Police Story (1985)
One of Jackie Chan’s (Cannonball Run II, Wheels on Meals) first big breakthroughs beyond a Hong Kong market, Police Story works well beyond just the standard kung fu fare, as it is, at the same time, also...
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True Colours (1986)
Lung, Wong, and May have been lifelong friends, but circumstances forced Lung to flee the scene for five years after being a not-so-nice guy. When he returns, he finds that his once tough friend...
Handsome Siblings (1992)
One of the many reasons why I enjoy watching Hong Kong action films is due to the clever use of comic relief even amid the most direst of situations. When this is done well,...
The Three Swordsmen (1994)
It’s pretty difficult to give you a plot summary of a film that is not only faithless to its own plot, but at times does not even remember what it is. I’ll give it...
The Legend of the Swordsman (1992)
When two warring factions in Ancient Japan, the mainlanders and the highlanders, go to war, Ling (Li, Once Upon a Time in China) and his school of martial artists head to the mountains. While there, he...
Ashes of Time (1994)
In ancient China, a desert-dweller named Ou-Yang (Leslie Cheung) gets in the middle of a circle of stories involving various swordsmen. Huang (Tony Leung) is a swordsman who drinks some magic wine in order to forget...
Royal Tramp II (1992)
Continuing the slapstick saga of the clown prince of China (Chow, Fight Back to School), still performing his shenanigans while maintaining his position as the emperor’s right-hand man. Definitely a step down comedically from the...
Dream Lovers (1986)
In modern-day Hong Kong, a popular orchestra conductor (Chow Yun-Fat, A Better Tomorrow) has visions of a past life as a member of the Qin dynasty over 2000 years ago. Across town, an archaeologist’s daughter...
The Bride with White Hair 2 (1993)
The second (and final) film in the Bride saga continues with Lian Ni-chang (Lin) vowing to slaughter the remainder of the tribes in Wu-Tang, as she is possessed by evil after being misunderstood by her lover, Zhuo...