Kung Fu Cinema » Electric Shadows http://www.kungfucinema.com Screen Fighting News & Review Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:07:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Glorious Grindhouse: The films of Sun Chung http://www.kungfucinema.com/glorious-grindhouse-the-films-of-sun-chung-11109 http://www.kungfucinema.com/glorious-grindhouse-the-films-of-sun-chung-11109#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:50:29 +0000 Jean Lukitsh http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=11109 Love them or hate them, exploitation films have a long if not entirely respectable history. The bad ones are so poorly conceived and made as to…

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]]> http://www.kungfucinema.com/glorious-grindhouse-the-films-of-sun-chung-11109/feed 2 Bad to the Bone, Part 2: Chan Wai-man http://www.kungfucinema.com/bad-to-the-bone-part-2-chan-wai-man-10014 http://www.kungfucinema.com/bad-to-the-bone-part-2-chan-wai-man-10014#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:19:27 +0000 Jean Lukitsh http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=10014 There are a lot of stories about Chan Wai-man. They say he was a real gangster, a Triad insider, long before he became an actor. That…

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]]> http://www.kungfucinema.com/bad-to-the-bone-part-2-chan-wai-man-10014/feed 6 Hong Kong Godfather (1985) http://www.kungfucinema.com/hong-kong-godfather-1985-9285 http://www.kungfucinema.com/hong-kong-godfather-1985-9285#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:53:33 +0000 Jean Lukitsh http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=9285 7/10 – Last week I wrote about Shaw Brothers movie villain Johnny Wang Lung-wei. Back when I used to work as a projectionist at the Star and…

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]]> http://www.kungfucinema.com/hong-kong-godfather-1985-9285/feed 5 Bad to the Bone, Part 1: Johnny Wang Lung-wei http://www.kungfucinema.com/bad-to-the-bone-part-1-johnny-wang-lung-wei-9010 http://www.kungfucinema.com/bad-to-the-bone-part-1-johnny-wang-lung-wei-9010#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:49:45 +0000 Jean Lukitsh http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=9010 Heroes are important, but sometimes what really makes a great kung fu movie is the villain. From Shek Kin’s sneering, leering wuxia baddies to Sammo Hung’s…

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]]> http://www.kungfucinema.com/kung-fu-divas-law-yim-hing-and-yam-yin-8104/feed 0 In Memoriam: Shek Kin 1913-2009 http://www.kungfucinema.com/in-memoriam-shek-kin-1913-2009-7771 http://www.kungfucinema.com/in-memoriam-shek-kin-1913-2009-7771#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:58:36 +0000 Jean Lukitsh http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=7771 Related Posts
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