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Posts tagged: kung fu
Happy Year of the Snake from The Five Deadly Venoms and the Wu Tang Clan!
one of my all time favorite kung fu comedies.
Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia as Asia in Swordsman II, the Victor Victoria of wuxia movies. Last genderqueer picture from HK cinema today, I promise.
Genderqueer fun for Pride! Lam Ching-Ying as a Peking Opera artist who specializes in female roles and teaches Yuen Biao to fight in Prodigal Son. Also, no tragedy, just fighting!
Comics Editor Carol brings all her kung fu to bear on Kagan McLeod’s martial arts masterpiece, Infinite Kung Fu. But is it enough?
(image by Kagan McLeod)
Cantonese opera actor, Kwan Duk Hing, as a cowboy in the 1930s. Image from the University of California’s Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library.
Kwan Tak-hing 關德興 is best remembered for playing the Cantonese folk hero Wong Fei-hung 黃飛鴻 in a prolific and long-running series of Hong Kong films during the 1950s and 60s. This photo iss from the early 1930s when he was performing Cantonese Opera in San Francisco Chinatown.
Secret Santa gift from M.O.S.S. Agent David Foster (aka, Permission to Kill). Carol will be writing about it for The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit.
Happy Birthday, Bruce Lee! (Poster for The Big Boss, aka Fists of Fury)
