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World War II

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Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan, 1994)

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Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan, 1994)

Hidden Blade (Cheng Er, 2023)

Hidden Blade (Cheng Er, 2023)

When Hidden Blade was first announced, it was called Anonymous (a literal translation of its Chinese title “無名”) and stated to be the third part of a propaganda trilogy which included Andrew Lau’s 2021 COVID drama Chinese Doctors and the first (but not the second?) part of The Battle

The Eight Hundred (Guan Hu, 2020)

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The Eight Hundred (Guan Hu, 2020)

Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui, 2017)

Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui, 2017)

The most anticipated, and almost assuredly the best, World War II film of the summer, by one of the greatest filmmakers of the past forty years, opens here tomorrow exclusively at the Pacific Place: director Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come . Based on true events in the resistance against

The Age of Shadows (Kim Jeewoon, 2016)

The Age of Shadows (Kim Jeewoon, 2016)

Hot off its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and the announcement of its being chosen as South Korea’s submission for the Foreign Language Academy Award, the latest film from director Kim Jeewoon opened this past Friday. But not in Seattle: it’s only playing at the Alderwood Mall