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Come Drink With Me (1966)

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Stars: Pei-pei Cheng, Hua Yueh and Hsi Chang. Director: King Hu. Fight Choreographer by Hang Ying-jie. Come Drink with Me ( Da Zui Xia, literally Big Drunken Hero) is a 1966 martial arts-action film directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-Pei and Elliot Ngok as warriors, and features fight choreography [...]

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One-Armed Swordsman (1967)

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Genre: Wuxia Stars:Yu Wang, Chiao Chiao and Chung-Hsin Huang Director Chang Cheh. An evil gang attacks the Chi school of Golden Sword Kung Fu. A student, Fang Cheng sacrifices his life to save the teacher, Qi Rufeng, and his school. Cheng’s dying wish is that his son be taken in as a student. Young Fang [...]

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Seven Samurai (1954)

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One of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. In 17th century Japan, farmers in a small village face the prospect of again losing their crops to a band of roving thieves. Their solution is to go to the nearest city and see if they can hire samurai to protect them. The farmers [...]

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The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928)

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Starring: Die Hu, Jie Tang and Xianzhai Wang. Director: Zhang Shichuan This story focuses on the rescue of a commander held captive in a temple full of traps. This chinese silent serial film was adapted from a newspaper serial called Strange Tales of the Adventurer in the Wild Country. It was released in 18 feature-length [...]

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The True Story of Wong Fei Hung (1949)

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One could say that the “kung-fu movie” (term coined in the the early seventies) started with The True Story of Wong Fei Hung: Whiplash Snuffs the Candle Flame. True Story was the very first martial-arts movie that aimed for a realistic display of authentic martial arts in a realistic setting. This was the first film [...]

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