Thanks to Blu-ray releases over the last few years, I can assure you that Kinji Fukasaku is the master of the gangster film. Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Quentin Tarantino are tourists in the genre. Between his eight Battles Without Honor or Humanity films and numerous one-off efforts during the ’70s, … Read more
InsidePulse recently reviewed Dragons Forever that starred Yuen Biao with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung which was a semi-realistic gangster film. Saga of the Phoenix stars Yuen Biao a year later in a completely different role and reality. He’s a spiritual man on a supernatural babysitting mission. The movie was
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