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		<title>Thirsty, Thirsty (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Thirsty, Thirsty” is a Korean independent production which marks the directorial debut of Hong Hyun Ki, who had previously worked as an assistant to Lee Chang Dong on the superb “Oasis” and “Peppermint Candy”. Balancing humour, humanity and bittersweet realism, the film earns extra points for featuring an unusual and not immediately sympathetic protagonist in the form of a portly debt collector, played by television actor Lee Doo Il. The film has enjoyed success on the circuit following its premier at the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2008, with Hong being awarded Best Director in the New Asian Talent section of the recent 11th Shanghai International Film Festival. 
The plot revolves around lowly debt collector Chang Sik (Lee Doo Il), who hope to make it big, but who isn’t particularly good at his job, thanks to his lack of killer instinct and the fact that he has a habit of running up debts of his own. During the course of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Period Mystery (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the release of “Whispering Corridors” over a decade ago, high schools have been fertile ground for suspense in Korean cinema, as director Lee Sang Yong again shows with “4th Period Mystery”. The film’s alternate title, “Detectives in 40 Minutes” gives a pretty good indication of its premise, following a couple of students who have to solve a seemingly random murder within the time constraints of a single lesson period. Unsurprisingly, the film features a fresh faced cast, including popular teen actor Yoo Seung Ho, progressing from his breakthrough role in the acclaimed “The Way Home” and debut starlet Kang So Ra, with adult support from the likes of Park Chul Min and Jeong Seok Yong. 
The film is a high concept affair, as the school’s number one student Jeong Hun (Yoo Seung Ho) walks into his classroom during a break in lessons, only to find his rival Tae Gyu (Jo Sang Keun) slumped dead at his desk, having been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pachya Pinkaew Chases the White Elephant with Djimon Hounsou</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t heard that &#8220;Ong Bak&#8221; director Pachya Pinkaew was looking to get into the English-language movie scene until I stumbled across this report that the Thai director had signed on with Zero Gravity Management for his beyond-Thailand representation. The short article also mentions that Pinkaew is currently at work prepping his first English-ish language movie, the actioner &#8220;White Elephant&#8221; with Djimon Hounsou (&#8221;Blood Diamonds&#8221;).
While &#8220;White Elephant&#8221; will be Pinkaew&#8217;s first foray into making a movie for International audiences (one can reasonably assumed that with a Hollywood actor like Hounsou as the lead, this thing will have plenty of English dialogue, right?), he won&#8217;t necessarily have to leave the Thai border to do it. The plot has Housou playing an assassin who is hired by a businessman to avenge the murder of his daughter by white slave traders in Thailand. 
&#8220;White Elephant&#8221; commences production in March on location in Bangkok.
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		<title>Battle Clips from John Woo&#8217;s Red Cliff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are interested in such things, John Woo&#8217;s martial arts epic &#8220;Red Cliff&#8221; (formerly &#8220;The Battle of Red Cliff&#8221;) opened in limited release in the States yesterday. Granted, the perfect timing for this post would have been yesterday, but hey, better late than never, right? In case you were still wondering what the movie is about, or if you should go see it, here&#8217;s a question: Do you like epic battle scenes? If the answer is Yes, then you should go see it. The film is a bit long, even at its current edited length of 2 hrs. 28 minutes. Trust me, that&#8217;s about 1 hour and 30 minutes shorter than the original Asian version, which clocked in at over 4 hours. Check out some battle scene clips from the movie below. Also added, the English trailer. 
The film stars  Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Shido Nakamura, and is directed by John Wo. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impressive Teaser Trailer for Michael Chuah&#8217;s Fist of Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well-executed promotional trailers for intense martial arts movies are not unlike a hit of crack: as soon as you you get that initial buzz, you instantly want more. The clip for Michael Chuah&#8217;s upcoming kung fu extravaganza &#8220;Fist of Dragon&#8221; is insanely tasty, and has quickly wormed its way to the top of my 2010 must-see list. Where did this film come from? Why haven&#8217;t I heard anything about it until this very moment? Had it not been for Twitch Film, I may have missed this one altogether. Which, of course, would have been a damn shame, as I love me some old-school kung fu.
