Movie Recommendation: Anything by 徐皓峰 (Xu Haofeng)

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Assad

Jingang
"Heroes of the East" was released in France under the name "Shaolin vs Ninja", I remember watching it 3 times in a row when I discovered it. Watching this scene today, some 20 ish years later, and a little bit of practice of martial arts, I still take pleasure but also realize how much it's far from "reality". Thanks for the sharing (y)
 
Marin

Marin

Lao Tou
Staff member
Adam Liu said:
Here are the links to the movies mentioned. Most of these movies are pretty hard to understand in Chinese anyways, and I can't imagine that the English translations are any better (I didn't get the plot to these movies until like my third viewing).

Beware, these are from those sketchy streaming websites that are oversaturated with questionable ads. You have been warned.

The Grandmaster: https://kissasian.ac/Drama/The-Grandmaster/Movie?id=21270

Judge Archer: https://kissasian.ac/Drama/Judge-Archer/Movie?id=27001

The Final Master: https://kissasian.ac/Drama/The-Final-Master.37320/Movie?id=28229

The Sword Identity (this one is lower quality, couldn't find a 720p one): https://kissasian.video/watch/the-sword-identity/episode-1.html
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I watched "Final Master last night and I agree that plot was very ..uh.. challenging. I THINK I understand what happened, or what it was a bout but I am not super confident about it. I am still confused about why someone is always harping about the magical wing chun. I suppose it is seen as exotic in the north, but it would have definitely not been any secret weapon in those times. Besides that, they did not actually use any wing chun from what I can see, but whatever they did use was plenty good to watch.
 
Adam Liu

Adam Liu

I'm Hungry Again
Marin said:
I watched "Final Master last night and I agree that plot was very ..uh.. challenging. I THINK I understand what happened, or what it was a bout but I am not super confident about it. I am still confused about why someone is always harping about the magical wing chun. I suppose it is seen as exotic in the north, but it would have definitely not been any secret weapon in those times. Besides that, they did not actually use any wing chun from what I can see, but whatever they did use was plenty good to watch.
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Yeah, the story is definitely extremely hard to follow. I was trying to remember the plot and realized that I can't even get it straight without watching it myself haha.

I think he has a Xing Yi and maybe some Bagua background, and story goes that he thought that the wing chun knives and pole were really cool so he wanted to fold in whatever he knew into those weapons and showcase them. Those Donnie Yen Ip Man movies really made wing chun the "cool" thing to do.

I remember my dad sent me to a class to learn wing chun at the local mall in Beijing. I was maybe 10 or 11 at the time and the only students there were middle schoolers. The "master" had a huge photo on the wall of him in midair kicking or something like that and never showed us a single move. We were taught by his one disciple (who I'm pretty sure was a high schooler) who just made us chain punch for 20 minutes and then showed us how to slap the wooden dummy with maximum gusto. I saw the "master" maybe three times total, and he was always dressed in a silk suit and didn't say anything, just sort of watched us and nodded.
 
Marin

Marin

Lao Tou
Staff member
Adam Liu said:
Yeah, the story is definitely extremely hard to follow. I was trying to remember the plot and realized that I can't even get it straight without watching it myself haha.

I think he has a Xing Yi and maybe some Bagua background, and story goes that he thought that the wing chun knives and pole were really cool so he wanted to fold in whatever he knew into those weapons and showcase them. Those Donnie Yen Ip Man movies really made wing chun the "cool" thing to do.

I remember my dad sent me to a class to learn wing chun at the local mall in Beijing. I was maybe 10 or 11 at the time and the only students there were middle schoolers. The "master" had a huge photo on the wall of him in midair kicking or something like that and never showed us a single move. We were taught by his one disciple (who I'm pretty sure was a high schooler) who just made us chain punch for 20 minutes and then showed us how to slap the wooden dummy with maximum gusto. I saw the "master" maybe three times total, and he was always dressed in a silk suit and didn't say anything, just sort of watched us and nodded.
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That's very funny. Yes WC became a popular idea in the north, specifically because it is so southern. I think this should highlight the rather vast chasm between north and south. WC is very poorly understood in the north and what I have seen of it in Beijing was just really really bad. But then, the Taijiquan in the south is also pathetic for the most part. I probably need to work on my sitting around and nodding in fancy outfits, lacking in that area.
 
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quangngy

Jingang
This movie is also good its technically a sequel to drunken master the fight with the two drunken styles is awesome and the villain is hwang jang lee.
 
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