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- From: upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Re: Latest Tsui Hark Movie (East&West aka Swordsmen III) at the Great Star (SF)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:04:10 -0800
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- lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM (Peter Pak) writes:
-
- >Joey Wong is in it though ;^) I don't remember her being in Swordsman
- >II? She plays Snow, Asia's significant other. Asia the Invincible
- >is played by the same actress from Swordsman II. I don't remember
- >her name... :^(
-
- Yee-ESS! Of course, now I've got to hunt down this _and_ "City
- Hunter" while they're in the theaters. Oh well, Ms. Wang is more than
- worth the effort. Uh, no, she wan't in the second film. Asia was/is
- played by Brigitte Lin Qingxia.
-
- >The plot is weak compared to the other Swordsman movies but the action
- >sequences make up for it. But then again Tsui Hark is my favorite
- >Hong Kong film maker so I'd probably watch anything he was associated
- >with...
-
- Argh. One of the things I really liked about "Swordsman 2" was the
- well-put-together story. Oh well. Is Tsui Hark directing this one,
- or is it still Ching Siu Tung?
-
- Derek
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