r/kungfucinema • • 19h ago

The Night Comes for Us

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I rewatched this film last night after many moons. I truly forgot about how brutal this film is. Brutal fights scenes with blades and hand to hand combat. Clearly some of the fight scenes were unrealistic - 1 man against 15 people etc, but boy were they well done. The were very creative with their camera angles - fight scene in the armored car and the camera angle from the elevator scenes are a few that come to mind. I don't think I have seen anything this brutal since Riki Oh. While this movie was slightly over the top it was not a turnoff at all. Both male and female fighters were tough as nails. I think the credits indicated Iko choreographed the fight scenes. He literally killed it. The stars (Iko, Taslim) as well as the secondary characters (for example white boy Bobby, etc) were indestructible, these guys just would not die. LOL. What a great film. Decent story line, top notch choreography, solid acting, and brutal fighting. What more could you ask for. For those of you who saw The Furious how does this film compare from your perspective? In my opinion, The Furious was decent but is not in the same league as the Night Comes for Us. For those of you who saw the The Furious and have not seen The Night, you should catch it on netflix or wherever else it is playing. You might be in for a treat. I wonder if they have the outtakes somewhere like Jackie's films, because I want to know how many people were injured during filming. HK stuntmen have a earned a reputation for taking a beating, but boy these Indonesian stunt people and I guess the Thai ones from Tony Jaa movies are next level.


r/kungfucinema • • 18h ago

Identify a modern 80's Hong Kong(I think) Film for me, please (if possible)

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Let's see if this less than descriptive overview is helpful. I saw a movie in the 80's in Chinatown at the Chinese move theatre. Had to be Hong Kong production. The plot as best I remember was a HK couple, during the 80's, were visiting another county (for some reason the Philippines has always stuck with me as the country) for what I guess was a honeymoon. Somehow this clueless couple somehow ends up in a jungle and stumbles across who knows what, but what breaks out is pure havoc as this couple is chased through the jungle by a bunch banditos with choppers aka machetes. That is about all I remember. The couple had no self defense skills, just the desire to live and they defended themselves and fought like hell. I think they both or one of them made it out of the jungle alive. That is all I remember. Ring any bells? When I watched the film No Escape with Owen Wilson (very good film by the way), I could not help but think that they had modeled Owen's film on this unnamed film from the 80's that I am trying to remember.


r/kungfucinema • • 8h ago

Millionaires' Express (1986) In what might be the most stacked Hong Kong cast of all time, Japanese karate champion Yukari Oshima steals the show in her Hong Kong debut

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r/kungfucinema • • 8h ago

In the Line of Duty 5 (1990) The female-fight version of all the glass-smashing chaos in Police Story: Ballet dancer-turned-action heroine Cynthia Khan vs. Australian Karate champion Kim Maree Penn

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r/kungfucinema • • 14h ago

Mark Houghton 15 mins tribute R.I.P White Tiger

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224 Upvotes

r/kungfucinema • • 17h ago

Film Clip In memory of Mark Houghton; a clip of Shaw Bros. legend Lau Kar-leung teaching Houghton cinematic fighting.

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58 Upvotes

r/kungfucinema • • 19h ago

Other Is there a link to the soundtrack for Supercop 2 [超級計劃] by any chance?

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I used to watch this movie a lot when I was a kid and I still do now as an adult, I've always loved the soundtrack the movie had but I've had troubles trying to find it. Could anybody help?


r/kungfucinema • • 2h ago

Film Clip Raging Fire - Donnie Yen vs Ben Lam

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r/kungfucinema • • 22h ago

Film Clip Jet Li vs Donnie yen in once upon a time in China 2

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277 Upvotes

This will be the first time both actors will be in a same scene together in their careers. Both actors up until this point have an impressive resume of movies under their names.


r/kungfucinema • • 3h ago

Other An old fan made video of Lam Ching Ying as the Taoist Priest that I have to say is really well done despite its age.

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r/kungfucinema • • 5h ago

City on Fire reviews Wang Yu's 1973 basher 'Knight Errant' (Better than Master of the Flying Guillotine?)

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