Streaming Sleepers: In KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR, You Get What You Paid For, More Than Twenty Years Later
Directed by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Uma Thurman and David Carradine
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Streaming Sleepers: In Lau Kar Leung’s HEROES OF THE EAST, Love, Honor And Respect In Any Language
One of the finer things of late about subscribing to Well Go USA’s in-house streaming platform, Hi-YAH!, is much ado with their output of classic kung fu titles. Lau Kar Leung’s Heroes Of The East is just one of them these days, making landfall this week with Gordon Liu and Yuko Mizuno headlining the cast. The 1978 film bodes as a classic staple from the Shaw Brothers catalog and currently residing in the library of Celestial Pictures in its preservation of legendary Hong Kong hit films. Written by Ni Kuang amid his sizeable studio resumé as screenwriter, the film follows another chapter in the age-old battle of the sexes when a pre-arranged marriage between Ho Tao (Liu) and Yumiko (Mizuno) ensues a competition of hijinks, hilarity, and martial skill between Chinese and Japanese styles. Liu is as charismatic in the role of Ho Tao, as he is skilled opposite the […]
Subway Cinema/NYAFF Presents: OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST 2014!
New York City residents lucky enough to have three full days off this week can now share in the joy and wonderment to be experienced at this month’s Old School Kung Fu Fest to be held at the Anthology Film Archive. Now in its second year, the events will be hosted by Subway Cinema and The New York Asian Film Festival in conjunction with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and The Korea Society, with a total of nine films, guest speakers and an artists’ poster exhibit paying tribute to legendary late great kung fu cinema auteur Lau Kar-Leung. Here are the list of all nine films, comprised of eight public titles with trailers in between, and a secret film to be announced midway through the festival, which lasts from April 18 through April 20. THE 36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (aka MASTER KILLER) 少林卅六房 (1978, 119 minutes, 35mm, with […]