Electric Shadows

Jean Lukitsh explores the history of Hong Kong’s enduring martial arts cinema from early black and white Cantonese-language kung fu and wuxia films of the 1940s and ’50s through the golden age of the genre in the 1960s and ’70s.

Blast from the Past: ‘Wong Fei-hung’s Lion Dance vs the Golden Dragon’ (1956) March 10, 2010

A Fresh Look at Alan Tang February 9, 2010

INTERVIEW: ‘Ink’ choreographer Brian Taylor January 5, 2010

Glorious Grindhouse: The films of Sun Chung October 14, 2009

Bad to the Bone, Part 2: Chan Wai-man August 19, 2009

REVIEW: ‘Hong Kong Godfather’ (1985) July 23, 2009

Bad to the Bone, Part 1: Johnny Wang Lung-wei July 12, 2009

A Tribute to Action Choreographers June 19, 2009

Kung Fu Divas: Law Yim-hing and Yam Yin June 10, 2009

In Memoriam: Shek Kin 1913-2009 June 5, 2009

The man who was Fong Sai-yuk: Early kung fu actor Sek Yin-tsi (1920-1986) May 27, 2009

‘One-Armed Magic Nun’ – Chan Lit-bun and the ‘Mad Diva’ of wuxia May 6, 2009

From the Vault: Interview with Gordon Liu April 17, 2009