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Bullet-Fu Lovers Unite: What Are The Best Hong Kong Action Movies?

This past month, on the Criterion Channel, they had this excellent retrospective of Hong Kong action movies, which sent me ...
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Hong Kong Tourism Board Launches “Live Out the Cinematic Hong Kong” at the Cannes Film Festival

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) on proudly unveiled new docufilm “Hong Kong Classics Reimagined” on Friday (17 May) in Cannes, France. Premiering during the Marché du Film ...
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Five Classic 1985 Martial Arts Flicks Turning 40 This Year

The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

Action Legend John Woo Relives His Hong Kong Days, as Hard-to-See ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘The Killer’ Get Another Shot With Audiences

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in ...
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11 best Hong Kong films on Netflix to stream this Lunar New Year: from Jackie Chan action movies to romance with Andy Lau and classic Chow Yun-fat comedies

Gathering around the TV is an unofficial LNY holiday tradition, but forget The Queen’s Gambit or K-drama – Netflix also hosts a raft of Hong Kong classics From God of Gamblers to An Autumn’s Tale or a ...
Los Angeles Times

John Woo on the classic era of Hong Kong action, plus the week’s best movies

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As awards season begins to take shape, this week the New York Film Festival announced its ...