The Cultural Gutter

Even still more More Master of the Flying Guillotine

Notes: 5 5/5/13 — 1:22pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Z7x6wxkIJuh- Filed under: #jimmy wang yu #master of flying guillotine #taiwan #movies #stills #kung fu #wuxia

Celebrate Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia’s birthday with a gallery of movie posters from her films.

(most come from HKMDB.com)

Films represented: The East Is Red; Dragon Inn; Peking Opera Blues; Chungking Express; Bride With White Hair; Swordsman 2; Dream Of The Red Chamber; Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain.

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Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia as Asia in Swordsman II, the Victor Victoria of wuxia movies. Last genderqueer picture from HK cinema today, I promise.

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Windy confronts Yang in Kagan McLeod’s Infinite Kung Fu. One of the panels from this was used in Comics Editor Carol’s piece on IKF.

Read a preview of IKF here.

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At The Gutter: The Master of Infinite Kung Fu!

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)

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softfilm:

Wu Suxin cross-dressing in The Female Knight-Errant White Rose (1929)

(Source: “From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931” by Weihong Bao)

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Happy Birthday, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Here’s a gallery of posters from some of his films.