True Legend

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True Legend stars Zhao Wen Zhuo and Gordon Liu in a movie with lots of martial arts action. Directed also by Legend Yuen Woo Ping, who once again brings to life the character of the Drunken Master. There are some fantastic fight scenes in the film, with Zhao Wen Zhuo showing he has some serious skills. Michelle Yeoh also appears in the movie as well as Leung kar Yan.

The DVD also has some special features including a special “making of”.

DVD Cover

Synopsis :
All his Life, Su Can (Vincent Zhao) has been pursuing martial arts and has a dream to create one school that teaches martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart – the dream of creating a unique kind of martial arts that will pass on to generations; and his beloved wife, Yuan Ying (Zhou Xun). But owing to a turn of fate and Su’s own stubbornness, he loses his wife. Su cannot live with himself and collapses totally. He is drunk all the time and becomes a crazy beggar in everyone’s eyes.

But at this time during his spiritual exile, his dream for the highest peak in martial arts is stilt alive. In his madness, Su continues his practice, to perfect his skills and fists. Will he finally be able to establish one martial arts school in the end?

Zhao Wen Zhuo

DVD INFORMATION

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Starring : Zhao Wen Zhuo, Andy On, Zhou Xun, Gordon Liu

Subtitles : Chinese, English

Audio : dts 5.1, Dolby Digital5.1

DVD Region/Format : Code 3, NTSC, Anamorphic WS

Language : Mandarin, Cantonese

Rating/Genres : Martial Arts

Directed By : Yuen Woo Ping

Special Features :
Photo Gallery
Trailer
Making Of
Music MV
Director and Casting
Please take a look at the trailer below. You will NOT want to MISS OUT.

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The Master is back

A second trailer has just hit the net for the much anticipated martial arts flick starring the legend Jackie Chan who plays the role of Mr.Han. Jaden Smith, son of actor Will Smith, plays the role of a bullied boy who gets taught the ways of kung fu by Jackie Chan.

The Story

12-year-old Dre Parker could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying – and the feeling is mutual – but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts “the karate kid” on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

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Jackie Chan teaches Jaden to fight back

The movie is set to be a big hit, with the movie being played to test audiences and they loved it, and i have to say out of most of Jackie’s american films this is the one i want to see the most. The Karate Kid is due for release in america on 11th june 2010.

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The new year is well underway, and Hong Kong is boasting a great turnout in box office receipts. The box office results reflect diversity in genre as well as origin of production, with 5 Chinese films and 5 American films rounding up the top ten. This week 72 TENANTS OF PROSPERITY won the top spot again, beating out American productions like Avatar (#2) and Percy Jackson(#3). Martial arts film TRUE LEGEND settled comfortably at the number 5 spot and romantic comedy HOT SUMMER DAYS gained momentum and moved up to number nine. Highly anticipated American productions like Valentine‘s Day, The Wolfman, and The Princess and The Frog) also made appearances on the top 10.

Another addition to the top 10 was Daniel Lee’s new kung fu period epic 14 BLADES. The martial acts action thriller is a remake of 1984’s POLICE POOL OF BLOOD and stars Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, and Wu Chun. The film takes place during the Ming dynasty and focuses on Yen as Qinglong, a chief in the Jinyi Wei, or emperor’s secret service. After finding out he has been an unwitting participant in the eunuchs’ faction power play against the emperor, he is betrayed and hunted by his own comrades as they are under the control of the head eunuch Jin and exiled noble Prince Qinq. In accordance to his duty to the emperor, Qinglong sets out to prove his innocence and uncover the rebellion being planned against the emperor. The film has been described as full of visually effective battles, and even boasts a stronger than usual romantic storyline for a wuxia film. Many had the film marked for a Top 5 showing, but the competition proved to be  too fierce especially with the re-imagings of two popular movie franchises thrown in the mix.

source: AsianMediaWiki and Box Office Mojo

The New School Wuxia wave started by taking male-oriented action films to the centre of Hong Kong cinema, which had long been dominated by female stars and genres aimed at female audiences. Stars such as Cheung Pei Pei were casted along side male action stars to continue the tradition of story telling of women in Wuxia films. King Hu a legendary director back in the day also made his own Wuxia films with independant productions in taiwan such as the massive hit Dragon Gate Inn (1967) which was also remade with Donnie Yen in the lead.

In the 1970′s Hong Kong cinema would become the Kung Fu wave, with massive stars such as Bruce Lee, Lau Kar Leung, Sammo Hung,Gordon Liu and Jackie Chan. Alot of people say that a certain movie in 1970 started of the craze and that movie was Chinese Boxer starring Jimmy Wang Yu, but you also had the legendary Shaw Brothers film company and they were banging out movies such as Vengence the same year. Also on the scene was Bruce lee, an American-born, Hong Kong-raised martial artist and actor who was impressing everybody around China and the world with his incredible kung fu. Bruce Lee only completed 4 movies before his death in 1973, they were The Big Boss, Fist Of Fury,Way Of The Dragon and Enter The Dragon. He was cinema’s first ever global chinese star, everybody was amazed by his power and skill (The One Inch Punch), Lee also starred in a US TV series at the time called The Green Hornet (currently in the process of being made into a hollywood movie).

When Bruce Lee passed away, film companies were searching very hard to try and find the next “Bruce Lee”, they started with knock off movies with lookalikes calling themselfs “Bruce Li, Bruce Lo,” – You get the picture. Also in the efforts to manufacture a “new bruce lee” they tried to turn to other fighters such as Jimmy Wang Yu and Angela Mao.

Lo Wei who worked with Bruce on a few movies also had another young actor trying to make his name for himself, he was Jackie Chan. At the time Jackie was starring in movies with a director he didn’t even like, and after failing to gain many fans Lo Wei decided to loan him out to seasonal films with director Yuen Woo Ping placing him as lead in his movie Snake In The Eagles Shadow (1978). The movie was a overnight box office smash hit and from that moment on everybody knew who Jackie Chan was, then came his second outing and again it was lead by Yuen Woo Ping. Drunken Master was even bigger than Snake In The Eagles Shadow and created its on style of kung fu,(kung fu comedy) which Jackie Chan became the front person for. Chan’s clowning may have helped extend the life of the kung fu wave for several years.
Nevertheless, he became a star towards the end of the boom, and would soon help move the colony towards a new type of action.
In the 1980s, he would forge a slicker, more spectacular Hong Kong pop cinema that would successfully compete with the post-Star Wars summer blockbusters from America with movies such as Police Story and Project A.

Part 2 Coming soon