Sean Gilman

A film critic in Tacoma, Washington. Bylines at The Criterion Collection, the Mubi Notebook, Frame.land, InReview Online, Seattle Screen Scene and more.

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Stephen Shin

Easy Money (Stephen Shin, 1987)

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Mang Hoi

The Tantana (Mang Hoi, 1991)

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Zhang Yimou

Snipers (Zhang Yimou & Zhang Mo, 2022)

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Hong Sangsoo

In Water (Hong Sangsoo, 2023)

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Tsui Hark

Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Tsui Hark, 2002)

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Stephen Shin

Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin (Stephen Shin, 1992)

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Gordon Chan

Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan, 1994)

Cheng Er

Hidden Blade (Cheng Er, 2023)

When Hidden Blade was first announced, it was called Anonymous (a literal translation of its Chinese title “無名”) and stated to be the third part of a propaganda trilogy which included Andrew Lau’s 2021 COVID drama Chinese Doctors and the first (but not the second?) part of The Battle

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Ringo Lam

Undeclared War (Ringo Lam, 1990)

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Yiu Tin-hung

Secret Police (Yiu Tin-hung, 1992)

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Stephen Shin

Black Cat (Stephen Shin, 1991)

Introduction

Sources

This is a bibliography of the books and websites on Chinese Cinema which I’ve collected over the years. Some of them I've read more completely than others, but all should provide useful information. I've marked with an asterisk the titles and sites I've found most essential thus far. Books

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Wong Jing

New Kung Fu Cult Master (Wong Jing and Venus Keung, 2022)

Frant Gwo

The Wandering Earth II (Frant Gwo, 2023)

Four years and many, many crises ago, The Wandering Earth became one of the biggest Chinese blockbusters of all-time. A sci-fi epic about family and sacrifice for the collective good, it effectively welded Hollywood-style disaster effects action to a PRC-friendly message and dominated that year’s Lunar New Year season.

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Johnnie To

The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To, 1993)

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Chor Yuen

Swordsman and Enchantress (Chor Yuen, 1978)

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Michelle Yeoh

Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong, 1992)

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The Odd One Dies

Pretty Good Stuff

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Obayashi Nobuhiko

School in the Crosshairs (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1981)

Good Men, Good Women

Stanley Tong

Reviews: Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) — January 12, 2023 Project S (1993) – January 18, 2022 Capsule Reviews: Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong, 1992)— March 3, 2018 Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, 1995)— March 5, 2018 Police Story 4: First Strike (Stanley Tong, 1996) — March 3, 2018 Kung Fu

Stanley Tong

Stanley Tong Capsule Reviews

Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong, 1992) — March 3, 2018 At what point do you think Jackie Chan realized Michelle Yeoh was going to upstage him in every scene? He already had to contend with a vastly overqualified Maggie Cheung, and you just know he didn’t give Yuen Wah

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She Shoots Straight

Queen's High (Chris Lee Kin-sang, 1991)

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She Shoots Straight

In the Line of Duty VII (Cheng Siu-keung, 1991)

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Ng Yuen-fai

Warriors of Future (Ng Yuen-fai, 2022)

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She Shoots Straight

In the Line of Duty VI: Forbidden Arsenal (Cheng Siu-keung and Yuen Jun-man, 1991)