The Last Tycoon
Directed by Wong Jing
Written by Wong Jing, Manfred Wong and Koon-nam Lui
China, 2012
For the last little while now, Chinese cinema, Hong Kong-made films in particular, have been beating on the nationalism drum with George Kollias-esque intentensity. It’s not enough for films to just be about loose-cannon cops named after Mexican booze or guys in pajamas fighting monkeys, everything has to be, on an explicit level, about the nation, the people and patriotism.
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Donnie Yen’s Ip Man movies and Fist of Legend sequel, Jackie Chan’s 1911, and David Wu’s Cold Steel, which hit Fantasia last year, are all good examples of this.
Screening at Fantasia this year, Wong Jing’s period crime drama The Last Tycoon is a solid addition to that list, setting the story of a Shanghai crime boss against the Japanese attack and occupation of Shanghai in WW2.
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Directed by Wong Jing
Written by Wong Jing, Manfred Wong and Koon-nam Lui
China, 2012
For the last little while now, Chinese cinema, Hong Kong-made films in particular, have been beating on the nationalism drum with George Kollias-esque intentensity. It’s not enough for films to just be about loose-cannon cops named after Mexican booze or guys in pajamas fighting monkeys, everything has to be, on an explicit level, about the nation, the people and patriotism.
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Donnie Yen’s Ip Man movies and Fist of Legend sequel, Jackie Chan’s 1911, and David Wu’s Cold Steel, which hit Fantasia last year, are all good examples of this.
Screening at Fantasia this year, Wong Jing’s period crime drama The Last Tycoon is a solid addition to that list, setting the story of a Shanghai crime boss against the Japanese attack and occupation of Shanghai in WW2.
After...
- 7/30/2013
- by Thomas O'Connor
- SoundOnSight
Movie clips from Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen and Shu Qi! We have 4 new clips from the Andrew Lau actioner from Variance Films, which opens on April 22nd. Gordon Chan produces with Lau, as well as writing alongside Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. In 1925, the nation China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies, mobsters, English officials and the Japanese military- all looking to gain control of the country, with little regard for what happens to its citizenry. Into this den of intrigue enters Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen), who has returned to China after fighting alongside the Allied forces in Europe, bringing some dark secrets from his past along with him. During the day,...
- 4/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie clips from Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen and Shu Qi! We have 4 new clips from the Andrew Lau actioner from Variance Films, which opens on April 22nd. Gordon Chan produces with Lau, as well as writing alongside Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. In 1925, the nation China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies, mobsters, English officials and the Japanese military- all looking to gain control of the country, with little regard for what happens to its citizenry. Into this den of intrigue enters Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen), who has returned to China after fighting alongside the Allied forces in Europe, bringing some dark secrets from his past along with him. During the day,...
- 4/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie clips from Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen and Shu Qi! We have 4 new clips from the Andrew Lau actioner from Variance Films, which opens on April 22nd. Gordon Chan produces with Lau, as well as writing alongside Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. In 1925, the nation China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies, mobsters, English officials and the Japanese military- all looking to gain control of the country, with little regard for what happens to its citizenry. Into this den of intrigue enters Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen), who has returned to China after fighting alongside the Allied forces in Europe, bringing some dark secrets from his past along with him. During the day,...
- 4/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie clips from Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen and Shu Qi! We have 4 new clips from the Andrew Lau actioner from Variance Films, which opens on April 22nd. Gordon Chan produces with Lau, as well as writing alongside Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. In 1925, the nation China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies, mobsters, English officials and the Japanese military- all looking to gain control of the country, with little regard for what happens to its citizenry. Into this den of intrigue enters Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen), who has returned to China after fighting alongside the Allied forces in Europe, bringing some dark secrets from his past along with him. During the day,...
- 4/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(April 2011)
Directed by: Andrew Lau
Written by: Cheung Chi Sing, Gordon Chan, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam
Starring: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong and Huang Bo
Andrew Lau’s “Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen” revives the popular Chinese kung fu hero (most famously portrayed by Bruce Lee in 1972’s “Fist of Fury”). The new Chen Zhen installment is decked out in a Hollywood-style gloss that prettifies the production, giving it a cosmetic heft, but can’t bolster its sagging dud of a screenplay. Set in 1920s Shanghai, during the time of the Japanese occupation, the story pits the titular hero against a cabal of Japanese spies and military commanders bent on conquering China.
After his battlefield heroics are on acrobatic display in the movie’s Wwi preamble, Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) and his ragtag comrades return to their native Shanghai.
