Although Hong Kong cinema has often used shocks to attract audiences, proper Cantonese-language ghost films didn't start being produced until the 1980s, when the genre was combined with kung fu and comedy in hit films like Sammo Hung Kam-bo's Encounter of the Spooky Kind. As for horror, cheap copies of American movies were produced in the early 1970s to ride.
Less revered than his previous two kung fu films, Bruce Lee's 1972 The Way of the Dragon is notable nonetheless for highlighting the martial arts star's potential as a writer/director - as well as for a stunning finale which pits Lee against American karate champ Chuck Norris in Rome's ancient Colosseum. "The first work to be directed by Bruce Lee.
Art, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding mainland Chinese cinema. This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese
Bruce Lee's debut Hong Kong martial arts movie The Big Boss made him an instant star in Hong Kong. Opening on the last day of October, 1971, it drew full houses for its seven daily screenings and took HK$3.2 million (S$558,200) at the box office during its 19-day run. It made a million of those in just two days, and.
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