thelostdragon

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Shanghai Express

Eastern meets Western
By thelostdragon in thelostdragon Blog
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"China, 1939. Ching Fong-tin, a crook played by Sammo Hung, returns to his village. He has a government agent on his trail and isn't really welcomed by the town's people either. However, nobody knows of his plan of paying the villagers back for what he did to them in the past. A train, full of rich people, is routed on a track close to the village. Ching's plan is to bomb the track in order to temporarily stop the train. By doing so he manages to lure the rich people out of the train and lead them to the close-by town, where they are surely going to spend lots of money. Little does Ching know about some of the other passengers on the train. Gangsters, who aim to rob three samurai (Yukari Oshima, Hwang Jang-lee and Yasuaki Kurata), who are also on the train. Furthermore we have two kung fu masters with their sons. It turns out that one pair is Wong Kei-ying with his son Wong Fei-hung, whom many kung fu film fans will know. Then we have a government official (Richard Ng) ... " [More]

Invincible Armor

Iron Armour - Iron Film
By thelostdragon in thelostdragon Blog
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"Over the years, Hong Kong has been producing uncountable martial art movies which might lead many people to inconclusiveness when it comes to deciding which film to buy. When I was young (starting from the age of 5), I'd always watch old school kung fu flicks on German television. Most of them where rather boring and even made me fall asleep at times. Then, on December 30th 1994, Invincible Armour was aired on German television and without knowing anything about it, I taped it. It must have been fate, because it would turn out to become a very long friendship. At that time I was 10 years old and I loved that masterpiece. It would be the first martial arts film, that wouldn't bore me. I have treasured this tape ever since I watched it only getting it out for special occasions. And since I am writing reviews for my web pages, I always wanted to write one for Invincible Armour, but I didn't know if I could do the movie any justice. Besides, there was no DVD version worth g ... " [More]

A Moment of Romance

A Moment of Romance - A Moment ...
By thelostdragon in thelostdragon Blog
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"I can tell you right away, that A Moment of Romance is one of my favourite Andy Lau-films. It starts off as a typical youngster film, but evolves into a great love story combined with the life as a triad member. Sounds similar to other films at a first look.Andy Lau plays Wah Dee, a triad member of the lower class. He has grown up without parents in the streets of Hong Kong. Because he is very skilled at driving his motor cycle and vehicles in general, triad leader Trumpet (Tommy Wong) requests his skills for his next coup. While he and his gangsters enter a jewelry store, Wah Dee waits for them outside the store in a car, in order to help them get away as soon as they have finished the robbing. Things go wrong however. They manage to escape, but only with the help of a hostage (Wu Chien-lien) Wah Dee took. Being afraid that Jo Jo, the hostage, might give away something about them to the police, Trumpet decides to kill her. Wah Dee prevents him from doing so however and therefore h ... " [More]