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

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

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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)

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Edward Yang

A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang, 1994)

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She Shoots Straight

In the Line of Duty V: Middle Man (Cha Chuen-yee, 1990)

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Hong Sangsoo

Walk Up (Hong Sangsoo, 2022)

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Obayashi Nobuhiko

House (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1977)

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A Better Tomorrow

Wolf Pack and Baby Assassins (Michael Chiang, 2022 and Sakamoto Yugo, 2021)

The 36th Chamber

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (Various, 2020)

It’s hard to imagine how long I’ve been talking about the film that would eventually become Septet: The Story of Hong Kong. The first time I tweeted about it appears to have been August of 2017, although that tweet is phrased as a reminder, which means I must

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Yamashita Nobuhiro

Reviews: Linda Linda Linda (2005) – September 4, 2025 Capsule Reviews: Linda Linda Linda (2005) — May 13, 2015 La La La at Rock Bottom (2015) — January 10, 2016 Over the Fence (2016) — July 25, 2017 Hard-Core (2018) — June 28, 2019 List: Yamashita Nobuhiro Movies

King Hu

The King of Wuxia (Lin Jing-jie, 2022)

Joining the ever-expanding pantheon of great Chinese filmmakers given the full-length documentary treatment is King Hu, the man behind many of the most accomplished and influential action films of all-time. But while Johnnie To, Ann Hui, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jia Zhangke are still very much alive and working, and thus

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Johnnie To

The Running Out of Time Series (Johnnie To, 1999 and 2001)

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Qiu Jiongjiong

A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong, 2021)