#kung fu cinema
“Music and movement are both expressions of the same basic human energy. They are like paints used to color the screen.” - Donnie Yen 甄子丹
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Trailer for chinese action “Song of the Assassins” (青面修罗, 2022)Directed by Daniel Lee!
Action by JC stunt team!
“Learn the form, but seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, then forget it all. Learn The Way, then find your own way.” - JET LI
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Sword Fight
Legendary director, actor and fight choreographer, Lau Kar Leung, with his First Lady of kung fu, Kara Hui.
Picture taken on the set of The Lady is the Boss (1983)
More Hong Kong television for you all. These fights come from the ATV network’s series, Reincarnated (1979)
The series stars legendary movie swordsman, Norman Chu, as well as Bruce Lee’s alleged mistress, Nora Miao.
If you know me, you know I’m a fan of “covert” fight scenes. Scenes where two people are fighting but they’re both pretending that something else is going on. This one from Dreadnaught (1981) is one of the best.
By the way, the guy that choreographed this scene, later went on to choreograph The Matrixfilms,Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonandKill Bill.
With classic Hong Kong action cinema pretty much dying, I’m always on the hunt for some kind of hopeful sign that someone’s carrying the torch. While it’s hard to find, it’s scenes like this that out a big smile on my face.
This is a classic, 90’s style Hong Kong fight scene from Imperial Bodyguard (2011). So fucking cool.
EDIT:I initially said this was a 2022 movie. I was wrong.
Some nice swordplay from an old school Taiwanese tv series (I forget the name).
So, if you don’t know, I have a podcast. The Fu for Thought podcast. Every two weeks I have my wife and best friend watch a kung fu film and then we discuss it on the episode. They think most of them are shite but what do they know?
Anyway, my best friend is Cyrus. Cyrus loves his anonymity. He doesn’t have social media and doesn’t take photos. We’ll recently we created a Patreon. One of uploads on Patreon will be a Connect 4 tournament between Cyrus and my wife. Long story short, this is the outfit Cyrus chose to wear in the video. Legend. He played the whole thing dressed like that.
If you fancy listening to the podcast, check out www.linktr.ee/fuforthought and if you like what you hear and want to throw a few dollars our way, our Patreon is www.patreon.com/fuforthought
First person scenes seldom work in movies (Hardcore Henry was just ok) but One More Shot(2021)is a fine example of that gimmick done right. If you’re wondering whose eyes you’re looking through, they’re Fan Siu Wong’s. You probably know him from a few of the Ip Manmovies.
Unfortunately, this film isn’t easy to track down as it went straight to streaming in China. It’s a solid little flick, too. Wild plot but the fight scenes are pretty great. Though this is probably the coolest sequence in the whole thing.
Today’s pickups: Knockabout (1979) and Dreadnaught(1981)
The Young Master (1980)
