Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克, Vietnamese: Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-Kong, is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong and an influential film producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema (typically early 1980s to mid 1990s).
Under Genghis Khan, the Mongolian army pushes west to destroy the Jin Dynasty, setting its sights on the Song Dynasty next. Amid internal conflicts among martial arts schools, Guo Jing unites the Central Plains' warriors to defend Xiangyang, embodying courage and loyalty in the fight for the nation.
Release Date:2025-01-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:12
A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
Release Date:2022-07-07
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Character:Self (segment "Conversation in Depth")
Vote Count:12
Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United States and China.
Release Date:2021-09-30
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:105
May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength - finally, the wind and snow stop the gap.
Release Date:2019-09-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:51
Dee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of mysterious warriors wearing Chiyou ghost masks, foxes that speak human language and the pillar sculptures in the palace coming alive.
Release Date:2018-07-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:191
The world is on the brink of catastrophe in a chaotic age where evil demons roam. In order to keep evil at bay, a mysterious organisation from the pugilist world emerges. A new constable and a young girl with a mysterious past are also drawn into this group, and the group embarks on an incredible adventure.
Release Date:2017-12-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:72
Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are not in agreement. After a series of demon-capturing events, the monk and his disciples gain mutual understanding of each others' hardships and unease. Finally, they resolve their inner conflict and work together to become an all-conquering, demon-exorcising team.
Release Date:2017-01-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Theater Employee (uncredited)
Vote Count:106
Weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world, a powerful swordsman banishes himself to the humble life a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly. The master swordsman must regain the ability to wield his sword and fight those disrupting the peace he so desperately craves.
Release Date:2016-12-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:120
The film features Kung Fu Panda and Chinese martial arts folk hero Wong Fei Hung. In the film, the panda is assigned by the Buddha to protect an ancient treasure that could give the bearer the power to conquer the world.
Release Date:2008-03-15
Department:Art
Job:Art Direction
Vote Count:2
Release Date:2005-01-01
Department:Art
Job:Art Direction
Vote Count:2
Crossings: John Woo starts with Woo's emotional homecoming to Hong Kong in 2004 to promote his latest blockbuster Paycheck. It leads you through his teen years where he made avant garde films, his apprenticeship with Shaw Brothers' martial arts director Chang Che, his coming of age as a director directing slapstick Hong Kong comedies through the 70s and 80s. It charts the genesis of the groundbreaking A Better Tomorrow starring Chow Yun Fat, a film that creates a new genre in Hong Kong cinema and launches Woo's career into the international arena.
Release Date:2004-06-20
Character:Self
One of the greatest, prolific and most influential action directors in history Chang Cheh! Documentary about the Shaw Brother's most prolific director.
Release Date:2003-06-04
"Master Q" is a popular comic book series character in Hong Kong. Each comic book is usually made up of many different situational stories, with 8 frmaes making up a story in 1 page. In short, it is like the newspaper comics that you see in America but in a book form. The movie is about how Master Q and his 2 friends Mr. Chung and Potato are out looking for jobs but accidentally cause an traffic accident for Mandy (Cecilia Cheung) and Fred (Nicholas Tse). As a result, both have lost their memories and due to circumstances, they have become enemies... but then, true love will eventually reunite (with a lot of help from Master Q and Potato).
Release Date:2001-04-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
Release Date:1998-06-04
Character:Self
Vote Count:7
In late Qing, restless and upheavals occurred everywhere in China. So Hat Yee, the leader of a patriotic society, together with the sup-porters started to initiate a revolution against the corrupt and dictatorial government. Unfortunately, the wicked governor, Lee Chun destroyed their apple cart. He manipulated Man King Long as a spy to lure the revolutaries into a lethal trap. In such an zero hour, Wong Fei Hung and the other revolutaries had no alternative, but only fought to the death. Could these righteousness fighters get the final victory?
