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Dirty Ho

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The heir to an emperor's throne, threatened by his brother, befriends a thief who helps him defeat the usurper.

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Dirty Ho

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Ed Travis Cinapse Dirty Ho, from the legendary filmmaker Lau Kar Leung, really does feel like a passing of the baton from the impressive choreography of Shaw’s 1960s-1970s output to a new level of balletic insanity. May 14, 2022 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse "Dirty Ho" does not reach the levels of the top productions of both Lau Kar-leung and Shaw Brothers, but remains a very entertaining as much as well-shot film that has actually aged nicely. Jan 10, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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annette Z i like to give this movie 7 stars - ! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/08/24 Full Review Audience Member Absolutely Sublime. Action as poetry and dance. A genuinely funny film with some of the most striking and fun set pieces in any of these Hong Kong action flicks. Lau Kar-Leung was the best to ever do it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Master Wang (Gordon Liu) is really the eleventh prince of Manchuria in disguise, trying to discover which of the other fourteen heirs to the throne are trying to kill him. He's pretending to be a jewelry dealer which brings him into the world of jewel thief Dirty Ho (Wong Yue). Also, Wang is such a good fighter that he's able to defeat people without ever seeming to be fighting them! Wang conspires to get Ho to ask him to teach him in the ways of fighting. After Master Wang is injured, he demands that Ho take him on a journey to a ruined city battered by the wind in an astounding segment of this movie. While so much of this Lau Kar-Leung-directed movie is given to comedy and wine-tasting, the last fights of the film make it worth a watch. It's also a film that subverts the usual master and student story and has a Manchu character as the hero. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Gordon Liu's porn-stache + kung fu + comedy = gold #ShawBros Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Directed by Lau Kar Leung and featuring the Venom Mob, this one is probably one of the groups best. Gordon Liu plays a prince who hires a thief, Dirty Ho, to protect him from assassins. The film has a fair amount of comedy that actually works and the film also did not recycle to usual you-killed-my-master-and-now-I'll-seek-revenge storyline. When you include those factors and the typically excellent fight choreography by the Venom Mob, that makes this one of their better films. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Jackie Change aside, Kung Fu comedy doesn't do anything for me. This is no different but the class of Gordon Liu and some excellent choreographed fight scenes makes it worth a watch. The wheel chair scene is immense. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The heir to an emperor's throne, threatened by his brother, befriends a thief who helps him defeat the usurper.
Director
Chia-Liang Liu
Production Co
Shaw Brothers
Rating
R
Genre
Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 18, 2016
Runtime
1h 43m
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