note. I must have been around 7 or 8 years old, back at the 80’s, when the clerk of the video store in my neighborhood suggested (to my mother actually) that, instead of cartoons or Greek comedies, I should rent some of Jackie Chan’s films. Well, “Project A” (and “Drunken Master”) did it for me. I dived head on in Asian cinema and never actually emerged. Since then, I must have seen “Project A” dozens of times, and I always find time to revisit it at least once every year. In that regard, I was really happy to learn that Eureka released a 1080p presentation of the film, sourced from brand new 2K restoration. This review is based on this edition.
Dragon Ma is a member of the coast guard in Hong Kong, whose purpose is to neutralize the pirates’ activity in the area,...
Dragon Ma is a member of the coast guard in Hong Kong, whose purpose is to neutralize the pirates’ activity in the area,...
- 10/21/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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