Heroic Bloodshed: Hong Kong, Hollywood and the Cycle of Influence first published by BFI in July 2019 The yesterdays of A Better Tomorrow Every origin story has a prequel. It was Rick Baker, editor of martial arts magazine Eastern Heroes, who in the late Eighties first identified in print an emergent genre for which he…
“…for all its familiar wire-fu trappings, allegorises Buddhist notions of self-transformation in a world of illusions… Throw in some inventive chopsocky tempered by romance, and a typically winning lead performance by Michelle Yeoh, and you have a fatalistic wuxia about the martial pursuit of a ‘normal life’.” My full review at EyeforFilm.