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	Images - Hong Kong Action Cinema
		For these authors, Hong Kong cinema didn't really begin until John Woo broke the mold with his hyper-kinetic violent action movies, and for others it didn't begin until Jackie Chan emerged as a big star in the '80s.
		Thanks to his approach, Hong Kong cinema emerges for American readers as not just a recent development, but a cinema with a history that stretches back into the '50s--a relatively young cinema, yes, but one with a history that is three or four times deeper than many other writers would have us believe.
		Hong Kong Action Cinema is a handsomely designed book (never mind the somewhat cheesy cover) that is filled with fascinating information.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue02/reviews/hongkong.htm (528 words)

	Hong Kong action cinema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame.
		The signature contribution to action cinema from the Chinese-speaking world is the martial arts film, the most famous of which were developed in Hong Kong.
		Action movies are now generally headlined by babyfaced Cantonese pop music idols, such as Ekin Cheng and Nicholas Tse, enhanced with wires and digital effects - a trend also driven by the waning of a previous generation of martial arts-trained stars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong_action_cinema (3838 words)

	Old Man Your Kung Fu is Useless: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hong Kong, "the most international city in the world," is a postmodern urban space that is not only the location of a heteroglot culture, with Cantonese, Mandarin and English languages spoken and intermingling, but a space of absolute technological saturation.
		Cinema, then, is a signifying practice, a mechanism that reproduces social relations and positions embodied in actors who take up literal, corporeal, as well as ideological space on the screen.
		Hong Kong action cinema, particularly the Wuxia Pian films (swordplay kung fu) films and Chambara films (Samurai tales) blur the distinctions between fantasy and reality with the use of wire work, intricately choreographed battle sequences, and cinematic special effects that collapse present and past, perception and imagination.
	www.postroadmag.com /Issue_2/Criticism2/Criticism2.html (4967 words)

	HKFlix.com Additional Info.: Introduction To HK Films
		Comedy, melodrama, romance, tragedy, action, horror, and even musical numbers will all be thrown into one film (in fact, a good number of HK films will have at least one excruciatingly bad Hong Kong pop ballad somewhere in it, mainly because the most popular film stars in Hong Kong are also the most popular singers).
		HK action cinema itself comprises a number of different subgenera, from modern gunplay to period Kung Fu to swords and sorcery and horror-fantasy.
		Hong Kong action films are made quickly and cheaply for mass consumption, and thus quality control is usually not at the forefront of the production.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/infoid.1/qx/info.htm (2290 words)

	Hong Kong Cinema in a Border/less world
		However, the very term “national identity” is contested since Hong Kong is being legally and culturally absorbed into the PRC while many of its people have strong lingering feelings that Hong Kong is and should continue to be a very separate society, distinct linguistically, culturally and—for many—politically from the mainland.
		Part One offers a comprehensive historical account of and research on Hong Kong’s New Wave as a “golden age.” The directors of that movement are united their understanding of film form, their being influenced by world cinema, and their commitment to articulating specific concerns related to Hong Kong’s local identity.
		In “Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: The Films of Ann Hui,” Elaine Ho explores the multiple and shifting deployments of the figure of woman and also Hong Kong’s crisis of modernity through a critical study of the trajectory of women characters in Ann Hui’s work.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/jc45.2002/szeto/hongkongtext.html (3159 words)

	INTERVIEW: "Medallion" scribe Bey Logan
		I think Hong Kong film-makers need to develop and shoot from better scripts, raise the overall production values of their films and deliver the kind of lengthy, no-holds-barred martial arts action scenes that worldwide audiences want to see.
		It was the one time in the history of Hong Kong cinema that a group of westerners got together to fund and produce their own action film, and the project was a total disaster.
		Do you think today's Hong Kong action stars such as Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau will be able to carry the torch or are we simply entering a new era of action cinema where CG effects and wires replace the years of skill a martial artist-turned-star once had to endure to succeed?
	www.kungfucinema.com /articles/2003-05-27-03.htm (3510 words)

	Plokta Issue 12 - Hong Kong Heaven
		Hong Kong action cinema is the bad girl's dreamland in Dolby and Technicolor.
		Action stars are overbuilt, wooden performers, whose careers rest not on what they do, but on what they did before they entered the sound stage.
		Hong Kong action cinema is the new female pornography.
	www.plokta.com /plokta/issue12/hongkong.htm (2122 words)

	The Japanese in HK Cinema
		Hong Kong action movies, be they Triad (gangster) movies or chop-sockies (martial arts films), are known for being over the top.
		The period martial arts movie, a sub-genre of the sub-genre of the action movie, is a particularly unique part of Hong Kong cinema.
		At the same time, though, with Hong Kong and China sharing markets, it is entirely possible that Hong Kong movies will become even more homogenized than they already are in order to appeal to the wider local market.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~suyat/ScotTopia/IMHO/hkjpn.htm (4346 words)

