Genre - Chinatown
Big Trouble in Little China. Some movies are almost impossible to review. How to review Star Wars, for example? It would have been easy to do so, just out of the theater, pen in hand. But decades and dozens of viewings later, when it has... » MORE
Broken Blossoms. Trying to break his racist image from Birth of a Nation, director D.W. Griffith put together this film about a poor Chinese man who puts the moves on a white woman and gets lynched. And this is different how, Mr.... » MORE
China Town. CHINA TOWN opens like any number of "Yellow Peril" Hollywood B-movies from the 30's: The classic "Oriental Riff" kicks off while the opening credits appear like chopsticks. Sometimes I wonder if movies are set in Chinatown just to enable a... » MORE
Chinatown Kid. Alexander Fu-Sheng is a poor kid from the Mainland who pretty much only cares about money and really nice watches. His watch fetish takes him to San Francisco, and soon he's dressing nice and killing people. ... » MORE
Corruptor, The. Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg are cops in New York's Chinatown. As usual, the air is thick with corruption. Drug deals, coolie smuggling, gang wars, and Chow is in the thick of it all. ... » MORE
Man Called Hero, A. It's the 1930's and Ekin Cheng stars as a swordsman fleeing the law who finds refuge in a famous hotel in New York's Chinatown. ... » MORE
Mysterious Mr. Wong, The. Bela Legosi is the sinister Mr. Wong -- he's sinister, I think, because he is supposed to be Chinese, but speaks with a Hungarian accent -- who will stop at nothing to complete his coin collection.... » MORE
Secrets of Chinatown. An incredible psychotronic delight. Vancouver Chinatown is a hotbed of men in hoods, knife-throwing fiends, coins of death, and a satan worshipping cult of opium smugglers. What more can you ask for? ... » MORE
Secrets of Wu Sin, The. Surprising for films of this time period, no yellowface actors appear. Instead, its a showcase of Asian talent. Wu Syn runs a coolie smuggling operation, and an ace reporter is determined to break the story. ... » MORE
Big Trouble in Little China. Some movies are almost impossible to review. How to review Star Wars, for example? It would have been easy to do so, just out of the theater, pen in hand. But decades and dozens of viewings later, when it has... » MORE
Broken Blossoms. Trying to break his racist image from Birth of a Nation, director D.W. Griffith put together this film about a poor Chinese man who puts the moves on a white woman and gets lynched. And this is different how, Mr.... » MORE
China Town. CHINA TOWN opens like any number of "Yellow Peril" Hollywood B-movies from the 30's: The classic "Oriental Riff" kicks off while the opening credits appear like chopsticks. Sometimes I wonder if movies are set in Chinatown just to enable a... » MORE
Chinatown Kid. Alexander Fu-Sheng is a poor kid from the Mainland who pretty much only cares about money and really nice watches. His watch fetish takes him to San Francisco, and soon he's dressing nice and killing people. ... » MORE
Corruptor, The. Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg are cops in New York's Chinatown. As usual, the air is thick with corruption. Drug deals, coolie smuggling, gang wars, and Chow is in the thick of it all. ... » MORE
Man Called Hero, A. It's the 1930's and Ekin Cheng stars as a swordsman fleeing the law who finds refuge in a famous hotel in New York's Chinatown. ... » MORE
Mysterious Mr. Wong, The. Bela Legosi is the sinister Mr. Wong -- he's sinister, I think, because he is supposed to be Chinese, but speaks with a Hungarian accent -- who will stop at nothing to complete his coin collection.... » MORE
Secrets of Chinatown. An incredible psychotronic delight. Vancouver Chinatown is a hotbed of men in hoods, knife-throwing fiends, coins of death, and a satan worshipping cult of opium smugglers. What more can you ask for? ... » MORE
Secrets of Wu Sin, The. Surprising for films of this time period, no yellowface actors appear. Instead, its a showcase of Asian talent. Wu Syn runs a coolie smuggling operation, and an ace reporter is determined to break the story. ... » MORE