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Jeffrey Lau

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Hero (Corey Yuen, 1997)
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Corey Yuen

Hero (Corey Yuen, 1997)

Jun 2, 2022 4 min read
So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)
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Corey Yuen

So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)

May 23, 2022 4 min read
Jeffrey Lau Capsule Reviews
Jeffrey Lau

Jeffrey Lau Capsule Reviews

The Haunted Cop Shop (1987) — July 25, 2020 Jeffrey Lau-directed and Wong Kar-wai-written mash-up/parody of the Chinese vampire and girls with guns genres. The vampires are more Western though (with a backstory about the Japanese occupation to satisfy the critics) and the GWG stuff is mostly just Jacky Cheung
Mar 24, 2018 5 min read
East Meets West (Jeffrey Lau, 2011)
Jeffrey Lau

East Meets West (Jeffrey Lau, 2011)

Jeffrey Lau’s 1994 film The Eagle-Shooting Heroes stands out among the weird and wacky world of Hong Kong comedies as possibly the weirdest and wackiest, at least in my fairly small sampling. A parody of the same source material that formed the basis for Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of
Dec 13, 2012 2 min read
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