Every time I sit in one place for more than a day, my mind gets turning and I get to ranting. I spent 5 nights and 4 days in Koh Kong, so there were bound to be some rants generated. Since there was no reliable or inexpensive internet in the area, I put most of these down in my journal. Here is a sampling of brief synopses. Martial Arts Movies In America, we've got action movies, sports movies, crime movies, gang movies, fight movies, war movies, historical epics, comedies, etc, etc. In Asia, a martial arts film can be all of these. The martial arts style gives storytellers a broadly popular genre to work within, and a great deal of freedom to create within that genre. Thus, the martial arts film has become ubiquitous in eastern
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