Tag Archives: Taiwan

Review: Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters (Taiwan 1968)

Posted on April 25, 2023 by David

Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 “We are big strong men. Why should we worry about three little girls?” Oh, buddy, you should, you really should. This early Taiwanese wuxia about three separated sisters seeking revenge on the men … Continue reading →

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Review: The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (Taiwan 1968)

Posted on April 25, 2023 by David

Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 The first film in the loose Swordsman of All Swordsman trilogy could not be more different than the awesomely goofy Ghost Hill, it’s a deadly serious revenge film (Stock Wuxia Plot #4, kid … Continue reading →

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Review: The Ghost Hill (Taiwan 1971)

Posted on April 21, 2023 by David

Subway Cinema’s 9th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2021  Well this was an unexpected pleasure. An absolutely buck wild wuxia full of delightful nonsense, crazy weapons, and traps. Harpoon hands. Darts in the shape of the Chinese character for “death” … Continue reading →

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Review: The King of Wuxia (Taiwan 2022)

Posted on April 20, 2023 by David

Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 2023’s OSKFF (schedule here) is kicking off this Friday, April 14, with an absolute monster – Lin Jing-Jie’s massive, comprehensive documentary on King Hu, possibly the most influential and important Chinese … Continue reading →

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CSB talks with Goran Topalovic about the 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival in NYC, featuring the films of King Hu and Taiwanese Wuxia, starting this week

Posted on April 20, 2023 by David

Goran Topalovic is a founding member of Subway Cinema, the NYC collective that created and launched the beloved New York Asian Film Festival and the Old School Kung Fu Festival, and has written extensively on Asian cinema for magazines like … Continue reading →

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Review: Thrilling Bloody Sword (Taiwan 1981)

Posted on February 2, 2022 by David

More gobsmackingly insane phantasmagoria out of Taiwan in the vein of The Ginseng King, Thrilling Bloody Sword is a wild mash-up of Snow White, Aladdin, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and other fairy tale material, filtered through a DIY wu xia … Continue reading →

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CSB talks with Grady Hendrix about this week’s 9th Old School Kung Fu Festival in NYC, featuring the films of Joseph Kuo

Posted on December 8, 2021 by David

Grady Hendrix has made a name for himself in the last decade as an author, with books like Paperbacks from Hell, Horrorstör, and My Best Friend’s Exorcism. But Asian film aficionados know him as part of the Subway Cinema team … Continue reading →

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Review: Reign of Assassins aka Jian Yu (Taiwan/China/Hong Kong 2010)

Posted on August 4, 2017 by David

Reign of Assassins is one of the best wu xia films of the past decade, marrying old school pleasures with comic book aesthetics and inventive action instead of relying on the grim seriousness mandated by the Hero model. Characterization is … Continue reading →

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