Stephen Chow’s slapstick comedy, mixed with the action choreography of Tony Ching and star power of Sharla Cheung and Brigitte Lin, made for a popular retelling by Wong Jing of a well-known tale.
Famous for directing the Ip Man films, Hong Kong director Wilson Yip started out making quirky comedies, ghost stories and other dramas. We look at five of those films here.
The Hong Kong triad film Young and Dangerous, directed by Andrew Lau Wai Keung, who would later go on to make Infernal Affairs, was a smash hit at the box office when it was released in 1996. The film’s success resulted in five popular sequels – two of which were released in the same year as the original – plus.
They were big in Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s and 2000s – and now these male actors are finding a new audience and fans in China. Stars like Jordan Chan Siu-chun and Michael Tse Tin-wah (both 54), made famous in the Hong Kong triad film series Young and Dangerous (1996-2000), have become overnight sensations in China after they won.