Obsession (2023)
At 67 minutes, Obsession packs more wildness into every second than nine other movies that you’ll see this year. Madisyn (Aubrey Madisyn) and Paris (Payton Pinkston) are best friends and cousins. Every day, they wake up, get on social media and post their getting ready videos. Today is Madisyn and her fraternal twin brother Mason’s (Darius […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: The Grand Passion (1970)
Lu Xiao-Ling (Polly Shan-kuan) and her brother Lu Liu (Pai Ying) are young rebels and part of the Southern Song Dynasty. Tasked with moving a document that will allow two allied armies to finally come together to defeat the despised Jin army that has occupied China, this film is about the clandestine meetings and secret […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: A City Called Dragon (1970)
King Hu’s A Touch of Zen took so long to make that his assistant director Tu Chung-Hsun and the cast made a whole different movie, the one you’re about to read about. Shang Yen-Chih the Jade Dragonfly (Feng Hsu) is in trouble. She was supposed to get plans to defeat the invading Manchu army from her contact […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: Night Orchid (1983)
Chu Liuxiang icomes from a series of novels by Taiwanese writer Gu Long and hiname literally means lingering fragrance. He steals from the rich, gives to the poor and serves justice as a bandit. A master of vertical surface running and leaping — Qinggong — and the metal hand fan, he has never taken the […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: The Valiant Ones (1975)
Corrupt officials have taken bribes and allowed a band of Japanese pirates — which includes Han Yingjie (Han Ying-chieh), Hakatatsu (Sammo Hung) and Simon Yuen as a bald pirate with a bo staff — to terrorize the South China coast. A small band of fighters, led by husband and wife Wu Ji-Yuan (Pai Ying) and Wu […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: Iron Mistress (1969)
A group of rebels taking on the Jin invaders during the Southern Song Dynasty are led by the Iron Mistress (Han Hsiang-Chin) and Wei Shing (Pai Ying). Another revolutionary named Hsin Tsuan (Chien Tsao) says that she may be a strong fighter and able to gather an army, but she has no plan. He offers […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
Break this movie in half with one part being the set-up, as rebels, spies and government officials in disguise all meet at the Spring Inn searching for a battle map. Then, tear it all to pieces, as secret identities are uncovered and all hell breaks loose. All of this filtered through the genius of director […]
10TH OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: A Touch of Zen (1971)
Until the three-hour cut played at the Cannes Film Festival three years after thsi movie was released and received the Technical Grand Prize and almost took home the Palme d’Or, this has been considered one of the greatest Chinese movies ever made. Director and written by King Hu, A Touch of Zen was based on the […]
10TH OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters (1968)
After bandits murder a retired sheriff named Yang Du and his wife — they are the only to ever escape from prison that he caught — their three daughters are separated for their own safety. Years later, each of the three — Xiufeng (Li Hua-Yang), Qingfeng (Mei Chin) and Zhifeng (Ching Liu) — all seek […]
10TH OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: The Ghost Hill (1971)
Directed by Ting Shan-hsi, this is the final installment in The Swordsman of All Swordsmen trilogy, but you can go into it without needing to see the other two movies. Flying Swallow (Polly Shang-kuan) and Tsai ying-jie (Tien Peng) — joined once again with Black Dragon (this time played by David Wei Tang) — have decided […]
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