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Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. Action films from Hong Kong have roots in Chinese and Hong Kong cultures including Chinese opera, storytelling and aesthetic traditions, which Hong Kong filmmakers combined with elements from Hollywood and Japanese cinema along with new action choreography and filmmaking techniques, to create a ...
Hong Kong martial arts biography stubs (77 P) Pages in category "Hong Kong martial artists" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Category: Martial arts in Hong Kong. ... Hong Kong martial artists (14 C, 31 P) + Judo in Hong Kong (1 C) K. Kickboxing in Hong Kong (1 C) M. Muay Thai in Hong Kong ...
Having turned down an annual studio contract, Kurata regularly continued to pick up other martial arts roles in Hong Kong including the 1985 Hung-directed “Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars,” which ...
Jimmy Wang Yu, the trailblazing martial artist who starred in classic Hong Kong movies Golden Swallow, One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese Boxer and paved the way for the likes of Jackie Chan and ...
In 1938, he established the Chan Hon Chung Gymnasium to teach Hung Gar (Hung Family) kung fu. At the same time he had a chiropractic clinic. In 1970, he formed The Hong Kong Chinese Martial Arts Association with the intention of coordinating and promoting Chinese martial arts in Hong Kong, and held the position of chairman for many years.
Kung fu film (Chinese: 功夫片; pinyin: Gōngfu piàn; Jyutping: Gung 1 fu 1 pin 3) is a subgenre of martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema set in the contemporary period and featuring realistic martial arts. It lacks the fantasy elements seen in wuxia, a related martial arts genre that uses historical settings based on ancient China. [1]
Chopsocky (or chop-socky [1]) is a colloquial term for martial arts films and kung fu films made primarily by Hong Kong action cinema between the late 1960s and early 1980s. The term was coined by the American motion picture trade magazine Variety following the explosion of films in the genre released in 1973 in the U.S. after the success of Five Fingers of Death.