(April 2011)
Directed by: Andrew Lau
Written by: Cheung Chi Sing, Gordon Chan, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam
Starring: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong and Huang Bo
Andrew Lau’s “Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen” revives the popular Chinese kung fu hero (most famously portrayed by Bruce Lee in 1972’s “Fist of Fury”). The new Chen Zhen installment is decked out in a Hollywood-style gloss that prettifies the production, giving it a cosmetic heft, but can’t bolster its sagging dud of a screenplay. Set in 1920s Shanghai, during the time of the Japanese occupation, the story pits the titular hero against a cabal of Japanese spies and military commanders bent on conquering China.
After his battlefield heroics are on acrobatic display in the movie’s Wwi preamble, Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) and his ragtag comrades return to their native Shanghai.
- 4/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(April 2011)
Directed by: Andrew Lau
Written by: Cheung Chi Sing, Gordon Chan, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam
Starring: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong and Huang Bo
Andrew Lau’s “Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen” revives the popular Chinese kung fu hero (most famously portrayed by Bruce Lee in 1972’s “Fist of Fury”). The new Chen Zhen installment is decked out in a Hollywood-style gloss that prettifies the production, giving it a cosmetic heft, but can’t bolster its sagging dud of a screenplay. Set in 1920s Shanghai, during the time of the Japanese occupation, the story pits the titular hero against a cabal of Japanese spies and military commanders bent on conquering China.
After his battlefield heroics are on acrobatic display in the movie’s Wwi preamble, Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) and his ragtag comrades return to their native Shanghai.
(April 2011)
Directed by: Andrew Lau
Written by: Cheung Chi Sing, Gordon Chan, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam
Starring: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong and Huang Bo
Andrew Lau’s “Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen” revives the popular Chinese kung fu hero (most famously portrayed by Bruce Lee in 1972’s “Fist of Fury”). The new Chen Zhen installment is decked out in a Hollywood-style gloss that prettifies the production, giving it a cosmetic heft, but can’t bolster its sagging dud of a screenplay. Set in 1920s Shanghai, during the time of the Japanese occupation, the story pits the titular hero against a cabal of Japanese spies and military commanders bent on conquering China.
After his battlefield heroics are on acrobatic display in the movie’s Wwi preamble, Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) and his ragtag comrades return to their native Shanghai.
- 4/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Check out the movie trailer for Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Huang Bo, Kohata Ryuichi, Shawn Yue and Ma Yue. The actioner is directed by Andrew Lau, from the script by Gordon Chan, Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. Plot: In 1925, the nation China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies, mobsters, English officials and the Japanese military- all looking to gain control of the country, with little regard for what happens to its citizenry. Into this den of intrigue enters Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen), who has returned to China after fighting alongside the Allied forces in Europe, bringing some dark secrets from his past along with him. During the day,...
- 4/10/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the movie trailer for Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Huang Bo, Kohata Ryuichi, Shawn Yue and Ma Yue. The actioner is directed by Andrew Lau, from the script by Gordon Chan, Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. Plot: In 1925, the nation China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies, mobsters, English officials and the Japanese military- all looking to gain control of the country, with little regard for what happens to its citizenry. Into this den of intrigue enters Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen), who has returned to China after fighting alongside the Allied forces in Europe, bringing some dark secrets from his past along with him. During the day,...
- 4/10/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Chen Zhen is back! When it comes to martial arts movies, the name Chen Zhen always rings with a certain epic flavor. Who can forget Jet Li as “Chen Zhen from Jing Wu” in Fist of Legend?
Now Donnie Yen (Ip Man), the new leader in martial arts charisma, is taking on the title of Chen Zhen in Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. He may look like Kato from The Green Hornet, but the action is much more epic and thrilling.
Legend of the Fist is Directed by Andrew Lau and stars Gordon Chan, Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam.
About Legend of the Fist:
In 1925, the nation of China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies,...
Now Donnie Yen (Ip Man), the new leader in martial arts charisma, is taking on the title of Chen Zhen in Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. He may look like Kato from The Green Hornet, but the action is much more epic and thrilling.
Legend of the Fist is Directed by Andrew Lau and stars Gordon Chan, Cheung Chi Sing, Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam.
About Legend of the Fist:
In 1925, the nation of China is divided by infighting, and Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia. With the city of Shanghai torn in half by international conflict, Club Casablanca has become a hotbed of spies,...
- 3/3/2011
- by Terry Boyden
- BuzzFocus.com
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