Release Date:1996-06-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
In cruel political platform, it is the universal rule that the winner would be the one who rules the game and elimination of inferior is inevitable. Here in the story of "The Ideal Century", the participants try to dominate one another, not only for hopes and desires, but also for survival. Ng Mung Ching (Ng Yiu Li) and Chi Kei (Lam Po Yee), the adherents of aggressive General Yu, came to Guangzhou and undertook a secret mission. Righteous Kung-Fu master Wong Fei Hung (Zhao Wen Zhuo) destroyed the plan and it agitated Kei, who conspired it for so many eyars. This time, Hung did lay himself in trouble water and the counter strike back of Kei marked the beginning of the dreadful struggle.
Release Date:1996-04-20
Department:Production
Job:Producer
China was in turmoil during the warlord period. Endless assassinations and brutal killings occured at any time. Ling Siu Sin (Suii Kwan), a homeless girl decided to take retaliation against General Cheng (Chan Yuen) for killing her father. However, she surprisingly found that he was already dead with his head missing. This incident was soon disclosed and everyone was stunned. In order to save the innocence and strike for the righteousness, Wong Fei Hung (Zhao Wen Zhou) and his disciples began to collect the evidence and hence started a fierce battle with the murderer.
Release Date:1996-02-17
Department:Crew
Job:Compositor
Shaolin Temple, not only was the sacred place amongst the monks, but also regarded as the Chinese martial arts origin. Why did it become the battlefield of a fierce duel? After knowing that the head monk of Shaolin, Hung Chi was seriously ill, Wong Fei Hung together with his disciples Club Foot and Chu Yuk Wing went to Shaolin immediately. Out of his expectation, Chi refused to see him and the monks always embarrassed them during the visit. Even worse, Club Foot was imprisoned in the Labour Camp of the Temple without any reason. Facing all these strange things, ominous feeling bred from Hung's heart. In the meanwhile, Hung accidentally met Hung Wan, the one with a high social prestige in Shaolin. Wan then told him everything. The disclosure of the scandal inevitably angered the culprit who in turn sweared to eliminate Hung at all costs. On the blink of war, the buried page of Shaolin secret history was no longer be sealed.
Release Date:1996-01-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
First in a series of made for TV films: Burnt by the seeds of hatred and grudge against Wong Fei Hung, Prince Shing recruited eight magnificent fighters, nicknamed The Eight Demi-god Fighters' to challenge Hung. The ky man, Priest Geing-fax was the ex-disciple of Shaolin Temple. He had learnt the highest level of Shaolin Kung-fu "Bone Marrow Revitalization Mehod" in which made him become invulnerable. Out of his griev-ances towards Shaolin, he sweared to eliminate all its adherents, especially Hung. Never and ever had Hung met such a formidable man before, however, he still accepted this lethal duel in the name of Po Chi Lam despiting the fact that he was really at the death's door.
Release Date:1995-08-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
A group of college kids discovers the remains of an evil warlord from an old cave and brings it to their dormitory, which ultimately awakens the warlord's ghost. It is seeking to avenge his killer, who has since reincarnated as Mr. Hong's snobby girlfriend Annie. With Hong and Annie endangered, Hong's reincarnated spirit takes over to save him and Annie, and defeat the demon.
Release Date:1990-06-30
Department:Visual Effects
Job:VFX Artist
Vote Count:11
A japanese singer believes her father has been kidnapped. She goes to Hong Kong to find him.
Release Date:1989-12-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old.
Release Date:1989-12-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:23
Tsui Hark documentary
Release Date:1989-10-20
A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.
Release Date:1989-09-14
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:21
Four war veterans join forces to wipe out an increasingly powerful drug cartel.
Release Date:1988-10-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
A naive young scientist unwittingly helps mobsters build a laser weapon, then has to try to reclaim it from them in this crime drama parody.
Release Date:1988-09-25
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:3
Shy and timid Hung is asked by his jailbird brother to look after his mistress and his unsuspecting wife. Chaos and many hilarious situations arise when Hung is caught between the two women.
