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Sun Honglei

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Seven Swords (Tsui Hark, 2005)
Tsui Hark

Seven Swords (Tsui Hark, 2005)

Tsui Hark’s next major film after a CGI-driven remake of his own Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain in 2001, this is a less effects-driven wuxia epic than a riff on Seven Samurai with a Chang Cheh influence (the Northern Chinese medieval warfare of The Heroic Ones comes to
11 Mar 2014 2 min read
Drug War (Johnnie To, 2012)
Johnnie To

Drug War (Johnnie To, 2012)

From the beginning, it explains that this is not your typical heroic bloodshed Triad film, concerned more with codes of honor and brotherhood and the mirroring of good and evil than anything else. No, instead this is going to be a straight police procedural, with no metaphysical mumbo jumbo: “You’
11 Dec 2013 4 min read
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