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.

Free movies in Boston! August 22, 2010

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: 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