Release Date:1987-03-12
Character:Big Bo
Vote Count:15
A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.
Release Date:1986-07-03
Department:Visual Effects
Job:Visual Effects Coordinator
Character:Godfather
Vote Count:21
The Perfect Wife?! is a 1983 Hong Kong romantic comedy film directed Dean Shek and starring Shek, Eric Tsang and Linda Lau.
Release Date:1983-08-05
Department:Production
Job:Production Designer
Vote Count:1
Biography about the pirate Shih Yang, also known as Cheng I Sao, who ruled the South China Sea under the Qing dynasty.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Release Date:2025-01-29
Episode Count:6
A documentary on the making of China's war epic "The Battle at Lake Changjin".
Release Date:2022-11-18
Character:Self
Release Date:2022-10-28
The life of the epoch-making master of martial arts cinema, King Hu.
Release Date:2022-10-24
Vote Count:3
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.
Release Date:2022-10-20
Character:Self
Vote Count:53
In the follow-up to "The Battle At Lake Changjin", brothers Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli undertake a new task for the People's Volunteer Army, defending a bridge part of the American troops' escape route from the advancing Chinese.
Release Date:2022-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:70
A new documentary film revisits the golden age of kung fu stuntmen and action directors in Hong Kong during the 1960s-'80s, exploring their pain and struggles. The documentary is a tribute to kung fu stuntmen. “They risked their lives for stunts,” said kung fu choreographer Yuen Bin. In their heyday, these stuntmen and choreographers presented the best, most creative and most complicated kung fu fight sequences anywhere in the world, creating stunts that looked seemingly impossible.
Release Date:2021-08-28
Vote Count:13
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
Release Date:2020-12-03
Vote Count:8
Documentary about China's film industry and the monumental changes in the past 40 years from beginning with propaganda films to the "5th generation" filmmakers and beyond, who embraced art and commercial films to make China the second largest box office market in the world after Hollywood.
Release Date:2018-11-19
Character:Self
Episode Count:2
Various directors and film critics discuss Jean-Pierre Melville’s importance and influence in the world of cinema.
Release Date:2017-12-15
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Wu-Lin is the successor of an ancient, once powerful Chinese clan, the "Iron Feet." After the death of his master, Wu-Lin leaves his rural village for the City of Stone-Cold looking for his fellow apprentice Jiang Li. Along the way, he becomes the bodyguard of Fei-Fei, the daughter of Jia-Shan Li, the richest family in the city, and quickly gets drawn into a mob war in order to protect her.
Release Date:2016-07-15
Character:Old Man
Vote Count:92
An ordinary adult film staff uses seventeen minutes to talk about the chaotic market in today's Chinese film industry and how to revitalize Chinese films.
Release Date:2016-06-15
Character:Director Tsui Hark
A retired bodyguard who has settled into a corner of the world where China, Russia and North Korea meet as he suffers from early dementia finds a new friend in a young girl. When her life is threatened by her father's connection with a local crime lord, .the bodyguard must call upon his long forgotten skills to save her.
Release Date:2016-04-01
Character:Old Man C
Vote Count:76
A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to succumb to illness or die. Xuan's business ventures in the area are threatened when he crosses paths with the mermaid, Shan, who is sent to avenge her people.
Release Date:2016-02-08
Character:Uncle Rich
Vote Count:425
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
Release Date:2014-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:181
In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha fights the soldiers that oppress people for their own gain. As payback, local government officials decide to pin the murder of Governor Zhuo Zhonglian on Jade, turning her and the members of her cult into wanted fugitives for a crime they didn't commit.
Release Date:2014-02-14
Department:Production
Job:Consulting Accountant
Vote Count:106
Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress Wu, who is at the beginning of her reign, has commissioned the fierce detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night and makes it unsafe.
