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The Mad Monk (Johnnie To, 1993)

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The Mad Monk (Johnnie To, 1993)

The Heroic Trio and Executioners (Johnnie To & Ching Siu-tung, 1993)

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The Heroic Trio and Executioners (Johnnie To & Ching Siu-tung, 1993)

Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan, 1999 and 2000)

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Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan, 1999 and 2000)

The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)

The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)

After a few rough years at the start of his Milkyway Image studio, producing great movies that never really caught on at the box office, and constantly at odds with his subordinate directors, in 1999 Johnnie To just decided to give up the pretense and begin directing most of his

Cook Up a Storm (Raymond Yip, 2017)

Cook Up a Storm (Raymond Yip, 2017)

One of only two Hong Kong films to be playing at SIFF this year is this cooking movie from star Nicholas Tse and director Raymond Yip. It’s a Lunar New Year film, opening a week after the holiday both at home and abroad, to avoid box office competition from

The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993)

The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993)

Before becoming a renowned auteur, a favorite of critics and film festivals the world over, Johnnie To was known primarily in the West for the two films he made in 1993 in collaboration with director and action choreographer Ching Siu-tung. The Heroic Trio and Executioners star Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung,

Golden Chicken 2 (Samson Chiu, 2003)

Golden Chicken 2 (Samson Chiu, 2003)

The first Golden Chicken filtered 30 years of Hong Kong history through the life of one ridiculous prostitute and dared you not to be moved by her. Samson Chiu’s sequel, released one year later, tries the same trick, but with 30 years of Hong Kong cinema instead, most specifically

Isabella (Pang Ho-cheung, 2006)

Isabella (Pang Ho-cheung, 2006)

First things first: Anthony Wong is in this movie. He is in three scenes and he is eating in every one of them. It’s set in Macau and was released in 2006. I’m pretty sure he filmed his scenes on his lunch breaks during the making of Exiled

Ip Man: The Final Fight (Herman Yau, 2013)

Ip Man: The Final Fight (Herman Yau, 2013)

If Herman Yau’s first Ip Man film distinguished itself from the other recent movies about the man by focusing intensely on the intricacies of the Wing Chun style, this one does so in the detail historical backdrop it creates for its main character. The opening shot, a long digital