[Our thanks go out to regular Twitch reader Agent Wax for the following review of Malaysian martial arts film Kinta.]
This reviewer visited Penang State in Malaysia over the weekend, and to his surprise, found that the Malaysia’s first kung fu film, Kinta, featured on Twitch in previous postings, had just opened in local theatres. Here’s my review with some (very) minor spoilers. The family names of the various cast and crew are given in capitals.
The titular Kinta refers to a district in the Malaysian state of Perak, which produced massive amounts of tin ore in the 18th and 19th centuries while under British colonial rule. Interestingly, the transliteration of ‘Kinta’ into the Chinese language used characters which literally mean ‘Close Quarters Combat’, an irony evidently not lost on the filmmakers. To work the tin mines, the British required an enormous number of labourers, which they obtained primarily from China. Historians estimated that from 1850 to 1925, 835’000 Southern Han Chinese migrated to the Malay Straits. Some went as free men or women,...
This reviewer visited Penang State in Malaysia over the weekend, and to his surprise, found that the Malaysia’s first kung fu film, Kinta, featured on Twitch in previous postings, had just opened in local theatres. Here’s my review with some (very) minor spoilers. The family names of the various cast and crew are given in capitals.
The titular Kinta refers to a district in the Malaysian state of Perak, which produced massive amounts of tin ore in the 18th and 19th centuries while under British colonial rule. Interestingly, the transliteration of ‘Kinta’ into the Chinese language used characters which literally mean ‘Close Quarters Combat’, an irony evidently not lost on the filmmakers. To work the tin mines, the British required an enormous number of labourers, which they obtained primarily from China. Historians estimated that from 1850 to 1925, 835’000 Southern Han Chinese migrated to the Malay Straits. Some went as free men or women,...
- 12/8/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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