Extensively revised and expanded, The New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies includes over 670 film reviews, a poster gallery, and a look at the key studios that made Hong Kong cinema so amazing, along with insights into the Hong Kong movie industry written by global superstar Jackie Chan and Hong Kong film stars Cynthia Rothrock, and Vincent Lyn. Rick Baker and Ken Miller have curated a huge selection of reviews of kung fu and swordplay films, gangster flicks, crime dramas, action, horror, fantasy, erotic, and assorted Category III films, sharing their love for these distinctive, kinetic, and sometimes utterly bizarre Hong Kong genre productions with an infectious enthusiasm.
- 328 pages
- English
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New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies
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Art Theory & CriticismTable of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Foreword by Jackie Chan
- Introduction
- Kung Fu/Swordplay
- Poster Gallery
- Modern Day Action
- Heroic Bloodshed/Crime
- Erotic/Fantasy/Horror
- Hong Kong Film Studios
- Afterword by Cynthia Rothrock
- Afterword by Vincent Lyn
- Index
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