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With Cynthia Rothrock having only done Yes Madam, and Michelle Khan [Yeoh] departing the loose franchise following Royal Warriors, this third entry (the title of which also translates as Royal Madam III: Male and Female Thieves) had to turn to new talent. Billing then 20 year-old Taiwanese actress Yang Li-tsing as Cynthia Khan was a cynical move on par with introducing a new action star to US movies today, and giving her the screen name Kate Theron. Like the alternate title fusing those of the two previous films, it’s not something that screams of inspiration, but like Cynthia Khan herself, this film is a dark horse that deserves more credit, and to be looked at on its own terms rather than based on what its name is ripping off.

The story, as ever, is largely a framework to hang the action on, but this time it sees Khan as...

Michelle Yeoh has just won the Academy Award for best actress with her hysterically good performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, making Oscar history as first Asian woman winning that category. It has been a long way since the year 1937, when white actress Luise Rainer won the same category for sporting a “yellowface” and play a Chinese villager in “The Good Earth.” But the Malaysian-born actress had already built up a reputation in the 1980s and '90s as Hong Kong's kick-ass action star.

Check out the interview of Michelle Yeoh An Interview with Michelle Yeoh : One of Asia's Biggest Film Stars

A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen, but her dancer career didn't last long. After winning the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title and the Miss Moomba beauty pageant title in Australia in the early 1980s, she...

The Hindi adaptation of UK mini-series The Night Manager, based on the John Le Carre novel, is shaping up to be one of the most highly-anticipated shows in a busy Indian web series season. Produced by The Ink Factory and Banijay Asia for Disney+ Hotstar, the show is set to start streaming on February 17.

Sandeep Modi, who is on board as director and showrunner of the Hindi version, with Priyanka Ghosh as co-director, has creatively helmed the project and tell Deadline of an ambition is to shoot a second season in India. “I keep joking with Simon [Cornwell, Le Carre’s son and co-ceo of The Ink Factory] that we’ll make season two before you do and you can use that for the English version,” says Modi.

The first adaptation of the novel, for BBC and AMC back in 2016, was a ratings hit and rumors of a second run have continued ever since without an official announcement. Le Carre passed...

Featuring Karena Lam and Liu Ye in the protagonist roles, Shigeru Umebayashi as the composer, Taiwanese Jimmy Liao providing the illustrations, and Stanley Kwan as producer, “The Floating Landscape” is anything but void of big names. Furthemore, Dp Arthur Wong won the Best Cinematography Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, cementing an overall great cast and crew with his effort. Let us take a closer look at the film however.

“The Floating Landscape” is screening at New Waves, New Shores: Busan International Film Festival

Following the sudden death of her talented illustrator boyfriend Sam, the depressed and inconsolable Mann travels to his birthplace Qingdao, in a desperate effort to stay close to him, by understanding why the city meant so much to him, as his last work highlights in the most eloquent way. As soon as she gets there, she spends her time roaming aimlessly around, while copying the pages of his diary.

Reuniting Gordon Liu with Wong Yue and Lau Kar-leung after “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin”, “Dirty Ho” is considered one of the best martial arts comedies Shaw Brothers ever produced, while also managing to stray away from the revenge plot the company’s movies usually featured and to present a Manchu character as the hero, instead of a villain.

In Guangzhou, a jewel thief named Ho enters a “competition” of who will give the most gifts to a number of courtesans residing in a boat brothel, with Wang, a man who poses as a travelling antiques dealer from Peking. Dirty Ho, as is his nickname, soon finds himself out of his depth on numerous occasions, both in terms of riches and martial arts. Ending up poisoned by a hit in the head, the young man finds himself having to obey and train under Wang in order to receive the antidote,...

