1103 - Once Upon A Time In China (1991)

Can Master Wong navigate China into the 20th-century and past the obstacles of modernity, invasive western culture, and a whole host of outside threats to tradition?  Of course he can.  But even he’s got to admit: he looks pretty good in a boater hat and sunglasses.  Tsui Hark’s epic kung fu period action/comedy pits western powers, local corruption, modern technology, and the stubborn refusal to adapt against a ragtag group centered around a fighting school and its stoic martial arts master played by Jet Li.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing’s Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samurai (1967).