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Fist of Legend: A Special Look After 30 Years 1
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Fist of Legend: A Special Look After 30 Years

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the film "Fist of Legend" with Jet Li. The film, if you don't count "Once Upon a Time in China and America" ​​(1997), is the last in the "historical" period,...

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Jet Li to Join Jackie Wu and Nicholas Tse in 'Blade of the Guardians'?

Action superstar Jet Li has significantly reduced his appearances in recent years due to health problems. And every report about his even hypothetical participation in future films is at odds with...

Classic combat films in Blu-Ray and 4K UHD quality 3
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Classic combat films in Blu-Ray and 4K UHD quality

It’s very nice, sometimes, to find a film from the 70s-90s in excellent quality, and it’s good that there are people who restore such films. Thanks to this kind of work, a decent number of famous action films can already be found...

Jackie Wu: From Hong Kong hopeful to mainland hero 2
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Jackie Wu: From Hong Kong hopeful to mainland hero

It's been almost 25 years since Wu Jin (aka Jackie Wu) made his debut on Hong Kong screens in 1996 in Tai Chi Boxer (Tai Chi Master 2),...

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Interview by Philip Ng for Kung Fu Kingdom

During his nearly 20-year career in Hong Kong action films, Philip Ng has traversed the gamut of action film production, from stunts and choreography to starring. Throughout his career he...

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Interview with Philip Ng for City on Fire

Born in Hong Kong but living most of his youth in America, Philip Ng Wang-lung became an avid practitioner/teacher of various forms of martial arts. In his homeland, he built a stable film career in...

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Trailers for the documentaries "More Than Miyagi", "Bam" and "Kung Fu Stuntmen"

Somehow it turned out that today’s selection consists entirely of trailers for documentaries, but directly related to the theme of our site. Let's start with the film directed by Kevin Derek "More Than...

Summing up the results of action cinema 2020: Best screen fight 8
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Summing up the results of action cinema 2020: Best screen fight

Spring is already coming to an end, and the authors of the FFI website have just found the time to finally complete the analysis on one of the main nominations as part of our project to sum up the results of the combat...

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Trailers for the films "Septet: The Story of Hong Kong", "Get Out of Here!" and "Real Fighter"

Recently, the first trailer for the upcoming anthology Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, which we already told you about, appeared online. Let us remind you that “Septet” is a Hong Kong long-term construction project that is not...

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"Septet" from famous Hong Kong directors, Rukhyan and Rahman in the sequel to Jailbreak, Nevsky is producing a film with the daughter of ZhKVD

Several prominent Hong Kong directors have produced a project called Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, which is an anthology of eight stories. In fact, this project is already four...

Summing up the results of action cinema 2019: Comeback of the year and the Most anticipated film 7
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Summing up the results of action cinema 2019: Comeback of the year and the Most anticipated film

Slowly but surely we continue to introduce you to the winners of the voting as part of summing up the results of the action film. I would like to note that the FFI editors were frankly pleased with the comments (though in our VK group)...

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Trailers for the films "Ip Man 4", "Unity of Heroes 2" and "Necromancer 2020"

The premiere date for the long-awaited continuation of the franchise about Bruce Lee's famous teacher, Master Ip Man, has finally become known, played by the cult action movie actor Donnie Yen for the fourth film. Fourth...

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Trailers for the films "Ip Man 4", "Enter the Fat Dragon" and "Knockout"

The first trailer for the fourth film about the adventures of the legendary Ip Man, whose role is again played by the no less legendary Donnie Yen, has appeared online. In the director's chair again is Wilson Yip, who directed and...

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Trailers for the films "Master Z: The Legacy of Ip Man", "Kung Fu Monster" and "The Last Showdown"

Two years ago it became known that the cult fight choreographer and director Yuen Woo-Ping decided to make a spin-off of the third film in the Ip Man series with Donnie Yen about the adventures of the second...

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Jackie Chan in "Ip Man 4" and in "Project X" with John Cena, Iko Uwais in the Netflix series

As we get closer to filming on the fourth film in Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen's Ip Man franchise, more interesting names are popping up in the news surrounding the project. For example, we already wrote...

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Scott Adkins in Ip Man 4, Jet Li and Donnie Yen in Mulan, a collaboration between Dave Bautista and Iko Uwais

While we are waiting for such an interesting project as a spin-off of the third “Ip Man” called “Chung Ting-Chi” (or “Master Z”) with Max Zhang and a very stellar ensemble cast, including Michelle Yeoh, Dave...

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Trailers for "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", "The Monkey King: Kingdom of Women" and "Padmavati"

The legendary choreographer of Chinese combat cinema, Yuen Woo-ping, who will turn 30 on November 73, does not even think about stopping work. Last year he directed the film...

Short films "Guardians of Martial Arts" and "Black Lightning: Tobias's Revenge" 11
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Short films "Guardians of Martial Arts" and "Black Lightning: Tobias's Revenge"

The premiere of a short Chinese film about martial arts called “Guardians of Martial Arts” has died down. Of course, we cannot help but share this short film with visitors to our site. It's no joke, there are so many famous names in...

A short film with the stars of combat cinema, new projects by Vincent Zhao, the cast of the film adaptation of Dynasty Warriors 2
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A short film with the stars of combat cinema, new projects by Vincent Zhao, the cast of the film adaptation of Dynasty Warriors

Back in September, rumors spread in the media related to combat cinema about a joint project of such pillars of the genre as Jet Li, Donnie Yen and Jackie Woo Jing. Now the mysterious project has found...

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Gija Yanin in Triple Threat, Tony Jaa in Ip Man 3 spin-off, Sammo Hung brings back Lucky Stars

It's interesting to watch the news about the Triple Threat project (already interesting, it must be said). It seems that the creators of this film seriously intended to compete with Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, only with a twist on movie fighters...

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Fist of Legend: 30 Years of the Film. Blu-ray Edition Review

Trailer for the series "Like a Dragon: Yakuza"
Review of the action movie "Finish 'Em All 2" (2024) by Eoin Friel
Fist of Legend: A Special Look After 30 Years
New Vietnamese crime thriller "Domino"
First trailer for Ballerina from John Wick Universe
Eoin Friel's The Dogs of War Movie Review

Discussion

Andrei → Fist of Legend: 30 Years of the Film. Review…

Thanks for posting. Hopefully more comments soon.

anonym → Nicholas Tse loves being a villain

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm crazy about Xiao Man (I hope I didn't misspell his name...

Andrei → Fist of Legend: A Special Look After…

Thanks for posting. A review of the new blu-ray edition of the film "Fist of Legend" will be coming soon.

Asian Film Club → Review of the film "Lady Scorpio" by To…

Yes.