“The Battle at Lake Changjin” Theatrical Poster
Martial arts star Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior 2, Call of Heroes, SPL 2) is getting ready to unleash another high-profile project titled The Battle at Lake Changjin, referring to one of the fiercest and most decisive battles during the 1950-53 Korean War.
The Battle at Lake Changjin will act as a joint project by acclaimed directors Tsui Hark (Double Team, Taking of Tiger Mountain), Dante Lam (Beast Cops, Operation Red Sea) and Chen Kaige (Monk Comes Down the Mountain, Legend of the Demon Cat).
Starring alongside Wu are Zhang Hanyu (Operation Mekong), Jackson Yee (Pound of Flesh), Ryan Zheng (The Great Wall), Huang Xuan (Extraordinary Mission) and Zhang Guoli (The Founding of a Republic).
Don’t miss the film’s Trailer, ahead of its domestic release later this year!
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Is there such a thing as a Mainland action blockbuster which isn’t military themed!?
From now on and for a little while, it’s going to be comedies, animated fantasy, war epics, a few all-star disaster films about the indomitable Chinese spirit, and the odd Louis Koo and/or Andy Lau cop thriller.
I liked the visceral Operation Red Sea (Dante Lam sure the hell can put together an action movie) but I didn’t like any of the other military ones that have come out of China’s propaganda movie machine. Including Wu Jing’s two Wolf Warriors, which I thought were cheap imitations of better movies.
Isn’t it kinda sad that rebel filmmakers like Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou who all once made daring movies that got them banned are now the faceless mouthpiece of Beijing?
Sad and surreal. The movies that are carrying the torch and paying homage come from elsewhere – the Raid and John Wick series’ are the best “Hong Kong action movies” of the 2010’s, and they’re not Hong Kong movies. I dug Wolf Warrior 2, though. I’d rather have anotherJohnnie To movie, but Wolf Warrior 2 was practically a holy grail when you compare it to the slim pickings we’ve been getting.
That’s true. Wolf Warrior ain’t great, but they got a bit of Hong Kong in them because Wu Jing had a lot of HK cinema experience which he brought with him. I’ve been been looking into China’ DTV action output (straight to their streaming services) for kicks, and sadly most of them are god awful knockoffs of Wolf Warrior. Every now and then I’ll stumble on something halfway decent with a bit of that Hong Kong style, and in the credits I’ll notices some Canto looking names like Ng or Lee with an English first name and I’ll wonder if young talent from Hong Kong has been bringing their heritage up north.
In the meantime I’ll wait for Raging Fire, which looks more like a pure blooded Hong Kong action movie than anything I’ve seen in a long time (and I’m a sucker for Donnie’s cop movies, all of them)
I’m in. Operation Ted Sea was cool as f…, in May the French Blu-ray of The 800, soon Sacrifice…
“the Raid and John Wick series’ are the best “Hong Kong action movies” of the 2010’s”
The raid movies are cool, but John Wick sucks.
Try Trivisa, Gangster payday, Life without principle, all three Detective D (I loooove the last one), Gallants, Ip Man 4, Firestorm, and the rare above the average Chinese action flick (I bought the two Brotherhood of blades Blu-rays and am quite happy about it), Shadow,…
Don’t forget that China as a whole is the commercial goal now and most of all people living in Hong Kong, CHINA, don’t watch “Hong Kong flavored movies” anymore and most Chinese movies too. They just wanna see Hollywood blockbusters. Do you wanna lose money producing “Hong Kong flavored movies” in China? Do as you please…
The golden age of Hong Kong cinema died almost 25 years ago. Sometimes there’s an On-Bak, sometimes a Raid, but they ain’t Chinese. I prefer buying Blu-rays of “old” Hong Kong classics (88 Films, Eureka, Spectrum Films,…) and trying to discover “old” Hong Kong movies I still haven’t seen than to lose my time with John Wick and Co and whining about “old” Hong Kong movies.
By the way, Midway and most of all other recent … Hollywood war movies are just propaganda too. From the land of Freedom fries. Where are those weapons of mass distraction by the way?
Zhang Yimon and Tsui Hark still make good movies. They just have to make movies within the communist control system. What other choice do they have? Either go along and work or unemployed and who wants to get unemployed. They still prefer to work in China than Hollywood. Propaganda or not every country has their own propaganda movies . They just make movies based on the current trend just like Hong Kong in the 80’s and the 90’s. That just the way the business works.
Could be a fun action ride. All I’m really looking for out of china nowadays anyway.
I guess Liam Neeson wasn’t up for another round of playing General MacArthur.
& did I really see Wu Jing doing a graceful twirl before throwing a grenade!?