Acting as security at a Cosplay and Martial Arts Film Festival should be a walk in the park and you’ve been enjoying rubbing shoulders with the costumed fans, watching martial arts displays and spot of celebrity watching at the inaugural Wulin Days, Hollywood Nights festival taking place this weekend at the Heavenly Jade Theatre and Film studio in a down town suburb of L.A.
The film auditorium has been decorated with props and artefacts from a number of famous and lesser known wuxia movies to set the scene and the room is buzzing with excitement as the main event is about to begin. Tonight fans of Asian cinema are being treated to a rare Q and A with cult director and acting legend Henry ” Iron Fist ” Chang before a viewing of the newly remastered directors cut of his early masterpiece Burning Dragon vs. Iron Fist to celebrate its 40th Anniversary.
The lights go down, the film rolls and the titles scroll…..then the mayhem starts….who is that cadaverous freak in tattered robes that’s just burst through the screen ….why is he screaming in a high pitched wail and who are those guys with the swords and throwing stars that are spilling out after him …