Wang Baoqiang
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Mainland China stars Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reunite for a fourth round of high-stakes snooping in Detective Chinatown 1900. The twist this time is that they are playing ancestral… Read More
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After cracking cases in Bangkok and New York in their first two outings, writer-director Chen Sicheng’s globetrotting gumshoes land in Tokyo for a third round of histrionic sleuthing. Already a… Read More
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As the epilogue of Chen Sicheng’s Detective Chinatown promised two years ago, the action moves from Bangkok to New York in this high-energy, lowbrow sequel, which has already proved a… Read More
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Chen Sicheng follows up romantic anthology Beijing Love Story (2014) with this high-energy crime caper in which a down-at-heel detective in Bangkok’s Chinatown goes on the run after being implicated… Read More
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Packed with action and steeped in tradition, Chen Kaige’s return to the wuxia genre is an exhilarating drama, as concerned with the philosophy behind martial arts as with their lethal… Read More
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Donnie Yen plays a convicted murderer sprung from jail to help track down a serial killer targeting martial arts masters in Teddy Chen’s appreciably nostalgic action thriller. Read my review Read More
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Law Wing Cheong’s ambitious attempt to remake Clarence Fok’s 1989 Hong Kong martial arts fantasy The Iceman Cometh is beset by multiple problems, from a patchy incoherent script, to jarring… Read More
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