(From left) Sammo Hung, Leung Kar-yan and Fanny Wang in a scene from The Victim (1980), which may or may not be screened at the 2019 Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York, the US.
(From left) Sammo Hung, Leung Kar-yan and Fanny Wang in a scene from The Victim (1980), which may or may not be screened at the 2019 Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York, the US.
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New York kung fu festival to show why Asian martial arts films found an audience in America

  • Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York takes place on May 3-4, and plans to celebrate the fun that’s always existed in martial arts films
  • It will show seven in total, opening with Sonny Chiba’s 1976 Dragon Princess, but the other six will be mystery screenings

Topic |   Chinese language cinema
Richard James Havis

Updated: 8:00pm, 30 Apr, 2019

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(From left) Sammo Hung, Leung Kar-yan and Fanny Wang in a scene from The Victim (1980), which may or may not be screened at the 2019 Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York, the US.
(From left) Sammo Hung, Leung Kar-yan and Fanny Wang in a scene from The Victim (1980), which may or may not be screened at the 2019 Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York, the US.
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