Here&#8217;s the rundown of the plot:
Fist of Dragon&#8221; tells the story of Li, who comes to South East Asia by the request of his father to help out his uncle who has been facing financial difficulties. Li, upon arriving in the town, feels out of place due to the differences in cultures of the people here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donnie Yen Kicks More Japanese Ass in Chen Zhen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donnie Yen kicking ass on film is always cause for celebration. Yen may have been mired in some really awful vanity projects in his early Hong Kong film career, but he&#8217;s on a major streak of box office success (both domestically and internationally) in recent years, putting out some really good action projects like &#8220;Sha Po Lang&#8221; (or &#8220;Killzone&#8221; as it&#8217;s known internationally) and &#8220;Flash Point&#8221;. His latest was the period actioner &#8220;Ip Man&#8221;, another movie about a Chinese man battling Japanese occupation in China. Following &#8220;Ip Man&#8221;, Yen is set to star in &#8220;Chen Zhen&#8221;, where he will once again tangle with those Imperialist bastards.
In &#8220;Chen Zhen&#8221;, Yen will play a local resistance fighter in 1920s Shanghai. His character is believed dead after a bloody skirmish, only to resurface seven years later, just in time to uncover a plot involving the Chinese triads and the Japanese. Update: As noted in the comments section by reader Erick, the character &#8220;Chen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bronze Medalist (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its inspirational sports time again with “Bronze Medallist” (a.k.a. “Lifting King Kong”) from Korea, marking the directorial debut of Park Geon Yong, who had previously worked on the blockbuster “Typhoon”. Although its themes are common enough, the film earns extra points both for having been inspired by a true story, and for the fact that it focuses on a rather obscure sport in women’s weightlifting. With popular actor Lee Bum Soo (recently in “More Than Blue” and the teen horror “Death Bell”) in the lead role, the film also features a number of up and coming young actresses as his charges, including Jo An (“Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait”), Lee Yoon Hoi (“Perfect Couple”), Choi Moon Kyung, Jeon Bo Mi, and Kim Min Young, all getting their chance to show off their strength. 
The film begins with weightlifter Ji Bong (Lee Bum Soo), nicknamed King Kong, injuring himself at the 1988 Olympics and only managing to win Bronze as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Oldboy Remake Dead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to be an Asian movie snob to think that remaking Chan-wook Park&#8217;s &#8220;Oldboy&#8221; is probably not a really good idea. But then to announce you&#8217;re not really going to remake the Korean movie, but will actually go back to the original Japanese manga source material for your version? As if Park&#8217;s version was somehow lacking? That was just bound to rile up a lot of people, especially the aforementioned Asian movie snobs. But that&#8217;s all a moot point now, because according to Latino Review, the remake is dead. D-E-D. Dead.
Citing &#8220;trusted sources&#8221;, LR claims that the remake is dead because Dreamworks and Mandate couldn&#8217;t agree on how to proceed with the movie in a timely enough manner. As a result, Steven Spielberg, who was supposed to direct, and Will Smith, who was supposed to star, have walked away from the project.
I don&#8217;t know, though. Spielberg is Spielberg, and I think he could have done a pretty decent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Turtle (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rather oddly titled “Running Turtle” sees Kim Yoon Seok following up his award winning role in “The Chaser” by playing another down and out cop working outside the law to track down a murderer. The film was written and directed by Lee Yeon Woo, who was previously responsible for “2424”, and is a decidedly lighter affair than Na Hong Jin’s grim crime thriller, adding in a little humour and family drama amidst all the usual fugitive chasing and cat and mouse games. The mix was certainly a successful one, and the film was a hit at the domestic box office, pulling in more than three million admissions. 
Kim Yoon Seok (who also impressed in the excellent “Tazza: The High Rollers”) takes on the role of Pil Sung, a rather useless detective in a small provincial town, who spends most of his time trying to make money on the side by turning over pimps. Unfortunately, after a suspect has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 City (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“24 City” is the latest offering from sixth generation Mainland China director Jia Zhangke and sees him continuing to explore themes of the country’s modern history and economic progress. Here, he does this through a semi-documentary that focuses on the story of a munitions factory, once moved across the country and now being demolished to make way for the titular residential development, named after a quote from a Tang Dynasty poem. Jia is easily one of China’s most interesting and challenging directors, and so it should come as no surprise that the film is a complex affair which works on many levels, both metaphorical and intimate. He is also one of the country’s most acclaimed and award winning overseas exports, and as well as performing well at the domestic box office, the film enjoyed a successful run at overseas festivals, screening in competition at Cannes in 2008, with Jia being nominated for the prestigious Golden Palm. 
