MUST SEE HK
Selected by TimeOut HongKong(2012) http://www.timeout.com.hk/film/features/47714/the-100-greatest-hong-kong-films.html
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- DirectorJohnny MakStarsJing ChenLung ChiangLing ChowFour men sneak into Hong Kong to rob a jewelry store. Before the robbery, they're hired by a local triad to kill a man, who turns out to be a cop. They have to execute the heist while hiding from the police hunting them down.
- DirectorFruit ChanStarsSam LeeNeiky Hui-Chi YimWenders LiAutumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.
- DirectorKong LungStarsYin TseLing KaTsai-Jung Chan
- DirectorChia-Liang LiuStarsYue WongChia-Hui LiuLo LiehThe eleventh son of the Qing emperor, who's a kung fu master, is visiting Canton incognito. While there, he meets a loudmouth thief who he takes under his wing, while assassins sent by his fourth brother threaten his life.
- DirectorJeffrey LauStarsMaggie SiuTony Ka Fai LeungWan-Si WongApprentices of the legendary antihero Black Rose go after a Hong Kong poet, who witnessed a violent crime which the Black Rose was blamed for in order to clear her name and bring the real criminals to justice.
- DirectorHo-Cheung PangStarsMiriam YeungShawn YueSingh Hartihan BittoHong Kong health authorities have implemented a law that bans indoor smoking. As office smokers now take their cigarette breaks outside, a mild-mannered advertising executive meets a cosmetics salesgirl as an awkward flirtation ensues.
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsSimon YamSuet LamRuby WongWhen an obnoxious detective loses his gun to four young thugs, it's up to the P.T.U. (Police Tactical Unit) and their iron-willed leader to recover the weapon and clean up the mess before daybreak.
- DirectorsGordon ChanDante LamStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongMichael WongStephanie CheTung is a street cop in Hong Kong who's friends with a Triad named Fai. Fai hires a hit man to murder a business rival; the hit goes wrong and Fai, implicated in the incident, goes on the run.
- DirectorRicky LauStarsChing-Ying LamSiu-Ho ChinRicky HuiThe planned reburial of a town elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, targeting everyone responsible for digging the grave. A Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
- DirectorYuen ChorStarsLily HoYueh HuaBetty Pei TiThe innocent Ai Nu is sold to a brothel run by evil Madam Chun Yi, who falls in love with her at first sight. Quickly becoming the brothel's most desirable courtesan, Ai Nu climbs the ranks in Chinese society. Meanwhile, she secretly plots bloody revenge against all who have wronged her.
- DirectorYuen ChorStarsYin PakWood-Yau CheungLap Ban Chan
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsJosephine SiaoKenny BeeMang-Ha ChengA Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, who wants to marry of his nephew Dick to the star of the company Ah Gee. As soon as they arrive, the company is thwarted by a female spirit, Catshit, who turns out to be the precursor of a whole army of spirits sent to pester the uncle and one of the older actors. Only Ah Gee and Dick find out that the danger has something to do with a crime committed by Ah Gee's ancestors. This involved selling bad medicines to soldiers as a result of which a whole platoon of ghosts is out for vengeance
- DirectorEddie Ling-Ching FongStarsPatricia HaAlex ManKuo-Chu ChangA popular concubine becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by society, and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and a ronin lead to trouble.
- DirectorHan Hsiang LiStarsLi Hua LiChun YenLei ZhaoWu Ze Tian rules as empress during the Tang and Wu Zhao dynasties.
- DirectorYuen ChorStarsShen ChanMei Hua ChenAdam ChengA group of people are crowded together in a crappy tenement slum. The place is ruled with an iron fist by its strict landlady, who along with her sleazy husband, tries to exploit their tenants in whatever way they see fit.
- DirectorsPatrick TamTerry Kay-Ming TongStarsPatricia HaKent TongCecilia YipTwo young couples, from the wealthy and working class of Hong Kong, form and soon become inseparable. They start living an idle life, dreaming of traveling far away, when an ex-revolutionary friend in hiding arrives from Japan.
- DirectorKwok-Ming CheungStarsChia LunHing-Yin KamEddie ChanAn undercover cop goes deep undercover to inside one of Hong Kong's most notorious Triad gangs only to find him getting consumed by a life of crime and seediness.
- DirectorsClement Sze-Kit ChengChi-Kin KwokStarsYou-Nam WongJ.J. JiaTeddy Robin KwanWeedy office worker Cheung is sent to a remote village to secure property rights for his real estate company. Two martial artists run the village's teahouse, which was once the kung-fu school of their teacher Master Law. Law is in fact lying unconscious upstairs in a three decades-long coma, but he awakes when gym boss and local landlord Pong attempts to secure the teahouse for redevelopment. Law mistakes Cheung for a former student and starts training him in preparation for a martial-arts tournament at Pong's gym that will decide all their fates.
- DirectorFung FungStarsBruce LeeChau-Shui YeeHoi-Chuen LeeA 10-year-old orphan is raised by his uncle, groomed by a skilled thief, and becomes involved in trouble around a factory.
- DirectorChusheng CaiStarsLi-li LiLi QingMing JiangSet during the Orphan Island period of Shanghai, the film follows a group of revolutionary patriots-cum-assassins who finally earn the support of the suffering public.
- DirectorsDerek Tung-Sing YeeChi-Leung LoStarsLeslie CheungKaren MokShu QiA struggling director is offered the opportunity to direct a Cat-III film to revive his career. Torn between artistic integrity and financial troubles, he also has to deal with his jealous girlfriend and keep his gangster financiers happy.
- DirectorFruit ChanStarsHailu QinWai-Fan MakXiao Ming BiaoHong Kong life from the perspective of a young northern mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong.