Not to be confused with the 2008 version with Zhao Wei, Sun Li, Donnie Yen, and Zhou Kun ( Read more... )

There seem to be multiple versions of the title for this 1994 film, but this one seems to be the most common.

Dragon Chronicles is based on part of Jin Jong's Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. It's almost ridiculously condensed and has infodumps that rely on the viewer having a general idea of what's going on already. As I have not yet watched a version ( Read more... )

Should you, like me, be lured into watching the 2008 movie Three kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon on the basis that it is a wuxia with Maggie Q, I feel compelled to advise you that she doesn't appear until 60 minutes into the 97 minute movie. Just saying.

The movie is about the life of Zhao Zilong/Zhao Yun )played by Andy Lau) of Romance of ( Read more... )

New Dragon Gate Inn (released in the US as Dragon Inn) is one of the odder wuxia movies I've come across.

Set during the Ming Dynasty, Donnie Yen plays an evil, power crazed eunuch, Tsao, who has created his own mini empire in his sector of China and has his own ebvil army. As one does. When his officials start going "Dude, that's not cool" he ( Read more... )

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 wuxia/mystery movie from Tsui Hark starring Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bing Bing and…uhm…other people. Set in the days leading up to the coronation of Empress Wu, a conspiracy that involves people spontaneously combusting is hatched against the empress, forcing her to turn to a former ( Read more... )

I have just watched the entire Chinese Ghost Story trilogy in less than 24 hours.  (I was trying for one sitting, but the last one was longer than I thought it was and I got sidetracked by BTS clips for City Hunter, so I had to put it off or risk staying up too late and be late for wok this morning.  Cursed work ethic!)  So much pretty, glorious ( Read more... )

Earlier today I watched Reign of the Assassins, a movie in which Michelle Yeoh plays a Ming Dynasty assassin who gets reconstructive surgery to start a new life. In case you still care about a plot after “Michelle Yeoh plays a Ming Dynasty Assassin,” the plot revolves around the gang she used to work for coming after her for something she stole ( Read more... )

Based on one of the stories of Liao Zhai, a collection of hundreds of Chinese horror and supernatural stories (I’m not sure what the proper name is. I’m most familiar with The Strange Tales of Liao Zhai, which is the English title of a series about 6 of the stories from several years ago, but I don’t think that’s correct for the original stories ( Read more... )

THIS MOVIE IS TERRIBLE, BUT I LOVED IT AND MUST HAVE MY OWN COPY ( Read more... )

*flail* CLOUD!  AARON KWOK! CLOUD! *flail*

*hem*

So, like Dragon Tiger Gate, Storm Riders is based on a long chinese comic and, like DTG, making a two hour movie of it ends up with it being a little too condensed and moving almost too fast at times, but, like DTG, really, who cares?

Storm Riders is about Wind and Cloud, the sons(but not brothers) of ( Read more... )