The film relates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oppai Volleyball (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All that most male viewers probably need to know is that “Oppai Volleyball” translates as ‘breast volleyball’ and that it stars the gorgeous swimsuit model turned actress Haruka Ayase as a teacher who tries to inspire a young school boy volleyball team by promising she will show them her breasts if they manage to win. Adapted from a novel by Mizuno Munenori and supposedly based upon a true story, the film was directed by Hasumi Eiichiro, previously responsible for “Umizaru” and ski comedy “Season of Snow”. Surprisingly, despite its potentially sleazy premise, the film is actually a light hearted mixture of underdog sports story and coming of age journey – albeit with probably more mentions of the word ‘boob’ than in any other respectable production in recent memory. 
The film is set in back the 1970s and begins as a young female teacher called Mikako (Ayase, who recently also headlined “Ichi” and “Cyborg She”) starts at a new high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sisters on the Road (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sisters on the Road” marks the debut of female writer director Boo Ji Young, and as the title suggests, is a drama following two sisters on a voyage of discovery and an exploration of their shared pasts. The film has an impressive cast, with the two siblings in question being played by actresses Shin Min Ah (recently in “The Naked Kitchen”) and Kong Hyo Jin (superb in the award winning, Park Chan Wook produced “Crush and Blush”), and has enjoyed success at festivals, premiering at Pusan in 2008. 
The film starts with young Seoul businesswoman Myung Eun (Shin Min Ah) travelling to Jeju Island for the funeral of her mother, having not been home for some years. Although she had effectively cut herself off from her family, when she meets her older fishmonger half-sister Myung Ju (Kong Hyo Jin) again, this brings back her insecurities at her father having abandoned her as a child. Rather than returning to the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whispering Corridors 5: A Blood Pledge (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The landmark Korean ghost series “Whispering Corridors” returns for its fifth instalment with “A Blood Pledge”, marking the debut of director Lee Jong Yong, an interesting choice for the helm, given his previous work under Park Chan Wook on the likes of “JSA” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”. The film continues very much in the tradition of its predecessors, being set at an all-girls school, dealing with contemporary themes and concerns of friendship, and of course presenting a new set of up and coming young actresses no doubt hoping to follow in the footsteps of former “Whispering” alumni Kim Min Sun, Kim Ok Bin, Kim Kyu Ri, Seo Ji Hye, and Choi Kang Hee. Interestingly, the film not only performed well at the domestic box office, but is the first of its brethren to have been mooted for a possible Hollywood remake. 
The plot begins in suitably morbid fashion, as a young girl called Eon Joo (Jang Kyeong Ah) throws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle Trailer is Quite Cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crazy, over-the-top Japanese action movies seem scientifically designed to appeal to someone with my warped cinematic sensibilities. &#8220;Tokyo Gore Police,&#8221; &#8220;Meatball Machine,&#8221; and &#8220;The Machine Girl&#8221; are all responsible for my current obsession with this sort of picture, though I&#8217;m sure &#8220;Robo-Geisha&#8221; and &#8220;Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl&#8221; will certainly do nothing to slow my endless salivation for extreme gore, outrageous martial arts, and, yes, Japanese girls beating the crap out of heavily-armed adversaries. &#8220;Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle&#8221; promises even more low-budget insanity, a fact which makes yours truly extremely happy. Am I sick in the head? A demented madman masquerading as a news aggregator? All of the above, my friend, and then some.
Here&#8217;s the film&#8217;s all about:
After Milly eliminates the Jack Brothers to avenge her family, a beautiful girl named Haru (Nao Nagasawa) approaches her for help avenging her own boyfriend. Milly initially brushes her off, but eventually recognizes her passion for vengeance and agrees to train her.
Soon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raging Phoenix (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t blame the Thais for continuing to produce action movies like “Raging Phoenix”. There are basically only two genres coming out of Thailand that sells nowadays – martial arts movies and horror films. Everything else just doesn’t translate very well. One of the industry’s newest import is female ass kicking wonder Jeeja Yanin, who burst onto the scene last year with “Chocolate”, directed by “Ong Bak” head honcho Prachya Pinkaew. The film benefited greatly from Yanin’s unassuming features. For “Raging Phoenix”, we already know the deal, so director Rashane Limtrakul and action choreographer Panna Rittikrai (another “Ong Bak” vet) had to throw us a twist – a new form of martial arts that combines Muay Thai with breakdancing. Or at least, that’s the idea.
The plot for “Raging Phoenix” is as superfluous as they come – neglected rich girl Deu (Yanin) spends her time playing (badly, I might add) drums for a pop band, when she’s nearly abducted one day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Tales: Three Guns Trailer aka Zhang Yimou&#8217;s Blood Simple Remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trailer for Zhang Yimou&#8217;s &#8220;Amazing Tales: Three Guns&#8221; has popped up online, and it looks &#8230; interesting. Adapted by Jianquan Shi and Jing Shang, the Chinese remake of the Brothers Coens&#8217; &#8220;Blood Simple&#8221; transplants the story into a period film set in a Chinese noodle shop, where the owner schemes to murder his adulterous wife and her lover, but things go awry, as they invariably always do in these type of situations. 
