Film Dictionary

Epic "wu xia pian" directed by Tsui Hark.

This violent and gory swordpic about revenge is one of Tsui Hark's best films. Relentlessly kinetic, the film rejects standard heroic ...

A beautiful love story, a Chinese "Romeo And Juliet".

This isn't the final installement of the "Once Upon A Time In China" saga (there were two more films after that), but it is th...

The popular saga continues. This time, the villains are Chinese ultra-nationalists from the White Lotus Society. Wong Fei-Hong (Jet Li) jo...

Set in the late 19th century, it's a thrilling adventure film, directed by Tsui Hark, the first part of a long saga. It has excellent ...

Set in Saigon in 1974 and 1975 (with a brief intermission in Hong Kong), it's a prequel to the first two films. Directed by Tsui Hark, w...

The daughter of a Chinese general participates in a plot against him. It's a superb pastiche of the spy movie genre, directed by Tsui ...

Tsui Hark's first masterpiece is a fast-paced comedy set in 1947 Shanghai.

One of many "sword & sorcery" Hong Kong epics, those with flying witches, magicians, monsters, spirits and hopping vampires. M...

Good horror movie from Tsui Hark.

Little butterflies attack people in a mysterious castle. Tsui Hark's first film, clearly inspired by Hitchcock's "The Birds...