Lan tou He (1979)

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   Siskoid

   The title is nonsense - if only there were a character called Ho - but Dirty Ho is a rather fun Lau Kar-leung original about a prince (Gordon Liu) who disguises himself as a common merchant, or rather, an uncommon one, so he can go around China tasting wines and having fun. He meets a local tough (Wong Yu) angered by this "con man" and they start playing a game of onupsmanship, until another prince tries to have Liu's assassinated, and Wong Yu finds himself helping the prince he now thinks of as his master (martial arts training montage oblige) almost despite himself. There's a sequence where the prince fakes having Kara Hui as a bodyguard by using her as a marionette of sorts, which isn't just clever, it also stymied my initial complaint that Hui wasn't going to get into action with the role she was assigned. But sequences get only more inventive from there, with lots of "shadow fights" happening in full view (the wine tasting, for example), things only the mind of Lau Kar-leung could have devised. And the training includes moments that will make you go "my God, they're doing this for real". In comparison, the big climactic fight, extended beyond measure, is the least interesting even if some audiences would have craved it by this point. Expect the freeze frame to come a little too soon on this one. 9 months 3 weeks ago
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   nbats

   https://www1.dramacool.cr/dirty-ho-episode-1.html 1 year 6 months ago
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   SpacedJ

   Gordon Liu is so god damn charming in this film, I can see why Tarantino brought him in for the Shaw Brothers bits in Kill Bill (including constantly stroking his facial hair). The fights with the lute player and the wine tasting are really fun. Also a weird Crippled Avengers homage/parody/I’m not even sure what. What’s not to love? 2 years 1 month ago

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