Winners & Sinners Sandra Ng Reviews: The Inspector Wears Skirts Series [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/the-inspector-wears-skirts-series-wellson-chin-1988-1992/] (Wellson Chin, 1988-1992) – January 21, 2022 Golden Chicken 2 [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/golden-chicken-2-samson-chiu-2003/] (Samson Chiu, 2003) — August 3, 2014 Goldbuster [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/goldbuster-sandra-ng-2017/] (Sandra Ng, 2017) — January 5, 2018 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/sandra-ng-capsule-reviews/
Good Men, Good Women Chen Sicheng Reviews: Detective Chinatown 2 [https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/contemporary-chinese-cinema-lunar-new-year] (2018) — February 28, 2018 Detective Chinatown 3 [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/detective-chinatown-3-chen-sicheng-2021/] (2021) – May 12, 2022 Capsule Reviews: Detective Chinatown [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/good-men-good-women-capsule-reviews/] (2015) — February 13, 2018
A Better Tomorrow A Better Tomorrow Capsule Reviews Sunny Chan: Men on the Dragon (2018) — July 7, 2018 Four middle-aged men work at a Hong Kong telecommunications company. In order to woo a potential client, the company signs them all up for a dragon boat race (basically an 18-man crew competition). As the company is laying off workers
Winners & Sinners Jackie Chan Reviews: Winners & Sinners (Sammo Hung, 1983) — June 4, 2013 Project A (Jackie Chan, 1983) — August 2, 2015 Heart of Dragon (Sammo Hung, 1985) – June 8, 2023 Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985) — March 8, 2018 Project A 2 (Jackie Chan, 1987) — August 11, 2015 Dragons Forever (Sammo Hung, 1988) – April
Winners & Sinners Bruce Lee Bruce Lee: The Man, the Legend, the Arrow Films 4K Box Set – October 19, 2023 Reviews: The Big Boss (Lo Wei, 1971) – October 19, 2023 Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee, 1972) — May 2, 2014 Game of Death (Robert Clouse, 1978) — July 14, 2020 Tower of Death (Ng See-yuen, 1981)
Fruit Chan Fruit Chan Capsule Reviews Finale in Blood (1993) — October 14, 2019 Fruit Chan’s second film. I’ve been unable to track down his first, 1991’s Five Lonely Hearts. This one’s a ghost story, basically a scuzzier version of Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (Ann Hui’s The Secret comes to mind too)
Unknown Pleasures The Untold Stories Capsule Reviews Tony Au: Dream Lovers (1986) — March 12, 2017 Chow Yun-fat plays a conductor who, just as he moves into a new place with his longtime girlfriend, Cher Yeung, begins having weird dreams of himself as a Qin Dynasty terracotta figure. At the same time, Brigitte Lin begins having visions of
Fallen Angels Fruit Chan After the End: Fruit Chan, Invincible Dragon and the Decline of Hong Kong Cinema — November 28, 2019 Reviews: Made in Hong Kong (1997) — March 5, 2020 The Midnight After (2014) — September 26, 2014 The Midnight After (2014) — November 1, 2019 Coffin Homes (2021) – February 24, 2022 Capsule Reviews: Finale in
Unknown Pleasures Stray Dogs Capsule Reviews Kevin Chu Yen-ping: Fantasy Mission Force (1983) – July 6, 2024 “How beautiful you are, when you kill.” Honestly an incredible double feature with Rambo. Hsiao Chu-chen: Our Time, Our Story (2002) — August 17, 2020 An excellent doc about the New Taiwan Cinema, told by the people (filmmakers and critics) who
Tricky Brains Xin Yukun Reviews: Wrath of Silence [https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/contemporary-chinese-cinema-seattle-s-china-stars] (2017) — June 19, 2018 Capsule Reviews: The Coffin in the Mountain [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/tricky-brains-capsule-reviews/] (2014) — May 22, 2015
Su Lun How Long Will I Love U (Su Lun, 2018) It’s been awhile since we had a Chinese release of interest here on Seattle Screens, but this time-travel rom-com certainly fits the bill, the kind of clever, unique popular cinema that the Mainland film industry will hopefully start churning out in greater numbers, as opposed to cartoonish action films
It's a Drink, It's a Bomb Raman Hui Reviews: Monster Hunt [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/monster-hunt-raman-hui-2015/] (2015) — January 21, 2016 Monster Hunt 2 [https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/contemporary-chinese-cinema-lunar-new-year] (2018) —February 28, 2018