Release Date:2013-09-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:273
Paralyzed at a young age, Jing is a kind piano teacher who leads a quiet life. One day, she accuses her doctor Zhou of molesting her during a typical medical examination. Zhou is promptly arrested, charged and put on trial. The prosecutor of the case is Tim, an idealistic lawyer who joined the law world to punish the guilty. However, as Tim's investigator Nam helps him peel back the pieces, the more complex the case becomes. Soon, Tim begins to question the truth surrounding Jing's story.
Release Date:2013-05-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:19
The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman who has been the family's helper for sixty years.
Release Date:2012-03-09
Character:Director Tsui
Vote Count:167
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
Release Date:2011-12-22
Character:Warlord
Vote Count:64
Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Release Date:2011-12-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:212
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
Release Date:2011-09-03
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:59
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
Release Date:2010-09-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:401
A series of intertwining stories focus on the lives and transformations of three women and their romantic relationships.
Release Date:2008-08-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Vote Count:12
A man with plans to propose to his girlfriend hides an engagement ring in the ancient underwater ruins off Japan's Yonaguni Island. When he goes missing she must investigate and remember what happened.
Release Date:2008-06-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure is buried under a high-security government building.
Release Date:2007-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:58
This documentary consists of testimonies from Tsui Hark, Koan Hui (co-writer and assistant director) and Hung Yan Yan (actor and choreographer). All three of them look back on their memories of filming and give us a large number of anecdotes.
Release Date:2006-05-23
Character:Self
Seven Swordsmen is a 2006 television series directed by Clarence Fok and produced by Tsui Hark. The series is adapted from Liang Yusheng's novels Qijian Xia Tianshan and Saiwai Qixia Zhuan. It is also the derived counterpart of the 2005 film Seven Swords, which was also directed and produced by Tsui Hark.
Release Date:2006-03-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:39
Vote Count:2
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Release Date:2006-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Consulting Accountant
In the 17th century, seven swordsmen join their forces to save the villagers from a manipulating General who bans martial arts.
Release Date:2005-07-25
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:179
Rural kung fu whiz Qiang travels to the big city to visit his friend Lung, who's taken up Xanda, a new martial art that fuses multiple styles. When Lung is grievously wounded by the Xanda champ, Qiang trains in the sport to seek revenge in the ring.
Release Date:2004-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:5
Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the Information Service Departement of the Government of HK SAR. The aim was to bring back confidence to the HK popuation. The running-time is 1 to 2 minutes for each short.12 Short films: 1-"Rhapsody", director: Johnny To and Wai Ka-fai; 2-"My Sow Is Not Feeling Well", director: Fruit Chan; 3-"Smile", director: Teddy Chen; 4-"Of a Cause" (Animation) director: Tsui Hark; 5-"Hong Kong - A Winner", director: Stephen Chow; 6-"Who's Miss Hong Kong?", director: Joe Ma; 7-"Family of Heroes", director: Alex Law and Mabel Cheung; 8-"Until Then", director: Gordon Chan and Dante Lam; 9- "McDull 1:99" director: Brian Tse; 10-"Spring, 2003", director: Peter Chan; 11-"A Glorious Future", director: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak; 12-"Making of 1:99", director: Wong Shou-Ping.
Release Date:2003-08-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
In 17th century China, zombies and vampires roamed the lands, feeding on the unsuspecting. A group of martial artists / vampire hunters find themselves employed by a very rich - and very insane - old man who has kept everyone of his relatives preserved in wax and not buried. Apparently it is his family's tradition. So, having generations of potential zombies in your cellar may not be the smartest idea ever, but it takes two to tango. In this case, a thief wants the old-man's treasure and hires a zombie-wrangler to re-animate the waxed up relatives in order to sneak into the mansion and steal the treasure. It's up to the kung-fu fighting vampire hunters to save the day (or night).
Release Date:2003-05-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:39
A documentary about Hong Kong cinema mythology via Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud’s experience as screenwriters in the HK film industry, working for Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark, Daniel Lee and Johnnie To
Release Date:2003-01-01
Character:Self
The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race.
