Kick'em In The Ghoulies

The London Terracotta Far East Film Festival kicks of in a little over two weeks time on the 6th June and runs until the 15th June. With a vast array of films on show from Hong Kong thrillers ,Korean dramas ,Horror and a look at Indonesian cinema.

Aaron Kwok stars in Cold War , shows on Thursday 6th June

Korean Time Travelling film Young Gun in the Time shows on Friday 7th June

For more details visit the Terracotta film Festival site below

http://terracottafestival.com/

Terracotta Film Club is holding their 5th Terracotta Film Club on May 29th at 9'00pm at the Prince Charles cinema in London. Film on show is 1990 film ,Days of Being Wild  by art house director Wong Kar Wai.For more details visits this sites calender for links for tickets and info.

Came across some terrific artwork ,all inspired by classic and newer films. with  a large selection available in posters measuring 24'' by 36'' and smaller prints measuring 11'' by 17'' ,these are a great additon to spruce up your cinema room , dojo,or Kwoon. Prices start from $14.99 dollars and rise .

Here's a sample of Bob's artwork to get you thinking if your wallet can take it. And of course a link to his online store.

http://kungfubob.blogspot.co.uk/

Terracotta Film Distribution ,those responsible for the mega Terracotta Far East Film Festival have their fourth film showing at the Terracotta film club on April 24th 2013 . This Months offering is 1973 film Lady Snowblood with Meiko Kaji . Th films being held at the Prince Charles cinmea in London ,for full deatils visit the Prince Charles site here.

Prince Charles Cinema

Donnie Yen and Media Asia has joined forces to make two new  films which will be released under the Donnie's new SUPER HERO label.

The First on the cards is 1970's based Kung Fu drama ''The Master '' , it focuses on a Hong Kong imigrant and Kung fu school owner living in the USA .  He becomes endangered by someone out for revenge .

The second film is named Dragon City where Donnie plays a cop in ,wait for it the 70's . Donnie has to go up against his corrupt counterparts . The film is being directed by Derek Kwok ( Gallants), look like's Donnie's not letting up with these and Ip Man 3D he's going to be busy.

Donnie in Wuxia

Jackie Chan must be pleased with his latest film, CZ12 has been snapping up awards at the Hauding Awards and the Hong Kong awards .At the Hauding awards CZ12  was nominated for four awards and won three including Best Director and Best action Choreography from the JC Stunt Team.

In Hong Kong Jackie won the award for best Action Choreography for CZ12 . He was very humbled by the whole event and even gave his feelings on the matter , you can read Jackie's reaction courtesy of Superchansblog here.

Jackie posted this picture of him and his award at the Hong Kong event .Weibo.com

Our review of CZ12 will be up on site in a few days

Jackie Chan's latest blockbuster CZ12 premiered in China Yesterday at the Birds Nest Stadium.

Jackie and the cast where present on stage and Jackie Recieved a standing ovation form the crowd. Earlier in the day he was at pre premier interview for Sina.com with cast Members Laura Weissbecker and Zhang Lanxin.

CZ12 is Jackie's most eagerly anicipated film for years at it brings back to our screens the character of the Asian Hawk made famous in his 1986 film Armour of God and the sequel Operation Condor.

Jackie Chan on stage at the Birds Nest -12-12-12

Pre premier interview with Jackie,Laura Weissbecker and Zhang Lanxin

Photo's copyright Sina.com

Lats night saw the London Korean Film Festival kick off with opening gala of the showing of 'The Thieves '' Director Choi Dong Hun and actor Kim Yoon Seuk where at the gala  to greet the fans and partake ina Q&A on stage after the film . .

Look out for a feature packed page on the event shortly with a indeph review of ''The Thieves '' to.

The fesival continues until the 16th November ( 11th in London) ,and the range of films on offer is vast. see the calendar for more details and links to the official site ,which also appear in the sidebars .

See you there ....

K.I.T.G. team.

Jackie Chan starts work on a sequel to his 2004 film New Police Story in November , Entitled Police Story 2013 the film will be  directed by Little Big Soldier Director Ding Sheng. How the action will go we will have to wait and see. After Jackie said that after Chinese Zodiac ( release December) that he would retire from doing the big stunts anymore, It looks like we may have a more dramitc film on our hands. But then he can still fight.

Many of the great fight stars don't do massive stunts ,people get confused that when Jackie said he would not do the Stunt heavy work anymore ,you have to relaise that if just fought it would be the same as most of the other action stars around his age or ten years  younger ( Jet Li / Donnie Yen ).

We look forward to this , here at K.I.T.G. we thought New Police Story was great , and Little Big Soldier was pure genius , we wait with baited breath.

So of course you want to know what's going on over the next few weeks , but first the sad news last month Karate Legend Joe Lewis passed away after battling Brain Cancer ,he had a tumor removed in 2011 and doctors believed they had removed it all but in May this year he fell ill again and passed away this August . We will be doing a retrospective of his life on site that will go live in about a week or so.

The Late Great Joe Lewis who passed away end of August

Also unfortunalty staying with the not so happy news is that Gordon Liu (SAN-TE) famous for his roles in the 36th Chamber of Shaolin and numerous Shaw Brothers classics as well as his role as the leader as the head of the Crazy 88's in Kill Bill is still in a bad way after his Stroke last year ,confined to a wheel chair ,he has cut himself of from the world and the only contact with the celebrity world are two of his closest friends who visit him of which one is Leung Kan Yan.

There is still hope that he may walk again after he lost movement in one side of his body ,and said he has shown improvement. We wish him well.

I hope all get to see him in his last film role ,in a Martial arts action film called ''Kill'em All'' ,still to be released look out for it, of note it also stars the Late Joe Lewis who  made the film before he fell ill again.

Now also this month look out for a Korean film extravaganza , we will showcase a handful of Korean films with the first already up ( Sword with No Name) our next feature review is the Thai/Korean co-production starring a mainly Korean Cast and directed in Thailand by prachya Pinkaew and action by Panna Rittikrai. Yes it's The Kick ,which also stars Petchtai Wongkamlao and Jeeja Yanin .

Crying Fist ,part of our Ryoo Seung-Wan feature appearing soon

After this we cover a selection of films by Ryoo Seung-Wan in a retrosective of his career.

Game wise our big feature this month is a look at Dreamcast classic ''SHENMUE'' a game so real your forget your own life, plus look out for news of Shenmue HD on XBOX live and the Playstation  Network..

There's also a couple of other surpises in store as well ,but hey we need some surprises.

Till next time ,Take Care,Stay Well,,Keep Fit and May it be Well with You.

The Snake.