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This martial arts fantasy film--starring Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, and Sonny Chiba--is based on the best-selling, long-running comic book series WIND AND CLOUD by artist Ma Wing-Shing. Dazzling special effects combine with high-flying kung fu action to create one of Hong Kong's biggest hit movies. Read more

Starring Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Sonny Chiba, Kristy Yang
Director Wai Keung Lau
Genres Action/Adventure, World Cinema

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The Stormriders

This martial arts fantasy film--starring Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, and Sonny Chiba--is based on the best-selling, long-running comic book series WIND AND CLOUD by artist Ma Wing-Shing. Dazzling special effects combine with high-flying kung fu action to create one of Hong Kong's biggest hit movies.

Starring Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Sonny Chiba, Kristy Yang, Qi Shu
Director Wai Keung Lau
Studio MIA VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 10 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 12.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, World Cinema
Language Cantonese
Dubbed English
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 22 Oct 2001
Production year: 1998
Format DVD

The Stormriders (2 discs) (1998)

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  • "...Technically dazzling....[A] convincingly imaginative look and style. Performances, particularly Chiba's are universally strong and convincing..."

    • Box Office
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    A storm is brewing.. two sugars please.

    Stormriders made almost three times as much money as Crouching Tiger at the Hong Kong box office, make of that what you will but for me Stormriders is one of the most impressive movies to come out of Asia for reasons that I have to admit, I don't fully understand.

    Starwars is my favourite movie of all time, it's a movie that's easy to dislike but a movie that's impossible to ignore. Stormriders works for me in the same way, it introduced me to a kind of movie making that i had rarely seen before. Pure fantasy of course, but it felt fresh and exciting and it was a movie that I wanted to see again and again.

    Of course, I'm not comparing Stormriders to Starwars. Neither film have anything in common, but Stormriders was the film that first made me look East. Hollywood movies had lost that spark of originality, just look now at the way that they are imitating Asian cinema and you'll realise that this kind of movie is a much more passionate affair. Style, colour, blistering choreography and overblown theatrics, it's what Hong Kong cinema is all about. Hollywood is a business, they hit their marks and make their money.

    Stormriders will always be a personal favourite of mine. It's not perfect, but some would argue that neither was Starwars. And that opens up a whole new can of worms...

      • adiw from Leicestershire
      • Posted 26 Feb 2005 23:56

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Don't bother

    I rented this DVD as I had heard it had broken all box office records in asia. How disappointed I was.

    Apparently, I learned later, this was because the film was based on a well known comic book, and the film claimed to be an accurate representation of it. Unfortunately this wasn't true and the film is neither a decent comic book conversion or a stunning martial arts action flick. The fight scenes are poor, some of the budget spent on the less than stunning special effects could have gone towards the choreography instead.

    The storyline is wondering, trying to include too much from the comics, and not successfully representing any of it in the process. The characters dont get properly developed, the background of the story is hardly touched on and a rich universe is left behind in order to put forth a less than mediocre action film

    I'd recommend giving this film a miss and renting some of the older traditional martial arts films, such as Drunken Master

      • Guy from York
      • Posted 22 Mar 2005 23:36

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