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In Mainland China, filmmakers are producing TV dramas and feature films like hot cakes since the Hong Kong film companies no longer can complete mainly because of the lack of funds and talent after production peaked in the 1980s. Released online by the iQIYI network “The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Dragon Tamer” is another adaptation of the work of popular wuxia novelist Jin Yong.

Set during the Sung Dynasty in which the Jin Empire is at war with the Han Chinese, Guo Jing (Geng Ye Ting) a young man raised in Mongolia is on his way to the central plains of China. While stopping at an inn for food, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan suddenly attack him but they are actually his teachers trying to test his fighting skills. Apparently, babies are being kidnapped and used in kung fu training which also involves poisonous snakes and that is...

It’s always good to bow out leaving people wanting more. Yet if you were to tell us back in 2004 that “Kung Fu Hustle” would be the penultimate time we would see Stephen Chow in front of the camera then very few would believe you. His cinematic popularity was at its apex with international recognition coming through the release of “Shaolin Soccer” and this subsequent follow up. With only “CJ7” to come a few years later. Alongside “Shaolin Soccer” this madcap action-comedy both sends up and homages the martial arts cinema that Stephen Chow loves so much and serves as an ideal entry point to his world of Mo Lei Tau comedy.

Kung Fu Hustle is screening on New York Asian Film Festival

Sing (Stephen Chow) is a petty crook who aspires to part from the feared axe gang. Along with his sidekick Bone (Lam Chi-chung), he inadvertently stirs up...

Chapman To and Dada Chan are reunited onscreen in another raunchy comedy, this time set in the world of playboy airline pilots and sexy stewardesses - that is until Captain Cool (To) and his wingmen are transported back in time to Ming Dynasty China. That's the premise of Flirting In The Air, the latest offering from Hong Kong uber-producer Wong Jing. Amen Cheung directs a cast that also includes Lam Tze Chung, Dominic Ho, Ben Cheung and Connie Man.The first trailer has just dropped and while it's unclear exactly how explicit the sexual antics are going to get, the script is certainly peppered with enough foul-mouthed humour to suggest Flirting In The Air has set its sights on attracting the same crowds that flocked to...

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