![]() NEW DRAGON GATE INN belongs to the latter category. Of the ones Ive watched, I like maybe a few, including the first couple of ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINAs and MOON WARRIORS the rest I can take or leave. New Dragon Gate Inn is a 40-episode Chinese TV series inspired by a wuxia cult classic that has sparked many adaptations over the years though it was originally a movie written and directed by the late King Hu during the 1960's. Because really, how do you top a movie like this? A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch this masterpiece of popular Asian cinema on the BIG screen. Im not really a big fan of the new wave of period kung fu films that filled Hong Kong cinemas throughout the 1990s. One of the first Hong Kong films to be shot in China, Tsui Hark’s swordplay extravaganza is the gold standard of 1990s wuxia: a madcap blend of female-powered gravity-defying acrobatics mixed with spaghetti western tropes: it’s no surprise that both Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin have since retired from the big screen. Two of Hong Kong’s greatest actresses of all time, Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin (who famously took an arrow in the eye during the shoot) play bad-ass swordswomen who attempt to thwart Ming Dynasty eunuch Tsao (played by Donnie Yen in full supervillain form) as he masterminds a plot to take over the Empire. Co-presented by New York Asian Film Festival and Film at Lincoln CenterĬast: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Lau Shun, Yuen Cheung-yan ![]()
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