Wayne Gerard Trotman

Mike Leeder looks back at what can possibly claim to be the UK’s first ‘homegrown’ martial arts actioner, Ashes To Ashes. Gentle readers, a question: What was the first feature length British martial arts movie? Simon Wyndham and Steve Lawson’s Insiders? Modern Life’s left for dead? While both of those films have blazed a trail for the UK’s indie action moviemakers, the title of the first UK martial arts movie should probably go to Ashes To Ashes, a film written and directed by...