Jeffrey Lau - The Chinese Cinema

Jeffrey Lau

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Hero (Corey Yuen, 1997)

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Hero (Corey Yuen, 1997)

So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)

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So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)

Jeffrey Lau Capsule Reviews

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

East Meets West (Jeffrey Lau, 2011)

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