Genre - Action
2002. Nicolas Tse is the head cop in a special, secret ghostbusting crime unit, and his partner, played by Sam Lee, is a ghost. But when Lee reincarnates, he needs to find someone new -- and ends up with fresh-faced traffic... » MORE
Aces go Places. One of Hong Kong's classic action comedy series began here, written, directed, and produced by the Cinema City collective, who turned making comedies into a science, estimating and ensuring proper gag to reel ratios. A sendup of Hollywood action films... » MORE
Aces Go Places II. The "Best Partners" Sam Hui and Karl Maka return for the first of four sequels to the popular film ACES GO PLACES. This time out our heroes must face the mafia assassin "Filthy Harry," killer robots, and a gang of... » MORE
Amar Akbar Anthony. The all time, immortal classic about three children separated from their family and from each other, filled with the biggest stars of the era, and topped off with a sparkling soundtrack of hummable hits. Add three hundred heaping spoonfuls of... » MORE
Angel Cop: Final Crisis. If you asked who you had to sleep with to get a decent part in a Hong Kong film, the answer is most decidedly not Jackie Chan, since Elaine Ng, recent mother of his illegitimate child, ended up in this... » MORE
Angulimala. A Thai version of the heartwarming Buddhist legend of an outcast driven to murder by his teacher, and by his Dharma, collecting 1,000 fingers as his fate, until the Buddha enlightens him and he gives up finger collecting, even though... » MORE
Anna in Kung Fu Land. Miriam Yeung stars as the daughter of an ex-Shaolin Monk, who comes to Hong Kong to win a martial arts championship and prove her father's righteousness. Ekin Cheng is the organizer of the tournament. It's love at first sight, only... » MORE
Bat Without Wings. Five years ago, 28 of the best boxers of the martial world teamed up to defeat the villainous "Bat Without Wings." In the end, legend has it, he killed 26 of the boxers buy was finally defeated. But it isn't... » MORE
Benaam Badsha. Anil Kapoor is the "Boss," a bad ass son of a bitch who terrorizes his neighborhood and doesn't give anything a damn. Juhi Chawla is Jyoti, a beautiful girl that moves into the neighborhood, supposedly to get material for her... » MORE
Black Butterfly. What if, after a disaster struck, you are asked by the Red Cross and other organizations for a generous donation? What if you refuse to donate for your own personal reasons regardless of your wealth? The answer here is simple... » MORE
Bomb-Shell, The. In Hong Kong movies, the cross-eyed, buck-toothed moron has only two options -- comedic relief or maniacal remourseless killer. This time its the latter, and ever since his cross-eyed girlfriend died he just watches TV and makes bombs. Admittedly, I... » MORE
Boom. Three models get caught up with the underworld and are forced to steal diamonds for them. But they've got plans of their own, which mostly involve showing lots of cleavage. They also drink, smoke opium, and rob a bank. Demonstrating... » MORE
Boxing King, The. Fan Siu Wong plays a dim witted construction worker who knows how to fight. He gets into boxing, and gets his brains bashed out. This doesn't make him smarter, but neither does it have any other noticable effect, other than... » MORE
Choompae. Pherg Choompae (Sombat Methanee) goes back to his hometown to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the smuggling kingpin Tom (Kecha Plianvithee). Sounds simple, right? Think again! I never knew a simple revenge plot could be... » MORE
Colour of Pain. A hit man from Japan (Kenya Sawada) gets a bullet in his brain while on assignment in Hong Kong and can't go home again (apparently since the airport metal detectors would go off and people would have questions). With nothing... » MORE
Cop Unbowed. Lam (Alex Fong) and Fung (Michael Tse) were best of pals, until Fung accidentally kills the girlfriend of Mr. Dick (Eddy Ko), the mob boss. Fung blames it on Lam, which cuts their friendship short prematurely, and permanently, as Lam... » MORE
D. "D" is for Deshu, son of a cop, who rises up the ranks in the Bombay underground to become a kingpin of crime. 'D' is also a sequel to COMPANY (if Company were 'C', the opening voiceover helpfully explains), in... » MORE
D7: Dangerous Duty. For a movie supposedly starring Max Mok Siu-Chung, there is surprisingly little of him in it. In fact, he dies in the opening scene. He does reappear later though: in a flashback repeating the first scene, but this time in... » MORE
Danger Zone. The young girls who became cops in BRUSH UP MY SISTERS are back, in a digital video production better than the original, but saddled with a much less evocative title. This time around, the girls (Teresa Mak, Jade Leung, Pinky... » MORE
Devil Face, Angel Heart. Daniel Wu and Lam Suet are assassins, and they are also brothers. Stephen Fung and Sam Lee are cops on their trail. When the triad boss's wife takes a shine to Wu despite the fact that he is horribly disfigured,... » MORE
Dragon the Master. Bruce Lee has never truly gone away, living on in the hearts and minds of fans. More than that he is thought of by many as a true Chinese hero, his destruction of the sign that reads "No Dogs or... » MORE
Ek Se Badhkar Ek. Two brothers, living on the street, separated as children when they run afoul of a thief's scheme, sending the older brother to jail. The younger brother, Shankar (Raaj Kumar), vows that he will always be a thorn in the side... » MORE
End of the Stumer, The. What the hell is a Stumer? Did they mean the End of the Summer? The Stunner? The Stoner? The Stammerer? No, turns out they really sort of mean "The Stumer," defined as a forgery or I suppose a forger. This... » MORE
Enter the Phoenix. Stephen Fung turns from acting to directing and for his first full length feature has delivered an entertaining action-comedy gay triad movie. When the old triad boss (Yuen Biao in an inspired cameo) dies, his son Georgie (Daniel Wu) is... » MORE
Exiled. The bodyguards/hitmen of 1999's classic THE MISSION are back again, and once again are helping a friend against the wishes of their crime boss Fay (Simon Yam). Wo (Nick Cheung) shot him, once, and fled. Now Wo is back in... » MORE
