Sunday, March 8, 2009

Champions aka "Duo Biao"


Release Date:
13 November 2008
Genre:
Action
Cast:
Dicky Cheung, Miu Tse, Priscilla Wong, Debbie Goh, Wai Chi Ho



The story is based around the efforts of the Chinese National Martial Art League to raise the money to get the Olympic athletes and the demo team to Berlin. Thrown into the mix is a rivalry between women sprinters, a gangster kidnapping the baby of a kindly benefactor, the usual outdoor kung fu tournament with a "bad" kung fu school messing things up, the two male leads put into conflict with each other and lots and lots of feel good Chinese boosterism. In a way this film resembles a classic propaganda film from the days of Mao.

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