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...bowl and then stick them in their mouths. In June, a young conscript stationed near the DMZ allegedly threw a live grenade into a tent full of sleeping comrades and sprayed it with his K-1 semiautomatic, killing eight. It's still unclear what caused the incident-his court-martial started last week-but civic groups have complained for years about grim conditions and high suicide rates in the armed forces. Says human-rights activist Park Won Suk: "Military life and the treatment of soldiers are still stuck in the 19th century...
...your worries to rest. Tsui Hark hasn't lost sight of the most important objective of any Hong Kong filmmaker: pleasing the audience. In his new movie, Seven Swords, he has dipped into the endless supply of old Chinese wuxia (martial arts) novels to come up with a gritty and extremely violent epic. Noble warriors literally descend from the mountaintop to protect an endangered village from an implacable evil?think Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in Qing-dynasty China. While the attempts at romantic subplots fizzle and the film is paced so strangely that it feels both too long...
...From the start, though, it's clear that Swords is a martial-arts movie of a different metal. The recent wuxia work of Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou?art-house directors who dipped into the popular genre?fused poetry with action. Heroes soared through the air as though composed of pure light. Swords, however, is fixed firmly to the earth, a production of dust and blood and stone. In the jolting opening scene, the villainous Fire-wind's (Sun Hong-lei) army mows through an innocent town with all the subtlety of a chain saw. Dressed like members of some...
When Fire-wind sets his sights on Martial Village?so named because everyone there studies martial arts, a big no-no for the new Qing Emperor?the townspeople enlist the help of fighters from the local holy mountain, each gifted with a mystical blade: the Seven Swords. Tsui's purposefully gritty visual style makes it tough to tell the players without a scorecard, but Hong Kong movie veterans Lau Kar-leung, Leon Lai and Donnie Yen lead the way in thrashing Fire-wind's warriors, despite odds of about...
...Philippines recover from this crisis? We have been through worse: 14 years of martial law. Everybody has to have the same vision for the country, and that is a better life for Filipinos. Every single day prolongs the agony of the people down there. If we clean up our slate and start anew, I'm very confident we'll be seen in a new light. My idea is that in 2013, 2014, 2015, we can get our house in order and catch up with the competition: Malaysia, Thailand, even Indonesia. It may be pie-in-the-sky right...