When Taekwondo Strikes
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, resistance fighter Kim Chen-cheuh confronts a group of Japanese thugs, and a priest, Father Louis, tries to protect him, but he is captured. Kim and his fellow martial arts experts, Huang Lee-chen and Marie—Father Louis’s niece—must now try to free him.
Huang Feng
Huang Feng was a Chinese-born Hong Kong–based film director, screenwriter and actor. He started his career as an actor, then became a screenwriter and assistant director, before being promoted to a director by producer Raymond Chow. He is credited with discovering martial artist and actress Angela Mao.
