Cantonese

  • Wu Ma – Hua zhong xian AKA Picture of a Nymph (1988)

    1981-1990AdventureComedyHong KongWu Ma

    A scholar, living with a Taoist Priest, meets Mo Chiu the ghost and paints a picture of her. Mo, being chased by the demon, hides in the portrait. The priest discovers that but he is persuaded by the scholar not to kill Mo. The demon and the priest, being the deadly enemy, finally have to fight a duel. Mo and the scholar loves each other but Mo, being a ghost, must leave…Read More »

  • Michael Mak – San lau sing woo dip gim AKA Butterfly and Sword (1993)

    1991-2000ActionAdventureHong KongMichael Mak

    Dynamo Michelle Khan stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King’s empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Top fight action.Read More »

  • Wilson Tong – Two Jolly Cops (1985)

    1981-1990ActionComedyHong KongWilson Tong

    Synopsis
    Rare action comedy from Hong Kong. A real gem. The Master Killer -Gordon Liu stars in this Hong Kong cop buddy movie as a detective, who is assigned to find an heiress to a fortune who has gone missing under suspicious circumstances. Non-stop laughs and action in this awesome modern day actioner.Read More »

  • Kar-Wai Wong – Wang Jiao ka men AKA As Tears Go By (1988)

    Kar-Wai Wong1981-1990CrimeDramaHong Kong

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    Set on the mean streets of Hong Kong in the late eighties, “As Tears Go By” is the tale of two lowly gangsters, Ah Wah and his side-kick Fly trapped in a endless downward spiral of violence and vengeance. Overview: A low-level triad “big brother” (Andy Lau) has a hot-tempered “little brother” (Jacky Cheung) who can’t keep out of trouble, and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his protector. Andy is super cool, but lacks the ambition to rise in the ranks of the triad societies, and once he meets his cousin (Maggie Cheung), and falls in love with her, he decides he wants to leave “the life”. But it turns out that he has to bail out Jacky one more time. And this time, Jacky may have gone too far.Read More »

  • Kar-Wai Wong – One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart (2021)

    2021-2030DocumentaryHong KongKar-Wai WongShort Film

    Containing never-before-seen materials, including deleted scenes, behind-the-scene footage and selected narration by Wong Kar Wai, ONE-TENTH OF A MILLIMETER APART chronicles the tales behind featured shots and scenes that narrowly missed out on the final cuts of ASHES OF TIME (1994), CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994), FALLEN ANGELS (1995), HAPPY TOGETHER (1997), IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000), 2046 (2004), MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (2007) and THE GRANDMASTER (2013).Read More »

  • Clement Sze-Kit Cheng & Chi-kin Kwok – Da lui toi AKA Gallants (2010) 

    2001-2010ActionChi-kin KwokClement Sze-Kit ChengComedyHong Kong

    Weedy office worker Cheung is sent to a remote village to secure property rights for his real estate company. Two martial artists run the village’s teahouse, which was once the kung-fu school of their teacher Master Law. Law is in fact lying unconscious upstairs in a three decades-long coma, but he awakes when gym boss and local landlord Pong attempts to secure the teahouse for redevelopment. Law mistakes Cheung for a former student and starts training him in preparation for a martial-arts tournament at Pong’s gym that will decide all their fates.Read More »

  • Hark Tsui – Hua yue jia qi aka Love in the time of twilight (1995)

    Hark Tsui1991-2000ComedyFantasyHong Kong

    The plot is hard to summarize because there’s so much going on and it happens so fast. A young man who works in a bank and a young woman who works at the Peking Opera in a bustling Chinese town at the turn of the century are looking for mates (along with dozens of other young singles) during an annual festival and continually cross paths, but instead of connecting, they keep antagonizing each other. When the man, Kong, is killed in a bank robbery, he appears as a ghost to the young woman, Yan Yan, two weeks later and manages to get her to go back in time with him to the day of the murder to try and change history. Things take a frenetic turn as the two keep running into their earlier selves and the now-dead robber’s ghost shows up to conspire with his living self to thwart the couple. A horrible fate awaits the couple in an eerie afterlife if they fail…Read More »

  • Tony Au – Mung chung yan AKA Dream Lovers (1986)

    1981-1990FantasyHong KongRomanceTony Au

    Without having met, a famous orchestra conductor and a beautiful woman seem destined to be together. They see one another’s faces in their dreams, reflected in mirrors, and in crowded streets before finally meeting in person.Read More »

  • Fruit Chan – Sam foo AKA Three Husbands (2018)

    Fruit Chan2011-2020ChinaDramaFantasy

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    A wondrous prostitute plies her trade while living on a boat in Hong Kong. With a superhuman libido and three loving husbands, she doggedly devotes herself to her work. Using sex to satirize the era, this film brims with intense desire.Read More »

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