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            • chopsocky
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            • A genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence. Collins Dictionary
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            • You get a fair amount of bang for your kung fu buck: decent Fu-fights, the classic scenes of the chopsocky genre, wherein, inevitably, large crowds of Hawaiian shirt-clad men run into either a brothel or a restaurant and proceed to gesticulate wildly with kung fu territorial threat/dominance displays, and then one quietly heroic man of greater alpha dominance (who would always prefer to be left alone) runs amok among them and dominates them. - The Epoch Times by
            • From chopsocky Hong Kong martial arts movies to campy Bollywood of the '70s and '80s, Bala pours his adoration for the cinema he grew up on into this irreverent tribute. - News 18 by
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            • porradaria oriental
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            • While looking for movies within this category, I noticed they were listed in Brazilian Portuguese as just martial arts or action movies. I could not find any specific source pointing out an expression created by the Brazilian public to define this genre. To suit the colloquial style of chopsocky, I proposed a term that could be easily understood by any reader without further researches. Own research - by Fábio de Macêdo
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            • Dos filmes de artes marciais e porradaria orientais de Hong Kong aos exageros de Bollywood dos anos 70 e 80, Bala manifesta seu carinho pelo cinema com que cresceu nesse tributo irreverente. by Fábio de Macêdo
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