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AMP Talks #15: Ricky Lau’s Mr. Vampire

May 15, 2021
Panos Kotzathanasis

In the fifteenth episode of AMP, Panos Kotzathanasis, Adriana Rosati and Don Aneli discuss 's

  1. Combining horror, comedy and martial arts
  2. Combining cartoonish action with brutality
  3. The scene with the coffee, the “prostitute” one, the despicability of the officers and the cunningness of the merchants
  4. The prison scene
  5. The role of the femme fatale – her musical introduction and the fight in the finale
  6. Master Cou's character and performance
  7. The success of the film and the franchise that spawned
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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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