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Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 14, 2013

The Enigmatic Case (Johnnie To, 1980)

After getting his start working in television at Hong Kong’s TVB studio in the mid-1970s…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 22, 2013

Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

A great movie, perhaps the best melding of director Tsui Hark’s twin impulses toward subversion…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 21, 2013

A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo, 1987)

After its formation in 1980 by actors Dean Shek, Karl Maka and Raymond Wong, the first film…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 26, 2013

Happy Ghost III (Johnnie To, 1986)

After the failure of his debut film, The Enigmatic Case, Johnnie To went back to television for…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 27, 2013

Prison on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)

A conventional yet effective prison drama from director Ringo Lam, who appears to have cornered the…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 14, 2013

Running Out of Karma: Index

This is an index to Running Out of Karma, my writing on Johnnie To and his contemporaries, predecessors and influences in Hong Kong and Chinese-language cinema.

Chronological Johnnie To:

Introduction — Nov 13, 2013
The Enigmatic Case (Johnnie To, 1980)…

Sean Gilman in The Chinese Cinema

Nov 14, 2013

Running Out of Karma: Introduction

I’ve spent much of 2013 immersed in Hong Kong cinema. This summer, which I declared The Summer of Sammo, I watched over 80 Hong Kong films, covering the heyday of the Shaw Brothers through the New Wave of the 80s and 90s and into the present day, delving deep into the…

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