Rating - 4 stars
All for the Winner. Stephen Chow parodies the God of Gamblers with his own character, the Saint of Gamblers, in a movie that becomes just as big a hit. ... » 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
Battle of Wits. A stranger emerges from the desert to defend a city from a maurauding army. He serves the people but gets nothing but contempt in return. The well worn story is transplanted into ancient China and refreshed by a focus on... » MORE
Butterfly. Flavia (Josie Ho) is a schoolteacher at an all-girls school, married to the nice and low key Mark (Eric Kot), and has a one-year old daughter. The only trouble is, she is gay, and once she meets the free spirited... » MORE
Chinese Ghost Story. This is the classic Tsui Hark tale that made ghost stories popular again. Beautiful ghosts, giant tongues, and warrior priests battle it out with scholar Leslie Cheung right in the middle of it all. ... » MORE
Chinese Ghost Story 2. The adventures of scholar Ning continue, when a series of coincidences and chance meetings thrust him into the center of political intrigue that threatens the nation itself. ... » MORE
Crazy Safari. A hopping vampire falls out of a plane, and lands in South Africa, where a little bushman discovers it, and is not sure what to do. Sure is a hell of a lot more confusing than that Coke bottle was,... » MORE
Crazy Stone. Andy Lau and Focus Films did a wonderful service to Asian Cinema fans by funding Focus: First Cuts, a half dozen films by inexperienced, sometimes first-time directors from a number of asian countries. The China entry in the production range... » MORE
Daughter of the Dragon. Anna May Wong discovers she is Fu Manchu's daughter, and immediately follows that discovery up with plans for murder. Death to Petrie! ... » MORE
Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE
Duel to the Death. The ultimate Ninja action film, period. Directed by Ching Siu-Tung. ... » MORE
Emperor and the Assassin, The. A sweeping historical epic by Chen Kaige, who as usual can't stop himself from inserting Gong Li into the proceedings. ... » MORE
Emperor's Shadow, The (Qin Song). The emperor forces his childhood friend to compose a themesong for his conquest, but the musician never fails to disappoint. ... » MORE
Enchanting Shadow. The famous Pu Songling-inspired supernatural horror film that Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung later adapted for their seminal ghost film, A Chinese Ghost Story. Long recognized as a refernce point of the later film, but rarely seen, until now, as... » 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
Farewell My Concubine. A fabulous, sweeping drama about two men in the Peking Opera, one a Hua Dan, the other a Jing, and the annoying prostitute that keeps on screwing up their lives. ... » MORE
Glass Tears. A remarkable film about the grandfather of a runaway girl, enlisted by the girl's parents to help track her down. He falls in with the girl's friend, named P, who is a brash, stubborn, independent herself. Together they try to... » MORE
God of Gamblers. Chow Yun-Fat redefines cool and consumes copious amounts of chocolate in the undisputed champion of gambling films. ... » MORE
Goddess of Mercy. Yang Rui (Liu Yunlong) is a Beijing businessman and womanizing pig who tries to nail the plain-looking but attractive An Xin (Vicki Zhao) on a bet from a friend. Instead, he falls in love with her. She keeps her distance,... » MORE
Golden Chicken. Sandra Ng is a not particularly good-looking prostitute who makes a living by working twice as hard as anyone else. Trapped in an ATM booth overnight with a would-be thief (Eric Tsang), she tells the story of her life in... » MORE
Great Conqueror's Concubine, The. This movie is so long it was released as two seperate movies in some markets. It is the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han are rising ascendant, and Gong Li is there. ... » MORE
Greatest Civil War on Earth, The. It's North vs. South, Mandarin vs. Cantonese. The local, Cantonese tailor Leung Sing-po suddenly finds himself in competition with a new tailor who has opened up next door and is a northerner, Liu Enjia. They immediately get off on the... » MORE
Happenings, The. Viewers of Hong Kong Cinema in 1980 could be forgiven for thinking the world was coming to an end. The old societal customs no longer held, and the new was open to endless possibility in the imagination, but narrowed by... » 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
Imp, The. Ah Keung (Charles Chin) is looking for a fulltime job to support his wife and child-to-be, and understandably wants to stand on his own and not accept a job from his father in-law (as if taking a job from your... » MORE
Just One Look. A nostalgic coming of age film set on the small island of Cheung Chau in the 60s and 70s starring a gaggle of young cantopop stars (Charlene Choi, Gillian Cheung, Shawn Yue, and Wong Yau Nam). It should be painfully... » 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
