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> The Tiger Killer v. The Golden Lotus, Part 3: Li Han-Hsiang
> The Tiger Killer v. The Golden Lotus, Part 2: The Early Movies
> The Tiger Killer v. The Golden Lotus
> Six Days in Hong Kong, Part 3
> Six Days in Hong Kong, Part 2
> Six Days in Hong Kong, Part 1
> A History of Hong Kong Production Company Logos, Part One: The Early Years
> The Stomping Guide to Japan: Nagoya
> The Bollywood Conspiracy
> Seven Other Swords
> Know your PreFab Cantopop Bands
> Leslie Cheung Foreshadows his own Suicide
> Guitar Wolf
> The Best of Hong Kong Cinema - 2004
> Everything I need to know I learned from Asian Cinema
> The Black Rose
> Blood and Despair: The Horror films of Billy Chung
> Hong Kong Convention Center
> 2003 - The Year in Review
> 2002 - The Year in Review
> 2001 - The Year in Review
> Chinatown
> Snakes and Snake Women
> Qin Dynasty
> Ninja
> Triads
> Who's Who in Hung Hing
> Christianity in China
> Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril
> Ghost Lovers and Fox Spirits
> A Short History of Chinese Opera
> The Gods of Gambling
> Taoist Priests and Hopping Vampires

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Recent Reviews

An Empress and the Warriors 2008 , China , Hong Kong
Call-Girls, The 1977 , Hong Kong
China Town 1962 , India
Chiseen 2004 , Hong Kong
D 2005 , India
Great Massacre 1982 , Taiwan
Happenings, The 1980 , Hong Kong
Iron King 1972 , Japan
Kyon Ki...it's Fate 2005 , India
Mantis Combat 1978 , Hong Kong
Midnight Running 2006 , Hong Kong , Japan
Milap 1972 , India
Periya Idathu Penn 1963 , India
Pyaasi Nagin 2004 , India
Shaolin vs. Evil Dead 2004 , Hong Kong

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Opinion

The Bollywood Conspiracy
January 24, 2006
How we've all been duped - DUPED, I tell you - into believing Bollywood movies are no good.
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Everything I need to know I learned from Asian Cinema
November 28, 2004
It's the Christmas shopping season again. And I just couldn't keep quiet any more. The day after Thanksgiving sales, according to John Woo. The first in an occasional series.
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