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Raretube: RED PHOENIX
2008-05-10 14:34:00
And here's the second of our Raretube presentations, a fantastic movie directed by Tyrone Hsu and starring (deep breath) David Chiang, Polly Shang Kwan, Yueh Hua, Lo Lieh and Blackie Ko! (exhale)
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RareTube: SHANGHAI LIL & THE SUN LUCK KID
2008-05-10 07:17:00
I get more queries and comments about SHANGHAI LIL AND THE SUN LUCK KID than any other film I've mentioned here, so I've decided to upload the whole film to Youtube to be shared here in the first in a series of Eye Candy exclusives under the banner 'Raretube'.It's a Youtube playlist, so all you have to do is press play and it'll play one part after the other. Enjoy!
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Review: THE SWINGING BARMAIDS (1975)
2008-04-20 04:27:00
I may have mentioned before that I quite like William Smith. In fact, I can take an almost infinite quantity of William Smithery before I get even remotely tired of his sinister yet twinkling eyes and gruff, gravelly voice. Which is just as well, considering the fact that he was in every single film ever made. Today, for your edification and pleasure, we review just one of those films, namely: 'The Swinging Barmaids'.After a prologue in which the titular (heh) barmaids - Jenny (Laura Hippe), Susie (Katie Saylor), Marie (Renie Radich) and Boo Boo (Dyanne 'Ilsa' Thorne) - complain to one another in their dressing room about their jobs, their boyfriends, and each other, we get a surprisingly good drag comedy act appearing on the stage of the Swing-A-Ling nightclub. It's a rough and rowdy place, but the girls manage to repulse the ass-grabby advances of the cruddy clientele with just the right combination of politeness and withering implications of sexual inadequacy.One customer w...
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And Mother Said I was Never a Joiner...
2008-04-09 19:27:00
I also recently joined LAMB - The Large Association of Movie Bloggers. As far as I can make out, it's like this incredibly violent and sadistic biker gang of bloggers (headed by an evil genius) who write about movies. I think the plan is, we're all going to get together, get some sticks and lead pipes, and beat up those Wordpress guys. Something like that. Join us, won't you?I'm almost over this cold, so normal blogging service should resume shortly.
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Dispatches from the Sickbed
2008-04-09 19:00:00
My whole entire body has been invaded by evil germs that look exactly like Brion James and Paul L. Smith, so I haven't really had time, what with all the coughing and the suffering and the mucus management, to prepare a proper review for anything. Here, however, are some 'capsule' (i.e. 'half-assed') reviews of a few dimly-remembered films I've watched in the past week or so.POM POM AND HOT HOTWicked, wicked action and frequently quite funny comedy abound in this guns n' chuckles cop actioner. Jacky Cheung and Stephen Tung play a couple of cheeky young coppers who have to, you know, shoot criminals. Lam Ching Ying plays an initially unprepossing and disappointingly chummy superior officer, but comes swinging in on the second VCD to steal the show right from under everyone's arse. Great stuff, and almost as much fun as saying the title aloud.BEST BIT: Shoot bang pow!WORST BIT: Obligatory mahjonng scene.FRONT PAGEThe Hui brothers star as tabloid hacks desperate to save their a...
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Review: CRIME ZONE (1988)
2008-03-31 11:51:00
According to his own autobiographies, it seems David Carradine was basically out of his gourd every single day between about 1970 and 1998 on a dangerous cocktail of... well, cocktails. It also seems that on occasion he would take the marijuana and smoke it like a cigarette. This state of drug and alcohol induced confusion means that if you were to interview him, he wouldn't particularly remember today's film very clearly, if at all. In 'Endless Highway', his first autobiographical volume, he describes it like this: "then I went to Lima to make a film for Roger Corman", and that's that. It's up to people like us - well, me - to do what Carradine's ravaged synapses can't and bring to light the details of his life's work.Yes, there's lots of neon in the future, but there it's considered 'retro'.'Crime Zone ' is set in the grim future, but in the first few minutes it becomes clear that we're going to be spared the usual whispery, portentous voiceover that usually introdu...
