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abs0luteb4stard · 1 year

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W A T C H I N G

#SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW (1978)#Jackie Chan #Hwang Jang-lee #Yuen Siu-tien #Dean Shek #Fung Hak-on #Chiu Chi-ling #action comedy #martial Arts #Hong Kong #Yuen Woo-ping #Beggar So #WATCHING #蛇形刁手

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theactioneer · 2 years

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Hwang Jang-lee, Ninja Terminator (1986)

#hwang jang-lee #80s action movies #lobby card

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watching-pictures-move · 2 years

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Movie Review | Hitman in the Hand of Buddha (Hwang & Park, 1981)

In the films of Lau Kar-Leung, kung fu is not just a means of violence but a path to spiritual enlightenment. In a movie like The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, you can see how the hero doesn't just become superior fighters as they train in kung fu, but grows as a human being. The training sequences challenge his mind as well as his body, and you can see what lessons he is learning at each step of the way. Lau was a believer in the philosophy of kung fu, which is not something that was shared across the genre, even in movies that deploy many of the same tropes. In Hitman in the Hand of Buddha, the hero undergoes training at a Buddhist monastery, but rather than teaching him any actual lessons, the monks use this as an excuse to bully him relentlessly, with one monk in particular subjecting him to all sorts of inane, pointless exercises. I am not a Buddhist and not well versed in Buddhist philosophy, but I would wager that this is not a devout interpretation of Buddhist values.

Eventually the hero overhears that the monks were trying to build the strength of his kicks, although we see in the opening scene that he's not lacking in that department. He has a showdown with the abbott, who complains that he hasn't been doing his reading (something we see none of the other monks do at any point in the movie), and proves to everybody that he's a better fighter than all of them. Then he graciously thanks them all, even the one shithead monk who was giving him a hard time, and returns to the overarching plot. Earlier, he had been pushing back against some thugs who had been antagonizing the local populace, and it turns out in his absence they raped his sister (who then killed herself) and killed his stepbrother. So within five minutes he forgets whatever lessons he was supposed to have learned (not hard when he received such dogshit intruction) and enacts violent revenge.

The movie's handling of the monk training tropes perhaps unintentionally emphasizes their hollowness, as the monks don't seem all that better as people and don't seem terribly interested in teaching spiritual matters. But really this is an excuse to string together a series of creative, high energy fight scenes, and at a runtime of under an hour and a half, this is a pretty breezy watch. (I believe a ninety-minute is available, but the cut I watched ran seventy-five minutes. The dialogue switched to German at a few points mid-scene, but it wasn't too hard to follow on the whole.) Hwang Jang-Lee co-directs and stars as the hero, and his kick-heavy fighting style is made the most of. There are moments when he seems to almost levitate, kicking his enemies repeatedly to bounce off them while in mid-air, like a hacky sack (if the hacky sack did the kicking). Now, hacky sacks don't have terribly cool associations, and I for one have them tied irreparably in my brain to the slam poetry scene in She's All That, where the hero Freddie Prinze Jr. used them as a metaphor for his fraught relationship with his father Tim Matheson. Hwang does no such thing here, but I'm sticking my the metaphor.

Now if I can quibble with one thing, the hero at one point tortures one of the villains by dunking his head in a bucket of water, using a punching bag or something of the sort as a counterweight. Eventually, he pokes a whole in the bag to let it slowly drain out, leaving the villain to drown. Now, from the staging of the scene, you can see that the villain could easily get out of this predicament by curling or swinging away, but this occurs to neither the hero nor the villain at any point. Now, this is nowhere near movie-ruining bad, but for a scene that's supposed to depict some ice cold shit, it's a bit distracting.

#film #movie review #hitman in the hand of buddha #hwang jang-lee #park yun-gyo

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my-drama-heart2406 · 1 year

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You know, I'm a part of Uk-Yeong nation just as much as anyone else.

But this...

