HCF Review - Time Warrior

A SAMURAI IN TIME (2023)

The idea of yet another time travel movie with a fish out of water protagonist isn’t exactly the most exciting prospect. Even the electricity which sends the hero from the past to the present is a very familiar visual trope. However, Junichi Yasuda's A Samurai in Time isn’t another action movie like The Iceman Cometh. The biggest surprise is that it’s not really a straight up comedy either. It’s still a silly premise, and there are indeed sword fight sequences, as well as plenty of laughs. But there’s a subtle touch at work that means that it’s often more of a drama than the synopsis would suggest.

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HCF Review - Collaboration

HONG KONG 1941 (1984)

In the early 1980s Sammo Hung and Dickson Poon formed the company D&B Films. It’s another one of those names and logos that will be well known to action movie fans. But the first of their projects to be released would be a period drama about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, with some romance and class conflict for good measure. In 1984 the UK government began the process of the territory’s handover, and so perhaps the last time it left British control was on the minds of screenwriters. It’s also the breakout role of rising star Chow Yun-Fat; though it’s not his first movie part it was his first awards win. Let’s take a look at how all of these enticing elements hold up today.

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