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Review: THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE (1977)
2008-03-23 16:18:00
Another day, another promisingly wacky but ultimately dull and unrewarding Bruce ploitation movie. Let's just take a deep breath and get this god-damn thing over with, shall we?Bruce Lee ("the film star", we are helpfully reminded a few times) dies, not of an aneurysm in his mistress's bed, but of a heart attack. His body - looking a lot like John Liu, I thought - is wheeled into hospital, but it's too late. Mr. Colin from the 'SBI' (Special Branch Investigation', apparently) who looks like a Satanic Tim Brooke-Taylor ropes in clearly-insane scientist Professor Lucas (John Benn) to come along and harvest a blood sample with which to create three clones of Bruce Lee. "The clones of Bruce Lee - what a scientific achievement this will be", Mr. Colin observes with justifiable awe.The imaginatively-named Dr. Ni, one of this movie's guffawing megalomaniacs. And so the three Bruces are wheeled out. It's hard to believe that they're made from the same genetic material since the...
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Review: BRUCE LEE AGAINST SUPERMEN (1975)
2008-03-23 09:59:00
It's worth pointing out straight away that this film has nothing to do with Bruce Lee. In fact, virtually no films with 'Bruce Lee ' in the title are about Bruce Lee. There's a lot of guff and hooey-kablooey talked about how Lee TOTALLY CHANGED CINEMA FOREVER, but his impact on the HK film industry, as Bey Logan has pointed out, was negligible. His success in the West, though, meant that after Lee's death, HK filmmakers and (especially) their international distributors knew that having 'Bruce Lee' (or even just 'Bruce' - e.g. 'Bruce Takes Dragon Town', 'Bruce: Hong Kong Master', 'Bruce is Loose')in the title would catch the attention of the average filmgoer, and suck them into the cinema long enough to pay for a ticket, and if the film did actually make some passing reference to Lee's life - or rather, the fuzzy hagiography that replaced his life story almost immediately after his death - then so much the better. But make no mistake - one way or another, these fi...
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TRAIL3R TRASH
2008-03-18 17:48:00
And now another installment in our never-popular series of trailers ripped from trembling old VHS tapes. This time we're going to enjoy the trailer for Enzo Castellari's 'The New Barbarians' (conspicuously absent from the otherwise excellent Blue Underground DVD) followed by the William Girdler movie 'Grizzly' with Christopher George.Also note the new Eye Candy animation at the end, painstakingly fashioned by my own fair hand.
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Review: THE MUTILATOR (1985)
2008-03-14 05:29:00
Buddy Cooper's sole cinematic work 'The Mutilator' is something of a celebrity in its own small way. Most genre fans have seen it, or at least heard about it, and plenty of people who aren't fans of horror/slasher films probably find it rings a bell too. One contributing factor in its fame is, ironically, its lack of a decent DVD release. The fact that you can't walk into HMV and buy a restored, original aspect ratio, colour- corrected, Dolby Digital, commentary- and trailer-laden disc has given this film a certain cultish allure it would otherwise sorely lack. But is it any good? We'll see."Hi, I'm Ralph and I invite you to despise me."The film starts out with a now-infamous prologue in which the young Ed, as a child of about ten, treats his father on his birthday by cleaning his guns for him - and what father wouldn't find that a delightful birthday treat? Being a little needy, Ed even writes a note for his Dad taking full credit for the gun-cleaning business. The lit...
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Review: DEADLY ANGELS (1977)
2008-03-12 02:02:00
Also known as 'Bod Squad' (apparently), this Shaw Brothers production from 'Delightful Forest' director Pao Hsueh-Li opens with a young woman's arrival in Tokyo and mysterious rendezvous with some strange men - very strange, as it happens, because they proceed to rip her bra off. There's method in their madness, though, as it turns out she has a number of smuggled diamonds hidden in a secret pocket in the cup. She doesn't live to see her reward, however, as knife-throwing hood Fang (Si Wai) tosses a dagger into her throat before she can leave the hotel room. Shame. After selling off the diamonds, Si Wai returns to Hong Kong and his boss (Shut Chung-Tin), who gives him his next assignment: to knock off the Prince jewellery shop.After the news: 'When Mysterians Attack'Fang and his gang - which includes such reliable SB and indie veterans as Lee Hoi San, James Nam and Fung Hak On - proceed to steal a bunch of diamonds from the safe of the Prince jewellery shop with admirable e...
