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    I am a huge fan of Hong Kong cinema, especially action movies. I've seen films by the greats, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and many others. Some of my favorites are: Hardboiled, directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau, The Killer, also directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat, Prison on Fire starring CYF and directed by Ringo Lam. There are others, but that is just off the top of my head. Now you may wonder how this is important. Well, I'll tell you.

    Rarely does one see an Anime like Cowboy Bebop or Gungrave that exhibit a style similar to a Chinese action flick (e.g. diving, akimbo pistols, lots and lots of enemies dying in rapid succesion from just a few clips with seemingly infinite ammo). So is there any more out there? Gungrave personally reminded me more of the movie Equilibrium (Christian Bale, Taye Diggs), which is fine. Can anyone point me in the direction of some Anime with a "chinese action feel" to it? Thanks.

  2. #2
    I am a fan of the Stormriders manhua (Hong Kong Comic) and I have seen some animation footage based on that. I am not sure if it aires on TV or is only on video.

    Here is a link to it, if you have any questions about what is going on in it let me know:

    http://www.asiaanimation.net/product.asp?code=wind

    That is the page, but here is the direct link to the video file

    http://www.asiaanimation.net/product/wind/sample.wmv


  3. #3
    Hey, that looks pretty damn cool. When I was talking about the style I was looking for it was more guns and diving, but this series looks great anyways. Thanks for brining it to my attention. Oh yeah, and what is going on? I gathered 2 "brothers" (maybe friends, same martial arts school, you know, yin and yang seen from the black and white swords and the black cape vs white cape) were fighting some evil thrid party, probably not blood related. I don't know the context, but the style and fighting looked great. I woulda liked sound though . No biggie, still good stuff.

  4. #4
    John Woo is a Hong Kong director? LOL

    That's probably where the name of the pigeon in ROD TV comes from. That's hilarious.

  5. #5
    you should try WONDERFUL DAYS. its a korean cartoon movie. i havent seen it, but judging by the trailer, it has guns and action.

    here are some links:

    main site
    http://wonderfuldays.co.kr/english/

    trailer in high quality
    http://wonderfuldays.co.kr/movie/6_high.wmv

  6. #6
    thanks for the suggestions guys. Oh, and I have been watching Gungrave, I refer to it in my first post .

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