Chop Socky Cinema is your go-to corner for all things martial arts on screen—from high-flying kung fu classics to modern bone-crunching brawlers. We dive into the legends, the hidden gems, and the genre-defining moments that shaped martial arts cinema.
It’s monkey style kung-fu versus snake style in Sammo Hung’s highly entertaining Knockabout, a comical slick of chop socky which will have you laughing in no time.The comedy is what happens when two unfortunate con artists ...
In which the 18 legendary weapons of China are dispatched to put an end to the bullet! Lei Kung (Liu Chia-Liang) is acting strangely. The Boxer rebellion is in full swing and several clans have sworn to train students ways in which to defeat the gun. This includes use of the supernatural. Anything is in ...
In which a wall of 12 monks stacked on each others’ shoulders forces Derek Yee to perform the human corkscrew maneuver to slide right past them! Opening with a surprise attack by four ninja-dressed assassins, one courier's mission goes tits up really quickly and all ...
The martial arts hijinks continue with the introduction of the “3 Holy Fools” who raise one of the two newborn sons destined to be emperor some day. Shaolin Prince is an epically cool late-era Shaw Brothers offering that should have been better received than it was back in 1982 when it was originally ...
In which an abacus becomes a weapon! Inviting a muscle-strapped cat named the ‘Spearman’ (Lung Tung Sheng) to a peace party is not a good idea. Okay, sure, the various members of the ‘Iron Flag’ clan have their reasons not to trust the criminal-minded ‘Eagles’, but the strongarm they hired is not ...
New Fist of Fury could have been so much better. Sure, it was the film that began to launch its star, Jackie Chan, into the martial arts stratosphere but it’s not nearly as smooth sailing as the original film, made 5 years earlier, by the same director, Lo Wei, who was convinced Jackie was the ...
Gloriously over-the-top and wonderfully directed by Sun Chung, Human Lanterns is what happens when the Shaw Brothers merge their particular brand of martial arts with the American slasher . . . and this violent result is as disturbing as it sounds. It helps when the leading character is psychotic, you ...
In which Shaw Brothers enters the Ninja dome and delivers one hell of a knockout punch when it comes to over-the-to-top clenched-teeth martial arts mayhem! Directed by Chang Cheh and featuring solid performances from Cheng Tien-Chi and Lo Meng, Five Element Ninjas (also known as ...
Revenge, thy name is Sammo Hung!n The Iron-Fisted Monk is some good ol’ kung-fu delivered with all the grit and the glory one would expect from its talented cast. Produced by Raymond Chow (who was still licking the wounds made by Bruce Lee’s death) and made when Hong Kong cinema ...
In which the cave of the Golden Snake is introduced! The Sword Stained With Royal Blood is a certifiable classic of Kung-Fu madness. It’s an adventure with a strong narrative which sees Yuan Cheng-chih (Phillip Kwok) whisked away from tragedy and raised right so that he might avoid the same fate as his ...
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