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CAPTAIN CHINA Review: Fighting for the Motherhood… And barely surviving…
This film has been mocked and slammed by western media, accused of being a cheap rip-off of Marvel´s Avengers with all the heroes of Chinese Folklore, and is undeniable that the film deserved all the backlash and didn´t deserve any praise, but it wasn´t neither the big happening that seemed that western media tried to make us believe it was, since it was just another low-budget independent film destined to be lost and forgotten in the vast sea of Chinese streaming platforms, that on other hand, probably felt benefited by all that negative that translated into free publicity that would give it some undeserved 15 minutes of fame.
IP MAN: KUNG FU MASTER Review: Kung Fu As The Ultimate Weapon For Truth And Justice
Chinese film industry continue turning their most beloved martial arts historical figures into pulp characters, sometimes even bordering on the superhero genre, but overall looking to exploit this figures beyond of what they really were, to bring them to the olympus of legends, where the wide variety of possibilities is unlimited, and all them stop being historical figures to transform into fictitional characters that inhabit universes that those kung fu masters could never imagine, bringing to moviegoers around the world endless hours of evasive entertainment.
TEARS OF NO REGRET Review: Sun Wukong Falls In Love And Disgrace To Save Mankind
Sun Wukong´s possibilities as fictional character are as endless as his own immortality and the Chinese entertainment market is squeezing them to the last consequences. This Fantasy adventure brings back the Monkey King in a fun and original new vision, where the character seems to leave behind his deity, to suffer and sacrifice for love as a mere mortal, showing a vulnerability that he always seemed to lack of. Throughout the film there are different references to ” Journey To The West”, even including a small homage to 1964 animation classic “Havoc In Heaven”, one of the most popular and acclaimed adaptations of the novel.
FIST OF LEGEND (2019) Review: The Making Of A Hero
Prequel to the Chen Zhen played by Jet Li, in the essential 1994 classic that shares the same title in English with this production, that tells the story about the early adventures of Chen Zhen in Japan, during his days as student in the university of Tokyo, giving us an insight look of the beginning of his love relationship with the Japanese girl who gave him so many headaches in Jet Li’s “Fist of Legend” and making him, once again, the banner of the rights of the Chinese people against the evil Japanese empire, whom are again the villains in a plot loaded with that stale nationalism that looks so good in this type of movies and that positions the audience next to the hero.
THE BOXING KING (混混拳王) Review: Kickboxing Subgenre Resurfaces In Chinese VOD
Kickboxing cinema, is a subgenre, that in the west, beyond Scott Adkins, or the horrendous remakes of Jean Claude Van damme´s Kickboxing, seems already dead and buried, but the vast and wide chinese VOD market, seems to have become a paradise for this type of productions. There are hundreds of them every month, and in most of them, local popular fighters have their appearance, getting their ass kicked but whoever the star of the flick is.
Lunar New Year Weekend Releases Delayed As China Faces Coronavirus Outbreak [UPDATED]
UPDATE #2: On Thursday, Well Go USA signaled its own tentative delay of their U.S. release of animated Ne Zha sequel, Jiang Ziya. The movie was to premiere this weekend in China, with the Planos-based Texas distributor slating a February 7 release. The move falls in line with other planned releases overseas from China for Lunar New Year titles as China continues to mitigate its ongoing crisis with the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
ASSASSIN LEGEND (2018): Epic Bloody Revenge Swordplay Chinese Style
At the end of the Warring States period, seven states fought for dominance. The nobles from each state sent brave warriors to duel in the Tiger Arena to resolve various disputes. The warrior from Wei was the minister of war and gained his reputation for defending his country against invaders. However, after he is framed and the country falls in ruin, he picks up with weapons and armor to fight again.
China-Produced LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES Trilogy Adaptation Gets A 2020 Kick-Off
Japanese novel series, Legend Of The Galactic Heroes, is currently readying a trilogy adaptation in China. Jiaxuan Global Pictures, established in 2015, have acquired the rights to the IP for the first of three films to arrive in 2020.
Created by Tanaka Yoshiki, the franchise propelled its story centered on two driven leaders brought to an empass on opposite ends of an intergalactic conflict, ending a 150-year stalemate between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance. The Seijun Award-winning series initially took off in 1982 from publisher Tokuma Shoten and continued onward through manga and anime releases, as well as a live stage play performed by Takarazuka Revue.
Casting and crewing details remain pending. Yi Liu Christina contributed to this report via MTime.
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