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.

King Hu comes to Harvard this weekend!
March 15, 2013

Viggo Mortensen Talks About Bob Anderson
March 7, 2012

‘Poor Daddy’ (1929): Early Chinese Movie Stunts
February 26, 2012

Last Shaw Brother Retires at Age 104!
January 1, 2012

White Rose Woo, Early Action Star, in ‘An Orphan’ (1929)
November 8, 2011

Kung Fu Movies in 1948
October 18, 2011

Chang Apana and Charlie Chan
August 31, 2011

Heroic Daughters: Swordswomen in Traditional Chinese Literature
July 16, 2010

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

REVIEW: Tribute to Action Choreographers, A
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