HONG KONG MARTIAL ARTS FILMS

Even bigger and better, Hong Kong auteur Tsui Hark manages to better the already superb Once Upon A Time In China with this stunning sequel that will leave viewers yearning for more.
Jet Li (Lethal Weapon 4, Romeo Must Die) reprises his role as kung fu master Huang Fei Hong) who arrives in Canton for a medical convention but gets embroiled in a crackdown by palace officials on the revolutionary gang.
Later, Huang meets revolutionary leader Sun Yat Sen (Zhang Tie Lin) and Luke (John Chiang) and is dragged into the dispute when his new friends are mistakenly arrested by the military. He tries to spring them free and sets himself up for a bloody showdown with Commander Lan (Donnie Yen, Blade 2).
Yuen Wo Ping (Iron Monkey, The Matrix) outdoes himself with the astounding choreography featured here. Definitely one for the collection!

This is the first case for young public prosecutor Yuen Biao. The People vs. drug kings Paul Chang and James Tien. Yuen is sure of conviction as Uncle Sing has agreed to testify in court. The sky falls on Yuen who learns Uncle Sing and his family are murdered the night before. Both defendants are set free on lack of evidence. A deeply outraged Yuen decides to take law into his own hands.

Ching Loong (Jackie Chan), a young student suddenly thrown into the limelight when his Red School elder, Cheng Keung (Wei Pei), drops out of the annual Lion Dance competition in Guangzhou.
As Ching stuggles against the representative of the rival Blue School, he discovers that it is the debt-laden Cheng. Ching tries to make Cheng turn over a new leaf but his mission to clear Cheng’s name lands him in hot soup when he is framed for a crime.
Now the young master not only has the reputation of Cheng and the school on his shoulders, he has to prove his own innocence as well.

A young Hong Kong man, Tang Lung arrives at Rome to help a friend of his family, a girl called Chen Ching-hua. She has been threatened by local gangsters who want to takeover her restaurant. Soon after Tang’s arrival, the gangsters appear at the restaurant and force Chen to sign over the deed. They laugh at the Chinese style of fighting. Angry Tang challenges and defeats them in an excellent show of his fighting skills. The mastermind of the gang orders Tang’s assassination. When this fails, the gang leader hires an international Karate champion form the United States in a last attempt to kill Tang. Tang meets the American in a coliseum and they fight like gladiators to the death.

It is a tale about Cheung (Sammo Hung), a cuckolded husband, sent on a wild roller coaster ride of spooky encounters when his wife’s wealthy lover tries to do away with him with the help of black magic by a Taoist monk.
How Cheung defies his enemies is an uproarious comedy featuring hopping vampires, supernatural possession, copious splashings of chicken blood and relentless chanting, all mixed with an exhilarating dose of kung fu and slapstick humour.

The best swordsmen of China and Japan have made it a historical ritual to meet every 10 years for a showdown of fighting skills and powers. The leading fighter of the Japanese ninjas, Hashimoto (Tsui Siu-keung), and the Chinese chief Ching Wan (Damian Lau) have come to respect each other after years of competition – but tradition demands that they lock swords again. Their honor is put to the test when rogue ninjas barge into Shaolin Temple to steal a secret kung fu manuscript and unleashes a war.