	GreenCine \| Hong Kong Action
		The truth is, from graceful bullet ballets to gravity defying wire-fu fight scenes, Hong Kong films have been the biggest influence on Hollywood filmmaking in recent memory.
		As early as the silent era, Hong Kong cinema was already full of magical beings ripped from ancient legends and ferocious martial arts beatdowns, which typically came in the form of the fictionalized adventures of a real-life Robin Hood-like hero named Wong Fei-Hung.
		Meanwhile, a new generation of Hong Kong filmmakers had arrived on the scene armed with radical politics and visions of grand fantasy films inspired by both childhood memories of cinema-going and the post-Star Wars possibilities of special effects.
	www.greencine.com /static/primers/hk.jsp (2309 words)

	Hong Kong action movies, and how not to rip them off
		Watching such Hong Kong films as Ching Siu-Tung's "The Heroic Trio," with its colorful comic-book cinematography and bizarre shifts from tragedy to slapstick comedy, or Tsui Hark's "Once Upon a Time in China," with its critique of Westernization, is nothing like watching a standard Hollywood action movie.
		There is something arrestingly off-kilter about the extremely stylized world of Hong Kong action cinema that seems to elude, or perhaps frighten, most American filmmakers attempting to appropriate it.
		The Wachowski Brothers paid a great homage to Hong Kong filmmakers, capturing the stylish fluidity of the action and the odd narrative and tonal loopiness of their Eastern counterparts.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V144/N23/03-hong.23d.html (652 words)

	Hong Kong Action Cinema Movie Reviews — Page 1
		Although there's a fair deal of action, it isn't done in the loopy HK style (although why the first mission is to whack the bride at a Jewish wedding I don't know).
		Michelle is the spoiled girlfriend of a Hong Kong businessman, and at first she resents the imposition Hoi makes in her lifestyle, and the fumbling, bumbling HK cops are no help either.
		The action scenes bring it up a notch, but the romantic aspects drag it down, and what you're left with is a somewhat mediocre film.
	www.fortressofshadow.org /hk/reviews_ac.php (7513 words)

	Category:Cinema of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of China, Cinema of Hong Kong and Cinema of Taiwan.
		See also the categories for the cinema of China and Taiwan.
		For building structures for Cantonese opera and film, see Category:Cinemas and theatres in Hong Kong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Cinema_of_Hong_Kong (116 words)

	Epinions.com - THE TRUTH: Zen and The Art of Modern Hong Kong Action Cinema. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HK action films are a lot of fun to watch, but amazingly enough, it takes a sharp eye to truly appreciate the fact that many of these films do have depth.
		The action sequences are phenomenal (the “bullet cam” has to be seen to be believed), the direction stylish, and the performances fun to watch.
		What I enjoy about HK action cinema is that in many cases, it portrays women as heroic and independent.
	www.epinions.com /content_2538774660 (2601 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'Red Trousers — The Life of Hong Kong Stuntmen'
		Even for those unfamiliar with Hong Kong action cinema, this documentary is a delight.
		Robin Shou's affectionate "Red Trousers — The Life of Hong Kong Stuntmen" is so engaging and illuminating that it is enjoyable even for those unfamiliar with one of cinema's most dynamic forms.
		Although Hong Kong stuntmen come from many walks of life, the foundation of their profession has been laid by Chinese opera company alums as demand for their skills increased with the popularity of martial arts movies.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-thomas5mar05,2,2681402.story (621 words)

	Hong Kong Action Cinema Movie Reviews
		The director, year, and cast information was taken from the Hong Kong Cinema Homepage, which was also very helpful when it came to looking up character's names or plot points that had slipped my mind.
		Finally, there are occasionally inconsistencies in the names and years of Hong Kong films, especially when those films are re-released in the U.S. In each listing I've used the name the film is best known by and listed additional titles where possible.
		Hong Kong cinema was also the inspiration for Shadowfist, a collectible card game with the same background as Feng Shui.
	www.fortressofshadow.org /hk/reviews.php (672 words)

	HK WWW: Surfing, Hong Kong Movie style!
		Hong Kong Digital: John Charles is the author of the comprehensive The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997.
		Hong Kong Obscura: Darryl's site is perennial under construction, and will be killer when he's done - for now, dip into fine info on directors, actors, studios and a great history of HK.
		Wasted Life: Hong Kong Movie Reviews: a happenin' UK review site which is good for both reviews and also news of the latest HK movie releases in Old Blighty.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /www.htm (3996 words)

