“Goose Boxer” Theatrical Poster
Director: Tai Si-Fu
Cast: Charles Heung Wah-Keung, Lee Hoi-Sang, Phillip Ko Fei, Tin Ching, Addy Sung Gam-Loi, Chan Lap-Ban, Lee Chun-Wa, Wong Mei, Cheung Sin-Ming
Running Time: 90 min.
By Paul Bramhall
This year marks the 10th anniversary of my relationship with Goose Boxer, which I confess has been a fairly one-sided affair. Purchased as part of a 9-movie DVD set called Brooklyn Zu Volume 1, I picked up the set in 2014 during a trip to the US on the strength of it containing Tiger Over Wall and Fistful of Talons, a pair of movies which at the time I didn’t own. Spurred on by the thinking that, if both productions were indicative of the other title’s quality in the set, then the rest must be worth watching as well. Skip forward to 2024, and I’ve attempted to watch Goose Boxer at least 3 times. Every time ends up the same – as soon as the credits kick in, which feature Charles Heung lifting up a goose from behind only for it to squirt projectile faeces all over his face, set to an obnoxiously grating soundtrack of “waaah wah wah waaah wah”, I find myself turning it off barely a minute in.
But with some old-school kung-fu movies persistence is the key, and the now decade old peer pressure of trusted kung-fu cinema fans insisting it gets better eventually caught up with me. I’ve now watched Goose Boxer. Made in that seminal year for Continue reading →
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