1984 film by Chang Cheh

Ralph Umard zeigt Einblicke hinter die Kulissen des Hongkong-Kinos, dabei kommen sowohl Regisseure wie Tsui Hark oder John Woo zu Wort, wie auch Schauspieler Cynthia Khan, Jackie Chan und andere. Sie schildern ihre Motivation, Filme zu machen und erläutern ihre Arbeit aus ihrer eigenen Sicht.
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Nicht mehr ganz aktuell spekuliert der Regisseur dieser Dokumentation über die Veränderungen, die die Machtübernahme Chinas im Jahr 1997 für den Hongkong-Film bereithalten wird.

The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans.

Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, eat or even go to the toilet on his own. One day his father returns from work only to find Chuan sitting in the corner with his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. In an unfamiliar, eerily calm voice, Chuan says, “I saw this body was empty, so I moved in.

In the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Yongzheng created a secret army known as the Guillotines. It was the job of the Guillotines to protect the Emperor by killing anyone who posed a threat to him or his rule. After 348 successful missions to eliminate their target, the 349th assignment proves to be their last.

Yu is a two-armed swordsman who is betrayed by a jealous rival, but initially seeks a life of simple pleasures until an accidental meeting with another patriot sets him back on the road to bloody, brutal vengeance.

2011 film by Peter Chan

A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.