Tag: Waise Lee
Fierce Cop 烈探 (2022) Review
After spending more than a decade writing action screenplays for high-profile movies including the Ip Man <葉問> quadrilogy (2008-2019), Special ID <特殊身份> (2013) and Master Z: Ip Man Legacy <葉問外傳：張天志> (2018), Chan Tan-Li finally got his chance to direct his own action movie.
35 Years Later: A Better Tomorrow 英雄本色 (1986)
There were many memorable movies during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 80s and 90s and among them include John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色>, which was released back on August 2, 1986.
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30 Years Later: Revisiting Bullet In The Head 喋血街頭 (1990)
From the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, John Woo has made some of the most influential Hong Kong action films of all time during the peak of his career including A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色> (1986), The Killer <喋血雙雄> (1989) and Hard Boiled <辣手神探> (1992).
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The Big Heat 城市特警 (1988) Review
This Tsui Hark-produced action thriller was better known for its troubled production history than the movie itself, with then-newcomer Andrew Kam (Yeung-Wa) originally helmed the picture before Johnnie To took over at some point (both of them shared the co-directing credit).
Chasing The Dragon: The One Billion Inspector 追龙番外篇之十亿探长 (2020) Review
In an unexpected move that nobody could have predicted in the first place, producer and co-writer Wong Jing who were responsible for the first two theatrical features of 2017’s Chasing The Dragon <追龍> and last year’s unrelated but thematically similar sequel in Chasing The Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch <追龍II: 賊王> (2019), opted to go direct-to-web for the third instalment.
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