"In this film, Polly’s character Shih Pu Chuan sets out to recover 10 books stolen from the Shaolin Temple, each volume teaching one kung fu technique, and each technique has been mastered by the respective theif of that volume. But, if you only learn one of the kung fu skills, your body soon begins to modify itself based on that kung fu skill. Thus, the guy who learns to extend his arms has permanent long arms. The guy who stretched his legs looks like he’s walking around on stilts. The woman who stole the Positive Kung Fu book turns into a man, and the guy who stole the Negative Kung Fu book turns into a woman."
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 December 2023 07:26 (four months ago) link
Not it, but that sounds worth a watch...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 15 December 2023 10:22 (four months ago) link
Let's keep them coming folks, we're mapping out a subgenre here!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 15 December 2023 10:24 (four months ago) link
...yeah, I had no idea there'd be this many (or any) near misses...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:30 (four months ago) link
can't believe that wasn't it tbh i thought i'd nailed it, yes this is obv a genre
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 December 2023 09:43 (four months ago) link
....anyone seen this "Fist of the Condor" flick from Chile?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 7 January 2024 12:19 (three months ago) link
Korean Film Council just dropped this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6_yPMn9Js
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:46 (two months ago) link
ah well. it's Returned a Single-legged Man: 2, Korean martial arts cinema from the 70's.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:47 (two months ago) link
So Close would have been a lot better if it wasn't striving to be so modern, it's a very post-Matrix film and (songs aside) the soundtrack is completely generic action movie stuff. Still kind of liked it, I had never seen Karen Mok in anything before, she is in an action trio with Shu Qi and Zhao Wei.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 March 2024 21:56 (one month ago) link
I don't tend to enjoy what little I sample of chinese pop stars but has anyone here heard much Karen Mok? She seems to be insanely popular, one of her concerts set a world record that I don't understand.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:42 (one month ago) link