SBS TWO have scheduled a treat for us over the next month, starting tomorrow: sixteen films spanning modern Chinese film history, from King Hu’s wuxia film for Shaw Brothers Come Drink With Me in the late sixties to Benny Chan’s Shaolin from 2011.
It’s a big plate of crowd-pleasing mostly action films, with a large helping of Jackie Chan and Jet Li films, but that suits us at HC just fine — we’ve seen and loved all of these over the years, and we highly recommend you book in some quality time on the couch with a huge bucket of popcorn.
SBS has summarised all of the films being screened here:
Here’s the full list, with links to reviews where we have them:
Sunday Feb 3, 10:30pm
Come Drink With Me (1966, directed by King Hu)
Tuesday Feb 5, 9:30pm
The Lost Bladesman (2011, directed by Felix Chong and Alan Mak)
Friday Feb 8, 9:30pm
Fearless (2006, directed by Ronny Yu)
Friday Feb 8, late
Armour of God (1986, directed by Jackie Chan)
Sunday Feb 10, 10:30pm
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984, directed by Lau Kar Leung)
Tuesday Feb 12, 10:30pm
The Message (2009, directed by Chen Kuo-fu and Gao Qunshu)
Friday Feb 15, 9:30pm
New Police Story (2004, directed by Benny Chan)
Friday Feb 15, late
Once Upon a Time in China (1991, directed by Tsui Hark)
Sunday Feb 17, 10:30pm
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, directed by Lau Kar Leung)
Tuesday Feb 19, 9:30pm
Shaolin (2011, directed by Benny Chan)
Friday Feb 3, 9:30pm
The Warlords (2008, directed by Peter Chan)
Friday Feb 22, late
Project A: Part 2 (1987, directed by Jackie Chan)
Sunday Feb 24, 10:30pm
The Magic Blade (1976, directed by Chor Yuen)
Tuesday Feb 26, 9:30pm
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006, directed by Zhang Yimou)
Friday Mar 1, 9:30pm
The Myth (2005, directed by Stanley Tong)
Friday Mar 1, late
Once Upon a Time in China 2 (1992, directed by Tsui Hark)