The Blade (Tsui Hark, 1995)

The Hong Kong New Wave burst onto the scene in the late 1970s with a radical new approach to the genres that…

Heroes Shed No Tears (John Woo, 1986)

Sharing a title and nothing else with Chor Yuen’s 1980 wuxia epic, this was John Woo’s…

Running Out of Karma: Tsui Hark’s Shanghai Blues

Seven Swords (Tsui Hark, 2005)

Tsui Hark’s next major film after a CGI-driven remake of his own Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain in…

On Tsai Ming-liang’s Journey to the West

When I was young, in the first half of the 1980s, my punishment for whatever childhood…