Hong Kong cinema

A tiny territory with a huge industry: Hong Kong was for years the world's third largest exporter of films. The Shaw studios turned out swordplay films in series, where Chang Cheh invented the wounded male hero and King Hu made his fighters fly through bamboo. In the eighties John Woo turned the gunfight into a ballet and two pistols into a signature, while Wong Kar-wai filmed rooms rented by the hour, clocks and missed love affairs, the city of the handover filmed as a place about to vanish.

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• CinemaThe One-Armed Swordsman獨臂刀Chang Cheh · 1967A disciple maimed by his master's daughter, who learns to wield the sword with a single arm.Cinema
• CinemaA Touch of Zen俠女King Hu · 1971A village scholar and a fugitive hunted by a eunuch's police, under the Ming.Cinema
• CinemaThe Killer喋血雙雄John Woo · 1989A triad hitman, the singer he has wounded and the policeman set on his trail.Cinema
• CinemaDays of Being Wild阿飛正傳Wong Kar-wai · 1990A Hong Kong seducer in search of his mother, and those he leaves behind him.Cinema
• CinemaOnce Upon a Time in China黃飛鴻Tsui Hark · 1991A Cantonese folk hero in conflict with bandits and foreigners, at the end of the Qing.Cinema