His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.

When Ang Lee made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he revealed that the films of director King Hu were a strong influence. "The Swordsman" was one of Hu's last films, and revived the swordsmen genre ...

The 1991 Hong Kong actioner Swordsman II—or The Legend Of The Swordsman, as this DVD edition would have it—continues the curious HK cinema tradition of sequels that are superior to the original. (See ...

Where have Hong Kong cinema's female warriors gone, I wondered, while watching Japanese actress Fumi Nikaido wielding a sword with wild abandon in Sion Sono's extremely violent film, Why Don't You ...