Kung Fu Movie Guide Live: The Heroic Trio

We are super excited to be taking the Kung Fu Movie Guide podcast on the road, hosting screenings of classic action and martial arts movies across the southeast of the UK, followed by live discussions with special guests recorded for the podcast.

On 12 November, we were thrilled to screen the cult classic, The Heroic Trio (1993), at The Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford. We were joined by special guest, Hong Kong stunt veteran and acclaimed action director, Jude Poyer (Gangs of London, Havoc) who runs Reel Power Stunts.

A true cult classic, The Heroic Trio is a wild, female-led superhero caper which combines mind-bending action, kung fu fighting, motorcycle chases and crazy wire stunts. Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love), Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and pop queen Anita Mui (Rumble in the Bronx) combine as Wonder Woman, Invisible Woman and Thief Catcher to take down the mysterious Evil Master who is kidnapping babies for his own nefarious plans. Directed by action legend Johnnie To (Drug War), who throws every genre imaginable into the pot, this is Hong Kong action cinema at its most delirious and entertaining, led by three of its biggest female stars.

We had fun discussing the magic of ‘wire fu’, via the career of action director Tony Ching Siu Tung, and Jude’s own work with this elder statesman of action cinema, and how it’s inspired his work in the west.

These events are presented by KFMG host Ben Johnson and myself as part of the BFI’s Art of Action season, in association with the Independent Cinema Office and Film Hub South East.