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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024)

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024)

Even though it sounds like one of those straight-to-iQiyi action movies, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is in fact one of the most highly anticipated Hong Kong films in years. As a star-studded period piece, it might have fallen in to the trap of so many recent films in

Mad Fate (Soi Cheang, 2023)

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Mad Fate (Soi Cheang, 2023)

Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)

Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)

Soi Cheang’s latest film might have been a continuation of the SPL series. He directed SPL 2, with the original’s director, Wilson Yip producing, while the two switched roles for the follow-up SPL: Paradox. Yip again produced Limbo, and it shares in common with those other two films

The Monkey King 3 (Soi Cheang, 2018)

The Monkey King 3 (Soi Cheang, 2018)

The latest in director Soi Cheang’s saga inspired by the classic novel Journey to the West might be the strangest one yet. The franchise blockbuster has always been a weird fit for the former director of indie horror movies and slick crime dramas, and Cheang’s first Monkey King

Soi Cheang Capsule Reviews

Soi Cheang Capsule Reviews

New Blood (2002) — July 21, 2020 Extremely spooky low-budget ghost story about one half of a double suicide haunting the three people who donated blood and thus saved the life of the other half. Like an extremely fucked up remix of Rouge. Aside from the obvious craft, this may be

Accident (Soi Cheang, 2009)

Accident (Soi Cheang, 2009)

Essentially a Milkyway Image version of The Conversation, a internalized paranoia thriller with metaphysical implications and a visual style that lodge it firmly in the Johnnie To/Wai Ka-fai universe even though they (probably) had relatively little to do with the production. Louis Koo plays The Brain, the leader of