Explosive City. There's so many things wrong with EXPLOSIVE CITY it's hard to know where to begin. Perhaps with the tired idea of the kidnapping ring that raises kids to be assassins, for one. Then there's the international cast that occasionally drifts... » MORE
Fatal Contact. Kong (Wu Jing) is an all around nice guy/kung fu champion gets a little work in Chinese Opera. Underground Fighting reps try to recruit him to fight for them, but he won't, until Tin (Miki Yeung), the girl he is... » MORE
Fight to the Finish 2003, A. Here's a low budget action film that actually has something to say about human nature, and specifically what makes someone selfish, what makes someone heroic, and where exactly the line can be drawn between right and wrong. Michael Wong is... » MORE
Final Detention. Thai movies explore every lowbrow genre of film, so when I saw a Thai Women-in-Prison film, how could I resist? Maybe I could have resisted by recalling Thailand's draconian censorship laws. Another good way would have been to recall that... » MORE
Gameboy Kids. Made back during the hectic high-rolling days of Hong Kong cinema, when scripts were a luxury and no joke, no matter how bizarre or extreme, was left out. GAMEBOY KIDS has got to be Gordon Chan's most obscure directorial effort,... » MORE
Golden Sword, The. The chief of the Golden Sword lodge gets hauled off by masked riders, and is never seen again. His son, Bai Yu Lung (Kao Yuen) resolves to find him, and travels to the frontier in his search. While there, he... » MORE
Heat Team. Completely ludicrous buddy cop picture that tries to combine serious action with completely unrealistic police procedures and behavior. Eason Chan is the slovenly cop who gets all the chicks, while Aaron Kwok is the uptight cop who is slightly dim,... » MORE
Her Name is Cat 2: Journey to Death. This film bears no relation whatsoever to HER NAME IS CAT. Some pre-credits action has Almen Wong copping a TOMB RAIDER vibe as she steals a gold Buddha from a Thai temple. This is never mentioned again, and has nothing... » MORE
Hit Team. Not since THE KILLER saved his corneas for Jenny have we seen heroes so concerned about saving up for a major medical procedure. This time, it's undercover cop Chin Kar-Lok who needs some extravagant multimillion dollar back surgery. And it's... » MORE
House of Flying Daggers. This must be the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. The Tang Dynasty fairy tale takes place mostly outdoors, the backdrop the four seasons and the changing terrain, from forests to grasslands to bamboo groves. Against this natural backdrop... » MORE
Infernal Mission. The setup is a shameless ripoff of INFERNAL AFFAIRS, no background story required, since we all know the story. But here's twist -- this time, the stars are girls! Yay! Theresa Mak is the undercover cop, tapping out morse code... » MORE
Insee Tong aka Golden Eagle. An evil communist hypnotist and the "Red Bamboo" gang threaten to overturn the Thai government and start a socialist revolution. The cops can't break the case. Only the legendary "Golden Eagle" (Mitr Chaibuncha) can untangle the complicated plot and save... » MORE
Invincible, The. Fan Siu-Wong is "The Invincible." I guess. Though he talks about entering a martial arts contest and winning the gold medal to prove his strength to his missing father, who left before he was born, we never actually see him... » MORE
Jaani Dost. Insane, utterly insane, and bad, very bad. Everything about this film is far more complicated than necessary -- the back story, the relationships, the heroes, the villains. The cast is heavy with the great camp villains of Bollywood, but unfortunately... » MORE
Janbaaz. A criminal gang of heroin dealers need an infusion of money to set up their next opium crop and distillation laboratory (they're a full service shop!) because Inspector Rajesh destroyed their previous efforts. They ruin a rich gambler and cheat... » MORE
Jiang Hu. Director Wong Ching-Po's first mainstream work is also his best to date. The short running time (under 90 minutes) aggresively compacts the story of Yik (Shawn Yue), a young hood who wins the chance to kill a triad kingpin in... » MORE
Khoon Pasina. Ram and Rahim are best friends, just like their fathers, though one family is Hindu and one Muslim, they are inseperable. When the villainous crook Zaalim Singh beats and attempts to kill a man in the middle of their village... » MORE
Kranti. "Freedom was not a present from the British, presented on a silver platter on a warm august night. It was the culmination of a long and bloody struggle spread over centuries..." I'm sorry, Gandhi who? KRANTI means, "Revolution." And this... » MORE
Kung Fu Hustle. The place is 1930's Shanghai, caught in the grip of the murderous Axe Gang. Sing (Stephen Chiau) and his sidekick (Lam Tze-Chung) are small time cons who try to pass as members of the all-powerful Gang in order to shake... » MORE
Lahu Ke Do Rang. What a find! Suzie Wong meets Bhagat Singh! Hong Kong meets India! This is one of those movies that Indian DVD shops tuck into their 3 for $15 rack, dismissed as a lesser film by a lesser star. But for... » MORE
Leave Me Alone. Much maligned Ekin Cheng shows his stuff here is a slick, light hearted action movie about twin brothers Yiu (Ekin Cheng and Ekin Cheng), who switch identities and get mixed up in each other's troubles. Yiu Chun-Man is a gay... » MORE
Loafer. When Ajit Singh (Dharmendra) was a young boy, he was a ruffian and accidentally threw an honest student to his death during a scuffle. He ran away, into the arms of a thief who took him in as his own.... » MORE
Looking for Mr. Perfect. John Woo wasn't the only director to leave Hong Kong for the greener pastures of Hollywood. But whereas Woo picked up a Jean Claude Van-Damme picture (HARD TARGET) and used it as a jumping off point to bigger and better... » MORE
Lootmaar. While it is typical for leading men to write, direct, produce, and star in their own movies, in which they behave like superheroes, get the girl, and symbolize the might of India against the world, LOOTMAR's opening takes this to... » MORE
Love Battlefield. Director Soi Cheang has made a name for himself in Hong Kong of late by delivering quality horror films that feel at least a somewhat original and that are well crafted. He has taken his craft to the next level... » MORE
