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This episode we review last year's film on the infamous plane crash in the Andes.

https://letterboxd.com/film/society-of-the-snow/

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More 1970s political intrigue (but in the Qing dynasty) with the Shaw brothers and with an awesome weapon.

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-flying-guillotine/

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Easily the heaviest film we've covered in the Lau Kar Leung project and very much an atypical Lau Kar Leung film and can be seen as an elegy towards the Shaw Brothers studio, which would shut down the following year. This film is based off of Chinese folklore in the Song dynasty and features great performances and perhaps my favorite fight in the entire Lau Kar Leung filmography.

Stars: Gordon Liu, Alexander Fu Sheng, Kara Hui, Lily Li, Philip Ko

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-8-diagram-pole-fighter/

https://letterboxd.com/director/lau-kar-leung-2/

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One of Lau Kar Leung's favorite films and easily one of hist underrated, Martial Club is a great martial arts film that and has one of the greatest fights of all time between Wang Lung Wai and Gordon Liu.

Stars: Gordon Liu, Wang Lung Wai, Kara Hui, Hsiao Ho

https://letterboxd.com/film/martial-club/

https://letterboxd.com/director/lau-kar-leung-2/

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This episode we review one of the most impressively choreographed films of all time, Dirty He. Dirty He has a much different performance from Gordon Liu and shows the director's range and ability to create incredibly elegant, wonderful fights with very simple devices and tricks.

Stars: Gordon Liu, Wong Yue, Lo Lieh, Wang Lung Wei, Hsiao Ho, Kara Hui

https://letterboxd.com/film/dirty-ho/

https://letterboxd.com/director/lau-kar-leung-2/

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With around 170 Martial Arts choreography credits, Lau Kar Leung is arguably the most influential and greatest martial arts choreographer of all time. Due to his martial arts background, the amount of details and intricacies he brought a unique and varied choreography to nearly every film he directed. In this episode I discuss his choreography in his directorial body of work and some of my favorite fights.

https://letterboxd.com/director/lau-kar-leung-2/

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After the hit that was Executioners from Shaolin, Lau Kar Leung followed it up with an even greater success, and perhaps his most iconic film, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Featuring likely the greatest training and second act in martial arts film history, this is a must watch for everyone.

Film stars: Gordon Liu and Lo Lieh.

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-36th-chamber-of-shaolin/

https://letterboxd.com/director/lau-kar-leung-2/

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This episode we review the fantastic Exorcist sequel, Exorcist III. It is both a successful sequel and an early version of the 1990s prestige horror thriller.

Film stars: George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-exorcist-iii/

In this episode we cover the key themes Lau Kar Leung would return to throughout his career. Due to his background as a martial artist, he was much more interested in the passing of Martial Arts knowledge down and different cultural aspects than his contemporaries inside the Shaw Brothers. While many of these aspects became genre tropes, his work still stands out for more than just the choreography. https://letterboxd.com/director/lau-kar-leung-2/ Send us an email at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zafilm2film⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or tweet us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/zafilm2film⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ !

This episode I review the first film in our series, Executioners from Shaolin. Released in 1977, starring Chen Kuan Tai this is Lau's 3rd film and features a Chinese folk hero, Hong Xiguan that is in Lau's Martial Arts lineage. It also serves an important bridge between Lau's choreography work in Chang Cheh's Shaolin cycle and his own directorial output. Featuring an all time great villain performance from Lo Lieh.

Stars: Chen Kuan Tai, Lo Lieh, Wong Yue, Lily Li

https://letterboxd.com/film/executioners-from-shaolin/

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