With the release of The Raid: Redemption, I’ve asked Sound On Sight contributors Edgar Chaput and Michael Ryan to help me put together a list of 15 classic martial arts films that we consider essential viewing. Here are my five choices. 11- The Blade (Doa) Directed by Hark Tsui Inspired by the 1967 Shaw Brothers …
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame Directed by Hark Tsui China, 2011 More Sherlock Holmes than Guy Ritchie’s current slow-motion brawler, Detective Dee (Andy Lau) is a 7th century Chinese sleuth with a faithful bird for a sidekick instead of a doctor. When a series of mysterious spontaneous combustions threaten to derail …
Horror, fantasy, Hong Kong action, animation, strange documentaries, gored-up science-fiction, Japanese Pink films and martial arts flicks are just among the many genres Fantasia has covered in its fourteen years of programming. Famous for being the largest genre film festival in North America, Fantasia is packed with Canadian, North American and worldwide feature-length premieres as …