Lucky: No Time for Love. Lucky (newcomer Sneha Ullal, who bears more than a passing resemblance to former Miss World Aishwara Rai) is a seventeen year old student and the daughter of an employee of the Indian Embassy in Russia. She's about to fail her... » MORE
Man Called Hero, A. It's the 1930's and Ekin Cheng stars as a swordsman fleeing the law who finds refuge in a famous hotel in New York's Chinatown. ... » MORE
Martial Angels. Hsu Chi and Sandra Ng head up a cast of superthieving, computer-hacking babes who have to steal a new computer super virus from a high tech vault in order to save Hsu's lover from the Russian Mafia. Fun, campy action... » MORE
Medallion, The. Jackie Chan is an international action hero. But sometimes, his movies look like they were made for someone who desperately wants to be an international action hero, but doesn't know how to go about it. This movie tries so hard... » MORE
Midnight Running. Mari, a japanese pickpocket (Maya Rumiko) steals a triad membership list from the Tung Hing group, whose boss insists they recover it that night, Christmas Eve, or lose their lives. Peter (Derek Tsang), the bartender at the gang's hangout speaks... » MORE
Moving Targets. Wong Jing scores big with another cop vs. triad picture with a strong story and sense of local (Hong Kong) identity, similar to 2003's THE COLOUR OF THE TRUTH. Nicholas Tse and Edison Chen star as young, tough cops who... » MORE
My Hero. At first, MY HERO parodies A BETTER TOMORROW, later, it imitates it. The story of Sing (Stephen Chow Sing-Chi), a comic book loving waiter who gets caught in gangster crossfire and ends up being hired by kingpin Wai to help... » MORE
Naked Weapon. Young girls all over the world are kidnapped, taken to a secluded island, and trained to be assassins by Madame M (Almen Wong). After years of brutal training, which includes murder and rape, the best of the best become professionals.... » MORE
Nastik. What does it take to turn a good Hindu boy, a priest's son, into an athiest ("nastik")? How about the landlord's son stealing your Krishna idol, and blaming it on you and your devout father, whom he has already stabbed... » MORE
New Option. Shawn Yue stars as a police investigator who wants to join the SDU to become a sniper. He also has lots and lots of guns in his apartment. Michael Wong is the head of SDU and has final say who... » MORE
New Police Story. Jackie Chan is a police superintendant who leads his team into a death trap against a group of young amoral ultraviolent thieves who love to kill police. He turns to alcohol until a new partner (Nicholas Tse) gets him out... » MORE
One Night in Mongkok. One gang boss puts out a hit on another gang boss. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), an empovershed mainlander they recruit for the job, arrives in Hong Kong while Officer Milo (Alex Fong) and his team (including Chin Kar-Lok and Ken... » MORE
Pink Thief. A group of illegal immigrants escape gangsters in China to start a new life in Hong Kong, but are taken advantage of by the locals to such an extent that they cannot make an honest living. They switch to petty... » MORE
Point of No Return. There are about a dozen Hong Kong films titled POINT OF NO RETURN. This is the worst. A direct to video production. Jackie Lui is a cop who enlists Grace Lam to work for him as an undercover to avoid... » MORE
Protege de la Rose Noire. How can a film star the charismatic, popular, and peppy Twins (Charlene Choi and Gillian Cheung), be directed by action star Donnie Yen, concern costumed crimefighting against a sexy villainess and her hitwomen, combine action and comedy, and yet still... » MORE
Psychedelic Cop. This movie has become legendary for its low box office. After a week in the theater, it screened to exactly 10 people, giving it a worldwide standing as one of the poorest performing films of all time. You can joke... » MORE
Replacement Suspects, The. Simon Loui pens another genre thriller, this time about three thieves who accidentally kill a policeman while escaping and retreat into a bar, taking hostages. But someone in the bar is another wanted criminal. Or actually, Loui didn't write it... » MORE
Reunion. When triad baddies kill their parents, the oldest brother gets his younger brother and sister out of the house and onto the street. They are eventually taken in by an orphanage, are adopted by different families, and grow up. Now... » MORE
River of Fury. Zhou Yezhuang (Danny Lee) is a small town farm boy whose father passed away. He didn't want to end up an impovershed landowner like his father, and set his sights instead of traveling, leading a wandering life. He idolizes the... » MORE
Running Out of Time 2. Director To follows up his classic film with a sequel starring Lau Ching-wan and Ekin Cheng. A lighter, more whimsical film which has split early viewers of the film pretty evenly between like and hate. I liked it, though the... » MORE
SARS Wars. Zombie movies are a dime a dozen these days, and though many of them are extremely bad, there is a built in audience that keeps shambling forward for more, and keep watching them despite being burned so many times in... » MORE
Shadow Mask. I was fully expecting to enjoy this low budget action fest. Cheng Pei-Pei is the villainous Red Goddess, sprung from jail by her gang, and intent on revenge for the man who put her there, Shadow Mask. Only thing is,... » MORE
Shark Busters. If there's one thing you will leave this movie thinking, it's, "Who the heck is that white guy who speaks fluent Cantonese?" The answer would be Brian Ireland, a Hong Kong businessman and friend of Danny Lee, making his acting... » MORE
Sharp Guns. Alex Fong is Tricky On, an expert hitman hired by an old friend to rescue his daughter from kidnappers. He recruits a crack team, including a sharpshooter, a race car driver, and a hand-to-hand combat and torture expert, played by... » MORE
Silver Hawk. Michelle Yeoh's career has always been of great potential badly spent. She just seems so great -- she's got the moves, the acting ability, the looks -- but when it comes right down to it, her movies are often atrociously... » MORE
So Close. A pair of sister assassins (Shu Qi and Vicki Zhao) are hired by a businessman to kill a few of his associates, putting him in charge of the corporation. Meanwhile, an exceptional forensics detective (Karen Mok) will stop at nothing... » MORE
