10th Old School Kung Fu Fest Slashes the Silver Screen With Sword Fighting Heroes

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Published on Monday, 17 April 2023 15:05

Written by Brad Balfour

 

Subway Cinema has done much to bring cult and classic Asian cinema to NYC, and that continues with the tenth installment of the Old School Kung Fu Fest. Running April 21 to the 30th, the theme of this year’s fest is Sword Fighting Heroes, showcasing Taiwanese cinema and wuxia warriors with 12 movies being screened at the Metrograph theater (7 Ludlow St, New York, NY) and three films that will be streamed online.

Festival highlights include the US premiere of The King of Wuxia, a documentary about King Hu, the revolutionary filmmaker who re-invented wuxia movies and turned them into high art, plus three of his films —  A Touch of Zen, The Valiant Ones, and The Fate of Lee Khan.

An fascinating work of action animation, The Legend of the Sacred Stone is an all-puppet wuxia from the Huang family, master puppeteers who owned Taiwanese airwaves with their po-te-hi puppet storytelling in the 1980s.

See sword fighting ladies in four films starring actress Hsu Feng (A Touch of Zen, The Fate of Lee Khan, The Valiant Ones,  A City Called Dragon), four starring Polly Shang-kuan (Swordsman of All Swordsmen, Ghost Hill, Grand Passion, The Bravest Revenge), and one starring Josephine Siao Fong-fong (The Daring Gang of Nineteen From Verdun City) in which she’s only 12 years old.

The Old School Kung Fu Fest is shaping up to be more fun than a warehouse full of fake swords.

To learn more, go to: https://www.subwaycinema.com/

10th Old School Kung Fu Fest: Sword Fighting Heroes Edition
April 21 - 30th, 2023

Metrograph
7 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002