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New Dragon Gate Inn 新龍門客棧 (1992 Subtitled)
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New Dragon Gate Inn 新龍門客棧 by Lee, Ching and Tsui In my ongoing quest to revisit all the best Hong Kong martial arts films of the 90s, New Dragon Gate Inn [Sun Lung Moon Hak Chan] is next in line. It's one of those films I fondly remember as being fun, entertaining and well-made, though without actually remembering many specifics. It's never easy predicting how these rewatches are going to pan out, but somehow I felt good about this one. Turns out my intuition was right. New Dragon Gate Inn is a loose remake of King Hu's classic Dragon Inn (1967), one of the first big classics the genre has on offer. If you're not big on martial arts but you do enjoy the occasional arthouse film, you might remember Hu's film from Tsai's Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Don't expect to recognize too much from Hu's film here though, while the trio of directors kept the basic setup, New Dragon Gate Inn is a typical 90s Hong Kong martial arts flick through and through. Or at least, it feels like one. Because one thing remarkably absent from New Dragon Gate In is the actual martial arts. While there are some action scattered throughout, they're extremely sparse. Safe the final bout, people expecting lots of fighting…
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New Dragon Gate Inn 新龍門客棧 (1992 Subtitled)