Half a Loaf of Kung Fu
- warm
- kinetic
- intimate
- funny
A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
Our read · Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded kung-fu · comedy · jackie-chan entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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