Star Runner. Vanness Wu is training to challenge the top all around fighter, Tank (Andy On), and in the meantime is falling for his Korean university teacher, played by Kim Yun-Joo. He studies Thai kickboxing under veterans Chin Kar-Lok and Gordon Liu,... » MORE
Story of Freemen, The. A war photojournalist takes a picture of a beautiful hitwoman (Joey Man Yee-Man) as she assassinates someone from a rival gang, and they immediately fall in love. A tough cop tries to find the murderer and bring down her "dragon... » MORE
Suhaag. Nirupa Roy is the archetypical long-suffering mother, deified by her children, in countless movies. She reprises her role once again here. She has given birth to twins, but the wicked father (Amjad Khan) won't even recognize them as his own.... » MORE
Swift Sword. An adaptation of Jin Yong's Sword Stained with Royal Blood, crammed into a scant 85 minute running time. Bai Yiping (Ling Yun) is on a mission to kill as many of the Leng family as he can, in revenge for... » MORE
Sword of Emei. The first of Josephine Siao's many swordswoman films that has actually been released with English subtitles! VCD only, a beat up, unrestored print, Black and White for a quite possibly color film, but still, here it is, and fans of... » MORE
Sword of Swords. Everyone wants to get their hands on the Sword of Swords, except honest and hardworking disciple Jimmy Wang Yu, so naturally it falls to him. He hopes to pass it on to the unfortunately named hero, Wang Puke, but the... » MORE
Sword, The. Li Mak-Yin (Adam Cheng) thinks he's the best and has spent the past 10 years looking for Wah (Tin Fung), the most famous swordsman in the world. He encounters three women along the way. There is Ying Chi, a young... » MORE
Taste of Killing and Romance, A. Andy Lau and Anita Yuen are killers for hire who meet and fall in love while the cops, led by Waise Lee, try to hunt them down, and the people who hire and pay for their hits (Christine Ng and... » MORE
Temptation. It's hard to resist the temptation of this Ocean Shores VCD, which claimed to be a Category III movie and had a ravishingly beautiful woman on the cover, clutching her pillow, her pouty lips open, eyes closed. Oh, but wait.... » MORE
Throwdown. Gripping. And throwing. THROWDOWN presents a whole new way of seeing bodies in motion -- quick twists followed by loud thuds. Aaron Kwok is an enthusiastic Judo practitioner, who loves nothing more than finding other Judo wrestlers to fight. He... » MORE
Thundering Sword, The. All the Clans are after the Thundering Sword, the evil clans for power, the good clans so that they can destroy it. On the quest for good are two brothers Yu(Chang I) and Chiang (Lo Lieh). The evil team, poison... » MORE
Touch, The. After TOMORROW NEVER DIES Michelle Yeoh was on top of the world. But instead of continuing her Hollywood career (which knowing Hollywood would have been restricted to very stereotypical asian woman roles anyway), she began her own new production company... » MORE
Treasure of Mueang Lup Lae. A group of archeologist/explorers go in search of a treasure in Lup Lae, where legend has it that the Khmer Queen held court in ancient times. They are followed by thieves to hope to take it from them, then attacked... » MORE
Twins Effect II. Pure entertainment. Light, kids stuff to be sure, but lots of fun anyway. Not even remotely related to the original TWINS EFFECT, the second movie drops the Vampire theme entirely and delivers basically the Hong Kong equivalent of an Italian... » MORE
Twins Mission. I can't help it -- I like the Twins (Charlene Choi and Gillian Cheung), and have often found their performances enjoyable in the many Hong Kong films they have appeared in over the past half-dozen years. But alas, all good... » MORE
U-Man. 2002 is the year of fantastic Anthony Wong performances. With one notable exception. U-MAN stars Wong and Sam Lee as undercover cops who have to infiltrate a catholic girls school to find some stolen money. Wong disguises as a priest,... » MORE
Ultimate Fight. Directed by Tony Leung Siu Hung, Chairman of the HK Stuntmen's Association. Starring Lau Kar Wing, the old Shaw Brothers action master, as a retired Jujitsu expert. I'm telling you all this so that you can be as profoundly disappointed... » MORE
Ultimatum. This one starts promising with a nice CGI shot following a bullet across a restaurant, through an open flame, into a man's neck, out the back, and into the glass door behind him, which shatters. But it's a trick --... » MORE
Unarm 72 Hours. Shot on video production in which a veteran police officer (Danny Lee, as always) tries to capture some jewelry thieves right as he nears retirement. Only trouble is, they sock away the jewels, and one of the bastards (Lam Wai)... » MORE
Wall, The. Two young gangbanger buddies trying to prove themselves kill their target, but only one gets caught. More than a decade later, Jordan Chan gets out of prison and looks to start a new life, while his old friend, played by... » MORE
Warrior Lanling. A cross between QUEST FOR FIRE and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, this is a fantasy adventure for those who like 'em sweaty and grunting. Lanling (Lorenzo Callender) is the warrior of the tribe, the son of the high priestess (Yang Liping).... » MORE
Wesley's Mysterious File, The. Now, although I recognize bad SF, that doesn't mean I don't still enjoy it. Typically, I'm pretty forgiving of SF films, though gaping logical flaws get on my nerves. MEN IN BLACK was bad SF. No explanation, gaping plot logic,... » MORE
Wild Ones, The. After getting mocked in Toronto for being a Chinese social worker trying to help Canadian youth, of whom she is told she knows nothing about, Sandy (Olivia Cheng) returns to Hong Kong and gets a job at a girls' home... » MORE
Wo Hu. Wong Jing movies are like a wild dog biting at the crotch of a millionaire: he clamps down on the key bits of hit films and doesn't let go. So after KUNG FU HUSTLE, he spins Yuen Wah and Yuen... » MORE
Women on the Run. Let's face it, this is a movie based on a single premise: that a woman can do kungfu completely in the nude. It's such a compelling premise that it completely overshadows the film constructed around it. Not that it's a... » MORE
