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2 days agoWatch Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui Save a Bunch of Floating Babies in 'The Heroic Trio'
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2 months ago38 Years Later, A Legendary Hong Kong Director's Cult Crime Thriller Just Got A Huge Upgrade
For a director so celebrated for his masterful urban crime thrillers, in which contemplations on brotherhood and fate are inextricable from violent cop-versus-crook setpieces, it's a surprise to discover that Johnnie To wasn't all that interested in making action films to begin with. "It was [producer] Tsui Hark's fault," To said of The Big Heat (1988), the first of his many films in that genre. "He told me to do it."
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7 months agoTen Years: has the hit film's dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become a reality?
In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental, reads the first scene in the opening credits. But decade on, many of the predictions made in Ten Years have, in some form, come to pass.
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