![]() ![]() ![]() Films like The Big Boss ( Fists of Fury) and King Boxer ( Five Fingers of Death) were box office successes in the West. The competing Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest studios entered Western markets in the 1970s by releasing dubbed kung fu films in the United States and Europe. Donnie Yen, who emerged during the early 1990s in Jet Li's Once Upon a Time in China II, is currently Hong Kong's top paid actor, starring in several films which helped him achieve international recognition, such as the Ip Man trilogy and Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. Chow's 2004 film Kung Fu Hustle, choreographed by martial arts directors Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping, was a similar mixture of kung fu and comedy that achieved international success. His 2001 film Shaolin Soccer combined kung fu, modified using CGI, with the sports and comedy genres. Kung fu comedies remain popular staples of Hong Kong cinema and the kung fu films of Stephen Chow have been box office hits. Wuxia films experienced a revival in recent years with the films of Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou. Technology has enabled actors without martial arts training to perform in kung fu films. The realism of the kung fu genre has been blurred with the widespread use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in the industry. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
March 2023
Categories |