Sex and Zen & a Bullet in the Head; the Essential Guide to Hong Kong's Mind-Bending Films
Hammond, Stefan & Mike Wilkins
Language: English
Published by Fireside (Simon & Schuster), New York, 1996
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- Softcover
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Annotated catalog of Hong Kong films by two film buffs who met in San Francisco in 1987. 272 p. with index, glossary and list of Chinese titles. B/w illustrations. Pictorial covers in color. Foreword by Jackie Chan. Clean, no markings, Cover corners lightly bent. Original price $12.00 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Title
- Sex and Zen & a Bullet in the Head; the Essential Guide to Hong Kong's Mind-Bending Films
- Author
- Hammond, Stefan & Mike Wilkins
- Publisher
- Fireside (Simon & Schuster), New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684803410
- ISBN 13
- 9780684803418
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Seller catalogs
- China, Cinema
Gone are the flying pigtails and contrived fist-thuds of your father's favorite chopsockies. These are punch-straight entertainers, movies juddering with the excitement that put the "motion" in motion pictures. Dodge a thousand bullets as you contemplate the heroic gangster-knights of Master Director John Woo. Watch international superstar Jackie Chan perform action-comedy on the edge of peril. Wrap your imagination in the fantasy of director Tsui Hark, who proffers comely ghosts floating on silk, otherworldly romance, and no-joke witches and demons. And there's much more! Fighting femme flicks featuring fatales hiking up their designer dresses and bouncing spike heels off the bad guy's forehead. Stylish tragedies rivaling the best of Hollywood noir. Brain-boiling monster weirdies to delight the grindhouse faithful. Subtitles that mangle the English language into fabulous new mutations.
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