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...from 1951 to 1985 set the colony's standard for opulence, vigor and splash in a dozen genres. But because Sir Run Run refused to put his old films on video, or even allow film museums to show them, younger movie fans have had to wonder: What did a martial arts classic like Chang Cheh's The Heroic Ones or Chor Yuen's Killer Clans really look like? What did Hong Kong Nocturne and other Shaw musical extravaganzas sound like? What made audiences fall in love with such prime Shaw stars as Linda Lin Dai, David Chiang, Cheng...
...just wants a "traditional" Bond. After Dr. No's release in 1962, the Vatican condemned the film's amorality, and in 1965, TIME disdained the popularity of "the sex, violence and snobbery with which Fleming endowed his British secret agent." But lately Bond's ardor has been mostly martial. "I was worried that he was turning into an SAS man, machine-gunning everyone," says Tamahori. "I've been trying to make him more of an Ian Fleming Bond...
...need a high threshold of pain for roughhouse and Cantonese insult comedy, for fall-on-their-asses reactions that Shemp Howard would have rejected as overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes the star?s much-anthologized stool-vs.-sword fight and the not-easily-forgettable sight of Samo?s naked body painted with Chinese characters - he?s become a slab of calligraffiti. After...
...them up dumpling-style. The other was period fantasy with lots of simulated sex. In epics such as ?Erotic Ghost Story? and ?Liu Jai: Home for the Intimate Ghosts,? horny demons and succubi preyed on innocent maidens and scholars, and the rite of copulation was a vigorous and elaborate martial art. Until about 1997 - when Britain ceded the colony to Mainland China, and the helium coincidentally seeped out of the cinematic balloon - Cat III films often played to good business in Asian theaters and were fast rentals in video stores around the world...
...DIED. LO LIEH, 59, Chinese action star of Five Fingers of Death, the first Hong Kong martial arts film to make an impact beyond Chinese-language theaters; of a heart attack; in Shenzhen. Lieh later played reliably fierce villains in kung fu bone crackers such as Dirty Ho and Ninja Massacre, and co-starred with Jackie Chan and Chow...