Release Date:2002-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:50
Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors who wrote the scenarios and directed the films.
Release Date:2001-10-01
Character:Self
King Sky, the sole disciple of the Kun Lun Sect, falls in love with his master Dawn. Dawn is killed when Insomnia destroys the Kin Lun Mountain. King Sky waits for two hundred years and meets Enigma, who is the reincarnation of Dawn, and in love with her again. However, Insomnia's Blood Clouds is ready to destroy Zu...
Release Date:2001-08-09
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:67
Hong Kong Superstars is a documentary
Release Date:2001-01-01
Character:Self
A streetwise young man becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He befriends a disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life anew. They find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, but their partnership can't last.
Release Date:2000-10-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:170
A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Release Date:1998-09-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:364
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.
Release Date:1997-07-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Solid Gold (voice)
Vote Count:28
A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.
Release Date:1997-04-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:766
So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.
Release Date:1997-02-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:100
Tsui escapes from a super soldier project and plans to lead a peaceful life. However, when his former comrades go on a violent crime spree, he takes it upon himself to end their reign of terror.
Release Date:1996-11-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:274
Hui Man Keung is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ding Lik, a kindly beggar who is in love with Fung Ching Ching, the daughter of a prominent gangster. It isn't long before Ding Lik rises through the underworld ranks to become one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Release Date:1996-07-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:18
A priest hears a prostitute's confession, a tale which has a 200,000 HK$ debt as its centerpiece. The prostitute accidentally leaves behind an envelope with her address in the confessional.
Release Date:1996-02-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:5
A young man adopted by a renowned swordsmith, discovers that his real father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs foul of a group of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he eventually learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront the man who murdered his father.
Release Date:1995-12-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:103
Despite both their desires to meet a future partner, Yan and Kong develop an animosity toward one another after a troubled meeting during 'Affinity Day'. Soon after, Kong is murdered by gangsters. Two weeks later, Kong comes back in the form of a ghost to ask her to help him prevent his own murder by traveling back in time.
Release Date:1995-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Former member of a triad, Sun seeks to emigrate to Canada. He decides to become a great chef of chinese cooking and follows the teaching master Au.
Release Date:1995-01-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:
Vote Count:49
Epic adventure set during a tumultuous time in China, when left without a leader, the cavalry is attacked by the powerful allies and pirate bands. A martial arts master, Wong Fei-Hong and Aunt Yee return to do battle against these evil forces.
Release Date:1994-11-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:48
In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man, but their short love affair ends in disaster.
Release Date:1994-08-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:24
An exotic, legendary battle between the forces of good and evil comes to life as the celebrated disciples of the Shaolin Temple -- monks who practice a lethal and spiritual form of martial arts -- fight the evil followers of China's Manchu rulers.
Release Date:1994-01-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:31
Fantastic story story based on traditional myths and themes, Lu Xun weighs the cost of seeking justice (and, by extension, of wielding the sword of truth), and suggests that great sacrifices are most certainly required in this particular pursuit. Based on the novel by celebrated Chinese author Lu Xun.
Release Date:1994-01-01
Department:Crew
Job:Presenter
Vote Count:1
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Release Date:1993-11-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:95
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.
Release Date:1993-09-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:293
On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
Release Date:1993-08-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:22
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself.
Release Date:1993-08-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:48
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
Release Date:1993-06-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:53
Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.
Release Date:1993-02-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:196
A German documentary on Hong Kong cinema.
Release Date:1993-01-01
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
Taki and his partner Kai is assigned to go after Daishu for selling a drug from the Rapters's world, called 'Happiness' which causes people to evaporate.
Release Date:1992-11-20
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:39
During the Ming Dynasty, Tso Siu Yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.
Release Date:1992-08-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:123
Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.
Release Date:1992-06-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:115
When Master Tak, an old martial arts master, disappears, his best student, Jet, steps in to find him. However, when he learns that Tak's life is in danger, he decides to protect him at all costs.
Release Date:1992-05-28
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:120
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military.
