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Western Female-led Martial Arts Action Movies
42 titles |
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Chinese Drama Watchlist
12 titles |
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Wuxia in the Golden Age of HK Cinema (1979-1999)
59 titles |
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Movies past the golden age of the genre (late 60s-70s, Shaw Brother).
This era started when younger directors such as John Woo, Tsui Hark, Yuen Woo-Ping, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To and Ching Siu-Tung started making their own wuxia movies with turbo-speed wireworks and choregraphies and modern sensibilities, with Tsui Hark's The Butterfly Murders and John Woo's Last Hurrah for Chivalry being the first ones.
In 1990, the success of the first Swordsman movie started its own wave of 90s wuxia films that lasted until the middle of the decade. That was the peak of popularity of modern wuxia.
And then the 1997 Hong Kong handover and economic crisis happened. This put the whole HK cinema industry into shaky grounds.
In 2000, the global success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon showed the world that wuxia was still alive as a genre and that wuxia films could also be "artsy".
This era started when younger directors such as John Woo, Tsui Hark, Yuen Woo-Ping, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To and Ching Siu-Tung started making their own wuxia movies with turbo-speed wireworks and choregraphies and modern sensibilities, with Tsui Hark's The Butterfly Murders and John Woo's Last Hurrah for Chivalry being the first ones.
In 1990, the success of the first Swordsman movie started its own wave of 90s wuxia films that lasted until the middle of the decade. That was the peak of popularity of modern wuxia.
And then the 1997 Hong Kong handover and economic crisis happened. This put the whole HK cinema industry into shaky grounds.
In 2000, the global success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon showed the world that wuxia was still alive as a genre and that wuxia films could also be "artsy".
Asian Girls with Guns (non-Chinese)
17 titles |
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Asian Female-led Martial Arts Movies (non-Chinese/HK)
96 titles |
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Netflix Asian Action Movies (as of August 2018)
61 titles |
Public
Chinese Girls with Guns (Urban Female Kung Fu Movies)
149 titles |
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A (yet complete) list of Chinese kung fu movies with a female lead and an either urban or contemporary setting. Usually, this means flying through glass windows, car chases and guns on top of kung fu fighting.
I also decided to include a few modern kung fu movies that don't have anything to do with urban action movies until I find the time to do a separate list for them.
"Yes, Madam" and "Angel" are known as the two movies that kickstarted the GWG genre while there were some that predated them (like "Golden Queen's Commando".) As you might see if you check this list by release date, GWG movies peaked from 1989 until 1993. This is known as the classic era. Key actresses were Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Khan, Moon Lee, Yukari Oshima and Sibelle Hu, while key directors were Corey Yuen and Tony Liu.
I also decided to include a few modern kung fu movies that don't have anything to do with urban action movies until I find the time to do a separate list for them.
"Yes, Madam" and "Angel" are known as the two movies that kickstarted the GWG genre while there were some that predated them (like "Golden Queen's Commando".) As you might see if you check this list by release date, GWG movies peaked from 1989 until 1993. This is known as the classic era. Key actresses were Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Khan, Moon Lee, Yukari Oshima and Sibelle Hu, while key directors were Corey Yuen and Tony Liu.
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