2002. Nicolas Tse is the head cop in a special, secret ghostbusting crime unit, and his partner, played by Sam Lee, is a ghost. But when Lee reincarnates, he needs to find someone new -- and ends up with fresh-faced traffic... » MORE
Aces go Places. One of Hong Kong's classic action comedy series began here, written, directed, and produced by the Cinema City collective, who turned making comedies into a science, estimating and ensuring proper gag to reel ratios. A sendup of Hollywood action films... » MORE
Aces Go Places II. The "Best Partners" Sam Hui and Karl Maka return for the first of four sequels to the popular film ACES GO PLACES. This time out our heroes must face the mafia assassin "Filthy Harry," killer robots, and a gang of... » MORE
Amar Akbar Anthony. The all time, immortal classic about three children separated from their family and from each other, filled with the biggest stars of the era, and topped off with a sparkling soundtrack of hummable hits. Add three hundred heaping spoonfuls of... » MORE
Angel Cop: Final Crisis. If you asked who you had to sleep with to get a decent part in a Hong Kong film, the answer is most decidedly not Jackie Chan, since Elaine Ng, recent mother of his illegitimate child, ended up in this... » MORE
Angulimala. A Thai version of the heartwarming Buddhist legend of an outcast driven to murder by his teacher, and by his Dharma, collecting 1,000 fingers as his fate, until the Buddha enlightens him and he gives up finger collecting, even though... » MORE
Anna in Kung Fu Land. Miriam Yeung stars as the daughter of an ex-Shaolin Monk, who comes to Hong Kong to win a martial arts championship and prove her father's righteousness. Ekin Cheng is the organizer of the tournament. It's love at first sight, only... » MORE
Bat Without Wings. Five years ago, 28 of the best boxers of the martial world teamed up to defeat the villainous "Bat Without Wings." In the end, legend has it, he killed 26 of the boxers buy was finally defeated. But it isn't... » MORE
Benaam Badsha. Anil Kapoor is the "Boss," a bad ass son of a bitch who terrorizes his neighborhood and doesn't give anything a damn. Juhi Chawla is Jyoti, a beautiful girl that moves into the neighborhood, supposedly to get material for her... » MORE
Black Butterfly. What if, after a disaster struck, you are asked by the Red Cross and other organizations for a generous donation? What if you refuse to donate for your own personal reasons regardless of your wealth? The answer here is simple... » MORE
Bomb-Shell, The. In Hong Kong movies, the cross-eyed, buck-toothed moron has only two options -- comedic relief or maniacal remourseless killer. This time its the latter, and ever since his cross-eyed girlfriend died he just watches TV and makes bombs. Admittedly, I... » MORE
Boom. Three models get caught up with the underworld and are forced to steal diamonds for them. But they've got plans of their own, which mostly involve showing lots of cleavage. They also drink, smoke opium, and rob a bank. Demonstrating... » MORE
Boxing King, The. Fan Siu Wong plays a dim witted construction worker who knows how to fight. He gets into boxing, and gets his brains bashed out. This doesn't make him smarter, but neither does it have any other noticable effect, other than... » MORE
Choompae. Pherg Choompae (Sombat Methanee) goes back to his hometown to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the smuggling kingpin Tom (Kecha Plianvithee). Sounds simple, right? Think again! I never knew a simple revenge plot could be... » MORE
Colour of Pain. A hit man from Japan (Kenya Sawada) gets a bullet in his brain while on assignment in Hong Kong and can't go home again (apparently since the airport metal detectors would go off and people would have questions). With nothing... » MORE
Cop Unbowed. Lam (Alex Fong) and Fung (Michael Tse) were best of pals, until Fung accidentally kills the girlfriend of Mr. Dick (Eddy Ko), the mob boss. Fung blames it on Lam, which cuts their friendship short prematurely, and permanently, as Lam... » MORE
D. "D" is for Deshu, son of a cop, who rises up the ranks in the Bombay underground to become a kingpin of crime. 'D' is also a sequel to COMPANY (if Company were 'C', the opening voiceover helpfully explains), in... » MORE
D7: Dangerous Duty. For a movie supposedly starring Max Mok Siu-Chung, there is surprisingly little of him in it. In fact, he dies in the opening scene. He does reappear later though: in a flashback repeating the first scene, but this time in... » MORE
Danger Zone. The young girls who became cops in BRUSH UP MY SISTERS are back, in a digital video production better than the original, but saddled with a much less evocative title. This time around, the girls (Teresa Mak, Jade Leung, Pinky... » MORE
Devil Face, Angel Heart. Daniel Wu and Lam Suet are assassins, and they are also brothers. Stephen Fung and Sam Lee are cops on their trail. When the triad boss's wife takes a shine to Wu despite the fact that he is horribly disfigured,... » MORE
Dragon the Master. Bruce Lee has never truly gone away, living on in the hearts and minds of fans. More than that he is thought of by many as a true Chinese hero, his destruction of the sign that reads "No Dogs or... » MORE
Ek Se Badhkar Ek. Two brothers, living on the street, separated as children when they run afoul of a thief's scheme, sending the older brother to jail. The younger brother, Shankar (Raaj Kumar), vows that he will always be a thorn in the side... » MORE
End of the Stumer, The. What the hell is a Stumer? Did they mean the End of the Summer? The Stunner? The Stoner? The Stammerer? No, turns out they really sort of mean "The Stumer," defined as a forgery or I suppose a forger. This... » MORE
Enter the Phoenix. Stephen Fung turns from acting to directing and for his first full length feature has delivered an entertaining action-comedy gay triad movie. When the old triad boss (Yuen Biao in an inspired cameo) dies, his son Georgie (Daniel Wu) is... » MORE
Exiled. The bodyguards/hitmen of 1999's classic THE MISSION are back again, and once again are helping a friend against the wishes of their crime boss Fay (Simon Yam). Wo (Nick Cheung) shot him, once, and fled. Now Wo is back in... » MORE
