New Dragon Gate Inn is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung and Donnie Yen. It was released as Dragon Inn in North America.
The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1966). New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, sword fighting and black comedy set in ancient China.
Now 20 years later, the movie as been brought back to life with its own high-tech enhancement. But it wasn’t Tsui Harks idea to bring this movie back, but old school producer Ng See Yuen (Drunken Master, Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow), he had this to say about the release, “There have been hundreds of Kung fu movies over the past twenty years. But few have managed to remain in people’s hearts. This...
The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1966). New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, sword fighting and black comedy set in ancient China.
Now 20 years later, the movie as been brought back to life with its own high-tech enhancement. But it wasn’t Tsui Harks idea to bring this movie back, but old school producer Ng See Yuen (Drunken Master, Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow), he had this to say about the release, “There have been hundreds of Kung fu movies over the past twenty years. But few have managed to remain in people’s hearts. This...
- 3/8/2012
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Time for some quick, morning wuxia action. McN via The Playlist has found an official trailer, which I would call more of a teaser trailer, for Tsui Hark's new martial arts epic The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li as well as Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Kwai Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan. The film is a remake of King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn (1966) and Raymond Lee's New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and was shot in 3D. There are some very interesting shots in this, I thought it was worth featuring today. Check out that final scene with the huge sand tornadoes. Not exactly sure what's going on, but it looks cool! Watch the first teaser trailer for Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, via YouTube: A Ming dynasty general played by Jet Li finds himself at odds with a power-hungry eunuch,...
- 8/19/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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