“Second Life” Poster
What do you get when you combine an actress who was around when Bruce Lee was still active, and the actor who played Bruce Lee in 2016’s Birth of the Dragon? The answer is 2024’s Second Life, which offers up a rare starring role for Yuen Qiu, and arguably an equally rare starring role for HK action thespian Philip Ng, here reuniting for the first time since appearing together in the 2016 TVB series A Fist Within Four Walls.
There are a few ways a kung-fu movie can earn a viewer’s good will from the get-go, and certainly one of them has to be a character receiving a slow-motion flying kick to the face within the first couple of minutes. In Second Life said kick comes courtesy of a grieving widow played by Zhou Xiaofei (Europe Raiders, Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend), delivered against the gangster who murdered her police officer husband during the latter’s funeral, resulting in instant death. Hauled off to prison, while incarcerated she gives birth to a son, however once he hits one he’s placed into the countries welfare system.
Skip forward 30 years and, with her prison sentence completed, Yuen Qiu (Dragon, The Young Master, The Dragon’s Snake Fist) steps into the role of the high kicking mother, now old enough to be a grandmother. Moving into her old Chinese medicine business, top of the agenda is to find the son she lost contact with while behind bars and begin Continue reading
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