Saturday, February 15, 2014
Happy Birthday Tsui Hark
Director Tsui Hark turns 64 years old today. Over the last year, as I've been wandering through the last 50 years or so of Hong Kong film history, Tsui has been recurring again and again as a contemporary of Sammo Hung, a leading light of the Hong Kong New Wave and a collaborator of sorts early in the career of Johnnie To. I've written about several of his films, but really should do more. Maybe a They Shot Pictures episode or something sometime. Anyway, over on letterboxd I have a ranked list of the Tsui Hark-directed films I've seen for far and here is a list of the reviews I've written about some of his movies as director and/or producer, in order of production date. Long reviews here at The End are marked with a '*', the rest are letterboxd capsules. I'm going to keep updating this as I add more reviews.
*The Butterfly Murders (Tsui, 79) - May 31, 2013
We're Going to Eat You (Tsui, 80) - Jun 08, 2013
Dangerous Encounters - First Kind (Tsui, 80) - Jun 25, 2013
All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution (Tsui, 81) - Nov 27, 2013
*Shanghai Blues (Tsui, 84) - Aug 27, 2014
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street (Tsui, 84) - Dec 04, 2013
*Working Class (Tsui, 85) - Dec 07, 2013
*Peking Opera Blues (Tsui, 86) - Nov 22, 2013
*A Better Tomorrow II (Woo, 87) - Nov 21, 2013
*The Big Heat (To et al, 88) - Jan 09, 2015
*Swordsman and Swordsman 2 (Hu Ching, 90 and Ching, 92) - Sep 26, 2012
The Banquet (Tsui et al, 91) - Dec 13, 2013
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui, 91) - Jun 13, 2013
Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui, 92) - Jun 14, 2013
Twin Dragons (Tsui & Lam, 92) - Apr 14, 2015
*New Dragon Gate Inn (Lee, 92) - Apr 24, 2014
*Green Snake (Tsui, 93) - Oct 25, 2013
The East is Red (Ching & Lee, 93) - Jun 22, 2015
*The Lovers (Tsui, 94) - Apr 04, 2014
*The Blade (Tsui, 95) - Mar 19, 2014
*Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui, 95) - Apr 04, 2014
The Chinese Feast (Tsui, 95) - Jun 04, 2013
Double Team (Tsui, 97) - Apr 04, 2014
Knock Off (Tsui, 98) - Apr 07, 2014
Time and Tide (Tsui, 00) - Mar 25, 2014
*Zu Warriors (Tsui, 01) - May 29, 2013
*Seven Swords (Tsui, 05) - Mar 11, 2014
Triangle (Lam, Tsui & To, 07) - Mar 09, 2013
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui, 2010) - Apr 24, 2014
*The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (Tsui, 11) - Oct 29, 2014
*Young Detective Dee and the Rise of the Sea Dragon (Tsui, 13) - Feb 27, 2014
*The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Tsui, 14) - Jan 14, 2015
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