Kung Fu Hustle

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Writer-director-actor Stephen Chow’s hilariously bonkers homage to/send-up of kung fu and American cinema displays an audacious blending of genres and tones that turned the 2004 feature into an instant modern classic. In China’s Canton region in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster named Sing (Chow) tries to scam residents of a Shanghai slum, but his plan crumbles and inadvertently kick-starts a turf war with the unassuming tenants, who all happen to be martial arts grandmasters. Something like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by way of Buster Keaton and Quentin Tarantino, this joke-a-minute comedy remains quite possibly the most absurd action film ever committed to celluloid. The fight scenes are courtesy of legendary action choreographer Yuen Woo Ping (Drunken Master, The Matrix).