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Review: BOSS NIGGER (1975)
2008-03-11 03:26:00
I'm no prude, but I'd hate to ask for it at Blockbusters.Like Ben E. King, I don't know much about history, and the history of the American West in particular is a closed book to me. I can't help but feel, nevertheless, that it may not have been precisely as it is represented in today's film, Jack Arnold's provocatively-titled 'Boss Nigger '.Our hero: Fred "the Hammer" Williamson as Boss.After a traditional Western title sequence featuring our heroes riding through through the desert accompanied by a decidedly non-traditional Western theme song ("He's so bad/They call him boss/He's the Boss/Boss Nigger"), the fim kicks off with a gang of bandits attacking a family's wagon. Boss (Fred Williamson) and Amos (D'urville Martin) ride to the rescue, in time to save Clara May (Carmen Hayworth), but not her father. Boss and Amos take out the bandits, who turn out to be wanted by the law as members of Jed Clayton's gang, and they take the corpses into town to claim the bounty on t...
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Trailer Trash
2008-03-10 03:22:00
John Carradine has done much that is praiseworthy, not least of all supplying one of the main biological ingredients that went into cooking up David Carradine. In his twilight years, however, he seems to have picked his film roles using some hopelessly bizarre criteria the human mind can never hope to fathom, even if it uses special computers from space. Here's a trailer for a typically bonkers production from Cirio H. Santiago, director of many Roger Corman products from the 80s and 90s, including the quite good 'Nam Angels' and the hopelessly rubbish 'Bloodfist 2050'.And here's a contribution from the good old USA, a trailer for 'Swap Meet'. I'm not entirely sure what a swap meet is, precisely, and I have to confess I haven't actually seen this film myself, but apparently the box art reassures us that it's every bit as good as 'H.O.T.S' - if you can even imagine such a thing is possible.
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Review: MR. MEAN (1977)
2008-03-08 10:58:00
Written, produced and directed by Fred Williamson, 'Mr. Mean' (aka 'Destinazione Roma') kicks off with our hero - whose actual name is Mr. Mean - playing basketball with some local youths when a very obviously bra-less woman tips him off that some jowly goons are watching him. He sets off, and they foolishly pursue. What's wrong with these people? Sheesh. Naturally, he punches their faces almost clean off their skulls, and their head honcho (or whoever that trembling white fellow is) gives him an envelope and says "It's over, Mr. Mean." I think we're supposed to fill in our own little backstory there. Have fun with that. Then, it's off to the nightclub - or 'disco' as they used to call them - and it must be some particularly funky nightclub too, because the Ohio Players (in their only film appearance) are there live and in person - with vocalist and reed man Clarence "Satch" Satchell even offering a few lines of dialogue. They sing a song dedicated to Mr. Mean (called, if ...
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Review: MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS (1976)
2008-03-03 14:47:00
And so the review-a-palooza continues apace, with my fourth review in two days. I give and I give and I give and I give...Under discussion this time is 'Mean Johnny Barrows', starring black action superstar Fred Williamson, and directed by black action superstar Fred Williamson. If you want to skip all the blah blah blah and just find out if it's good or bad, it's good. Other, more curious visitors, read on...After a prologue in which the Hammer narrowly avoids being blown to smithereens (whatever they are) by a landmine, the film kicks in with the bleak, downbeat tone that dominates the first half of the running time. Williamson plays Johnny (or Johnnie, depending on who you believe) Barrows, a former college football star and recently-discharged Vietnam veteran who returns home from the war to something less than a hero's welcome. Barely off the bus, Barrows is mugged and subsequently arrested for vagrancy. A police officer recognises him as a war hero (awarded two silver sta...
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Review: RETURN OF THE GOD OF BATTLE (2006)
2008-03-03 07:27:00
In my youth, when I was green in judgment, I would often find myself drawn to the videos in the martial arts section which featured ninjas performing death- and gravity-defying ninja hi-jinx on the cover. Invariably, they were a crushing disappointment - they were generally slapdash IFD productions cobbled together by Godfrey Ho or Joseph Lai (assuming that they're two different people) starring Caucasian 'actors' like Richard Harrison dressed up in red, gold or camouflaged ninja gi nancying around flinging smoke bombs and generally being annoying. Given that they were produced for about nine dollars apiece and knocked out at a rate of something like forty a month, they flooded the market and, I think, dragged the already-shaky reputation of kung fu cinema into the mud.Richard Harrison, 'actor' and 'martial artist', modeling his own brand of anoraks.There's a new generation of kung fu fans now, however, who seem to find it all very jolly. They derive some strange ple...
