The five Aces Go Places action comedies shot by production company Cinema City in the 1980s represent one of Hong Kong’s most successful film series. The first film, directed by Eric Tsang Chi-wai and starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui Koon-kit and Sylvia Chang Ai-chia, took a massive HK$27 million at the box office in 1982….
Although there were ups and downs, the golden age of Hong Kong cinema extended from the 1960s to the 1990s. But significant problems beset the film industry in the first decade of the 2000s, and it suffered a massive slump. We take a deep dive into its difficult decade. The way we were Local films…
On paper, a filmic marriage between Tsui Hark and King Hu seemed like a good idea. With films like A Touch of Zen, Hu had created the template for the innovative approach to wuxia films that Tsui wanted to employ in the early 1990s. Moreover, Tsui had often said that Hu had been a major…