Release Date:1992-04-16
Department:Writing
Job:Author
Vote Count:249
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
Release Date:1992-01-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Card Player
Vote Count:390
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Release Date:1991-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Vote Count:13
Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's capitalist boom of the 1970's.
Release Date:1991-09-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:13
Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.
Release Date:1991-08-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:423
Set 100 years after the events of A Chinese Ghost Story, Buddhist Bai Yun and his disciple Fong journey through a small town to transport a golden idol of Buddha. However, local thieves thwart their journey, sending them to take shelter at the ghostly Orchid Temple.
Release Date:1991-07-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:88
In the 1930s, China was in a state of turmoil and flurry. The dethroned Emperor Pu-Yi had established the Puppet State of Manchukuo in Manchuria and was cooperating with the Japanese in the testing of poisonous gas. The revolutionary army headed by Lieutenant Mong is assigned to crush this vicious plot. During his mission, Mong comes across witty and valiant veteran Uncle Choy and his friends, who volunteer to help. Mong believes that Uncle Choy is too old to join them. How can Uncle Choy prove himself? And can they succeed in their mission?
Release Date:1991-03-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
In this installment of a phenomenal saga of the super natural, four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. Outrageous special effects galore.
Release Date:1990-07-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:123
When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. It is based on the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Jinyong.
Release Date:1990-04-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:81
The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark, travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life.
Release Date:1989-10-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:128
Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May's roommate Queenie needs a large amount of money to bail her twin sister out, May suggests stealing the blackmail money Jane is keeping locked away in her mansion for now.
Release Date:1989-10-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:6
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
Release Date:1989-03-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:803
Release Date:1989-03-10
Character:徐克
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
A cop is losing the control of his right hand and cannot pull the trigger on time anymore. Before any accident happens, he decides to resign. Meanwhile his friend and informer is brutally murdered in Malaysia. Before leaving the force, he decides to find the killers with the help of his buddy, a young cop and an inspector from Kuala Lumpur.
Release Date:1988-09-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:26
Three Wishes is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Anita Mui
Release Date:1988-08-11
Department:Visual Effects
Job:VFX Artist
Vote Count:1
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.
Release Date:1988-08-05
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
A two-timing bigamist finds himself concocting scheme after scheme with his best friend, Chi Hung, to prevent either of his wives from discovering his bigamy. The unwanted intervention of a police officer as well as a series of unfortunate events lead to the wives discovery of the whole plot. They team up with Chi Hung's exasperated fiancée, Ka Lai, to exact revenge upon the two men.
Release Date:1988-07-21
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:16
RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks like an oridinary robot, Pioneer 2 has been modelled on Maria, the gang's #2 thug. When Pioneer 2 gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast gang member, an inventor on the police force takes her and changes some of her programming. This new code, plus a few injuries to her logic center, start causing Pioneer 2 to develop her own personality.
Release Date:1988-03-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Whiskey
Vote Count:18
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
Release Date:1987-12-17
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:268
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.
Release Date:1987-07-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:287
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pat Neil—embark on a daring quest filled with intrigue and betrayal, challenging societal norms amidst political turmoil and the vibrant world of Peking Opera.
Release Date:1986-09-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:66
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Release Date:1986-08-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Music Judge
Vote Count:529
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two hard kicking women cops from HK and UK get the case.
Release Date:1985-11-30
Character:Panadol
Vote Count:98
Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing are buddies and all dismissed creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor labor relationship. The manager, supervisor and foreman are always picking on their subordinates. Finally the workers decide to take an united front to oppose their superiors.
Release Date:1985-08-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Sunny
Vote Count:9
Two street urchins meet up with a sad and lonely rich kid. They become friends when the kid's shady uncle mistakes them for his nephews.
