Craig Lines Sep 6, 2017
45 years on, we revisit King Boxer, and find a genuinely great martial arts movie...
Asian martial arts are now deeply embedded in western pop culture, but this wasn’t always the case. In fact, it wasn’t really until the early 1970s that they made the transition into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the release of a film called King Boxer. Of course, nothing occurs in a vacuum. By the late 1960s, martial arts were already being taught more widely in the west. Bruce Lee was making waves with his role in The Green Hornet (although his martial arts films, while huge in Hong Kong, were yet to break the Us market). James Bond had a ninja encounter in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Kung Fu, the seminal ABC series starring David Carradine, hit TVs across America in 1972. The west was primed and ready...
45 years on, we revisit King Boxer, and find a genuinely great martial arts movie...
Asian martial arts are now deeply embedded in western pop culture, but this wasn’t always the case. In fact, it wasn’t really until the early 1970s that they made the transition into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the release of a film called King Boxer. Of course, nothing occurs in a vacuum. By the late 1960s, martial arts were already being taught more widely in the west. Bruce Lee was making waves with his role in The Green Hornet (although his martial arts films, while huge in Hong Kong, were yet to break the Us market). James Bond had a ninja encounter in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Kung Fu, the seminal ABC series starring David Carradine, hit TVs across America in 1972. The west was primed and ready...
- 9/4/2017
- Den of Geek
Great news for us lovers of Asian Cinematography. The British Film Institute (BFI) along with Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) will present one of the largest and most complete retrospective of Chinese Cinema. The films presented will not be only from China itself but there will be productions from Hong Kong and Taiwan too. This awesome event will be held from June until October 2014 so don´t worry you will be able to enjoy the showcase throughout the year.
Each month the BFI will present different programs with different showcases. In total there will be five programs lasting around one month each. During June, The Golden Age the focus will be classic movies from the 1930s and 40s. Also during June there will be another program called A New China which movies were done during the post-war era and focus on melodramas, war films and different satires. On July this change in the Swordsmen,...
Each month the BFI will present different programs with different showcases. In total there will be five programs lasting around one month each. During June, The Golden Age the focus will be classic movies from the 1930s and 40s. Also during June there will be another program called A New China which movies were done during the post-war era and focus on melodramas, war films and different satires. On July this change in the Swordsmen,...
- 6/4/2014
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
Chinese Indies Struggle Abroad Boasting A Wide Array of entries at Biff this year — including films by Zhang Yuan, Wang Ping, Lou Ye and Emily Tang, among others — independent Chinese filmmakers have again shown themselves to be a force in global cinema. But there’s a missing link there: most, if not all, of these directors are heavily reliant on international sales companies to bring their work onto the global stage. Burmese Film Sector Opens Up Following The Recent formal abolishment of press censorship and the rapid economic and political reforms now underway in Burma, the country’s film sector
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- 10/9/2012
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Boasting a wide array of entries at Biff this year – including films by Zhang Yuan, Wang Ping, Lou Ye and Emily Tang, among others – independent Chinese filmmakers have again shown themselves to be a force in global cinema. But there’s a missing link there: most, if not all, of these directors are heavily reliant on international sales companies to bring their work onto the global stage. “It’s true there aren't that many important strong Asian sales companies – and there is almost none in China, where you mostly have companies selling their own films,” said Isabelle Glachant,
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- 10/9/2012
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director: Lou Ye Writer: Mei Feng Starring: Qin Hao, Chen Sicheng, Tan Zhuo, Wu Wei, Jiang Jiaqi Wang Ping’s (Wu Wei) schoolteacher wife (Jiang Jiaqi) has hired Luo Haitao (Chen Sicheng) to track and photograph her wandering husband who is in the midst of an extra-marital relationship…with a man, Jiang Cheng (Qin Hao). When that love triangle shatters, the Luo becomes Jiang’s rebound; but Luo also has a girlfriend, Li Jing (Tan Zhuo), who works at a counterfeit textile factory. So, once again, Jiang finds himself sharing his man with a woman. The multiple love “triangles” of Spring Fever lack their third side which means there is always a third wheel, and with a third wheel jealousy and animosity abound. (Critics have been quick to pounce on obvious analogies to Jules and Jim.) There lies the drama within Spring Fever. Jiang Chang has no interest in his...
- 7/24/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
- Meet with a sea of boos when it won the Best Screenplay Prize at Cannes (the boos came from the adjacent theater where a live broadcast was being watched by critics), the helmer behind Suzhou River, Purple Butterfly and Summer Palace (the film that saw motherland China place a ban on the filmmaker from filmmaking, which not surprisingly didn't really work) has found a suitor for a film that plenty, including myself, were indifferent towards. Strand Releasing have picked up a title that fills their Lbgt mandate in Lou Ye's Spring Fever. This is about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and another man, but slowly loses control of the situation. With his beautiful girlfriend, Li Jing, he is drawn in to the affair, overcome by the fever of drunken spring nights.
- 5/29/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
From Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers, the founding fathers of kung fu film, comes the groundbreaking cult movie King Boxer (Five Fingers Of Death). Required viewing for cinephiles and martial arts fans alike, King Boxer took world audiences by storm with the tale of a young martial artist who battles his way into a national tournament in the name of love, honour and revenge. His journey from young fighter in training to master of the Iron Fist delves deep into mythic kung fu lore and is laced with explosive action and dazzling fight sequences. Amazing special features included extremely rare film commentary by Quentin Tarantino.
As well as the Quentin Tarantino commentary also included are: Interview with filmmaker Chang-Hwa Jeong, Interviews and commentaries with film scholars David Chute and Elvis Mitchell, Interview with action director Lau Kar Wing, Stills gallery, Trailer gallery and Commentator biographies
Directed by Chang Chang Ho, Five Fingers Of Death...
As well as the Quentin Tarantino commentary also included are: Interview with filmmaker Chang-Hwa Jeong, Interviews and commentaries with film scholars David Chute and Elvis Mitchell, Interview with action director Lau Kar Wing, Stills gallery, Trailer gallery and Commentator biographies
Directed by Chang Chang Ho, Five Fingers Of Death...
- 1/28/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
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