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Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain (see film details)
Fantasy / Action/Adventure

Tsui Hark is one director I admire most and am most frustrated with. He combines some of the best and worst in movie making, mainly because he is too energetic and moves too fast and packs in too much for us mere mortals.

Hence 'Zu' and many of his movies flash before the eyes before the impact can sink into the emotions - a comic, cartoony effect like a Chaplin silent movie moving on fast forward. Its a 'good vs. evil' movie, and a couple of bungling youths get to save the world, but one ends the films saying wow - what happened?

Nevertheless, this flawed genius has produced a technically superb (at that time) movie with help from the 'Star Wars' fx team, an expensive extravaganza more tuned to children than adults. A pity, but it has its moments.

Thank goodness he made the 'Once Upon a Time in China' Quadrology. Watch, clap and groan - Tsui Harks' 'Zu' will give you all this, and more.

Dragon Inn [1967] (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure

"Dragon Inn" is King Hu's greatest commercial success. He 'paints' landscapes with film and combines realistic fight sequences with beautiful choreography, complete with Chinese operatic percussion and movements.

Between detailed sets, magnificent costumes, realistic swords and hardware, he is also a master of the high-tension build-up, leading to a flurry of eye-blinding swordplay. And all this, without computer-generated effects!

If you want to know what martial arts movies are all about, you should see this film. And if you want to know how far can martial arts movies can go, see his seminal 'A Touch of Zen'.

No other movie - not even 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' - has come this close to kung-fu perfection.

A Touch Of Zen (see film details)
Martial Arts / Swordplay/Sword(s)

How does a Buddhist spiritual leader, one step from pure enlightenment, clash with the top fighter from the imperial court - and still keep to his Buddhist practice?

No one has handled this better than King Hu in 'A Touch of Zen' - and no one has, ever since.

If not for the length - King Hu either indulged himself, or edited the film to be released in two parts for the cinema - I would have given it five stars.

Still, the best kung-fu movie ending I have ever seen.

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