Period Film Reviews

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
Long Road To Gallantry (1984)	Fun but slight wu xia from Shaw Brothers' autumn years	2019-11-17	Simon
What Price Honesty? (1981)	Shallow and mediocre	2019-08-25	Simon
Pedicab Driver (1989)	Legendary Sammo film finally gets a DVD release	2016-02-20	Simon
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)	Just as enjoyable and well made as the first film	2016-01-31	Simon
The Beheaded 1000 (1993)	Random mentalness	2015-04-25	Simon
The Dragon Missile (1976)	Fun romp in the Flying Guillotine style	2015-03-13	Simon
Shanghai 13 (1984)	Chang Cheh goes indie	2015-02-18	Simon
The Shaolin Plot (1977)	Largely unknown old school classic	2015-02-18	Simon
The Magnificent Butcher (1979)	Kung fu spectacular	2013-10-26	Simon
Fire Dragon (1994)	Decent wu xia in the early 90's tradition	2013-06-08	Simon
A Chinese Legend (1991)	Yet another knock-off of A CHINESE GHOST STORY	2013-05-03	Simon
Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012)	Beautiful, tragic fantasy	2013-04-21	Simon
The Grandmaster (2013)	Incoherent and overblown	2013-04-07	Simon
Hero (Corey Yuen) (1997)	Inferior remake of BOXER FROM SHANTUNG	2013-02-18	Simon
The Sword Of Many Loves (1993)	Mad as a bag of poisonous spiders	2013-02-17	Simon
Let The Bullets Fly (2010)	Action comedy that's smart and funny	2013-02-09	Simon
Lady Of Steel (1970)	Passable Shaw Brothers/Cheng Pei-Pei swordplay film	2013-02-02	Simon
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994)	Captures a moment in Chinese history well	2013-01-30	Simon
Throne Of Blood (1957)	Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth	2013-01-04	Simon
The Bride With White Hair 2 (1993)	Another sequel that doesn't seem to understand why we loved the original	2013-01-03	Simon
The Bride With White Hair (1993)	One of the most beautiful and tragic wu xia films	2013-01-03	Simon
The Avenging Eagle (1978)	One of the better Shaw Brothers martial arts films	2012-12-29	Simon
King Eagle (1971)	Good Sister, Bad Sister	2012-12-05	Simon
Last Hurrah For Chivalry (1979)	I never enjoy drinking with a dead man	2012-11-26	Simon
Last Hero In China (1993)	An irreverent addition to the Wong Fei Hung canon	2012-11-24	Simon
Iron Monkey (1993)	Great entry into the Wong Fei-Hung canon	2012-11-24	Simon
The Invincible Sword (1971)	Fairly cookie cutter tale of heroic swordsmen	2012-11-23	Simon
Moon Warriors (1992)	Not nearly as good as I remembered it being	2012-11-22	Simon
Rashomon (1950)	Kurosawa looks at the blackness of the human heart	2012-11-13	Simon
Raining In The Mountain (1979)	Sumptuous exploration of Buddhist philosophy	2012-11-12	Simon