Quentin Tarantino’s collaboration with his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” cinematographer Robert Richardson started on “Kill Bill,” but it didn’t begin in the most conventional way. With “Kill Bill” Tarantino was referencing four distinct aesthetic styles of filmmaking: Shaw Brothers kung fu, pulpy 1970s samurai films, Japanese anime, and Spaghetti Westerns. When Tarantino was on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast along with Richardson, he explained that he wanted to take a different approach to how he handled the film’s various styles.

“Initially putting the idea together in my mind, I had a whole hodgepodge idea of the movie [of] compartmentalizing the whole damn thing,” said Tarantino. “I even had an idea of hiring four composers to do different sections, nobody was into that idea. [Laughs] And at first I had the idea of hiring two different cinematographers and then I did.”

Tarantino hired Hong Kong cinematographer Arthur Wong...

“Eastern Condors” is considered one of Sammo Hung’s best work and for good reason, since both him (he lost 30 pounds to play the part) and Yuen Biao are in top form, and the script is at least partially logical.

The story, whichseems to loan much from “The Dirty Dozen”, “Rambo” and even “The Deer Hunter”, revolves around a group of Chinese and Chinese-Vietnamese convict soldiers who are enlisted by Lieutenant Colonel Lam to enter Vietnam and destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles, before the Viet Cong can get to them, in exchange for a pardon and $200,000. Their objective, however, is not what it seems initially, and after a sudden change of orders, they find themselves lost in enemy territory, having to face Vc patrols as they try to escape. Eventually, they stumble upon three female guerillas who help them seek refuge in a small town.

“The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin” is a 1978 Kung Fu action film, mixing up a melting pot of action, politics, Buddhism, comedy, high drama and lots of cool moves. This is a film for men by men filled with men! The only female character is one of the students at Mr Ho’s college, who pops up occasionally, but atypically in this historical setting, a woman gaining an education! Apart from this one brave participant for femininity, this is a man-tastic film!

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The late director Lau Kar-leung (also known known as Liu Chia-liang) was and is one of the great action choreographers of cinema. He worked his magic from the golden age at Shaw Brothers with “The One Armed Swordsmen” in 1967, up to the modern kung fu era with his kinetic choreography in the 2005 wuxia film “Seven Swords”. His fight choreography is masterful, but he eventually took the step into direction,...

If one was to seek the quintessence of the Golden Harvest martial arts film (wuxia if you prefer), one would have to look not much further than “Iron Monkey”, a film that encompasses all the elements that made the genre so popular, starting with the people in charge, whose names include Yuen Woo Ping, Tsui Hark and Donnie Yen, among others. Let us take things from the beginning though.

In another episode from folk hero Wong Fei-hung’s life, whose heroics have been immortalized in films the “Once Upon a Time in China” series, “Drunken Master”, “Magnificent Butcher” etc, the very young at the time Wong meets Iron Monkey, as he travels with his father Wong Kei-ying.. Iron Monkey is actually the alter ego of a traditional Chinese medicine physician called Yang Tianchun, who, in a combination of Zorro and Robin Hood, dresses in black every night,...

Warner Bros. and DC Films seem to have a bit of a problem. They can’t seem to resist teasing audiences about the future, all the while not having much of a leg to stand on in terms of their current slate of films. Years ago, we were given a slate of nine or so films in the DC Extended Universe. Now, the back half of that slate has changed drastically, with films being dropped, added delayed, and rearranged left and right. As a result, they’re looking pretty silly right now, all because they counted their chickens before they hatched.

Right now, the next film slated to hit theaters is Wonder Woman, and there is a lot riding on this one. After three polarizing-to-negatively received films in their universe, there are a good number of folks who have just about given up on the Dceu, so this is the...

Wonder Woman still has yet to be released, but Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment are already prepping for the heroes next solo adventure. During the Wonder Woman Shanghai press event Zack Snyder confirmed that Wonder Woman 2 was in development and producer Deborah Snyder said that the film wouldn't happen before Joss Whedon's Batgirl. Batgirl will be the next big female superhero movie for DC Entertainment. Both projects are still in early development. Arthur Wong was at the event and he's the one that revealed the news.