Crippled Avengers Jason Kwan Reviews: Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (2019) — June 7, 2019 I Did It My Way (2023) – January 11, 2023 Capsule Reviews: Chasing the Dragon (2017) — April 15, 2018
Tricky Brains Han Yan Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/tag/han-yan/]: Go Away, Mr. Tumor [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/go-away-mr-tumor-han-yan-2015/] (2015)— September 3, 2015 Capsule Reviews: Animal World [https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/contemporary-chinese-cinema-2018-year-in-review] (2018)— December 17, 2018
Chin Ka-lok Golden Job (Chin Ka-lok, 2018) In the wake of the 1997 Handover, when Hong Kong turned from a relatively independent British colony to a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, the Hong Kong film industry, which had been for most of the previous 30 years or so one of the glories
Huang Bo The Island (Huang Bo, 2018) Opening this week at the Oak Tree is the directorial debut of Huang Bo, a comic actor probably best known here for playing the Monkey King in Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons. In The Island, he’s reunited with one of his co-stars from that
Crippled Avengers Ding Sheng Reviews: Railroad Tigers (2016)— January 5, 2017 A Better Tomorrow (2018) — February 13, 2018 Nothing Can't Be Undone by a Hotpot (2024) – May 14, 2024
It's a Drink, It's a Bomb Lou Ye Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/tag/lou-ye/]: Suzhou River [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/suzhou-river-lou-ye-2000/] (2000) — May 8, 2019 Mystery [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/mystery-lou-ye-2012/] (2012) — February 2, 2013 The Shadow Play [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/the-shadow-play-lou-ye-2018/] (2018) — October 1, 2019 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/lou-ye-capsule-reviews/]: Summer Palace (2006)
Wong Jing Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (Wong Jing & Jason Kwan, 2019) Don’t let the title fool you: in fine Hong Kong tradition Chasing the Dragon II has no relation whatsoever to Chasing the Dragon, a 1970s-set crime epic starring Donnie Yen and Andy Lau that came out a couple of years ago. The only thing the two movies have in
Cui Siwei Savage (Cui Siwei, 2019) Cui Siwei’s directorial debut is not, unfortunately, a remake of the classic blaxploitation film Savage (tagline: “On the streets, or in the sheets, he’s. . . SAVAGE!”). Instead, it’s another moody Chinese noir, this one headed by two excellent actors and set in a snowy mountain wilderness. Chang Chen
Qiu Sheng Suburban Birds (Qiu Sheng, 2018) The Northwest Film Forum’s commitment to rethinking the movie release calendar continues this week, and part of last week, with the oddball Wednesday-Tuesday run of Suburban Birds, the feature debut of director Qiu Sheng. That the film should play here at all is somewhat remarkable, contemporary Chinese cinema releases
Good Men, Good Women Wong Jing Reviews: The Seventh Curse (Lam Nai-choi, 1986) – January 21, 2022 Casino Raiders (Wong Jing & Jimmy Heung, 1989) – May 10, 2024 Last Hero in China (Wong Jing, 1993) – January 10, 2023 Kung Fu Cult Master (Wong Jing, 1993) – April 12, 2022 High Risk (Wong Jing, 1995) – June 24, 2023 Chasing
Chen Kaige Legend of the Demon Cat (Chen Kaige, 2019) Chen Kaige’s Legend of the Demon Cat is not what you’d expect it to be. Well, at least not after the first 20 minutes or so, wherein the eponymous feline wreaks havoc on the lives of Tang Dynasty courtiers, promising buried treasure in exchange for fish eyes and
It's a Drink, It's a Bomb Chen Kaige Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/tag/chen-kaige/]: Legend of the Demon Cat [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/legend-of-the-demon-cat-chen-kaige-2019/] (2017) — February 28, 2019 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/chen-kaige-capsule-reviews/]: Yellow Earth (1984) — January 13, 2019 Farewell, My Concubine (1993) — January 15, 2019 List: Chen Kaige Movies [https://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/list/
Crippled Avengers Taylor Wong Capsule Reviews Buddha’s Palm (1982) — July 20, 2019 So much better than any other Taylor Wong movie I’ve seen. I assume that’s indicative of the Shaw-Mona Fong machine at work. Like a parody version of the Cheng Cheh and Chor Yuen Louis Cha adaptations that were popular in the