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Chiba TV: YAGYU CONSPIRACY
2008-03-02 06:54:00
Sonny Chiba as Yagyu Jubei in his younger, bi-ocular days.Although less famous than its successor 'Shadow Warriors', 'Yagyu Conspiracy ' is every bit as entertaining. Sonny Chiba plays Yagyu Jubei, a semi-historical character who gets deeply involved in the incredibly elaborate goings-on surrounding the death of the Shogun and the elevation of his rightful heir Iemitsu. It's all awfully complicated but surprisingly invovlving, and the perpetual scheming is well balanced by bushels of violence served up by Chiba, Sue Shiomi, and the Japan Action Club. I even saw Henry Sanada in the first episode, but since he blows himself up it seems unlikely he'll be back.Etsuko "Sweet Sue" Shiomi. Actually, nobody calls her that. Yet.Anyway, it's all rocking good fun, so if you can get your hands on the full series without spending grotesque amounts of money (I'd certainly avoid those websites who sell DVDs with only two episodes per disc at something like fourteen dollars a go), then do so...

Review: RETURN OF THE TIGER (1979)
2008-03-01 17:16:00
Although he appeared in pre-Bruceploitation old schoolers like 'Hero of Kwangtung' and Joseph Kuo's 'Chinese Iron Man', former PE teacher Ho Chung Tao rose to fame under the name 'Bruce Li' as one of the many actors renamed and repackaged to cash in on the fame of Bruce Lee almost immediately after his death. It's hard, if not impossible, to step out from under a shadow as bloated as Bruce Lee's, and from 1974's 'Bruce Lee - A Dragon Story' Ho Chung Tao's fate was pretty well sealed, and no matter how good his films were - and the were sometimes very good indeed - he would always be a "Bruce Lee imitator" and the object of disrepute and calumny, particularly among the cult of Lee worshipers who consider Bruceploitation an unforgivable blasphemy and an offense to their tedious, overblown, undertalented idol. This is, of course, deeply unfair, particuarly considering that among Bruce Li's considerable body of work there are some quite good films (like 'Blind Fist...
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Review: FULL MOON HIGH (1981)
2008-03-01 15:27:00
Fans of Larry Cohen will already be hip to this 1981 werewolf comedy starring Adam (son of Alan) Arkin, whom you may well remember from 'Northern Exposure', 'Halloween H20', or that hospital thing. This is Cohen's only out-and-out comic film, and it's not hard to make the case that his strength is definitely not so much in this Mel Brooks-style wacky comedy as in the dry, cynical, satirical humour running through the rest of his work.Apparently the working title was "When Hairy Met Sally".(not really, though)Here's what it's about. Set initially in the 1950s, Arkin plays Tony Walker, the star player in Full Moon High 's football team, and their best chance of ending the long and apparently bitter history of losing against rivals Simpson High. I swear I wouldn't mention that if it didn't become important later. His father, played by Ed McMahon (who is apparently famous in America for something or other to do with the Reader's Digest sweepstakes), is a paranoid ri...
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Unsung Heroes of Comedy: Emil Sitka
2008-02-24 05:46:00
As I just found out as I was finishing up editing the images and uploading the video clip for this post, Emil Sitka isn't quite all that 'unsung', as there's a terrific website devoted entirely to his life and work - Emil Sitka, the Fourth Stooge. Of course, there are websites devoted to Eddie Cantor and Blondie too, I'm sure, but that never stopped me including them.Click Emil's lovely grinning face for extra largeness.Emil Sitka appeared in fewer Stooges shorts than, say, Vernon Dent (who appeared in 56, with Sitka clocking in a mere 32), but while Dent was invariably cast as a stock straight man/heavy and played the role perfectly straight, Sitka's performances were shot through with quirky mannerisms, nervous tics and memorable idiosyncrasies. This is a risky gamble, of course, particularly when surrounded by comic talent of Stooge-like proportions - there's always a good chance that your performance is going to look like a clumsy grab-bag of actorish ostentation and scr...
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Superman: The Musical. No, really.
2008-02-24 02:08:00
Following on the success of the Adam West Batman TV series, some heroin-addled producers came up with the ingenious idea of creating a 'camp' (i.e. not very good) Superman musical. One of the many, many things they failed to realise was that the Batman character, being a brooding, mopey bastard, was ripe for satire (note the excessive pomposity of every Batman film since 1988), while Superman was already rather a light, fluffy character. Anyway, they went ahead and created a Broadway musical, which apparently enjoyed enough success to warrant its being adapted for TV.It's not entirely without its compensations, though; Kenneth Mars plays a Superman-hating gossip columnist, Loretta "Hot Lips Houlihan" Switt is his gal pal, the villain is an evil scientist played by David "Digger Barnes" Wayne, and as a ditzy, love-struck Lois Lane we have Lesley Anne Downe, who funnily enough tested for the same part when the first Christopher Reeve Superman film was being cast, and who played Ter...
