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Tag: GENRE: WUXIA

Film Review Physical Media

THE BELLS OF DEATH (1968)

A woodcutter's family is killed by psychotic marauders, so he undertakes martial arts training and sets out to exact revenge on the evildoers.

by Remy Dean 23rd May 202523rd May 2025
Film Review Physical Media

‘Shawscope Volume Three’ (1967-1983)

Before Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different kind of martial arts cinema.

by Remy Dean 22nd November 202422nd November 2024
Film Review Physical Media

THE VALIANT ONES (1975)

The emperor dispatches an officer and a small band of men to deal with pirates.

by Remy Dean 5th June 20245th June 2024
Film Review Physical Media

KUNG FU CULT MASTER (1993)

During the Yuen Dynasty, many sects compete for possession of the two golden swords which contain the secret to dominance of the world of martial arts.

by Remy Dean 25th January 202425th January 2024
Film Review Physical Media

BEACH OF THE WAR GODS (1973)

Famous swordsman Hsia Feng gathers five other fighters and rallies the local fishermen to fight off a band of Japanese pirates.

by Remy Dean 20th October 202320th October 2023
crouching tiger, hidden dragon (2000)
Film Review Retrospective

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000)

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

by Charing Kam 7th December 20208th December 2020
the bride with white hair (1993)
Film Review Physical Media

THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR (1993)

Cho Yat-Hang, the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against an evil cult, falls in forbidden love with Lien Ni-Chang, a killer for the evil cult.

by Remy Dean 1st December 202012th February 2021
zu warriors from the magic mountain (1983)
Film Review

ZU: WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1983)

Chinese soldiers in an ancient civil war get caught up in a fantastical quest to save the universe.

by Dan Owen 18th April 202020th April 2020
brotherhood of blades ii: the infernal battlefield
Film Review

BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES 2: THE INFERNAL BATTLEFIELD (2017)

An imperial guard searches for the truth behind a conspiracy that framed him and his partners...

by Stacey Shaw 12th February 201813th February 2018
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