Director Patty Jenkins first Wonder Woman film is set to be released in June. It looks great, but we still have yet to see how it will perform at the box office and what fans are going to think of it. In the end, I'm sure it's still going to make a ton of money that will warrant a sequel. DC Entertainment and...

Zack Snyder has confirmed that Warner Bros. intends to make Wonder Woman 2, while Deborah Snyder claims that Batgirl will happen first. We're still 3 weeks away from the release of Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman and expectations have been gradually getting higher over the last few weeks. Initial box office predictions had the first big screen Wonder Woman movie in a disappointing level, but early screenings have faired well, boosting the box office predictions to a success no matter what, a win that Dceu really needs right now.

Murmurings of a Wonder Woman sequel have been making the rounds for a few weeks. Jenkins has said that she already has an idea of taking Diana Prince to America for the next movie while as recently as last week DC Films president Geoff Johns wouldn't confirm that a sequel was on the table. But this might have all changed last night on...

Jude Poyer is a British Stuntman, Martial Artist, Stunt Coordinator and Fight Choreographer who has been making a name for himself in the movie industry since a young age. Appearing in many blockbuster movies in Asia and America, Jude has cemented himself in movie history forever. Starring in movies with legends such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jean Clade Van Damme and many more over the years and i want to thank him for taking time to do this interview for Asian Movie Pulse.

I wont go over to much as Jude will explain about his life, movies and injuries he has substained making his dreams become reality, showing everyone if you believe in something then go for it and make it happen.

The Jude Poyer Interview

1.Hi Jude, firstly for anyone who doesn’t know much about your background,could you share how you first started off...

Chicago – In the opening moments of Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s “The Warlords,” martial arts superstar Jet Li performs one of his bravest physical feats yet. He breaks into tears. This comes as a bit of a shock, considering Li’s status as one of China’s most formidable onscreen ass-kickers. Yet it’s in keeping with Chan’s uncommonly emotional approach to depicting historical events often drained of humanity.

“Warlords” debuted in China one year before the release of John Woo’s overblown epic “Red Cliff.” Both films purport themselves to be antiwar pictures, yet in the case of Woo’s epic, the expensive spectacle is romanticized to such a degree that it fails to impact the audience on a visceral level. When arrows are shot through the sky, Woo follows the arrows from their point of view, evoking the tone of a video game rather than actual warfare. There...

The Chinese action feature "Bodyguards and Assassins", set in China circa 1906, won Best Film, Director, Supporting Actor and Cinematography prizes at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Director Teddy Chen accepted his award, along with actor Nicholas Tse and Dp Arthur Wong.

Premise of the fictional movie follows real-life historical figure 'Sun Yat-sen', who forments a revolution to overthrow the corrupt 'Qing Dynasty'.

"Echoes of the Rainbow", a look at 1960's Hong Kong, won Best Screenplay for director Alex Law and Best Actor for Simon Yam.

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Best film: Bodyguards and Assassins Best Asian film: Departures (Japan) Best director: Teddy Chen, Bodyguards and Assassins Best new director: Cheung King-wai, Kj: Music and Life Best actor: Simon Yam, Echoes of the Rainbow Best actress: Wai Ying-Hong, At the End of Daybreak Best supporting actor: Nicholas Tse, Bodyguards and Assassins Best supporting actress: Michelle Ye, Accident Best new performer: Aarif Lee, Echoes of the Rainbow Best screenplay: Alex Law, Echoes of the Rainbow Best cinematographer: Arthur Wong, Bodyguards and Assassins Best film editing: Kong Chi-leung, Chan Chi-wai, Overheard Best art direction: Ken Mak, Bodyguards and Assassins Best costume and makeup design: Dora Ng, Bodyguards and Assassins Best action choreography: Stephen Tung, Lee Tat-chiu, Bodyguards [...]...