Original title: The Manchu Boxer / Paper Marriage / Shanghai, Shanghai
Year: 1974 - 1990
Country: Hong Kong
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060000706086
Image: 1.85:1, 2.35:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
Cantonese - Mono
English - Mono
Subtitles: English, English SDH
Age rating: -
Genre: Action
Cast: Sammo Hung, Maggie Cheung, Yuen Biao
Director: Wu Mai, Alfred Cheung, Teddy Robin
Synopsis:
Just as the kung fu film seemed to be losing steam as the 1970s came to a close, a new generation of martial arts stars rose to the top of Hong Kong cinema. Amongst them were Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan and the irrepressible Sammo Hung , who found fame as the director and star of The Iron Fisted Monk , The Magnificent Butcher and Encounter of the Spooky Kind . Presented here are three films spanning Hung's career, from a supporting role in The Manchu Boxer to stardom in Paper Marriage and Shanghai, Shanghai .
In Wu Ma's The Manchu Boxer , Hung (who doubles up as the film's fight choreographer) plays the villainous foil to a roaming martial artist who enters a boxing tournament to defeat a gang of bandits. Then, in the action comedy Paper Marriage , Hung stars as a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer living in Canada who is paid to marry an immigrant from Hong Kong ( Maggie Cheung ). She wants to gain Canadian citizenship, but he just wants to keep the loan sharks off his back. Finally, in Shanghai, Shanghai , a young man ( Yuen Biao ) goes looking for his brother, a police officer, in the big city – and also finds himself embroiled with a ruthless gangster played by Hung.
From traditional kung fu to romantic comedy to a tale of cops and crooks with shades of the “heroic bloodshed” films so popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Manchu Boxer , Paper Marriage and Shanghai, Shanghai exhibit Sammo Hung's enormous range and chart his rise from supporting player to top-billed star.
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