- He changed his calling name from Man-Kong to Hark ("overcoming") when his fellow students at the University of Texas at Austin used to tease him by calling him "KingKong"
- Studied film at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
- Name is pronounced "Choy Hock"
- Speaks fluent English.
- He was the fourth Chinese film director (after Kaige Chen, Jiang Wen and Edward Yang) to join the board of judges for the 57th Cannes Film Festival in 2004. Another Chinese film director joined the board of judges after him in the 58th Cannes Film Festival in 2005: John Woo, with whom Hark had a falling-out out during production of _Die xue shuang xiong (1989)_.
- Was originally attached to the live-action adaptations of Lupin the Third, Tetsujin 28 (Gigantor), and Initial D, but has since vacated those projects.
- The director with the second highest number of films (five, all made between 1979 to 1991) selected among the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures by Hong Kong Film Awards in celebration of 100 years of movies, after Wong Kar-Wai, with six.
- Born in Vietnam, moved to Hong Kong at the age of fourteen
- Tsui Hark received the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival.
- He worked on American TV projects in New York from 1975-1977
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