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Sweet Shellac: Weimar Jazz
2008-02-22 22:19:00
More sweet, sweet shellac for you lucky people, this time featuring German jazz recorded before the Nazis came along and just pissed all over everything. It's a little calculated, and not very 'hot' as jazz goes, but it does have a certain charm. Just think of it as unusually meticulous music for an early Silly Symphonies cartoon.Weintraub's SyncopatorsHere's the playlist - some of the spelling is educated guesswork, some of it is just guesswork, and, in the case of the Teddy Kline side, simply chaotic.Saxophon Orchestra Dobbri - Ich Hol'dir vom Himmel Das BlauWindscat Jazz Band - Jig Walk (Could be 'Wing's Cat Jazz Band', I don't know)Bela Dajos's Dance Orchestra - Wan und WoeJack Bund and his Bravur Dance Band - EccentricWeintraub's Syncopators - Nimm Dich in Acht vor blonden FrauenTeddy Kline's Jazz Orchestra - Ejnic a CjilogocH. Schindler and his Jazz Orchestra - NiagaraBela DajosYou can download it from Megaupload HERE.
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Unsung Heroes of Comedy Double Feature
2008-02-20 07:39:00
Today brings us not one, but two entries in our ongoing Unsung Heroes of Comedy series. These entries might seem somewhat less obscure than the first, but they are nevertheless relatively uncelebrated and are afforded nothing even remotely approaching the kind of recognition they deserve. In no particular order then, here we go:UNSUNG HEROES OF COMEDY No.2EDDIE CANTOREddie Cantor is by no means forgotten (thank God), but he certainly has been neglected to a criminal extent. Although Cantor films show up on TV once in a while, usually as Sunday afternoon or late-night filler (I clearly remember sitting up until about 3am to watch 'Roman Scandals' on ITV's Night Time slot, anticipating scandal of the sort that 'Caligula' so artlessly depicted), the only Eddie Cantor films available on DVD at the time of writing are the late silent period films which are in the Public Domain. Ridiculous. No 'Whoopee', no 'Kid Millions', no 'Thank Your Lucky Stars'. Nothing of the sort. Pah. ...
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Unsung Heroes of Comedy: Sid Fields
2008-02-17 14:19:00
If there's one thing Eye Candy is all about, it's nancying around on the computer when I should be washing the dishes. But if there's another thing it's about, it's about celebrating the uncelebrated and raising the undeservedly neglected from the depths of forgetfulness to the bright shining light of day. Or at least as bright and shining as the light of day gets in a blog with less traffic than the surface of the planet Jupiter.To this end, Eye Candy proudly presents the first in our series of Unsung Heroes of Comedy Trading Cards. That's right! Collect them all! Actually, that shouldn't be too difficult as there'll probably only be one of them. Our first subject for reappraisal and belated applause is Sid Fields .Click picture for extra wonderful happinessYou'll doubtless remember Sid Fields as the cranky landlord in the Abbott and Costello show, but his career began, as did that of so many other great entertainers, in vaudeville, performing with Jack Greenman. He made an...
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It's almost definitely not about a cat...
2008-02-16 15:18:00
Although brutally eclipsed by the vastly superior 'Crumb' by Terry Zwigoff, the 1987 BBC documentary 'The Confessions of Robert Crumb', made for the middlebrow artsy fartsy programme 'Arena' still has an awful lot going for it. For one thing, it's written by R. Crumb himself, so it resembles, in many ways, a film version of his autobiographical comic strips (minus all the winkies and spooge); and for another, it features this almost painfully charming scene, in which Crumb and fellow comic artist and Cheap Suit Serenader Robert Armstrong listen to 'My Girl's Pussy' by Harry Roy and his Bat Club Boys.He looks like such a nice man. Maybe those Bat Club Boys led him astray.(Click for full size image)Harry Roy, of course, was better known as the leader of a very popular sweet dance band than as a performer of novelty songs which are almost definitely about vaginas; he was in the jazz racket from the outset, having replaced the Original Dixieland Jazz Band at the Hammersmith Pa...

"That's a Frog?"
