Year - 1981
Bomb-Shell, The. In Hong Kong movies, the cross-eyed, buck-toothed moron has only two options -- comedic relief or maniacal remourseless killer. This time its the latter, and ever since his cross-eyed girlfriend died he just watches TV and makes bombs. Admittedly, I... » MORE
Cream Soda & Milk. It starts out promising enough, with a divorce separating a brother Ding Dong (Yen Chiu-hua) from his sister Ding Ling (Lee Yin Yin). Dad, raising Ding Dong solo, promises to do well, and that they'll be together like Cream Soda... » MORE
Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE
Encounter of the Spooky Kind (aka Spooky Encounters). In one of the earliest examples of the horror-comedy genre, we can see the concepts of the genre taking shape: the Taoist priest, the undead, and the slapstick comedy are all there. But unlike later horror-comedy movies, Enounter of the... » MORE
Enter the Ninja. Some white guy thinks he's a Ninja. And lo, the American Ninja craze is launched. ... » MORE
Imp, The. Ah Keung (Charles Chin) is looking for a fulltime job to support his wife and child-to-be, and understandably wants to stand on his own and not accept a job from his father in-law (as if taking a job from your... » MORE
Kranti. "Freedom was not a present from the British, presented on a silver platter on a warm august night. It was the culmination of a long and bloody struggle spread over centuries..." I'm sorry, Gandhi who? KRANTI means, "Revolution." And this... » MORE
To Hell with the Devil. John Woo mines his Methodist childhood and rips off Bedazzled to make this sometimes funny but mostly really weird film of flying heads, pop music, and space invaders. ... » MORE
Bomb-Shell, The. In Hong Kong movies, the cross-eyed, buck-toothed moron has only two options -- comedic relief or maniacal remourseless killer. This time its the latter, and ever since his cross-eyed girlfriend died he just watches TV and makes bombs. Admittedly, I... » MORE
Cream Soda & Milk. It starts out promising enough, with a divorce separating a brother Ding Dong (Yen Chiu-hua) from his sister Ding Ling (Lee Yin Yin). Dad, raising Ding Dong solo, promises to do well, and that they'll be together like Cream Soda... » MORE
Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE
Encounter of the Spooky Kind (aka Spooky Encounters). In one of the earliest examples of the horror-comedy genre, we can see the concepts of the genre taking shape: the Taoist priest, the undead, and the slapstick comedy are all there. But unlike later horror-comedy movies, Enounter of the... » MORE
Enter the Ninja. Some white guy thinks he's a Ninja. And lo, the American Ninja craze is launched. ... » MORE
Imp, The. Ah Keung (Charles Chin) is looking for a fulltime job to support his wife and child-to-be, and understandably wants to stand on his own and not accept a job from his father in-law (as if taking a job from your... » MORE
Kranti. "Freedom was not a present from the British, presented on a silver platter on a warm august night. It was the culmination of a long and bloody struggle spread over centuries..." I'm sorry, Gandhi who? KRANTI means, "Revolution." And this... » MORE
To Hell with the Devil. John Woo mines his Methodist childhood and rips off Bedazzled to make this sometimes funny but mostly really weird film of flying heads, pop music, and space invaders. ... » MORE