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Grady Hendrix

Kaiju Shakedown: Patrick Lung Kong

By Grady Hendrix
August 23, 2014
Blazing a trail: an appreciation of this influential Hong Kong director of Cantonese cinema who always kept social issues within the frame

Kaiju Shakedown: Lee Myung-Se

By Grady Hendrix
August 13, 2014
Due consideration: in praise of Korean filmmaker Lee Myung-Se—and keeping an open mind

Kaiju Shakedown: Huang Jianxin

By Grady Hendrix
August 5, 2014
Lost in the shuffle: recognizing the career of the underappreciated Fifth Generation director, who specialized in comedy

Kaiju Shakedown: Kinji Fukasaku

By Grady Hendrix
July 28, 2014
Birth of a nation: the classic yakuza pentalogy Battles Without Honor and Humanity as guide to postwar Japan

Kaiju Shakedown: Angela Mao

By Grady Hendrix
July 22, 2014
Destroy, she said: a look at action star Angela Mao's Golden Harvest films

Kaiju Shakedown: Eternal Zero

By Grady Hendrix
July 15, 2014
Death wish: Takashi Yamazaki's film about kamikaze unapologetically shows another side of the war

Kaiju Shakedown: So Much Sex!

By Grady Hendrix
July 8, 2014
Kowloon blue: a brief history of Hong Kong's sexploitation flicks

Kaiju Shakedown: Slow Japan

By Grady Hendrix
July 2, 2014
Mono no imaimashii: on the annoyance—not the sadness—of the passage of time

Kaiju Shakedown: Snowpiercer

By Grady Hendrix
June 24, 2014
In Bong Joon Ho's futuristic dystopia-on-a-train, the end of the world is nigh—and maybe we deserve it?

Kaiju Shakedown: No Man’s Land

By Grady Hendrix
June 17, 2014
Ning Hao's years-long battle with Mainland Chinese censors can't be reduced to good versus evil

Kaiju Shakedown: Hopping Vampires Edition

By Grady Hendrix
June 5, 2014
Leaps and bounds: all you need to know about a singular vampiric phenomenon in Hong Kong cinema

Kaiju Shakedown: Filipino Crime

By Grady Hendrix
May 29, 2014
Killa and a Thrilla in Manila: a handful of the most captivating, gory flicks from the Philippines

Kaiju Shakedown: Dream Projects at HAF

By Grady Hendrix
May 22, 2014
What sort of movies do directors really want to make? A look at the oddities and wonders proposed at the Hong Kong Asia Financing Forum

Kaiju Shakedown: King Hu’s The Battle of Ono

By Grady Hendrix
May 14, 2014
One of the greatest movies never made: the Touch of Zen director's dream of a Hollywood blockbuster

Kaiju Shakedown: Korea Edition

By Grady Hendrix
May 8, 2014
After making the jump to Hollywood (or a least getting an English-language remake), what's next for Korea's New Wavers?

Milestones

By Grady Hendrix
May 7, 2014
Key Hong Kong movies 1996–2013

Kaiju Shakedown: ThaiWorld

By Grady Hendrix
May 1, 2014
Where are they now? A who's who guide to the big names in contemporary Thai cinema

Kaiju Shakedown: Lau Kar-leung

By Grady Hendrix
April 24, 2014
Grandmaster: remembering the director who defined the kung fu film

Kaiju Shakedown: Dante Lam

By Grady Hendrix
April 16, 2014
Action man: in honor of the Dante Lam spotlight at this year's New York Asian Film Festival, here's Grady Hendrix's Kaiju Shakedown appreciation of the formidable director

Kaiju Shakedown: Jackie Chan’s Trash

By Grady Hendrix
April 10, 2014
A consideration of Jackie Chan's worst films