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The Mad Monk (Johnnie To, 1993)

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The Mad Monk (Johnnie To, 1993)

The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo, 2019)

The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo, 2019)

The Wandering Earth is to the Hollywood effects-driven disaster film what Farewell, My Concubine was to the Hollywood epic historical costume drama: a statement that Chinese cinema can be just as big and empty as the biggest movie machines in the world. Based on a novel by Liu Cixin, the

Aberdeen (Pang Ho-cheung, 2014)

Aberdeen (Pang Ho-cheung, 2014)

Pang Ho-cheung’s ambitious family melodrama chronicles the intersecting lives of an all-star cast, at times grasping towards Magnolia and Yi yi but ultimately settling at an ending so unsatisfying one hopes it’s meant satirically. Which, knowing Pang, it very well might be. It’s an inverted cousin to

My Heart is that Eternal Rose (Patrick Tam, 1989)

My Heart is that Eternal Rose (Patrick Tam, 1989)

A Triad love story movie that stars Kenny Bee, Joey Wong, Tony Leung, Gordon Liu, and Ng Man-tat. Directed by Patrick Tam and (partially) shot by Christopher Doyle and produced by John Sham (one of Sammo Hung's Lucky Stars). If only one of Chang Cheh’s stars like