Researching my review for CRYING FREEMAN I found out there was this five-years-older adaptation of the same comic. This one’s actually a Hong Kong action movie for real, but it’s not the moody John Woo type that influenced the 1995 version. This is the frenetic wire-fu style that was also big at that time.
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The Dragon From Russia
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012Tags: assassins, Clarence Fok, Dean Shek, Hong Kong action, Kazuo Koike, Maggie Cheung, Samuel Hui
Posted in Action, Comic strips/Super heroes, Martial Arts, Reviews | 25 Comments »
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