The comedy-crime thriller stars Honglei Sun, Dahong Ni, Ni Yan, Xiao Shen-Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, and is directed by Zhang Yimou of &#8220;The Curse of the Golden Flower&#8221; and &#8220;The House of Flying Daggers&#8221; fame. Plus, he also did some commie stuff recently.


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		<title>Lala Pipo: A Lot of People (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been scripted by Tetsuya Nakashima, the award winning writer director of the excellent “Kamikaze Girls” and “Memories of Matsuko”, it comes as no surprise that “Lala Pipo” is another slice of colourful Japanese pop culture craziness. Marking the directorial debut of Nakashima’s assistant Miyano Masayuki, the film is based upon a short story collection by noted author Okuda Hideo, its odd title being a phonetic Japanese pronunciation of an observation by an American tourist that Tokyo does indeed have a ‘lot of people’. Although it revolves around the Japanese sex industry, the film is brash, bawdy and cheerful rather than sleazy, being very much in Nakashima’s surreal, cartoonish style. The film is being released in the UK via Third Window Films, with a November run in selected cinemas before arriving on DVD. 
The plot follows a collection of 6 characters in Tokyo, all of whom end up connected to the sex industry in one way or another, and whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palisades Tartan&#8217;s Asian Horror: Essential Collection Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween, Palisades Tartan has grouped together three of the most successful Asian horror films of recent years in one region 2 DVD collection. Although terms such as ‘essential’ are woefully overused when it comes to such compilations, in this case it certainly rings true, as the three titles are arguably among the most important and influential examples of the modern Asian genre – not least since two of them have been the subject of markedly less successful Hollywood remakes. The films in question, “Audition”, “Dark Water” and “The Eye” also provide a showcase for three highly acclaimed directors in the ever prolific Takashi Miike (still best known in the West for his infamous “Ichi the Killer”), The Pang Brothers (who recently headed for the US themselves with “The Messengers” and a remake of their own “Bangkok Dangerous”) and Hideo Nakata, whose “Ringu” launched the new wave of Eastern horror. 
First up is Miike’s “Audition” which, simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Trailer and TV Spots for Yuen Woo-Ping&#8217;s True Legend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new trailer chock full of fights (but short on plot and dialogue, which is not necessarily a bad thing) and two short but very cool TV spots for action master Yuen Woo-ping&#8217;s return to directing in the martial arts/fantasy movie &#8220;True Legend&#8221; have shown up online. If you absolutely need a plot for this thing, you can find that below. It also looks like the film has been pushed back to 2010.
Su Qi-Er, a wealthy man living during the Qing Dynasty who loses his fortune and reputation as a result of a conspiracy against him. After being forced out onto the streets, Su dedicates his life to martial arts and reemerges as a patriotic hero known as the “King of Beggars.”
Starring David Carradine, Michelle Yeoh, Cung Le, Jay Chou, Xun Zhou, Man Cheuk Chiu, Andy On, Conan Stevens, and Xiaodong Guo. Directed by Yuen Woo-ping.
Trailer:


TV Spot #1:


TV Spot #2:


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		<title>Yuen Woo-ping Preps his Garnet on the Golden Sand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, the title may not sound like it&#8217;s got buckets of martial arts fun waiting for you (&#8221;Garnet on the Golden Sand&#8221;???), but consider the director involved: Yuen Woo-ping. Westerners will know him as the guy who made the martial arts in Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; and the Wachowskis&#8217; &#8220;Matrix&#8221; movies look credible, while Asian film enthusiasts will know him more as the man behind such kung fu kickassery as &#8220;Drunken Master&#8221;, &#8220;Iron Monkey&#8221;, and Stephen Chow&#8217;s &#8220;Kung Fu Hustle&#8221;. Now the legendary director is set to direct the American-Hong Kong co-production &#8220;Garnet on the Golden Sand&#8221;.
So what&#8217;s the deal with this not-very-kung-fu sounding &#8220;Garnet on the Golden Sand&#8221;? Written by Jun Tan, the film is set in the 17th century, and follows a European merchant and two Chinese swordsmen who are recruited by the leader of a prosperous trade town along the Silk Road to fight off a notorious desert raider. Much wireworks and kung fu action ensue.
The film [...]]]></description>
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