New Dragon Gate Inn (Raymond Lee, 1992)

Directed by Raymond Lee, a cog in the Film Workshop machine, working as a planner or…

The Lovers and Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1994 and 1995)

The Lovers

Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow & Derek Kwok, 2013)

Red Cliff (John Woo, 2009)

Five years after his last American film, 2003’s Philip K. Dick adaptation Paycheck, and a long, troubled and…

Zodiac Killers (Ann Hui, 1991)

A somewhat misleading title, as the movie doesn’t have anything to do with a zodiac, or really even…

SPL: Sha Po Lang (Wilson Yip, 2005)

A rote cop-Triad story somewhat elevated by a serious commitment to operatic melodrama on the…

The Duel (Chang Cheh, 1971)

Every time someone talks about David Chiang in The Duel (aka The Duel of the Iron Fist), they use his full…

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung (Chang Cheh, 1980)

Well, there’s actually 15, if you count the five descendants of the Ten Tigers. Which…

Wuxia (Peter Chan, 2011)

Known in the US as Dragon, the actual title of Peter Chan’s 2011 film is Wuxia, the name of a genre of both film…

Ip Man: The Final Fight (Herman Yau, 2013)

If Herman Yau’s first Ip Man film distinguished itself from the other recent movies…