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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

Good Men, Good Women

Derek Yee

Reviews: The Sword Master [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/sword-master-derek-yee-2016/] (2016) — December 9, 2016 Capsule Reviews: Viva Erotica [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/good-men-good-women-capsule-reviews/] (1996) — April 14, 2016

Good Men, Good Women Capsule Reviews

Good Men, Good Women

Good Men, Good Women Capsule Reviews

Chen Sicheng: Detective Chinatown (2015) — February 13, 2018 Maybe the closest a Mainland Chinese film has come to capturing the true spirit of classic Hong Kong action-comedy. The central mystery, a locked room murder, is interesting enough to ground the frenetic pace and goofy characterizations. Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran

Bruce Lee Capsule Reviews

Bruce Lee Capsule Reviews

The Big Boss (1971) — June 28, 2013 Bruce Lee may be the most narcissistic movie star of all-time, but you can’t help but be entranced by him — he’s just as magnetic as he thinks he is. Immigrant workers in a foreign country, exploited by a rapacious capitalist as

The Untold Stories Capsule Reviews

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

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

Angela Mao Capsule Reviews

Angela Mao Capsule Reviews

Lady Whirlwind (Huang Feng, 1972) — July 8, 2017 Inferior in just about every way to the other Golden Harvest Angela Mao/Sammo Hung/Huang Feng movie paired on this new Shout Factory DVD release, Hapkido, but not without its charms. In particular it’s got a great opening fight between

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

Fruit Chan Capsule Reviews

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)

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)

Sandra Ng Capsule Reviews

Sandra Ng Capsule Reviews

Golden Chicken (Samson Chiu, 2002) — July 25, 2014 Life of Oharu, but as the kind of Hong Kong comedy where Andy Lau walks out of a TV and teaches Sandra Ng how to properly fake an orgasm. 25 years of Hong Kong history and popular entertainment as seen in the

Winners & Sinners

Angela Mao

Reviews: Hapkido [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/hapkido-huang-feng-1972/] (Huang Feng, 1972) — June 20, 2013 The Fate of Lee Khan [https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/new-kinds-of-heroism-king-hu-s-the-fate-of-lee-khan-restored] (King Hu, 1973) — April 5, 2019 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/angela-mao-capsule-reviews/]: Lady Whirlwind (Huang Feng, 1972) — July 8, 2017 The Fate of Lee Khan

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

How Long Will I Love U (Su Lun, 2018)

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

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

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

The Island (Huang Bo, 2018)

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

Golden Job (Chin Ka-lok, 2018)

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

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)

Suburban Birds (Qiu Sheng, 2018)

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

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (Wong Jing & Jason Kwan, 2019)

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

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