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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 ...
Born in British Hong Kong but raised in Los Angeles, Shou entered the Hong Kong film industry as a stuntman in the late 1980s, before transitioning to acting. He went on to star in films such as City War (1988), Tiger Cage 2, Fatal Termination (both 1990), and Bloody Mary Killer (1993). Shou made over 40 Hong Kong movies before breaking into ...
Martial arts legend Sammo Hung has been tapped as jury president for the 18th Asian Film Awards, while South Korean supernatural thriller “Exhuma” and Hong Kong action pic “Twilight of the ...
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]
Veteran action movie ace Sammo Hung, Japanese actor Kurata Yasuaki and action choreographer-turned director Tanigaki Kenji had a ball on Thursday in Tokyo as they took a light-hearted trip down ...
The first martial arts film The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928), a Chinese film directed by Zhang Shichuan. Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters. These combats are usually the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often are a method of storytelling and ...
King Boxer was released in Hong Kong on April 28, 1972. [3] When the film was released in director Chung Chang-Wha's native South Korea, it was re-titled The Iron Man . The distributor Shina Sang-ok sold the film falsely as a South Korean co-production to avoid paying import taxes.
In America, many of the works in the martial arts genre have been made by non-Asians. Bruce Lee wasn’t able to get complete creative control over his work until he made films in Hong Kong.