And this

And of course this

He's ready with the ring

Let's not forget this

This is the real ship..🥰💖😁😂

#alchemy of souls #they're gonna get married #im telling yall #i love this 🤣🤣🤣#them 💖#alchemy of souls season 2 #alchemy of souls: light and shadow #alchemy of souls light and shadow #lee jae wook #shin seung ho #go yoon jung #hwang min hyun #yoo in soo #jang uk #naksu #go won #crown prince go won #seo yul #jang uk x naksu

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eggsaladstain · 1 year

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it’s incredibly funny to me the way they just manhandle poor yul

Alchemy of Souls (tvN, 2022) 1.03 // 1.05 // 2.03

#kdramaedit #kdrama #alchemy of souls #alchemyofsoulsedit #jang uk #seo yul #mu deok #naksu #lee jae wook #hwang minhyun #jung so min #go yoon jung #parallels #edits

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naksushadows · 7 months

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individual alchemy of souls posters are so magical

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kungfuwushuworld · 8 months

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DRUNKEN MASTER IN BLACK & WHITE

#Jackie Chan #drunken master #Hwang Jang Lee #Yuen Woo Ping #kung fu #chinese martial arts #kung fu star

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myseaiu · 1 year

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Hwang Min-hyun

#hwang min hyun #alchemy of souls #wanna one #seo yul #nu'est #lee jae wook #jang uk #jung somin #goo yoon jung #park jihoon #ong seongwu #kang daniel #yoon jisung #kim jaehwan #kdrama #kpopidol #gq magazine

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setediconoscenza · 1 year

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I refuse to believe that the man who recognised an assassin by the way she used a crab leg to attack DOES NOT GET that this Jin Buyeon is sus and there is something going on about why Mama Jin refused to show her to the world

Okay boy you felt as if the hands were the same so PLEASE CONNECT THE DOTS

And YUL PLS TALK TO YOUR BESTIE

I swear if things don't get serious tomorrow I will be mad

#alchemy of souls light and shadow #alchemy of souls #aos #kdrama #korean drama #kdrama netflix #hwang minhyun #lee jaewook #go younjung #naksu #jang uk #jang uk x naksu #seo yul

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mccnarchives · 1 year

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the storyline of jang uk is insane like wdym his mother died when he was born , his father blocked his energy and abandoned him then the woman he loved was casted under spell and stabbed him after years of pain and trauma he finally reunites with her but her soul is dying and when he gets back to songrim his mother figure who loved him more than anyone and his father figure are both dead ???? like damn cut my man some slack atleast let us see him happy once 😭

#alchemy of souls #alchemy of souls season 2 #alchemy of souls spoiler #jang uk #cho yeong #jang uk x naksu #kdramas #thoughts #alchemy #jin buyeon #lee jae wook #naksu #go youn jung #hwang minhyun #seo yul

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jahe · 2 years

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The Future Protectors.

#alchemy of souls #go won #jang uk #jin cho yeon #park dang gu #seo yul #shin seung ho #lee jae wook #arin oh my girl #yoo in soo #hwang min hyun

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iblocevgum · 1 year

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alchemyofdramas · 1 year

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The light wearing dark attire.

The shadow wearing bright attire.

And both of them together at the link of day(bright) and night(dark).

beautiful balance ALCHEMY OF SOULS- LIGHT AND SHADOW

#alchemy of souls season 2 #go yoon jung #lee jae wook #hwang minhyun #jung so min #alchemy of souls #alchemy of souls light and shadow #naksu #cho yeong #jang uk x naksu

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my-drama-heart2406 · 1 year

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Aaaaannnd... Now we know why. 😳🥵😏😂

#alchemy of souls #the way he kisses #cupping her face #holding her #sir 😳#he's so 🥵🥵🥵#alchemy of souls season 2 #alchemy of souls: light and shadow #alchemy of souls light and shadow #jang uk #lee jae wook #jang uk x naksu #naksu #go yoon jung #tvn alchemy of souls #hwang min hyun

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naksushadows · 7 months

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our boys of the alchemy of souls

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dramashii · 1 year

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Not a single person will be able to walk out of here alive.

The Hong sisters just know how to end an episode. Literally was complaining while watching this and then bam! The last 15 minutes of the show compensated for the lackluster past episodes.

When Jang Uk starts walking like this, you know things are about to go down. I’m really excited for next week episodes. Hopefully, he’ll turn Cheonbugwan upside down and start a war with Jin Mu.

Honestly, very stupid of them to try and kill Seo Yul who’s from one of the most powerful families in the whole land of Daeho. And it’s not like they didn’t know. THEY DEFINITELY KNOW but they still chose to unsheathe their swords. Killing him would definitely mean war.

#alchemy of souls #alchemy of souls season 2: light and shadow #alchemy of souls season 2 #jang uk #seo yul #lee jae wook #hwang minhyun #kdrama #netflix #netflix kdrama #kdrama gif #gif #kdrama edit #really excited to see jang uk's rampage mode #k:alchemy of souls

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