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Streaming Sleepers: In MERCENARIES FROM HONG KONG, Wong Jing’s Fresh 80s Action Classic

Mercenaries From Hong Kong was previously reviewed for the twenty-sixth edition of Fantasia Festival. The film is currently available to stream via Arrow Player. Undoubtedly, one of the most well-received aspects of being an avid Arrow Video collector nowadays means being exposed to rounds of cult classic titles long-adorned by certain niches. Specifically, we’re talking those of the Hong Kong cinema kind and folks especially fond of Arrow’s Shawscope 2K restorations of late, including and not limited to Wong Jing’s third directorial outing in his career with Ti Lung starrer, Mercenaries From Hong Kong. Ti Lung plays Lok Li, a hired killer working in Hong Kong already wanted for murdering the son of a crimeboss. Before he can escape to Thailand until the heat blows over, Lok gets enveloped into even more trouble at the behest of Ho Ying (Candice Yu), a wealthy tycoon’s daughter who claims she is being […]

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Streaming Sleepers: In THE BIG HIT, A Gleeful Late 90s Action Throwback

Once upon a time, Hong Kong and Hollywood were the best of friends… Hong Kong was the poor-but-spunky upstart and Hollywood was the rich, aloof asshole who’d taken a shine to its charms. For about half a decade, the two would collaborate in ways that would change the action genre forever. In the early days, this meant trying to bolt Hong Kong action scenes onto standard, low-brow Hollywood action tropes; the results may not have been earth-shattering, but damn were they entertaining… And The Big Hit may have been one of the best (and strangest) of the bunch. The Big Hit came at the perfect time in my life; I was 16 years old and had recently discovered the charms of Hong Kong action through films like Rumble In The Bronx and Face/Off. By the time the film hit theaters in 1998, the name John Woo was synonymous with top-level action and the film’s distributor, Columbia […]

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