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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
Hong Kong martial arts comedy films (2 C, 169 P) D. Depictions of Ip Man on film (9 P) O. Once Upon a Time in China (film series) (7 P) Pages in category "Hong Kong ...
Martial arts films have been produced all over the world, but the genre has been dominated by Hong Kong action cinema, peaking from 1971 with the rise of Bruce Lee until the mid-1990s with a general decline in the industry, until it was revived close to the 2000s. [22]
Martial Arts, Crime, Action [11] J U N 13: Crisis Negotiators: Herman Yau: Sean Lau, Francis Ng: Crime, Drama [12] J U L 4: Once Upon a Time in HKDSE: Leung Yik Ho: Hui Yin, Tang Ngai-hong Documentary, Teen [13] 5: Customs Frontline: Herman Yau: Jacky Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Karena Lam, Cya Liu, Francis Ng: Action, Crime [14] S E P 12: Love Lies ...