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 signatures of any living filmmaker. Back ...
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Funny Ghost: A So-Awful-It's-Good Comedy Snapshot of 80s Hong Kong

Financially ruined and penniless, bar hostess Yue and her failed yuppy best friend Ngoh try to kill themselves by jumping in front of cars. Their attempts to throw themselves into oncoming traffic ...
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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, ...
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Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hong Kong has one of the most influential pop cultures among Asian cities, especially its pervasive Cantopop and movies from the 1980s to the 1990s, which gave birth to 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 ...

Hong Kong Selects ‘The Last Dance' as Oscar Entry

Hong Kong has selected local blockbuster hit "The Last Dance" as its submission for the best international feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards.