Misleading titles to common household action movies often depress me. Of course, I didn’t expect director Lung Chien’s ridiculous 1973 Jimmy Wang Yu vehicle “The Screaming Tiger” (“Screaming Ninja”, “King of Boxers”, et. al.) to contain an actual living, breathing, shrieking Panthera tigris, but something comparable would have been nice. What we’re left to contend with is your standard run-of-the-mill kung fu opus centered around a Chinese guy’s quest to exact a little martial arts revenge on the nefarious individual who murdered his father, nothing more. The numerous fights are fairly enjoyable albeit mostly forgettable, save for an extended sequence at the end of the feature which finds our scrappy hero battling his arch enemy at the crest of an enormous waterfall. The story, its inhabitants, and the twists and turns peppered throughout are typical of this sort of production; if anyone can claim to have never...
- 9/12/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Applying Kung Fu to just about anything has been the subject of some recent Hong Kong/China films. There was Kung Fu Dunk, a basketball film starring Jay Chou and then there was Kung Fu Hip-Hop. This time around, Kung Fu is entering the world of cooking in Kung Fu Chefs with Sammo Hung, Fan Sui Wong and popstar Vaness Wu. Here’s the synopsis:
Jo had kept hatred in his heart for a very long time and did what he could to oust his uncle Wong Bing-Yi (Sammo Hung) from the village and to claim the rights to the “Dragon-Head Cleaver”, a symbol of power to the clan. As Wong Bing-Yi was forced out of the village, he encountered Shen Qing (Cherrie Ying) by chance and is determined to help her during the troubled times at her restaurant “Four Seas”.
Here, he discovered a young cooking wonder, Lung Kin...
Jo had kept hatred in his heart for a very long time and did what he could to oust his uncle Wong Bing-Yi (Sammo Hung) from the village and to claim the rights to the “Dragon-Head Cleaver”, a symbol of power to the clan. As Wong Bing-Yi was forced out of the village, he encountered Shen Qing (Cherrie Ying) by chance and is determined to help her during the troubled times at her restaurant “Four Seas”.
Here, he discovered a young cooking wonder, Lung Kin...
- 1/30/2009
- by Al Young
- Screen Anarchy
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