Hamaguchi Ryūsuke

Reviews:

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) — November 2, 2021

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Apr 4, 2018

Kim Jeewoon

Reviews:

The Age of Shadows (2016) — September 27, 2016

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

May 31, 2013

The Butterfly Murders (Tsui Hark, 1979)

Tsui Hark’s audacious debut film is a horror mystery about killer butterflies that has…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Jul 29, 2019

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (Wong Jing & Jason Kwan, 2019)

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Oct 4, 2013

VIFF 2013: Dragons and Tigers Awards

Part of my on-going coverage of VIFF 2013. Here is an index.

Last night at the festival, the annual Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema, awarded to a distinctive film made early in a filmmaker’s career which has not yet won…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Aug 11, 2021

Raging Fire (Benny Chan, 2021)

Director Benny Chan died almost one year ago, just as he was finishing his final film, the Donnie Yen…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Jun 25, 2014

The Bride with White Hair (Ronny Yu, 1993)

All the same comic book mythology elements as so many other post-Zu: Warriors from…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Feb 11, 2016

30 Essential Wuxia Films

With the highly-anticipated release of two King Hu masterpieces on home video by the Masters of Cinema…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

May 29, 2013

Zu Warriors (Tsui Hark, 2001)

Last night I was flipping around Hulu and found two movies with similar titles. One is labeled Zu: Warriors…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Aug 10, 2019

Fruit Chan

After the End: Fruit Chan, Invincible Dragon and the Decline of Hong Kong Cinema — November 28, 2019

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