Explosive City. There's so many things wrong with EXPLOSIVE CITY it's hard to know where to begin. Perhaps with the tired idea of the kidnapping ring that raises kids to be assassins, for one. Then there's the international cast that occasionally drifts... » MORE
Fatal Contact. Kong (Wu Jing) is an all around nice guy/kung fu champion gets a little work in Chinese Opera. Underground Fighting reps try to recruit him to fight for them, but he won't, until Tin (Miki Yeung), the girl he is... » MORE
Fight to the Finish 2003, A. Here's a low budget action film that actually has something to say about human nature, and specifically what makes someone selfish, what makes someone heroic, and where exactly the line can be drawn between right and wrong. Michael Wong is... » MORE
Final Detention. Thai movies explore every lowbrow genre of film, so when I saw a Thai Women-in-Prison film, how could I resist? Maybe I could have resisted by recalling Thailand's draconian censorship laws. Another good way would have been to recall that... » MORE
Gameboy Kids. Made back during the hectic high-rolling days of Hong Kong cinema, when scripts were a luxury and no joke, no matter how bizarre or extreme, was left out. GAMEBOY KIDS has got to be Gordon Chan's most obscure directorial effort,... » MORE
Golden Sword, The. The chief of the Golden Sword lodge gets hauled off by masked riders, and is never seen again. His son, Bai Yu Lung (Kao Yuen) resolves to find him, and travels to the frontier in his search. While there, he... » MORE
Heat Team. Completely ludicrous buddy cop picture that tries to combine serious action with completely unrealistic police procedures and behavior. Eason Chan is the slovenly cop who gets all the chicks, while Aaron Kwok is the uptight cop who is slightly dim,... » MORE
Her Name is Cat 2: Journey to Death. This film bears no relation whatsoever to HER NAME IS CAT. Some pre-credits action has Almen Wong copping a TOMB RAIDER vibe as she steals a gold Buddha from a Thai temple. This is never mentioned again, and has nothing... » MORE
Hit Team. Not since THE KILLER saved his corneas for Jenny have we seen heroes so concerned about saving up for a major medical procedure. This time, it's undercover cop Chin Kar-Lok who needs some extravagant multimillion dollar back surgery. And it's... » MORE
House of Flying Daggers. This must be the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. The Tang Dynasty fairy tale takes place mostly outdoors, the backdrop the four seasons and the changing terrain, from forests to grasslands to bamboo groves. Against this natural backdrop... » MORE
Infernal Mission. The setup is a shameless ripoff of INFERNAL AFFAIRS, no background story required, since we all know the story. But here's twist -- this time, the stars are girls! Yay! Theresa Mak is the undercover cop, tapping out morse code... » MORE
Insee Tong aka Golden Eagle. An evil communist hypnotist and the "Red Bamboo" gang threaten to overturn the Thai government and start a socialist revolution. The cops can't break the case. Only the legendary "Golden Eagle" (Mitr Chaibuncha) can untangle the complicated plot and save... » MORE
Invincible, The. Fan Siu-Wong is "The Invincible." I guess. Though he talks about entering a martial arts contest and winning the gold medal to prove his strength to his missing father, who left before he was born, we never actually see him... » MORE
Jaani Dost. Insane, utterly insane, and bad, very bad. Everything about this film is far more complicated than necessary -- the back story, the relationships, the heroes, the villains. The cast is heavy with the great camp villains of Bollywood, but unfortunately... » MORE
Janbaaz. A criminal gang of heroin dealers need an infusion of money to set up their next opium crop and distillation laboratory (they're a full service shop!) because Inspector Rajesh destroyed their previous efforts. They ruin a rich gambler and cheat... » MORE
Jiang Hu. Director Wong Ching-Po's first mainstream work is also his best to date. The short running time (under 90 minutes) aggresively compacts the story of Yik (Shawn Yue), a young hood who wins the chance to kill a triad kingpin in... » MORE
Khoon Pasina. Ram and Rahim are best friends, just like their fathers, though one family is Hindu and one Muslim, they are inseperable. When the villainous crook Zaalim Singh beats and attempts to kill a man in the middle of their village... » MORE
Kranti. "Freedom was not a present from the British, presented on a silver platter on a warm august night. It was the culmination of a long and bloody struggle spread over centuries..." I'm sorry, Gandhi who? KRANTI means, "Revolution." And this... » MORE
Kung Fu Hustle. The place is 1930's Shanghai, caught in the grip of the murderous Axe Gang. Sing (Stephen Chiau) and his sidekick (Lam Tze-Chung) are small time cons who try to pass as members of the all-powerful Gang in order to shake... » MORE
Lahu Ke Do Rang. What a find! Suzie Wong meets Bhagat Singh! Hong Kong meets India! This is one of those movies that Indian DVD shops tuck into their 3 for $15 rack, dismissed as a lesser film by a lesser star. But for... » MORE
Leave Me Alone. Much maligned Ekin Cheng shows his stuff here is a slick, light hearted action movie about twin brothers Yiu (Ekin Cheng and Ekin Cheng), who switch identities and get mixed up in each other's troubles. Yiu Chun-Man is a gay... » MORE
Loafer. When Ajit Singh (Dharmendra) was a young boy, he was a ruffian and accidentally threw an honest student to his death during a scuffle. He ran away, into the arms of a thief who took him in as his own.... » MORE
Looking for Mr. Perfect. John Woo wasn't the only director to leave Hong Kong for the greener pastures of Hollywood. But whereas Woo picked up a Jean Claude Van-Damme picture (HARD TARGET) and used it as a jumping off point to bigger and better... » MORE
Lootmaar. While it is typical for leading men to write, direct, produce, and star in their own movies, in which they behave like superheroes, get the girl, and symbolize the might of India against the world, LOOTMAR's opening takes this to... » MORE
Love Battlefield. Director Soi Cheang has made a name for himself in Hong Kong of late by delivering quality horror films that feel at least a somewhat original and that are well crafted. He has taken his craft to the next level... » MORE
