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Chinese vampires are known as Jiangshi and they’ve been a massive part of martial arts cinema for decades now. Here’s a fight scene from one of the rarer Jiangshi films, Son of the Vampire (1986)
There are some amazing bumps and wire-assisted stunts in this one.
#Jiangshi#Son of the Vampire#Vampire#Vampires#Fight scene#Kung fu#Kung fu cinema#Kung fu movies#Martial arts#Martial arts cinema#Martial arts movies#Hong Kong cinema#Hong Kong action cinema
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Michelle Yeoh
Maggie Cheung Man Yuk
1993’s “The Extecutioners”
Produced & Directed by Johnnie To & Tony Ching Siu Chung
#Michelle Yeoh#Maggie Cheung#Anita Mui#The Heroic Trio#Kung fu world#kung fu movie#chinese action movie#hong kong action#hong kong cinema#Hong Kong action cinema#Kung Fu girls#90s action movies#80s action movies#1990s nostalgia
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A Fantasia Festival 2023 PREVIEW
Most years I don’t particularly look forward to my birthday—yes, I’m one of THOSE people—but you can bet that every single summer I look forward to the Fantasia International Film Festival; one of the greatest film festivals on Planet Earth. Fantasia cobbles together a wide variety of genre films from all corners of the world and every corner of genre, spanning proud B-films of any genre to…
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#2023#Climate Change#Fantasia Festival#Fantasy#Genre Film#Hong Kong Action Cinema#horror#John Woo#Kier-La Janisse#Larry Fessenden#Science Fiction#Zach Clark
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Hong Kong Action Cinema (Blog 4)
For Blog 4, I’m looking at how John Woo’s Manhunt from 2017, stacks up against his classic films from the 1980s and 1990s, specifically Hard Boiled from 1992.
To start, there is one big similarity. The one main similarity is that Manhunt it is still an action film. It still has plenty of gunfire and weapons and fight scenes. This is what John Woo specializes in, just gun-fu as most would call it. His films from the 80s and 90s, and Manhunt both have enough action to satisfy. Another similarity is the fact the action scenes still exist and he uses the same techniques, fast cutting angles and slow-motion along with gun-fu and close quarter fights. We even get a jet-ski chase which is incredibly awesome!
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For the differences, there is a few. For one, Manhunt focuses more on the story and plot than the action. We follow Du Qiu throughout the film, who was framed for a murder he did not commit.
Now he is on the run while trying to prove his innocence. This movie has more emphasis on the story than the action, which was not necessarily the case with John Woo’s films in the 80s and 90s. It takes the action from his earlier films and turns it into suspense rather. His earlier films, specifically Hard Boiled are very straightforward and fast-paced but John Woo takes a slower approach with his 2017 release. Another difference is the fact Manhunt is based on a Japanese Novel, “Kiminona”, so it makes sense why it isn’t like his other films, and focuses more on the story than the beauty of gun-fu.
John Woo in an interview, states “the biggest difference for me now is that the action should be realistic… Silent Nights’s action looks more realistic and more powerful, and it gives the audience more of a feeling instead of just being entertained” (John Woo, The Hollywood Reporter). What he says can fit into Manhunt too. It makes you feel something and makes you feel emotion and connection to someone, rather than just watching straight action for the whole two hours. Although John Woo’s style has changed over the years a decent bit, he stays true to his roots. In an interview with he was asked if he prefers CGI in this time of moviemaking. John Woo states “I still prefer physical stunts. Unless we can’t get the actors together on set, then we’ll have to shoot them separately with a green screen” (John Woo, The Film Stage). He loves to stick to his roots and that is why he is such a great director and filmmaker.
My personal take on the film is that it is refreshing. I love the constant action, but I also can enjoy a good story. We as an audience know Du Qiu is innocent, so the story makes us root for him, and it makes us sit on the edge of our seat hoping he gets his innocence heard. In Hard Boiled, you root for the cops to win but it wasn’t as thrilling because we could have predicted the outcome. His style has changed the least, and it is more the content of his films that have evolved, but John Woo still puts out great projects, nonetheless.
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In The Line of Duty 4: Film Review
In The Line of Duty 4: Film Review
I’m not a fan of Auteur Theory. Movies, television, and video games have so many people involved in the process of creating them that putting all the weight of a work’s success on a single person weakens the contributions of everyone else in the project. That said, a good director can make a world of difference on a film, not because of their sole artistic vision, but because of the other…
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Jackie Chan, Hiroyuki Sanada - Rush Hour 3 (2007)
#jackie chan#成龍#hiroyuki sanada#真田 広之#rush hour#rush hour movie#rush hour franchise#rush hour 3#action cinema#action choreography#hong kong action#japanese action
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#Michelle Yeoh#Anita Mui#Maggie Cheung#The Heroic Trio#1993#Johnnie To#action movie#90s#1990s#style#fashion#scifi#fantasy#action#hong kong cinema#design
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Beautiful Moon Lee 😍🔥
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The Heroic Trio (1993)
#The Heroic Trio#michelle yeoh#Maggie Cheung#anita mui#johnnie to#Dung fong sam hap#hong kong cinema#90s action movies#filmedit#90s movies#90s films#90s#martial arts
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警察故事 (Police Story), 1985.
