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By Tony Williams. As I write, hours tick away for the latest unimportant event in film history – the Hollywood Academy Awards which will have millions glued to their television sets totally unware both of its worthless significance and the nauseating...

King Hu (simplified Chinese: 胡金铨; pinyin: Hú Jīnquán) (April 29, 1932–January 14, 1997) was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with...

Move over, “Kill Bill” and “Enter the Dragon”; there’s a new, cool, martial-arts-kid on the block, and his name is “Dragon Inn.” Well, it’s not quite new – it was first released in Taiwan in 1967, and is just this year being re-released in America by...

Kung fu cinema fans in New York City will be getting some more screentime thanks to the kind folks at the Brooklyn Academy of Music where BAMcinématek will be hosting a new retrospective on the work of late legendary award-winning film auteur...

The Fate of Lee Khan [迎春閣之風波] (1973) Starring Li Li-Hua, Pai Ying, Tien Feng, Han Ying-Chieh, Hsu Feng, Roy Chiao, Angela Mao, Helen Ma Hoi-Lun, Wei Pin-Ao, Wu Chia-Hsiang, Ng Ming-Choi, Lee Man-Tai, Chiang Nan, Woo Gam, Gam Dai Directed by King Hu...