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Yuen Biao is The Peacock King 孔雀王子 孔雀王 劇場予告編 1988
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Peacock King (1988) October 19, 2025 Matt There is a long tradition in Hong Kong cinema of combining martial arts with supernatural and horror elements, although it’s one I haven’t really gotten to delve into—even the possibly adjacent previous subject The Oily Maniac from the Shaw Brothers studio really only features a minimum number of martial arts scenes, while Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West is more fantasy than horror, although it definitely has some horror-inflected scenes. Thankfully, here’s Peacock King , which is far closer to the the traditional hybrid of wire-fu fight scenes and creepy monsters, brought to us by the prominent Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest and director Lem Ngai Kai, a former Shaw Bros. employee who is probably most famous for the completely bonkers mutilation epic Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky . You won’t find as much wacky bodily harm in this as in his later movie, but there is a decent number of ghoulies running around in this pan-Asian story that is heavily based in Buddhist lore. Like Story of Ricky , the film is based on a Japanese manga (Japanese title Kujaku Ō ) by Makoto Ogino that ran in the eighties, which was about a Japanese monk fighting d…
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