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Asia Cine-Club: Kung Fu Hustle 功夫 (2004, Hong Kong)🗓 Tuesday, December 22 | ⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 Film: 8PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
Shanghai in the 1940s, and the Axe Gang runs the city under Brother Sum. Sing (Stephen Chow) is a small-time crook who wants in. He picks the wrong place to shake down: Pigsty Alley, a slum protected by three residents who turn out to be kung fu masters, and a landlady (Yuen Qiu) you really don't want to cross.
Chow directed, co-wrote and starred. Yuen Woo-ping took over the fight choreography after Sammo Hung left the production. It won six Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture, and five Golden Horse Awards including Best Director for Chow. It was the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong history until 2011, and the landlady's chase scene is a straight homage to Wile E. Coyote.
"Chow is a genius in generating extraordinary drama from the familiar."
– Sam Ho, Film Comment
"So disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object."
– David Ansen, Newsweek
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
📽 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/
📽 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/kung-fu-hustle/
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Event venue
TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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