Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) Director: Tsui Hark Cast: Yuen Biao, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Sammo Hung Run Time: 98 minutes Language: Cantonese (with optional English subtitles) Format: Blu-ray Release date: 20 April 2020. I actually enjoy the effects here over what Carpenter uses for Big Trouble. The Yang family was the loyal strong-arm of the Imperial army.
The film starred Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Kelly Lin, Wu Jing, with special appearances by Sammo Hung and Zhang Ziyi. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he meets and becomes the apprentice of Ting Yin, a… Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) directed by Tsui Hark • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 80s fantasy action at its finest.A list of Edgar Wright's Twitter thread of films he has rewatched during quarantine, inspired by Letterboxd's own Twitter account…Just a list of Asian films I've watched so far. I wonder what that could mean...How the heck Tsui Hark end up making Mainland blockbusters? Reviews: 0 users.
A lot of people on here seem to like this movie, but not love it; I'm happy being one of the few who truly loves it. Synopsis. They encounter a monk, Hsiao Yu, also a great fighter and a good man, but unfriendly to Ting. Primary Details Cover Image Related Titles Cast Crew Genres Tags Release Information Production Information. Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Chinese soldiers in an ancient civil war get caught up in a fantastical quest to save the universe. But a jealous General betrays the Eilte Spearman and their father to the opposing Mongol army. Some really good Buster Keaton-esque action comedy in the beginning. Use the HTML below. A magical Countess sacrifices herself for love, two opposing soldiers come to realize they're neighbours, a coward finally finds his inner strength. Popularity #99999. Buy on Amazon. As a side note, I watched this on Eureka’s new blu-ray and the subtitling is so fast (a new, more accurate translation) that its a bit difficult to keep up with them. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain ( 1983) Videos. Check out our breakdown of the movies and shows we're excited about this month, including "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he meets and becomes the apprentice of Ting Yin, a spiritual man with great fighting powers.
Add to List. American filmmaker John Carpenter has stated that Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) was an influence on his 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
The proletariat must move out from under the thumb of the ruling class to defeat a formless enemy that's colored red. An esquire and a General eyes a priceless handwritten scroll by Tripitaka, held in a Temple library. War... There he encounters ghosts and devils, and also good masters and their disciples who are out to stop the Blood Monster and his demons from destroying the world. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. It's most obviously a fantasy, action, comedy mash-up, but there's also plenty of horror, twinges of romance, historical war story bookends.My point here is that Zu is incredible and worth watching on pretty much a yearly basis.expected lots of kooky fantasy nonsense, but got, well, still kooky and fantasy, but an actually compelling film behind all the VFX extravaganza. I've always found the ending a bit of let down, but it does play like the 2001 of flying swordsman movies.Here's Golden Harvest going back to its roots and doing a total Shaw Bros-style wuxia, except they put Tsui Hark in charge and he probably saw something like Buddha's Palm and thought to himself "Eh, kinda boring." You won't regret it.Certainly an experience, the film opens up with a couple of hilarious segments that set it up in a way that gave me a bit false impression on what I was up to. More psychedelic. Directed by Hark Tsui. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped ... They get help from Long Brows, Ting falls in love with a countess, and civil war still rages.Stunning and gorgeous but a bit draining as its pace is frenetic and its battles increasingly abstract and over-the-top. That seems to have worked pretty well for the guy with the eyebrows.My favorite Tsui movie is always just the one I've seen most recently. But maybe stuff like this just SEEMS even less coherent than his other films (particularly his western movies) because the story rhythms are completely unfamiliar to me - does Double Team really make any more sense than this, or does it just stick to espionage-thriller beats I've seen dozens of time before?So perhaps it's best to just hold on for dear life and do the best you can. This whole movie is amazing, but the last 25 minutes contain some of the most magical fantastical images I've ever seen. This whole movie is amazing, but the last 25 minutes contain some of the most magical fantastical images I've ever seen.