I think when most people mention Donnie Yen, they’re mostly familiar with him from Rogue One and lately, John Wick 4. Before he was fighting Stormtroopers and assassins though, he already has had a long career of ass-kicking even back then! Infamous martial arts actor who is well-known for his versatility in various disciplines — below is my personal top 5 list of Donnie Yen fight scenes.
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Shit! And no, I’m not talking about Dante’s shit, but Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday is a one hell of a surprise for me.
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As you probably know by now, this blog is /mostly/ about martial arts films but I also have some wrestling posts and even MMA, boxing categories prepared (though I haven’t done anything with them, still find writing combat sports tricky). It’s kind of a wide spectrum but one thing links them together — action, or in other words, violence.
Indeed, put it in an inoffensive way, I love the action genre. Put in a bad way, I love violence.
If you’ve been catching up to WWE, you might notice something — Seth Rollins is on fire lately. He looked like he finally regained his confidence in-ring prior to his knee injury, a reminiscence of 2015 Seth Rollins. But there’s one key factor that contribute as to why Seth’s current babyface run works so well — his character.
Despite WWE and all it’s faults, the Seth Rollins persona is a lengthy, long-term character development. WWE does has it’s problems in it’s storytelling however, but even during the more problematic parts, on paper, those stories still connect to the continuity of Seth’s past story arcs nicely. It’s interesting because why most other people have their dynamic gimmicks, and despite all the taglines like “Architect” or “Kingslayer”, Seth’s character story -is- the gimmick.
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A post I wrote on my anime blog regarding the correlation between wuxia and shounen. Thought the topic fits here, hence the reblog.
While Dragon Ball may not be the very first shounen anime, it cannot be denied that it has a very strong influence on modern shounen. At the time, one thing that really set Dragon Ball apart is it’s rich and vibrant world — the more you watch Goku’s adventure, the more the world just sucked you in. It may be a battle shounen series, but the world has a sort of endearing charm that deserves as much of a merit as the exciting fights. Dragon Ball obviously drew it’s influences from wuxia — from the fictional culture, lore and martial arts.
In fact, Dragon Ball is literally wuxia, and as influential as Dragon Ball is to the shounen genre, wuxia is just as instrumental to what shounen has become today.
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The Art of Kaijutsu 