Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of my favorite (actual favorite? I gave up on ranking favorites some time back) Chinese movies, and my first Asian media fandom. Meaning that all the anime, manga, manhwa, kdramas and cdramas came after and roughly 80% of the people who follow me can probably blame the movie for that. Whether that's ( Read more... )

The Four: The latest adaptation of Wen Rulan's "The Four Great Constables" series, and a pretty enjoyable but not really amazing wuxia that involves zombies, ladyspies, teamy antics, cute puppies, superpowers, squads of ladyspies, lots of political and spy shenanigans and investigations, and Liu Yi Fei killing people with her brain. There's also ( Read more... )

This is a 2000 movie based on part of Gu Long's Lu Xiaofeng series of novels. I'm not sure I've seen anything else based on his works. (Most wuxia I've seen that's based on novels has been based on Jin Yong or Liang Yushen ( Read more... )

(This is the 1993 movie, not the 1977 one, which i haven't seen ( Read more... )

Remake of the Tsui Hark movie with Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung. (The movie is actually dedicated to Cheung.)

Good: Very pretty, pretty well written and acted. Not as fun as the original,but still fun. Liu Yi Fei does much better in the Joey Wong role than expected. (Not meant to slight LYF, who I like, but her typical role is grounded and ( Read more... )

Moon Warriors is a 90s Hong Kong movie that is considerably less cracky than most of the other 80s and 90s Hong Kong movies I've been watching.

In it, Andy Lau plays a fisherman who also happens to be a kung fu expert. How a fisherman who has apparently never or at least rarely left his small village or had much contact with other fighters is never ( Read more... )

Little Dragon Maiden is a 1983 Shaw Brothers film (I think this may be my first Shaw Brothers film? Actually, I'm sure I've seen one that I didn't recognize as such, but I'd have to check) adapting Return of the Condor Heroes. From the title, I thought it would focus more on Xiao Long Nu, but she's barely even in the first third.

I haven't really ( Read more... )

This trilogy has one of the more impressive goes at regularly trying to outdo itself regarding crossdressing and gender confusion that I've come across.

We start of with your standard case of a girl dressing like a boy to run around having adventures with her male friend. In the next movie, we add a male sorcerer who uses sorcery and castration to ( Read more... )

Which I have also seen as Portrait of A Nymph, and in which the titular nymph is a ghost. Played by Joey Wong, frequently looking coy.

This movie features a wuxia battle between a dozen or so wedding coaches. Complete with flips, sound effects, and lightning.

I feel that is all some people need to know.

Anyway, Joey Wong plays a bride who is killed ( Read more... )

This 1989 movie is, I believe, based on th same book as the upcoming Ady An series of the same name ( Read more... )