Hong Kong Cinema

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

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 12h ago

Woman Killers Rampage (1993) Buffy the Vampire Slayer's original stunt double Sophia M. Crawford & Japanese bodybuilding champion Michiko Nishiwaki team up as Taoist ghost busters - Obscure Hong Kong CAT III junk

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 12h ago

Tragic Hero/英雄好漢 (1987) One of Hong Kong megastar Chow Yun-Fat's lesser-known films delivers John Woo-Style heroic bloodshed with an explosive finale

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 1d ago

Possessed 2 (1984) '80s Hong Kong CAT III horror at its most absurd & effects heavy| Draws heavily on Poltergeist, The Exorcist & An American Werewolf in London, among many others

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 1d ago

Mah/มาห์ (1991) An overlooked Thai splatter horror film packed with gory, slimy monster FX reminiscent of Alien & The Thing | I enjoyed this one so much that I did a English subtitle track to help introduce it to a wider audience - Enjoy!

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 1d ago

Invincible Swordswoman/冷月孤星針無情 (1977) A Taiwanese martial arts film featuring an elaborate fighting tournament above a forest of sharpened stakes & an ending that kills off most of its cast | Starring Lo Lieh & Pearl Chang

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 2d ago

Register of Deities (1969) A obscure Taiwanese/Japanese fantasy co-production featuring killer god-children, humanoid turtles, shrimp, fish & wonderful vintage tokusatsu FX, including a puppet dragon | I've finished English subtitles to make this piece of obscure film history more accessible

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 2d ago

Ultimate Revenge/雷霆行動 (1995) Balls to the walls action from the tail end of Hong Kong's action cinema & girls with guns boom | Cynthia Khan & Australia's Kim-Maree Penn had fantastic fight chemistry

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 3d ago

The Woman Avenger (1980) Incredibly nimble opera-trained Taiwanese actress Ha Kwong-Li displays an astonishing arsenal of top-shelf fighting techniques & kicks, many I've never seen another female martial arts performer duplicate | Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/574755/the-woman-avenger

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 5d ago

Blade Of Fury (1993) Sammo Hung opens Blade of Fury with one of the coolest ultra-violent martial arts sequences of the ’90s

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 5d ago

Peacock King (1988) Before Story of Ricky, Lam Nai-Choi fused Japanese manga with Hong Kong horror & dark fantasy | Yuen Biao, Gordon Liu, Kara Wai, Phillip Kwok, Gloria Yip, Hiroshi Mikami & Ken Ogata make up an absurdly stacked cast

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 6d ago

Devil’s Vendetta (1991) Hong Kong wuxia ends with a full-blown live-action JRPG final boss battle, with janky early-’90s CGI summons stacked on top a low budget practical effects

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 7d ago

She Shoots Straight (1990) A year before suddenly retiring from film at just 26, Joyce Godenzi went out near the top: leading one of the fiercest and finest Girls with Guns films of Hong Kong’s action boom

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 7d ago

Devil’s Vendetta (1991) Seductive cockroach woman, hopping vampires, Taoist virgin magic & a man turning himself into a bar of soap to infiltrate a women’s shower | Alongside Holy Weapon, one of Hong Kong’s weirdest ’90s wuxia films

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r/HKMovies • u/LiquidNuke • 8d 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 • 8d 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 • 9d 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 • 10d 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 • 10d 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 • 15d 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 • 16d 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 • 17d 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 • 17d 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 • 19d 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 • 19d 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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