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Siu-Wong Fan, also credited as Louis Fan in some of his work, is a martial artist and Hong Kong actor who made a name for himself as the titular character in Riki-Oh. Fan's father worked for the Shaw Brothers Studio and, after learning wushu at a young age, it was clear his talents were destined for film. While Fan does have a prominent role in quite a few Ip Man films, most of his work is as a supporting character.

Throughout his career, Fan has worked alongside some of the biggest kung fu movie stars of all time. Actors like Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen are just a few people Fan has had the opportunity to work with and prove his martial arts skills are not to be underestimated. The best of Fan's work can be found in a range of kung fu films, from the dramatic origin story of...

Pluto TV, Paramount’s free streaming service, has revealed its May highlights. The Pluto TV May 2024 schedule includes Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month programming, more anime content, new channels, and new film additions.

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Pluto TV May 2024 Programming

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, And Pacific Islander Heritage Month

To pay tribute, Pluto TV...

Mainland China, July 2021: Another day another online movie made its way to the massively popular video streaming platforms there to catch the roving eyes of the viewers looking for a quick fix. Produced by Henan Guanglan Culture and starring a bunch of unknown actors, at least outside of China anyway, Tencent Video's “Longmen Town Inn” or “Dragon Gate Town Inn” in Chinese, is one such production like many countless more.

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Set in a nameless desert, the simple plot concerns Wu Long Jian Xian (Chu Xiao Long), a peerless swordsman who has to fight off challengers from other cults eager to take him down in order to claim the top position in Jianghu. Ultimately this leads to a standoff at Broken Soul Cliff in which he is the sole survivor and thereupon he also decides to live in seclusion.

During the early nineties in Hong Kong, the prolific screenwriter, producer, director and sometime actor Wong Jing made quite a number of crowd-pleasing action comedies which was a highly popular genre back then. Although wacky and action packed in nature, his films like “Tricky Brains”, “Royal Tramp”, “Legend of the Liquid Sword”, “Flying Dagger”, “Holy Weapon” and so on were commercially successful productions. Fast forward to 2011 and with a bigger Mainland budget, plus the help of two award-winning actors, Wong ws back and doing pretty much the same old thing. Set in White Horse Town, ancient China, “Treasure Inn” revolves around young Master Kung (Nicholas Tse) and Lo Pa (Nick Cheung), two lowly and underappreciated constables who work in the courthouse kitchen and laundry instead of doing proper investigating duties.

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One day, some thieves break into the Zhang family mansion,...

Errors and omissions are standard features of historical dramas everywhere. It is therefore no surprise to find Korean War history being filtered to suit domestic requirements in the three-hour Chinese blockbuster “The Battle at Lake Changjin.” Nor is it unexpected for U.S. military characters to be cardboard cutouts with excruciatingly bad dialogue. And, like many other jingoistic war epics, this prestige production co-directed by industry heavyweights Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Dante Lam

The latest in a long line of strongly nationalistic films released during the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, “The Battle at Lake Changjin” has collected almost all its $905 million revenue (as of Dec. 27) from domestic ticket sales. It is currently the highest grossing film of 2021, with only “Spider-Man: No Way Out” and “No Time to Die” as serious rivals for the top spot.

This very old-fashioned production depicts a string of military engagements during...

Diao Yinan’s “The Wild Goose Lake,” the Chinese director’s follow-up to Berlin Golden Bear-winner “Black Coal, Thin Ice,” has been pre-sold by Memento Films International in some major territories.

“Wild Goose Lake,” which is now in post production and is expected to world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, has been picked up for Italy (Movies Inspired), Japan (Broadmedia), Benelux (Imagine), former Yugoslavia (Megacom) and Greece (Seven).

The cast includes Liao Fan, who won Berlin’s Silver Bear for best actor his performance in “Black Coal, Thin Ice,” as well as Hu Ge (“1911”), Kwai Lun Mei (“Flying Swords of Dragon Gate”) and Wan Qian.

“The Wild Goose Lake” centers on the leader of a dangerous biker gang on the run who meets a woman willing to give everything to get her freedom back. Both in a dead end, they decide to play one last time and gamble their...

The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate and the other nominations for the 2012 Asian Film Awards have been announced. The 6th Annual Asian Film Awards was presented by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (Hkiffs) “to recognize excellence of film professionals in the film industries of Asian cinema.” This year’s award ceremony will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on March 19, 2012.

The full listing of the 2012 Asian Film Awards nominations have been announced.

Best Film

A Separation (Iran)

Postcard (Japan)

The Flowers of War (Mainland China)

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (Hong Kong/Mainland China)

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (Taiwan)

You Don’t Get Life a Second Time (India)

Best Director

Asghar Farhadi, A Separation

Teddy Soeriaatmadja, Lovely Man

Sono Sion, Guilty of Romance

Tsui Hark, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

Wei Te-sheng, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

Zhang Yimou, The...

Hong Kong – Director Tsui Hark’s 3D extravaganza The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate leads the Sixth Asian Film Awards nominations with seven nods, closely followed by Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale by Taiwan’s Wei Te-sheng, and The Flowers of War by China’s Zhang Yimou, with six nominations each. Fresh off its Best Foreign Language film win at the Golden Globes, Iran’s A Separation received nominations in five categories, while Peter Chan’s Wu Xia shines in the technical categories, with four nominations. Organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, the awards will name winners in 14

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Need more one-sheets for the upcoming Tsui Hark action flick “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate”? Of course you do! Everyone needs more promotional material in their lives, especially when they’re hyper-stylish character posters. All six of ‘em are embedded below. They’re not bad, as these sort of things go, though I think I prefer the first batch over these. If you missed them, you can always click here to be magically transported to the article in question. “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate”, apparently, is a remake of Hark’s own film. Weird. This version stars Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Kwai Lun-Mei, Li Yuchun, and Mavis Fan. The flick opens in China in December. Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to wait. Darn it. Get more images and videos in our “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate” preview page...

I like swanky posters. I really do. So yes, I love these three character posters for Tsui Hark’s upcoming “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate”. They are, in a word, swanky. A remake of Hark’s own film, the new and minty “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate” is set during the Ming Dynasty, and follows one those powerful eunuchs who is violently crushing revolts and establishing a reign of terror across China. With his troops on hand, the eunuch proceeds toward the titular Dragon Gate with the idea of terminating the rest of those pesky rebels, but finds instead plenty of flying swords awaiting him. That’ll teach the eunuch. Starring Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Kwai Lun-Mei, Li Yuchun, and Mavis Fan. Hong Kong and China gets the film first in December. Thanks to Qing for the heads up. Get more images and videos in our “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate...

Time for some quick, morning wuxia action. McN via The Playlist has found an official trailer, which I would call more of a teaser trailer, for Tsui Hark's new martial arts epic The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li as well as Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Kwai Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan. The film is a remake of King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn (1966) and Raymond Lee's New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and was shot in 3D. There are some very interesting shots in this, I thought it was worth featuring today. Check out that final scene with the huge sand tornadoes. Not exactly sure what's going on, but it looks cool! Watch the first teaser trailer for Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, via YouTube: A Ming dynasty general played by Jet Li finds himself at odds with a power-hungry eunuch,...