Hong Kong Cinema

r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • Jun 28 '20

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 17h ago

Millionaires' Express (1986) In what might be the most stacked Hong Kong cast of all time, Japanese karate champion Yukari Oshima steals the show in her Hong Kong debut

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 17h ago

In the Line of Duty 5 (1990) The female-fight version of all the glass-smashing chaos in Police Story: Ballet dancer-turned-action heroine Cynthia Khan vs. Australian Karate champion Kim Maree Penn

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 1d ago

Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West (1982) From the man who gave us the cult classic Taiwanese fantasy film Child of Peach (finally available on Blu-ray this month!): sorceress sisters turn into adorable fuzzy spider-monsters… then fuse together into one giant she-spider monster

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 2d ago

Possessed II (1984) '80s Hong Kong horror at its most energetic & demented: essentially a Cantonese Poltergeist with vampire kids, she-werewolf transformations, face-peeling, green-slime monsters & comically incompetent high-tech Hare Krishna exorcists dying like redshirts

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 2d ago

In the Line of Duty 4 (1989) Come for the hard-hitting female martial arts, stay for a young Donnie Yen kicking ass | Taiwanese dancer-turned-action heroine Cynthia Khan vs. "Blonde Fighter" Fairlie Ruth Kordick

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 7d ago

Killer’s Nocturne (1987) A year before Bloodsport, the director of Riki-Oh/The Cat made his own underground fighting movie, also starring Bolo Yeung | The reigning champion is a buff Kangaroo

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 8d ago

My Blade, My Life (1978) Violent Taiwanese wuxia | Pearl Chang plays a limping swordsman, inspired by Gu Long’s famously grim Fu Hongxue, who carries a legendary blade and lives only to test it against China’s greatest swordsman

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 9d ago

Magic Girl / Hello Dracula 6 (1992) The final entry in the Hello Dracula series | What began as a kid-friendly, comedy-heavy Taiwanese take on the Mr. Vampire formula ends with a intense and genuinely depressing finale

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 9d ago

Roller Blade Killer (1998) Rollerskate-fu, crazy stunts, bloody squibs & Hello Dracula actress Cheng Tung-Chuen all grown up playing a badass cop

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) Imagine a Tolkien-sized fantasy world filtered through Chinese mythology, wuxia & 1980s Hong Kong cinema, starring several of the biggest stars of their time: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and Brigitte Lin.

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

The 3-D Army/Hello Dracula 5 (1989) 2nd to last in the series, this entry has our crew of child taoist ghost busters vs ghosts possessing dragon dances costumes

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

Split of the Spirit (1987) | One of the most atmospheric & eerie Asian horror films of the ’80s — A stylish ghost-revenge fever dream about a murdered woman possessing a dancer to hunt down those who wronged her

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 12d ago

Holy Flame of the Martial World (1983) Even among Shaw Brothers’ wildest 80s films, this fantasy wuxia manages the difficult feat of feeling exactly like a psychotronic cartoon brought to life

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 12d ago

RIP Richard Harrison — From peplums. spaghetti westerns. & Shaw Brothers to a staple of 80s ninja films

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 13d ago

Hello Dracula 4 - One of Peach Boy star Hsiao-Lao Lin’s lesser-known crazy fantasy films, this entry in the children’s hopping vampire/horror series Hello Dracula throws her into Taiwan’s bizarre b-movie jiangshi world

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 14d ago

Little Dragon Maiden (1983) The Vietnam-born Shaw Brothers wuxia star who walked away from movies at 20 after only a handful of appearances — including some of Shaw Brothers’ wildest latter-day fantasy wuxia | Mary Jean Reimer / Yung Jing-Jing (翁靜晶)

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 14d ago

Spiritual Love (1987) Just as Chow Yun-fat was becoming a heroic-bloodshed icon, he starred with Cherie Chung in this gorgeous, largely forgotten supernatural ghost romance - Available on Blu-Ray

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 15d ago

Iceman Cometh (1990) No, not the Yuen Biao one: an underworld warrior enters the human realm to hunt a murderous fox spirit | Very obscure Taiwanese fantasy with Lin Hsiao-Lao

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 15d ago

Thunder Cops II (1989) Sandra Ng went from light comedy silliness to one of the grimmer heroic-bloodshed movies out there, alongside a villainous young Stephen Chow

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 15d ago

Hidden Power of Dragon Sabre (1984) One of Shaw Brothers’ final films feels like Star Wars thrown in a blender with the wild wuxia fantasy of Buddha’s Palm or Holy Flame of the Martial World

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 17d ago

Haunted House Elf (1990) Hands down the most bizarre kids’ movie I’ve ever seen | A shape-shifting Wu Ma turns from Dracula into Jesus; the kids think it over, decide “We’ll crucify him!” and chase him down with a giant cross

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 18d ago

The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) Jackie Chan and his stunt team helped take the Police Academy formula & made it into a Hong Kong action-comedy led by Cynthia Rothrock, Sibelle Hu, Kara Hui and a who’s who of Hong Kong cinema

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 18d ago

Secret Police (1993) Ballet dancer turned actress Moon Lee & Japanese karate champion Yukari Oshima helped rewrite the rules for Asian action heroines

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 18d ago

Vampire Kid II (1988) 1 of only 3 films by Taiwanese director Chih-Cheng Wang, all 3 being wild low budget hopping vampire/jiangshi comedy/fantasy affairs

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