and its fight scenes continue to provide reasonable excitement. However, much of the film fails to age well, so this becomes an erratic action experience. The Blu-ray comes with generally good picture as well as adequate audio and a mix of bonus materials. I respectBoxerfor its place in ci...
King Boxer is released as part of Shawscope Volume One Limited Edition Blu-ray Boxset on 6th December 2021 from Arrow Video. This 10-disc box set includes 12 Shaw Brothers films, and two discs of soundtrack selections from the De Wolf Music Library. Home media details Distributor: Momentum...
Veteran actor Tien Feng plays “Hua Qian Shu”. In a career spanning over forty years, he acted in or directed over 120 films. He is best known to martial arts fans for his roles in movies such as “King Boxer”, “Fist of Fury“, “The Fate of Lee Khan”, “The Young Master”,...
Cast The first superstar of Chinese cinemaJimmy Wang Yu, stars as “Chin Fu”. Until the emergence ofBruce Lee, Wang Yu was the box office king of Hong Kong movies. He had a string of hits such as the “One Armed Swordsman”, “The Chinese Boxer”, “One Armed Boxer”, and “Maste...
“True Legend” signals the return to the director’s chair for Yuen after he last directed “Tai Chi Boxer” back in 1996. Meanwhile, he had been busy choreographing the fight sequences for films like “The Matrix” series, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, “Kill Bill: Volume 1 and ...
Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s “Assault” and “Kung Fu Zohra” fromMabrouk El Mechriare among the lineup at International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) 51st edition. The films were among 10 features selected for the Big Screen competition, which aims to bridge the gap between popular, classic ...
Martial arts movie veteran Yen Shi-kwan stars as the wicked Shaolin traitor “Hin-hung”. Yen has appeared in over 130 films since the 1950’s, in titles such as “One Armed Swordsman”, “Boxer from Shantung”, “King Boxer”, “Iron Fisted Monk”, “Fearless Hyena“, and “Once Upon...
Keegan Kang is Jack, the reporter rescued by Nong Toom and whose interview with the now fully female boxer forms the film’s narrative.PlotTold through flashback the film recounts the real-life story of Parinya Charoenphol aka “Nong Toom”; the early struggles with his female identity, ...
Russian prison fighter Yuri Boyka was once on top of the world. Respected and feared both in and out of the ring, it seemed there was no fighter in the world capable of equaling Boyka. That is, until a match with American boxer George “The Iceman” Chambers left Boyka with a shattered...
Ranging in age from 10 year-old children to men in their 20’s, each plays a different role be it a monkey boxer, sword fighter, acrobat, qiqong specialist or in team ups to exhibit their apparently superhuman talents.The main characters featured are the Five Elders, sometimes known as ...