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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Heroes of the East (浮城) at Maridon Museum, April 10.



The Maridon Museum will show the 1978 Hong Kong movie Heroes of the East (浮城) on April 10 as part of its Hong Kong Film Series. LoveHKFilm provides a plot summary:
An arranged marriage between a proud Chinese man and a fiery Japanese woman leads to a variety of domestic squabbles, numerous cross-cultural misunderstandings, and a martial arts battle of epic proportions in this entertaining Shaw Brothers fight fest from master director Lau Kar-Leung.
The film is presented by Dr. William Covey of Slippery Rock University. The Maridon, an Asian art museum, is located at 322 North McKean St in downtown Butler (map), roughly 40 miles north of Pittsburgh.