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ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Donnie Yen Outweighs The Competition In The Official U.S. Trailer

I’ve heard some good things thusfar with respect to action maestro and regular Donnie Yen cohort Kenji Tanigaki’s recent directorial feat, Enter The Fat Dragon, a derivative and tributary action comedy nod to Sammo Hung’s 1978 Bruce Lee riff. Tanigaki’s own resumè consists of a sprawling list of who’s-who in hit Asian action films, including and especially in his purview as an elite stunt professional on films like the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy and the Dynasty Warrior game franchise. He rejoins Yen with a script by co-star Wong Jing, and writers Lui Koon-nam and Ronald Chan. Sent to Japan on a routine police escort, Officer Zhu is excited to have the chance to requalify for full time duty as a police officer. However, after a series of mishaps, the mission goes terribly wrong and the suspect Officer Zhu is escorting suffers a mysterious death. Zhu enlists the help of wok-wielding restaurant […]

ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Donnie Yen Teases His Contemporary Spin On An Action Comedy Classic

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Donnie Yen fans hard on for another headlining gangbuster actioner after the family-tethered Big Brother will soon have their day with Enter The Fat Dragon, a nod to the 1978 Sammo Hung classic that now takes on a life of its own. Yen reunites with Wong Jing (Chasing The Dragon) who also shares directing duties with fellow Yen regular, Kenji Tanigaki who serves in the action department as he’s done on a number of stellar titles of late, including last year’s Big Brother, and also the Ruroini Kenshin trilogy and Jiang Wen’s Hidden Man to name a few. Fallon Chu (Donnie Yen) is a Hong Kong Police Special Task Force agent. He is an agile fighter with a high crime detection rate and a police role-model in the eye of the public. Unfortunately, his fiancée dumped him before their marriage. Heartbroken, he indulges himself in food to relieve his pain. […]

Higuchi Shinji And Kenji Tanigaki Lend Their VOICES In A Powerful New Set Teaser!

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Whatever is happening in Japan right now between filmmaker Higuchi Shinji and Rurouni Kenshin trilogy action director Kenji Tanigaki, it’s starting to draw some serious attention. Higuchi‘s most recent obligations have been to Toho’s forthcoming Shin Godzilla movie following his completed Attack On Titan twofers which are finally making headway in North America this season. Nowadays, it looks as if his attention has also been devoted to a brand new project called Voices. Music label Flying Dog unleashed a behind-the-scenes teaser for the project with footage showing up to fifty actors and stuntmen wired up and donning costumes by GANTZ’s own Takeda Dango, and performing feats of action amid a rock background, along with action-packed footage showcasing Takeda Rina, Mimoto Masanori, Joey, and Shimazu Kentaro. All this is pretty sudden but the footage is electrifying and energetic as all hell, and whatever happens, it appears to be happening sometime in […]