As Sing cunningly makes effort to be the toughest guy of the dreaded Axe gang the real gangsters descend on this Shanghai slum to restore their fearsome reputation.
8 July 1964, Tianjin, China
1948, Hong Kong
2 September 1950, Hong Kong, China
27 December 1978, Shandong, China
17 December 1965, Los Angeles County, California, USA
22 June 1962, Hong Kong
1 January 1957
1943, Hong Kong
1 August 1975, Hong Kong
1963, Chongqing, Sichuan, China
12 September 1948, Shaxi, Zhonghsan, Guangdong Province, China
9 June 1961, Hong Kong
11 February 1983, Shanghai, China
1958, Beijing, China
16 August 1976, Hong Kong
April 16, 2009
The ever-shifting genre of martial arts films takes on yet another variation with writer/director/actor Stephen Chow's CGI spectacle infused comic Kung Fu adventure.April 22, 2005
But for all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold.April 22, 2005
Retrieving the martial arts movie from the gentrified middlebrow tastefulness of movies like House of Flying Daggers is only one item on Kung Fu Hustle's agenda.November 01, 2007
So disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object.November 19, 2013
Chow is a genius in generating extraordinary drama from the familiar.May 12, 2006
Chow's movie may seem nutty on the surface, but its slyness, its dreamy unfolding of so many moods and genres, becomes intoxicating.September 26, 2005
A film where special effects erase physics and the constraints of the human body, there's absolutely no telling what will come next.December 27, 2007
Keeps the gags flying almost as rapidly as the fists.August 07, 2008
Gravity takes a backseat to levity.May 20, 2005
Kung Fu Hustle snaps and crackles like nuclear popcorn on a scorching griddle.April 29, 2009
A smart and very funny action comedy that will really knock your socks off.