Release Date:1985-02-15
Character:Grandpa Steak
Vote Count:2
Money God was being naughty in heaven and as a punishment, he was sent to Earth to do good deeds for humans. On Earth, he meets Fung, a restaurant owner and his son Ben. Money God guides Fung to success and his business begins to rise while also helping him fend off loan shark Mo. At the same time, Money God tries to woo Fung's younger sister Ellen. Later, Mo learns of the Money God and unsuccessfully tries to exploit him. As his popularity spreads across Hong Kong, cops, triads and ghostbusters start trailing the Money God.
Release Date:1985-02-15
Character:Grabbing Gold
Vote Count:1
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't know each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
Release Date:1984-10-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Pedestrian Who Gets Soaked
Vote Count:19
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it.
Release Date:1984-01-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Police Officer in Computer Room
Vote Count:38
An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure and charged with killing the heroes. The men are framed twice for different robberies by King Kong's new girlfriend, nearly committed to a mental hospital by their devious boss, and forced to battle Filthy Harry's weaponry-laden robot while covered with time bombs.
Release Date:1983-11-11
Character:Camco
Vote Count:51
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
Release Date:1983-06-08
Character:Self
A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.
Release Date:1983-04-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:15
In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese occupation. They aim to steal back the formula to the atomic bomb from a war traitor and transfer it to an American before the formula ends up in the Japanese emperor's hands.
Release Date:1983-03-31
Character:Japanese Ambassador
Vote Count:8
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!
Release Date:1983-02-12
Character:Reporter
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he gets entangled in a great battle against the Blood Demon, a supernatural entity seeking to wreak havoc upon the world.
Release Date:1983-02-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Blue Army Soldier (uncredited)
Vote Count:87
Tsui Hark stars as Chinese artist and Buddhist monk Li Shutong, a.k.a. Master Hong Yi. Li travels to Japan to study Western artistic practices, and revolutionizes the teaching of art in China upon his return. Set during the turbulent era of the Russo-Japanese War circa 1905.
Release Date:1982-11-01
Character:Li Shutong
It Takes Two is a 1982 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Karl Maka and starring Dean Shek and Richard Ng.
Release Date:1982-07-15
Character:Taoist Priest
Vote Count:6
King Kong, a clever thief who steals a cache of diamonds from some gangsters, frames another thief called White Glove for the crime. That's when the bald detective Albert Au, who has been chasing King Kong for quite some time, pairs with the volatile female Superintendent Ho to bring him to justice. King Kong ends up joining the good guys to defeat White Glove and another bad guy dubbed Mad Max, and recover the diamonds from the hiding place where they were left by King Kong's dead accomplice.
Release Date:1982-01-16
Character:Ballet Director
Vote Count:73
Afro-haired Robert demonstrates over and over to his gawking cousin how easy it is to pick up girls. Robert eventually narrows the field down to two girls. One is a TV model, the other a rich girl with a red sports car working as a waitress. Robert finds the part after the pickup to be a bit more difficult.
Release Date:1981-08-07
Character:[deleted scenes]
Vote Count:3
A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his highly-valued stocks and bonds. Along the way, the investigator crosses paths with a femme fatale and silly gangsters.
Release Date:1981-07-23
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:7
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.
Release Date:1980-12-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Interpol Officer
Vote Count:39
A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.
Release Date:1980-04-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:37
A journalist attempting to solve a mystery in "Martial World" enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze. They go to a mysterious castle where they come across poisonous butterflies and a black-leather-clad killer.
Release Date:1979-07-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:30
A House Is Not a Home is a TVB television series, premiered on 1 August 1977. It is a very successful classic series boasting the likes of stars Liza Wang, Simon Yam, Ha Yu and also veteran actors like Bak Man-biu, Tang Pik-wan and Lee Heung-kam. The show became a 1970s drama classic, well-known also for its theme song, "A House Is Not a Home"; 家變, which was composed and arranged by Joseph Koo, with lyrics by the late Wong Jim and sung by Roman Tam.
Release Date:1977-08-01
Episode Count:110
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times
Release Date:1962-10-31
Character:Self
Episode Count:1