Dir. Jackie Chan & Chi-Hwa Chen | Writ. Jackie Chan & Edward Tang | DOP Cheung Yiu Cho
#police story#jackie chan#警察故事#10 frames#hong kong cinema#action comedy#1980s#maggie cheung#brigitte lin
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Green Snake / 青蛇 (1993)
Director: Tsui Hark
Cinematographer: Chiu-Lam Ko
Production Design: Bill Lui
Costume Designer: Bo-Ling Ng
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Vincent Zhao, Nagma, Sridevi, and Wu Hsing-kuo.
#green snake#青蛇#1993#tsui hark#maggie cheung#joey wong#hong kong cinema#wuxia#hong kong movies#hong kong action#hong kong films#cult classic#90s films#90s movies#90s cinema#sridevi#nagma#kung fu
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Lobby card set for Yes, Madam! (1985)
#Yes Madam!#Yes Madam#Corey Yuen#Michelle Yeoh#Cynthia Rothrock#Tsui Hark#Sammo Hung#Dick Wei#Kung fu#Kung fu cinema#Kung fu movies#Martial arts#Martial arts cinema#Martial arts movies#Lobby cards#Lobby card#Hong Kong cinema#Hong Kong action#Hong Kong action cinema
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Donnie Yen & Michelle Yeoh Throughout the Years..🥋😍
The two co-stars shooting behind the scenes of “Wing Chun” (1994) [top]
At a movie premiere in 2023 [bottom]
#thirty years later#then and now#donnie yen#michelle yeoh#chinese actress#chinese actor#hong kong#malaysia#hong Kong action cinema#chinese cinema#Chinese action cinema#hong kong cinema#wing chun#wing chun 1994#1994#90s action movies#90s nostalgia
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Hong Kong Action Cinema Blog 3
Last blog I took a closer look at the way John Woo directs his films, using Hard Boiled as the main example. This movie is one of his more known ones so I thought it would be the perfect movie to dive into his style of directing. Now for this blog, I am going to look at how John Woo and his filmmaking style has influenced other directors and films, in years to follow.
John Woo has a very unique style of filmmaking and directing. With action, he never makes it too over the top, and wants to make everything as realistic-looking as possible. With the use of slow-motion and the rapid switching of angles with different speeds during a fight, he is able to capture all the action while making everything seem very real. Every scene is very chaotic because he goes all out. Lots of bullets flying, weapons being tossed around, explosions, and a lot of blood. People coined the term "gun-fu" from his action scenes to describe the rapid gunfire between two people fighting head-to-head. John Woo influenced a lot of movies to come in later years of action cinema, and influenced directors and filmmakers that came after him too.
A filmmaker I'd like to discuss is Quentin Tarantino. He directs action films filled with drama. John Woo's films are mainly action but also involved some drama as well. He has had major influence from John Woo and his films and directing style of stylized violence, and he has said it himself but also it is evident through the way he directs his own movies too. Quentin Tarantino during an interview had said "John Woo was a big major hero to me at the time, I was just so influenced by Hong Kong cinema" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAck19uYAv0). What Quentin took away from John Woo is just the beauty of directing action cinema. You can film it in so many ways, but the way John Woo does it keeps everything fresh and intense. He uses intense dialogue, similar to a Hong Kong action film, and unexpected but thrilling action.
Certain ways John Woo has directed has had an influence on today's action films too. In Hard Boiled there is an action scene through the hospital that lasts two minutes and 42 seconds with no cut, it is an extremely long take from John Woo. In this scene, "the usual Woo hallmarks are on display: a hero wielding twin automatic pistols, slow motion, as well as the use of a technique rarely seen in his movies – filming the majority of the set piece in one take. The use of an unbroken shot...allowed the unseen set designers to alter the location to fit the requirements of the sequence while also enhancing the audience’s enjoyment of the action" (AllTheRightMovies).
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Later action movies utilized this, such as Prachya Pinkaew’s Protector. In this movie he "has a memorable set piece that’s a perfect example of how a one take action scene can showcase both a lead character’s martial arts prowess and the imposing location he must traverse in order to confront the bad guys" (AllTheRightMovies). Prachya took inspiration from John Woo and utilized a great technique for action films to make the scene more effective.
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Quentin Tarintino filmed the Kill Bill movies, which was seen as "his own take on 70s Japanese, Chinese, and Hong Kong martial arts movies including legendary actors from the era like Sonny Chiba and Gordon Liu" (Harvey Gough).
The Wachowski sisters directed The Matrix movies, which dove more into their "wuxia influence with increasingly extreme displays of martial arts" (Gough). Other notable films like Underworld, Blade 2 and Equilibrium "embraced the Hong Kong action sub genres gun fu (martial arts involving superhuman skill with guns) and heroic bloodshed (violent melodrama), which were popularized by directors John Woo and Ringo Lam in the late 80s and 90s" (Gough).
The director I mainly focused on today is John Woo, who has had a major influence on the genre of action cinema today. With his unique directing styles, it is clear why so many people use parts of his style in today's films, because it is so great and refreshing.
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In The Line Of Duty 3: Movie Review
In The Line Of Duty 3: Movie Review
The In The Line Of Duty series of films is kind of odd as far as film series go. It’s not like the Zombi or the Italian House series – where you had a bunch of directors taking a bunch of desperate films with common elements (zombies or horror films regarding a house respectively), and sticking the label of an existing series of films on them, making for a bunch of films based around a thematic…
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Donnie Yen - Dragon a.k.a. Wu Xia (2011)
#donnie yen#甄子丹#武俠#dragon movie#wu xia movie#hong kong action#hong kong cinema#chinese cinema#martial arts cinema#action choreography
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