Legend of Zu. Great fantasy films are few and far between. And those that are great, are almost always deeply flawed. The original vision in such enchanting pictures such as THE DARK CRYSTAL and LEGEND continue to amaze, despite the fact that the... » 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
Mask of Fu Manchu, The. Boris Karloff as the most demonic Fu Manchu before or since. He seeks the tomb of Genghis Khan, and puts people in elaborate torture mechanisms for the sheer pleasure of it. ... » MORE
Midnight Fly. Anita Mui goes to Paris to get away from her philandering husband, and befriends a young Japanese girl who is in love with a married man. The two decide to extend their vacation and go to Morocco, and while there... » MORE
Mr. Vampire. Lam Ching-Ying stars as the Taoist sifu in the movie that made hopping vampires a staple of Hong Kong cinema and Lam Ching-Ying a household name. The fun begins when Lam and his assistants attempt to rebury a businessman who... » MORE
Nagin (1954). Nagin is the tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers. If you expect one to be a Montague, the other, a Capulet, well, you're not far off. And if you like Shakespeare, especially Romeo and Juliet, but feel it really could... » MORE
Nomad. The story of a group of fun loving young Hong Kong people who fall in love, have sex, dream of better places, wear little clothing, and strive to live their lives their own way. That is, until some crazy Japanese... » MORE
Once Upon a Time in Triad Society. Ugly Kwan shows exactly why he got his nickname, presenting two different versions of his life in the triad, while he lies on an operating table bleeding to death. ... » 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
Peking Opera Blues. Tsui Hark's masterpiece, a rollicking adventure yarn about revolution, generals, spies, and women warriors, featuring Brigitte Lin. ... » MORE
Shaolin Soccer. Stephen Chiau is a Shaolin monk who wants to popularize martial arts. Ng Man-Tat is a former soccer champ who took a bribe to throw a game twenty years ago and is trying to regain his honor by putting together... » 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
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
Touch of Zen, A. The legendary King Hu begins his movie as if it is a Pu Songling tale, then turns it into a political intrigue and, still later, a religious meditation. ... » MORE
Visible Secret. Shu Qi sees dead people in this mystery/romance which also stars Eason Chan as a somewhat dopey, lovestruck guy intent on wooing her. Things get stranger and stranger for Eason as his romance blossoms, until he can no longer tell... » MORE
All for the Winner. Stephen Chow parodies the God of Gamblers with his own character, the Saint of Gamblers, in a movie that becomes just as big a hit. ... » 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
Battle of Wits. A stranger emerges from the desert to defend a city from a maurauding army. He serves the people but gets nothing but contempt in return. The well worn story is transplanted into ancient China and refreshed by a focus on... » MORE
Butterfly. Flavia (Josie Ho) is a schoolteacher at an all-girls school, married to the nice and low key Mark (Eric Kot), and has a one-year old daughter. The only trouble is, she is gay, and once she meets the free spirited... » MORE
Chinese Ghost Story. This is the classic Tsui Hark tale that made ghost stories popular again. Beautiful ghosts, giant tongues, and warrior priests battle it out with scholar Leslie Cheung right in the middle of it all. ... » MORE
Chinese Ghost Story 2. The adventures of scholar Ning continue, when a series of coincidences and chance meetings thrust him into the center of political intrigue that threatens the nation itself. ... » MORE
Crazy Safari. A hopping vampire falls out of a plane, and lands in South Africa, where a little bushman discovers it, and is not sure what to do. Sure is a hell of a lot more confusing than that Coke bottle was,... » MORE
Crazy Stone. Andy Lau and Focus Films did a wonderful service to Asian Cinema fans by funding Focus: First Cuts, a half dozen films by inexperienced, sometimes first-time directors from a number of asian countries. The China entry in the production range... » MORE
Daughter of the Dragon. Anna May Wong discovers she is Fu Manchu's daughter, and immediately follows that discovery up with plans for murder. Death to Petrie! ... » MORE
Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE
Duel to the Death. The ultimate Ninja action film, period. Directed by Ching Siu-Tung. ... » MORE
Emperor and the Assassin, The. A sweeping historical epic by Chen Kaige, who as usual can't stop himself from inserting Gong Li into the proceedings. ... » MORE
Emperor's Shadow, The (Qin Song). The emperor forces his childhood friend to compose a themesong for his conquest, but the musician never fails to disappoint. ... » MORE
Enchanting Shadow. The famous Pu Songling-inspired supernatural horror film that Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung later adapted for their seminal ghost film, A Chinese Ghost Story. Long recognized as a refernce point of the later film, but rarely seen, until now, as... » 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