2008-02-15 11:01:00
Here's a wonderful clip from Barbara Kopple's 'Wild Man Blues', in which she and her crew followed Woody Allen around on his European tour with his jazz band. Fans of classic New Orleans jazz might find the musical performances pretty thin soup indeed, but it's warm and ingratiating enough. The real meat is in watching the (more or less) real Wood Allen, discussing bathing arrangments with his wife, fretting over dog bites, and navigating his way around Europe in the most endearingly crochety way imaginable.Look at the embouchure on that man!In this clip, Woody and Soon-Yi are in Venice, trying to enjoy a nice quiet gondola ride but suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in the form of gawky tourists, sinister gondoliers and weird Venetian frogs.
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Even Russsell Vincent Porter started small...
2008-02-15 10:13:00
Okay, folks, here's a glorious little extra from the Toxic Avenger 21st Anniversary Special Edition DVD from those shameless schlock peddlers at Troma. This is the work of Russell Vincent Porter , a young kid moved by the splendour of Lloyd Kaufman's vision to make his own delicately crafted little masterpieces on video. As he tells us in the video, he actually met and spoke to the director/producer/author/auteur himself and managed to harvest some bright pearls on the art of Troma-style SFX wizardry, such as how to simulate a human head being crushed. However, Porter never actually gets around to telling us explicitly what these secret methods were, so you'll just have to freeze-frame very carefully on the shots of human heads bursting open and maybe use some FBI-type enhancement technology to try to discern just what cunning substitution is being made. Lloyd Kaufman, the Busby Berkley of squidged nogginsPorter's film explore...
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What do you mean, "near"?
2008-02-15 01:38:00
I've been an enormous fan of Larry Cohen's work ever since I got a copy of the Cinema Club VHS release of 'The Stuff' from Poundstretchers for 2.99, roughly (sigh) fifteen years ago, so it was a delightful surprise to see film critic Armand White refer to him as "one of the underappreciated near-geniuses of American filmmaking" in the documentary 'Baaadaaaass Cinema'. You've probably seen this one; it was shown on British TV at around the time of the release of the 'Jackie Brown' and John Singleton's lamentable 'Shaft', and now comes bundled as a bonus feature on the quite excellent DVD release of Jack Hill's 'The Big Bird Cage'. Nice.They're Alive! Well, one of them is anyway.It's possible that Armand White may have blushed with dismay at the relentless awfulness of the Cohen-scripted 'Phone Booth' (of which I've only seen the first few painful minutes, myself) and the pedestrian 'Cellular' (which I quite enjoyed), and it's possible that Armand White may have...

Return of the Candyman: Sweet Shellac
2008-02-13 14:06:00
I'd apologise for the long blog silence, but since nobody cares or ever reads this blog, I don't think I"ll bother. Anyway, I'm back again, this time with some tasty ear candy to push into your brain and go yum yum.ROBERT CRUMB'S SWEET SHELLAC was a radio series broadcast a few years ago in which the rightly celebrated cartoonist shares with the unwashed and largely undeserving public some hand-picked gems from his frankly disgusting collection of monstrously rare and beautiful records. This is the first show from the second series, which is dedicated to New Orleans jazz. Not just any old New Orleans jazz, of course; these sides are samples of New Orleans jazz that was actually recorded in New Orleans in the golden age of jazz. Mmm.Here's the playlist:Monk Hazel and his Bienville Roof Orchestra - High SocietySam Morgan's Jazz Band - Short Dress GalHalfway House Orchestra - When I'm BlueOscar Celestin's Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - It's Jam UpJohn Hyman's Bayou Stompers - Ain't...
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Chin Woo: Electric Boogaloo
2007-11-20 05:09:00
"Huo Dongge" is an ATV series from around 1984 starring Cheng Pei Pei and Chin Siu Ho as the title character who is, I believe, supposed to be the son of Huo Yuanjia, the patriotic hero played by Leung Kar Yan in Yuen Woo Ping's "Legend of a Fighter". I've only watched the first episode so far, but already it's presented me with some blogworthy anachronisms. Despite the fact that Huo Yuanjia died around 1910, which would date the events of this show some time before the turn of the century, these factory workers (I'm not entirely sure what business they're in: apparently some industry that centres on picking up big sacks and then putting them down somewhere else) appear to have been well ahead of their time, anticipating breakdancing by a good eight decades.Here they are, busting several moves, and demonstrating that their skillz are indeed mad.
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