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Yes, Madam!
(Huang Jia Shi Jie,
皇家师姐)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 12 2022
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(Huang Jia Shi Jie,
皇家师姐)
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Director – Corey Yuen – 1985 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 93m ***1/2 Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock’s star debut, in which they play two plain-clothes, kickboxing Hong Kong cops – on Blu-ray from Monday, December 12th 2002 and now part of Art of Action, a major UK-wide season celebrating the artistry of […]

Tags action, action heroines, armoured car, Arne Venema, Art of Action, assassin, balcony, ballet, Barry Wong, bike chase, Billy Lau, boss, breaking glass, cold-blooded, convenience store, cop, cop on the beat, cops and robbers, Corey Yuen, counterfeit documents, Cynthia Rothrock, Dick Wei, Dickson Poon, England, evidence, fake weaponry, fence, flasher, gangster, genre bender, grenade, handgun, Hong Kong, hotel, injury, James Tien, John Sham, justice, kickboxing, knockabout comedy, lawyer, legal contract, lowlife, Malaysia, Mang Hoi, mansion, martial arts, mentor, Michael Harry, Michelle Khan, Michelle Kheng, Michelle Yeoh, Mike Leeder, motorbike chase, murder, ornamental glass display, Panadol, parked cars, parking ticket, passport, piece of film, pile of rubbish, point-blank, police chief, police inspector, police officer, safe keeping, Sammo Hung, Scotland Yard, Strepsil, stunt, stunt glass, stunt performers, sugar glass, thieves Aspirin, traffic warden, Tsui Hark, unarmed combat, US, wallet, Wu Ma

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A Chinese
Ghost Story
(Sien Lui Yau Wan,
倩女幽魂)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 23 2023
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Ghost Story
(Sien Lui Yau Wan,
倩女幽魂)
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Director – Ching Siu Tung – 1987 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 95m ***** Some of the most seminal offerings of the commercial Hong Kong cinema are the product of creative wizard Tsui Hark. The producer who first gave John Woo his niche as bullet strewn action director on A Better Tomorrow (1986) […]

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Lady Reporter
(Shi Jie Da Shai
aka
The Blonde Fury,
Righting Wrongs II,
Above The Law II)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 26 2023
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(Shi Jie Da Shai
aka
The Blonde Fury,
Righting Wrongs II,
Above The Law II)
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Director – Mang Hoi – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 90m Movie *** Action Sequences ***** Female FBI agent Cynthia Rothrock is sent to Hong Kong to put a stop to a counterfeit money scam operated by an editor out of a newspapers premises – on Blu-ray from Monday, June 26th With […]

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Mr. Vampire IV
aka
Mr. Vampire
Saga IV
(Geung See
Suk Suk,
靈幻先生)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 28 2023
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aka
Mr. Vampire
Saga IV
(Geung See
Suk Suk,
靈幻先生)
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Director – Ricky Lau – 1988 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 96m ***1/2 A feud between Taoist and Buddhist neighbours, and a tentative romance between their boy and girl apprentices, are interrupted by the arrival of a coffin, from which a hopping corpse escapes – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, […]

Tags action, Anthony Chan, apprentice, assistant, Bo Ho Films, Buddhist rituals, child actor, chills, Chin Kar-lok, coffin, comedy, conga line, corpse, cross-country to his house, effigy, entourage, eunuch, Fat Chung, feud, floorboards, foreheads, fox demon, fox spirit, from sleeping, gay, gay stereotype, Ho Kin-wai, Hoh Kin-wai, home, Hong Kong, hopping corpse, hopscotch, immobilised, jiangshi, knot of toads, Lam Ching-ying, limbo dance, Loletta Lee, low-hanging, malted sugar, mayhem, Mr. Vampire, neighbour, neighbouring houses, next door neighbour, nighttime, Pauline Wong, possession, potential romance, prevent, prince, Ricky Lau, rituals, romance, Sammo Hung / Leonard Ho, seductive, sequel, sex comedy, spooky, sticky, stunts, talismans, Taoist priest, thrills, toad, undead corpses, wire work, Wu Ma, Yuen Wah

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The Dead
And The Deadly
(Ren Xia Ren,
人嚇人)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 1 2023
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And The Deadly
(Ren Xia Ren,
人嚇人)
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Director – Wu Ma – 1982 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 99m ***** A couple planning an inheritance swindle convince their victim to play along then kill him, after which he comes back as a ghost to take revenge – classic and seminal HK kung fu comedy is out on UK Blu-ray in […]

Tags brothel, Cherie Cheung, Chung Fat, conspiracy, conspirators, death, fighting, ghost, heir, Hong Kong, inheritance, invisible, kung fu, Lam Ching-ying, Leung Mei Hei, money, Mr. Vampire, murder, poisoning, possession, pregnant, priest, revenge, sacrifice, Sammo Hung, scam, stunts, Taoist priest, undead, Wu Ma