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Legend of Zu (2001)

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A big budget Fantasy Martial Arts flick with a reasonable younger cast compared to 1983’s Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain.

Dawn (Cecilia Cheung), the head of the Kun Lun Sect. Although she has been naughty and has fallen in love with her disciple, King Sky (Ekin Cheng). The young couple are soon parted when the evil demon, Insomnia destroys the Kun Lun sector and kills Dawn. King easily gets out numbered, retreats and goes into hiding…

200 years later, King Sky is brought out from his hiding when he meets Red (Louis Koo). Both King & Red come across Insomnia, whom has grown even more powerful and has revealed the plan of him wanting to destroy the mountains of Zu, including the Omei Clan.

King & Red meet the Omei Clan leader, Whitebrows (played by Sammo Hung, reprising his role from the first Zu Warriors Movie). King is suddenly struck when he meets, Enigma. Enigma is one of Whitebrows students and she is the reincarnation of Dawn, although King hasn’t faced the fact that Dawn is gone.

King & Red agree to help Whitebrows to contain Insomnia, whilst he looks for a new weapon to conquer Insomnia… Read More

Legend of the Dragon (1990)

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Plot: Chow Siu-Lung (Stephen Chow), son of Chow Fei-Hung (Yuen Wah), Fei-Hung was a comrade of the late Bruce Lee, Fei-Hung admired him so much he even named his son after him (Bruce Chow Siu-Lung, using both his English first name and his Chinese name ‘Siu-Lung’). Now retired from his days as a stuntman he now runs a martial arts school on his ancestral land, Tai O.

Chow who is a keen martial artist seems to have a stronger interest in Snooker instead of martial arts. He spends most of his time either playing Snooker, which doesn’t impress Fei-Hung. When he is actually practicing martial arts he trains with his childhood friend Mo (Teresa Mo). Mo whose martial arts skills are superior to Chow has a bit of a crush for him, but he’s too slow to catch on.

With the return of Fei-Hung’s god brother Yan (Leung Kar-Yan), Fei-Hung convinces Yan to take Chow over to Hong Kong and let him see what life is like in the real world. Yan, who really collects protection money in Hong Kong is actually quite bad at his job, it’s whether other gangs have taking the money first or clients refusing. Yan soon discovers Chow’s talent in snooker and decides to place bets on the side soon making both Chow and Yan very rich.

Yan finds himself in trouble with a group of loan sharks (led by Shing Fui-On), Yan reasons with them and convinces them to organize a game of snooker with Chow and they could pick his opponent. The stakes are; if Chow wins, Yan’s debt is cleared, if the sharks win, they win the rights to Fei-Hung’s ancestral land.

Can Chow still win when he’s put under this pressure? Read More

The Legend of Speed (1999)

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Plot: Sky (Ekin Cheng) is a millionaire street racer, his two loves are his cars and his longtime girlfriend Kelly (Kelly Lam). Although Sky comes against a older racer, Tang Fung (Simon Yam) who is ready to teach Sky a lesson, he’ll never forget.

Tang Fung is responsible for defeating Sky’s father, Dark Tone (Blacky Ko) in a race. After his defeat, Dark disappeared, many people said he got into too much debt and then died. So Tang and Sky race, but when Sky takes the lead, Tang deliberately runs Sky’s car of the road. Sky’s car capsizes throws Sky out but it crashed Kelly, to whom was in the passenger seat.

When the emergency services arrive Sky is arrested when they find over 300 Milligrams of Heroin in the boot of Skys Car. Sky has never touched any hard drugs in his live so how come he ends up with 300 MG of Class A Drug, something didn’t make sense. With all these troubles appearing in Sky’s life, his uncle tells him that his father is actually alive and living in Bangkok.

With his sprit and his life shattered Sky sneaks away to Thailand in search of his long lost father… Read More

Lee Rock (1991)

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Plot (Mei Ah): Lee Rock (Andy Lau) first enters the society as a policeman, by which he gets acquainted with two men that help in his way to success. One is a gangster (Ng Man-Tat). Lee Rock learned a lot about triad societies from him.

Another is a senior cop (Kwan Hoi-San) who acts as Rock’s teacher and friend. He recommends Rock to become a senior cop. In this period, Rock meets his beloved girl, Rose (Chingmy Yau), but is opposed by her father (Wong Yat-Fei).

Rock refuses to go along with the corrupt group in the police force makes him becoming the opponent of the majority.. Read More

Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)

With Red Cliff on release in the cinema, perhaps it’s a good time to dust off John Woo’s other swordplay (or wuxia) movie The Last Hurrah For Chivalry.

The movie essentially concerns two hired killers, one semi-retired (Wei Pei) is poor, honest and has refused to draw his sword for years, the other played by Damien Lau is an wine-sploshing acoholic whose every line of dialogue reads like the kind of poetry you might find in clintons (yes, the greetings card shop). After a friendship is formed both men decide to help a sinister and suspicious looking merchant to avenge some deaths and personal insults. The man they must kill is a deadly kung-fu master played by Lee Hoi San. Read More

Last Hero in China (1993)

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Jet Li returns as Wong Fei-Hung for Wong Jing in this comical piece of work.

Fei-Hung arrives in Hong Kong awaiting the arrival of his Aunt Yee, but no luck. Whilst waiting a group of outlaws know as ‘The Boxer Association’ attempt to leave Hong Kong and travel to Canton. After being recognized the attempt escape from the station, although the handy Wong Fei-Hung is able to put the three in their place, whilst holding a bouquet of flowers.

Soon returning to his beloved Po Chi Lam Pharmacy, currently ran by his students, Ah Fu & Ah So. Although there is one problem…Space, the building is so cramp. After a sound suggestion from one of his Landlord, they plan moving Po Chi Lam to a larger building. Ah Fu & Ah So ends up finding a great building with lots of space and very cheap rent! But with all these good features, where are the bad ones? Oh Yeah! it’s next to a brothel!

Although there is another problem brewing in town. For some reason, the women from brothel are disappearing in groups. Although Ah Fu & Ah So soon find out that the women are getting smuggled across sea’s by a group of corrupted monks! Also meeting a deranged officer ‘Master Lui Hung’ which ends up setting Fei-Hung against a notorious Robber, who’s been done for robbery and rape. Although Lui Hung deliberately sets him free, leaving Fei-Hung to clean up the mess. Read More

Cast From The Past: Podcast On Fire 35 – The 2nd annual Christmas Special

The next Cast From The Past (a series of shows lost from our iTunes feed and website) from 2008 features Stoo, Ken and Mike… the trio celebrating Christmas in banter-style! Enjoy the 3 hour holiday cheer and atmos POF-style from the past!

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