Director Lau Kar Leung made his Shaw Brothers directorial debut with The Spiritual Boxer, starring Wong Yu, Lin Chen Chi and Li Hoi Sang. The film concerns the trials of a travelling con man who along with his master shows Read more…

Action star Donnie Yen now has a very high profile resume after co-starring in Rogue One the Star Wars spin-off and the highly successful Ip Man film series of which part 4 is now filming. In 1993 he made the Read more…

Bruce Lee became a cultural icon after his tragic death and as such has a huge following, so when a movie comes out about any aspect of his life it is scrutinised very thoroughly by fans. Birth of the Dragon Read more…

Director John Woo has been absent from Cinema for a while after making Red Cliff and The Crossing when he announced a return to the Heroic Bloodshed genre with Manhunt, a remake of a classic Japanese gangster film of the Read more…

Wolf Warrior was a medium hit in the Far East but got mixed reviews, so it came as a great surprise that Wolf Warrior 2 also starring Wu Jing went on to be the biggest box office hit ever in Read more…

  Director Wong Jing is renowned for low brow and enjoyable at times action comedies but here with co-director Jason Kwan gives viewers the dramatic story of gangster Crippled Ho’s journey from low life street thug to criminal mastermind, Chasing Read more…

Director Wilson Yip has a solid reputation with Hong Kong movie fans and when good reports started coming in of his new film Paradox with action direction by Sammo Hung and a cameo by Tony Jaa, I started watching with Read more…

Jackie Chan will always be an icon to all Hong Kong cinema fans, but his recent output has been, to put it mildly pretty awful. Films such as Kung Fu Yoga and Chinese Zodiac have not helped his recent filmography Read more…

Director Takeshi Miike has directed many films, some great some bad, but Blade of the Immortal is his 100th movie and this time he revisits the Samurai genre but with a fantasy slant. Cursed with immortality, a skilled samurai in Read more…

Korean action cinema releases in the UK have been very quiet lately until word came out about a new revenge thriller entitled The Villainess starring Kim Ok-bin and directed by Jung Byung-gil. Sook-hee is a trained assassin who takes revenge Read more…