Mar 12, 2018 - Life is cheap (and bullets apparently cheaper) in this ultra-cool, ultra-stylish shoot 'em up. The quests for better living of two Mainland migrants – a Chinese. Later kick-start the sub-genre of undercover cop drama in Hong Kong. Vampire 殭屍先生 (1985). “We'll drink again another time, goodbye.
Hong Kong was once the Hollywood of the East. At its peak, around the early 90s, the local movie industry was first in the world in terms of per capita production as well as the second largest exporter of films, second only to the US. The influence of Hong Kong cinema can be seen far and wide. Bruce Lee remains a global icon, his martial arts movies classics. The groundbreaking action of The Matrix would never have come about if not for John Woo films and the action chereography of Yuen Woo-ping. Quentin Tarantino ripped off Ringo Lam’s City on Fire for his debut, 1992’s Reservoir Dogs. Moonlight owes much to the style of Wong Kar-wai films and the autuer was an influence acknowledged by Soffia Coppola when she collected the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation.
So with such a massive cultural legacy what are the best Hong Kong movies of all time? Edmund Lee presents this definitive ranking of the best films made until 2011. Not into movies? What about the best or? Or maybe you’re?