Recommend cracktastic Hong Kong movies!

[rachelmanija]

oyceter, yhlee, and others will be getting together over the 4th of July weekend. We want to watch insane cracktastic Hong Kong (or mainland) movies! The crazier the better! Artistic quality is a plus but not actually required; entertainment quality is

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[arielstarshadow]

Heroic Trio is awesome. The sequel to it is less awesome, but you might want to pick it up.

The Bride with White Hair is a Classic.

If they don't have to have supernatural elements, you could look at movies like Full Contact, Eastern Condors, City on Fire (from which Tarantino "borrowed" key elements for Reservoir Dogs), and A Better Tommorow.

[affreca]

I nominate God of Cookery.

[flemmings]

Peking Opera Blues is all over our Chinatown and, now I think of it, points north as well. Bootleg in all probability, but that's how one gets twenty year old films these days.

I do strongly recommend The Promise with Nicholas Tse, just because crack doesn't come crackier than that. Alas that my (bootleg) copy won't play on my DVD player.

[oyceter]

Rachel, this is the one I told you about with the completely incoherent plot, a guy in black raven feathers, and the giant birdcage!

[gwynnega]

I'm very fond of Eastern Condors. Also A Chinese Ghost Story.

[marith]

Jackie Chan's The Raid is always one of my favorites. Not sure how it scores on cracktastic as opposed to just silly.