Lucky: No Time for Love. Lucky (newcomer Sneha Ullal, who bears more than a passing resemblance to former Miss World Aishwara Rai) is a seventeen year old student and the daughter of an employee of the Indian Embassy in Russia. She's about to fail her... » MORE
Man Called Hero, A. It's the 1930's and Ekin Cheng stars as a swordsman fleeing the law who finds refuge in a famous hotel in New York's Chinatown. ... » MORE
Martial Angels. Hsu Chi and Sandra Ng head up a cast of superthieving, computer-hacking babes who have to steal a new computer super virus from a high tech vault in order to save Hsu's lover from the Russian Mafia. Fun, campy action... » MORE
Medallion, The. Jackie Chan is an international action hero. But sometimes, his movies look like they were made for someone who desperately wants to be an international action hero, but doesn't know how to go about it. This movie tries so hard... » MORE
Midnight Running. Mari, a japanese pickpocket (Maya Rumiko) steals a triad membership list from the Tung Hing group, whose boss insists they recover it that night, Christmas Eve, or lose their lives. Peter (Derek Tsang), the bartender at the gang's hangout speaks... » MORE
Moving Targets. Wong Jing scores big with another cop vs. triad picture with a strong story and sense of local (Hong Kong) identity, similar to 2003's THE COLOUR OF THE TRUTH. Nicholas Tse and Edison Chen star as young, tough cops who... » MORE
My Hero. At first, MY HERO parodies A BETTER TOMORROW, later, it imitates it. The story of Sing (Stephen Chow Sing-Chi), a comic book loving waiter who gets caught in gangster crossfire and ends up being hired by kingpin Wai to help... » MORE
Naked Weapon. Young girls all over the world are kidnapped, taken to a secluded island, and trained to be assassins by Madame M (Almen Wong). After years of brutal training, which includes murder and rape, the best of the best become professionals.... » MORE
Nastik. What does it take to turn a good Hindu boy, a priest's son, into an athiest ("nastik")? How about the landlord's son stealing your Krishna idol, and blaming it on you and your devout father, whom he has already stabbed... » MORE
New Option. Shawn Yue stars as a police investigator who wants to join the SDU to become a sniper. He also has lots and lots of guns in his apartment. Michael Wong is the head of SDU and has final say who... » MORE
New Police Story. Jackie Chan is a police superintendant who leads his team into a death trap against a group of young amoral ultraviolent thieves who love to kill police. He turns to alcohol until a new partner (Nicholas Tse) gets him out... » MORE
One Night in Mongkok. One gang boss puts out a hit on another gang boss. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), an empovershed mainlander they recruit for the job, arrives in Hong Kong while Officer Milo (Alex Fong) and his team (including Chin Kar-Lok and Ken... » MORE
Pink Thief. A group of illegal immigrants escape gangsters in China to start a new life in Hong Kong, but are taken advantage of by the locals to such an extent that they cannot make an honest living. They switch to petty... » MORE
Point of No Return. There are about a dozen Hong Kong films titled POINT OF NO RETURN. This is the worst. A direct to video production. Jackie Lui is a cop who enlists Grace Lam to work for him as an undercover to avoid... » MORE
Protege de la Rose Noire. How can a film star the charismatic, popular, and peppy Twins (Charlene Choi and Gillian Cheung), be directed by action star Donnie Yen, concern costumed crimefighting against a sexy villainess and her hitwomen, combine action and comedy, and yet still... » MORE
Psychedelic Cop. This movie has become legendary for its low box office. After a week in the theater, it screened to exactly 10 people, giving it a worldwide standing as one of the poorest performing films of all time. You can joke... » MORE
Replacement Suspects, The. Simon Loui pens another genre thriller, this time about three thieves who accidentally kill a policeman while escaping and retreat into a bar, taking hostages. But someone in the bar is another wanted criminal. Or actually, Loui didn't write it... » MORE
Reunion. When triad baddies kill their parents, the oldest brother gets his younger brother and sister out of the house and onto the street. They are eventually taken in by an orphanage, are adopted by different families, and grow up. Now... » MORE
River of Fury. Zhou Yezhuang (Danny Lee) is a small town farm boy whose father passed away. He didn't want to end up an impovershed landowner like his father, and set his sights instead of traveling, leading a wandering life. He idolizes the... » MORE
Running Out of Time 2. Director To follows up his classic film with a sequel starring Lau Ching-wan and Ekin Cheng. A lighter, more whimsical film which has split early viewers of the film pretty evenly between like and hate. I liked it, though the... » MORE
SARS Wars. Zombie movies are a dime a dozen these days, and though many of them are extremely bad, there is a built in audience that keeps shambling forward for more, and keep watching them despite being burned so many times in... » MORE
Shadow Mask. I was fully expecting to enjoy this low budget action fest. Cheng Pei-Pei is the villainous Red Goddess, sprung from jail by her gang, and intent on revenge for the man who put her there, Shadow Mask. Only thing is,... » MORE
Shark Busters. If there's one thing you will leave this movie thinking, it's, "Who the heck is that white guy who speaks fluent Cantonese?" The answer would be Brian Ireland, a Hong Kong businessman and friend of Danny Lee, making his acting... » MORE
Sharp Guns. Alex Fong is Tricky On, an expert hitman hired by an old friend to rescue his daughter from kidnappers. He recruits a crack team, including a sharpshooter, a race car driver, and a hand-to-hand combat and torture expert, played by... » MORE
Silver Hawk. Michelle Yeoh's career has always been of great potential badly spent. She just seems so great -- she's got the moves, the acting ability, the looks -- but when it comes right down to it, her movies are often atrociously... » MORE
So Close. A pair of sister assassins (Shu Qi and Vicki Zhao) are hired by a businessman to kill a few of his associates, putting him in charge of the corporation. Meanwhile, an exceptional forensics detective (Karen Mok) will stop at nothing... » MORE