Farewell My Concubine. A fabulous, sweeping drama about two men in the Peking Opera, one a Hua Dan, the other a Jing, and the annoying prostitute that keeps on screwing up their lives. ... » MORE
Glass Tears. A remarkable film about the grandfather of a runaway girl, enlisted by the girl's parents to help track her down. He falls in with the girl's friend, named P, who is a brash, stubborn, independent herself. Together they try to... » MORE
God of Gamblers. Chow Yun-Fat redefines cool and consumes copious amounts of chocolate in the undisputed champion of gambling films. ... » MORE
Goddess of Mercy. Yang Rui (Liu Yunlong) is a Beijing businessman and womanizing pig who tries to nail the plain-looking but attractive An Xin (Vicki Zhao) on a bet from a friend. Instead, he falls in love with her. She keeps her distance,... » MORE
Golden Chicken. Sandra Ng is a not particularly good-looking prostitute who makes a living by working twice as hard as anyone else. Trapped in an ATM booth overnight with a would-be thief (Eric Tsang), she tells the story of her life in... » MORE
Great Conqueror's Concubine, The. This movie is so long it was released as two seperate movies in some markets. It is the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han are rising ascendant, and Gong Li is there. ... » MORE
Greatest Civil War on Earth, The. It's North vs. South, Mandarin vs. Cantonese. The local, Cantonese tailor Leung Sing-po suddenly finds himself in competition with a new tailor who has opened up next door and is a northerner, Liu Enjia. They immediately get off on the... » MORE
Happenings, The. Viewers of Hong Kong Cinema in 1980 could be forgiven for thinking the world was coming to an end. The old societal customs no longer held, and the new was open to endless possibility in the imagination, but narrowed by... » 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
Imp, The. Ah Keung (Charles Chin) is looking for a fulltime job to support his wife and child-to-be, and understandably wants to stand on his own and not accept a job from his father in-law (as if taking a job from your... » MORE
Just One Look. A nostalgic coming of age film set on the small island of Cheung Chau in the 60s and 70s starring a gaggle of young cantopop stars (Charlene Choi, Gillian Cheung, Shawn Yue, and Wong Yau Nam). It should be painfully... » 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
Legend of Zu. Great fantasy films are few and far between. And those that are great, are almost always deeply flawed. The original vision in such enchanting pictures such as THE DARK CRYSTAL and LEGEND continue to amaze, despite the fact that the... » 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
Mask of Fu Manchu, The. Boris Karloff as the most demonic Fu Manchu before or since. He seeks the tomb of Genghis Khan, and puts people in elaborate torture mechanisms for the sheer pleasure of it. ... » MORE
Midnight Fly. Anita Mui goes to Paris to get away from her philandering husband, and befriends a young Japanese girl who is in love with a married man. The two decide to extend their vacation and go to Morocco, and while there... » MORE
Mr. Vampire. Lam Ching-Ying stars as the Taoist sifu in the movie that made hopping vampires a staple of Hong Kong cinema and Lam Ching-Ying a household name. The fun begins when Lam and his assistants attempt to rebury a businessman who... » MORE
Nagin (1954). Nagin is the tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers. If you expect one to be a Montague, the other, a Capulet, well, you're not far off. And if you like Shakespeare, especially Romeo and Juliet, but feel it really could... » MORE
Nomad. The story of a group of fun loving young Hong Kong people who fall in love, have sex, dream of better places, wear little clothing, and strive to live their lives their own way. That is, until some crazy Japanese... » MORE
Once Upon a Time in Triad Society. Ugly Kwan shows exactly why he got his nickname, presenting two different versions of his life in the triad, while he lies on an operating table bleeding to death. ... » 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
Peking Opera Blues. Tsui Hark's masterpiece, a rollicking adventure yarn about revolution, generals, spies, and women warriors, featuring Brigitte Lin. ... » MORE
Shaolin Soccer. Stephen Chiau is a Shaolin monk who wants to popularize martial arts. Ng Man-Tat is a former soccer champ who took a bribe to throw a game twenty years ago and is trying to regain his honor by putting together... » 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
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
Touch of Zen, A. The legendary King Hu begins his movie as if it is a Pu Songling tale, then turns it into a political intrigue and, still later, a religious meditation. ... » MORE
Visible Secret. Shu Qi sees dead people in this mystery/romance which also stars Eason Chan as a somewhat dopey, lovestruck guy intent on wooing her. Things get stranger and stranger for Eason as his romance blossoms, until he can no longer tell... » MORE