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Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
★ 7.5 · 3,149 ratings on TMDB
So many gangsters… so little time.
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
DirectorStephen Chow
The emergence reading
Kung Fu Hustle keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing martialarts, class, violence, mythic, comedy.
zero-distanceHKmartialartsclassviolencemythiccomedy
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