Star Runner. Vanness Wu is training to challenge the top all around fighter, Tank (Andy On), and in the meantime is falling for his Korean university teacher, played by Kim Yun-Joo. He studies Thai kickboxing under veterans Chin Kar-Lok and Gordon Liu,... » MORE
Story of Freemen, The. A war photojournalist takes a picture of a beautiful hitwoman (Joey Man Yee-Man) as she assassinates someone from a rival gang, and they immediately fall in love. A tough cop tries to find the murderer and bring down her "dragon... » MORE
Suhaag. Nirupa Roy is the archetypical long-suffering mother, deified by her children, in countless movies. She reprises her role once again here. She has given birth to twins, but the wicked father (Amjad Khan) won't even recognize them as his own.... » MORE
Swift Sword. An adaptation of Jin Yong's Sword Stained with Royal Blood, crammed into a scant 85 minute running time. Bai Yiping (Ling Yun) is on a mission to kill as many of the Leng family as he can, in revenge for... » MORE
Sword of Emei. The first of Josephine Siao's many swordswoman films that has actually been released with English subtitles! VCD only, a beat up, unrestored print, Black and White for a quite possibly color film, but still, here it is, and fans of... » MORE
Sword of Swords. Everyone wants to get their hands on the Sword of Swords, except honest and hardworking disciple Jimmy Wang Yu, so naturally it falls to him. He hopes to pass it on to the unfortunately named hero, Wang Puke, but the... » MORE
Sword, The. Li Mak-Yin (Adam Cheng) thinks he's the best and has spent the past 10 years looking for Wah (Tin Fung), the most famous swordsman in the world. He encounters three women along the way. There is Ying Chi, a young... » MORE
Taste of Killing and Romance, A. Andy Lau and Anita Yuen are killers for hire who meet and fall in love while the cops, led by Waise Lee, try to hunt them down, and the people who hire and pay for their hits (Christine Ng and... » MORE
Temptation. It's hard to resist the temptation of this Ocean Shores VCD, which claimed to be a Category III movie and had a ravishingly beautiful woman on the cover, clutching her pillow, her pouty lips open, eyes closed. Oh, but wait.... » MORE
Throwdown. Gripping. And throwing. THROWDOWN presents a whole new way of seeing bodies in motion -- quick twists followed by loud thuds. Aaron Kwok is an enthusiastic Judo practitioner, who loves nothing more than finding other Judo wrestlers to fight. He... » MORE
Thundering Sword, The. All the Clans are after the Thundering Sword, the evil clans for power, the good clans so that they can destroy it. On the quest for good are two brothers Yu(Chang I) and Chiang (Lo Lieh). The evil team, poison... » MORE
Touch, The. After TOMORROW NEVER DIES Michelle Yeoh was on top of the world. But instead of continuing her Hollywood career (which knowing Hollywood would have been restricted to very stereotypical asian woman roles anyway), she began her own new production company... » MORE
Treasure of Mueang Lup Lae. A group of archeologist/explorers go in search of a treasure in Lup Lae, where legend has it that the Khmer Queen held court in ancient times. They are followed by thieves to hope to take it from them, then attacked... » MORE
Twins Effect II. Pure entertainment. Light, kids stuff to be sure, but lots of fun anyway. Not even remotely related to the original TWINS EFFECT, the second movie drops the Vampire theme entirely and delivers basically the Hong Kong equivalent of an Italian... » MORE
Twins Mission. I can't help it -- I like the Twins (Charlene Choi and Gillian Cheung), and have often found their performances enjoyable in the many Hong Kong films they have appeared in over the past half-dozen years. But alas, all good... » MORE
U-Man. 2002 is the year of fantastic Anthony Wong performances. With one notable exception. U-MAN stars Wong and Sam Lee as undercover cops who have to infiltrate a catholic girls school to find some stolen money. Wong disguises as a priest,... » MORE
Ultimate Fight. Directed by Tony Leung Siu Hung, Chairman of the HK Stuntmen's Association. Starring Lau Kar Wing, the old Shaw Brothers action master, as a retired Jujitsu expert. I'm telling you all this so that you can be as profoundly disappointed... » MORE
Ultimatum. This one starts promising with a nice CGI shot following a bullet across a restaurant, through an open flame, into a man's neck, out the back, and into the glass door behind him, which shatters. But it's a trick --... » MORE
Unarm 72 Hours. Shot on video production in which a veteran police officer (Danny Lee, as always) tries to capture some jewelry thieves right as he nears retirement. Only trouble is, they sock away the jewels, and one of the bastards (Lam Wai)... » MORE
Wall, The. Two young gangbanger buddies trying to prove themselves kill their target, but only one gets caught. More than a decade later, Jordan Chan gets out of prison and looks to start a new life, while his old friend, played by... » MORE
Warrior Lanling. A cross between QUEST FOR FIRE and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, this is a fantasy adventure for those who like 'em sweaty and grunting. Lanling (Lorenzo Callender) is the warrior of the tribe, the son of the high priestess (Yang Liping).... » MORE
Wesley's Mysterious File, The. Now, although I recognize bad SF, that doesn't mean I don't still enjoy it. Typically, I'm pretty forgiving of SF films, though gaping logical flaws get on my nerves. MEN IN BLACK was bad SF. No explanation, gaping plot logic,... » MORE
Wild Ones, The. After getting mocked in Toronto for being a Chinese social worker trying to help Canadian youth, of whom she is told she knows nothing about, Sandy (Olivia Cheng) returns to Hong Kong and gets a job at a girls' home... » MORE
Wo Hu. Wong Jing movies are like a wild dog biting at the crotch of a millionaire: he clamps down on the key bits of hit films and doesn't let go. So after KUNG FU HUSTLE, he spins Yuen Wah and Yuen... » MORE
Women on the Run. Let's face it, this is a movie based on a single premise: that a woman can do kungfu completely in the nude. It's such a compelling premise that it completely overshadows the film constructed around it. Not that it's a... » MORE