Films like Dance of the Drunk Mantis.
Dance of the Drunk Mantis (1979) reads as Warm, breathless, measured kung-fu / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes; trades toward a heightened unreality.
These are Dance of the Drunk Mantis’s neighbours — where are yours?
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