	Beautiful Blood
		For about ten years, from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, fans of Hong Kong action cinema were rewarded with a significant number of titles annually.
		The female characters of the action comedy “Brush Up My Sisters” (2003), for example, are reduced to whacking their adversaries with a shovel as the action climax — falling far short of previous benchmarks.
		This essay attempts to identify those contemporary Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean female action films that continue to embody both the martial spirit and aggressively subversive stance of the “Girls With Guns” genre films made during the heyday of HK action cinema.
	www.brns.com /blood/pages/blood1.html (973 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Hong Kong Films
		Beauties and Furies: Hong Kong’s New Wave of Women Stars — “The women of To's world are not just endearingly kooky, but often unacceptably bizarre and amoral in their excited reactions to events.”
		This issue, devoted entirely to Hong Kong cinema, has been used as course material in university film studies classes and has been cited in several scholarly articles.
		Achievement and Crisis: Hong Kong Cinema in the '80s
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /hongkongindex.html (534 words)

	Books at Duke University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema.
		Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles.
		Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the circulation of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, and the United States, as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese mainland.
	www.dukeupress.edu /books.php3?isbn=1-932643-01-x (708 words)

	[KFCC] Ong Bak Review
		As Hong Kong action cinema was in a state of flux, ONG BAK would go on to fill the vacuum and put Thai cinema on the map and in minds of martial arts fans around the world.
		In ONG BAK, “action is the drama” and Tony Jaa is the Laurence Olivier of martial arts action.
		The flick set off such frenzy that veteran Hong Kong action cinema star, Donnie Yen, choreographed the fight scenes in SPL as a response to ONG BAK.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/kungfu/ongbak/ongbak.html (693 words)

	Amazon.com: Hong Kong Action Cinema: Books: Bey Logan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although most of the Hong King films shown in the U.S. are police action flicks, some of the nuttiest are the ghost stories and fantastical-historical reenactments of events from the semi-legendary past, many of which are given their due here.
		Hong Kong Action Cinema by Bey Logan is another good guide to one of the most innovative film corporations.
		The films that have come out of Hong Kong are a lot of fun and a lot more creative than the cookie cutter homogenized celluloid clones that Hollywood continues to crank out ad nasuem.
	www.amazon.com /Hong-Kong-Action-Cinema-Logan/dp/0879516631 (1125 words)

	Carta di Riso
		Thai Cinema / Le Cinéma Thailandais - AA.VV.
		Hong Kong: il Futuro del Cinema abita Qui - AAVV
		Hong Kong: il Futuro del Cinema abita Qui (CAT)
	www.asianfeast.org /biblioteca.htm (793 words)

	Fall of a Dark Knight - Bey Logan Remembers Lo Lieh
		I was in the midst of researching my book on Hong Kong action cinema, and was delighted to find one of the bona fide living legends of the industry, alive, well and willing to talk, and in near-perfect English, no less!
		Quentin opined that he felt Lo was one of the best actors the Hong Kong industry had ever produced, and perhaps even his favorite.
		Bey Logan is a screenwriter, producer, a widely recognized Hong Kong film authority, author of Hong Kong Action Cinema, and guest contributor to Kung Fu Cinema.
	www.kungfucinema.com /articles/2002-11-11-02.htm (652 words)

	Cinema Strikes Back - Covering the World of Film » Movie Reviews: Hong Kong
		Thus the expectations for the film were impossibly high, and certainly it is not the reinvention of cinema.
		The action is shot with a all hell breaking loose framing/editing that makes the fights feel unchoreographed and primal.
		The Five Venoms, released in 1978, was directed by the “Godfather of Hong Kong Action Cinema” Chang Cheh and is an excellent introduction to Shaw Brothers kung fu movies.
	www.cinemastrikesback.com /?cat=10 (2676 words)

	SteveBarr.com - Gaming
		'"Action" [in Chinese movies] used to mean martial arts action almost exclusively, until the "new wave" swept HK in the mid-eighties.
		It's a broad overview of Hong Kong cinema with sections on John Woo and Jackie Chan, supernatural movies, etc. It's a great starting point if you're new to HK films or are having problems finding them in your area.
		HKAC has in-depth interviews with the stars and directors of HK cinema.
	www.stevebarr.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/barrst/goto.pl?gaming (1251 words)

	Martial Arts Movies
		When searching the web for reviews of action movies by Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and John Woo it is hard to find in-depth, well-written reviews of their best work.
		Chan is a Hong Kong detective and Tucker is an officer for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
		Kiss of the Dragon, a Fox release, is another American Hong Kong action film with Jet Li starring as Liu Jian, who is a highly skilled Chinese police officer.
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/hong_kong_action (381 words)

	Kung Fu Cult Cinema
		The content of these pages is copyright © 1999-2007 by "KFC Cinema" and may not be copied or reprinted without the written consent of the publisher.
		Hong Kong sensation Fruit Chan is about to embark on his first English language film with a remake of an early Hideo Nakata film.
		But I cannot avoid pointing the irony that a 70-year-old director was able to deliver a fresh, dynamic and insightful film about teen-angst, while a 'fresh' newcomer managed only a pale, turgid, sterile and sluggish flick.
	www.kfccinema.com (1731 words)

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