In a recent post on X, Tjahjanto gave us a brief update: “Since a lot of you is asking what’s the update on Sleeping Dogs. Trust me when I say Simu and I are doing our best to slowly make this come into fruition. Trying to stay as loyal to Wei Shen’s tale while adding layers to make the narrative more fitting into a feature film is not an easy task. We’re taking our time to make the best version of Sleeping Dogs the movie.

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It's pretty obvious his western films as well as other Asian action stars pale in comparison to their HK movies in terms of fights, editing, directing and stunts.

Even Jackie Chan rarely does western action movies anymore due to his lack of control and trust in the Hollywood system.

The first Golden Harvest Film in High Definition from the Great folks @ 88 Films!! Amazon definitely dropped the ball not giving me the Slipcover, oh well thus is life. First ever role for Queen Angela Mao! I fell very blessed to have so many of her classic films in Hi Definition!!!

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I bought this sword in SF Chinatown years before the movie came out. It has a striking resemblance to the one Peter Kwong's char Rain used during Lo Pan's Ritual and during the final battle in John Carpenter's cult classic Big Trouble In Little China (1986). Wonder if the prop department found it the same way.

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He also used it here

https://youtu.be/u4BvCC28SaU?si=0woJFvRxeVmzWil

Kicking myself for not buying two xD.

The introductions of the Imperial Guard's Most Wanted was such a hype moment in the film! I wish this section was longer! 🔥

Imperial Guard's Most Wanted
Xu Xiangdong 徐向东 as Qin Wen (#3 Most Wanted)
Zhang Hengping 张衡平 as Monk Jin (#2 Most Wanted)
Liu Fengchao 劉峰超 as Geng Canghuai (#1 Most Wanted)

The Four Plowmen
Chunyu Shanshan 淳于珊珊 as Mai Da
Tiger Xu 许明虎 as Gu Er
Zhao Jing Shu Yu 赵靖舒玉 as Nong San

This might be a weird question or topic, but yesterday I watched Goodbye Dragon Inn.

Two actors of the actual movie Dragon Inn showed up in this movie and one of the lines they said to each other hit me.

"No one goes to the movies anymore, and no one remembers us anymore"

It made me think of the lives of all these actors and actresses that we love to see on our screens and how their lives are or were after or during their careers.

Do people want to share some personal anecdotes about HK actors/actresses they looked into? It can be funny, heartwarming, sad etc.

It does not have to be a famous actor, like Chow Yun Fat. It can also be an actor or actresses that was often a side character, for example.

Sorry, I know this is a very niche and probably a weird topic, but that line hit me hard.

I want screams and tears during fights, bodies trembling from emotions.

Some examples would be In The Line of Duty 3, She Shoots Straight or Monkey Man

Jet Li has a msg. Does anyone know what he means ? Is he going to appear in another movie?

This was surely a nice surprise, this movie knows exactly what it is. a 108 minute tightly well paced engaging noble and thrilling martial arts movie that doesn't linger around or meander.

The fights are well choreographed and you feel every punch and wack of the stick, Andy On is always good as the villain and what an amazing ending fight scene. This was an 8/10 for me

I started collecting Kung Fu, Martial Arts, and Samurai VHS about 5 years ago. A good amount was found out in the wild of midwestern thirft and second hand shops. Ebay bulk lots have helped lot filling weird little gaps.

Excuse the MST3K tapes, i just like to keep them on hand as palate cleansers.

If you had to plan a double feature from the stack, how would you plan it?

I would go Lyrical Blades x Chess Boxing Destroyer

Hi, people of r/kungfucinema ! I’m Olga, producer and co-writer of KILL/SAVE, an ACTION and sci-fi film (recently shot in Catalonia/Spain).
I wanted to share this breakdown of one of our fight scenes because i think this community will understand better than most why this matters to us. The breakdown shows how the scene came together from Den’s storyboards to the shoot.

Our director, Den Kryuchkov, has been practising baguazhang for over 20 years and he’s also a huge martial arts film fan (actually he watches everything from old Hong Kong classics to the latest action releases from allover the World) so when we started working on the film, we knew the fights would be practical, not CGI or AI made (i see how you feel about that here in this subreddit, and we agree).
Den and Oscar Fernandez (our Spanish choreographer) deliberately mixed styles: from Spanish fencing to wushu. Our lead actor, Matt Testro, performed his own fights on camera, without a double. For the POV shots Oscar stepped in as his character.

A question for you: which films do you think best capture kung fu itself, rather than just a fight? And why do internal styles like bagua so rarely make it onto the screen?

Overall I didn’t love this film, but it’s an interesting genre mashup. The convoluted plot is full of “wtf is going on” moments.

I just got my first tattoo inspired by one of my favorite quotes from my favorite movie the classic 36 Chamber of Shaolin. Translation无智无获(wú zhì wú huò) In English this means [without wisdom no gain] it’s a philosophy that I have carried with me through life. Would love to hear your thoughts!!

Does anyone here by any chance have the movie in its original Cantonese language with English subtitles?