I’m a huge fan of Hong Kong genre cinema myself. I’ll watch about anything, from mainstream movies (John Woo and Sammo Hung directed actioners for example), to the more obscure stuff. I especially like the industry’s supernatural horror output from the mid eighties to the early nineties. I get a real kick out of watching movies like the Mr. Vampire series and its countless ripoffs.
How about you? Do you have a favourite Hong Kong movie?
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Haven’t gotten into the particularly obscure stuff myself but John Woo’s Hard Boiled is definitely my favorite, honestly it’s just one of my favorite movies, period.
Hard Boiled is a fantastic movie! 💥
Yes, here.
Checkout Johnnie To Kei Fung’s directed movies.
He’s most famous for 90s kung fu action classics like Heroic Trio, and The Barefoot Kid and 00s triad films like the Election movies.
But like most HK directors, the dude does everything from romcom, Chinese New Year’s, police dramas to downright weirdness like the Buddhism themed Running On Karma and the Kurosawa’s Sanshiro Sugata judo tribute Throwdown.
They’re almost all great.
Not so much movies where he’s producing only
I’ve been looking for a new home since http://lovehkfilm.com/ stopped posting new reviews.
Awesome! I’m a big Johnnie To fan actually. I’ve seen about 20 of his movies. He’s really one of the GOATs. 🙌🏻
What are some of your favourite HK movies that you don’t hear enough people talk about?
It’s kind of hard to say… Johnnie To’s movies with Sammi Cheng don’t get enough credit from the largely male HK film audience: Wu Yen, Love On A Diet, Needing You, and My Left Eye Sees Ghosts.
But in general To’s stuff gets enough international acclaim.
Or got acclaim. HK movies have really fallen off the radar since DVDs became obsolete due to streaming/piracy.
And that was a long time ago.
Honestly I haven’t watched anything new since 2007.
There’s a lot for me to catch up on!
