Culture
Big Trouble in Little China at Forty
On Wednesday 2 July 1986, 20th Century Fox opened a strange and expensive film in 1,053 American cinemas and watched it sink.
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Tag: Hong Kong Cinema
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People
How Donnie Yen Fought His Way to Stardom
Donnie Yen spent more than two decades as a respected but not quite top-tier name in Hong Kong action cinema before a single role, Ip Man, made him one of the most recognisable faces in the Chinese-speaking world.
People
How Dennis To Became the Young Ip Man
Few actors have been as closely tied to one role as Dennis To Yu-hang (杜宇航). He won a world wushu title for Hong Kong at 18 and got into films with small parts in Donnie Yen’s Ip Man and Ip Man 2.
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How Jackie Chan Turned Stunts Into Stardom
In the final minutes of Project A (1983), a man in a sailor’s uniform hangs from the hand of a clock tower, lets go and falls about eighteen metres, tearing through two cloth awnings before hitting the ground.
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How Jet Li Took Wushu to the World
In the late 1970s the most admired athlete in Chinese wushu was a slight teenager from Beijing who had grown up without a father and had been winning national titles since the age of eleven or twelve.
