The odyssey continues in part two of Jeffrey Lau’s Journey to the West adaptation.
Category: Period
A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora’s Box
The Monkey King must rediscover who he is in the first part of Jeffrey Lau’s iconic action-comedy.
Batman Ninja
Junpei Mizusaki’s time-travelling monkey story is as much the insane spectacle as you’d imagine.
Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar-wai’s second feature is a sturdy foundation for his future legacy.
The Grandmaster
Wong Kar-wai forgoes his usual genre for this interesting take on the Ip Man story.
Blade of the Immortal
There’s no rest for the wicked in Takashi Miike’s epic manga adaptation.
Project A
Three unlikely allies come together to face off against pirates in Jackie Chan’s action comedy.
Ninja Scroll
A trio of ninjas face a gauntlet of minibosses in Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s highly influential action period piece.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
With an abundance of energy, and some incredible cinematography, Kim Jee-Woon brings much-needed life to the Western genre.
I Was Born, But…
Yasujiro Ozu gives us a quiet, musing mini-masterpiece about childhood in his 1932 silent comedy-drama.
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Takashi Miike tackles honour and humanity in this carefully-crafted samurai drama
Drunken Master II
A so-so dub does nothing to lessen this great piece of HK action cinema.