In 1975’s The Man from Hong Kong, Jimmy Wang Yu thought he had found the vehicle that would propel him to Bruce Lee-level international fame – but the James Bond-like film did not click with viewers.
Tsui Hark made two of his most daring films in 1980, one a satire with a cannibal theme, the other an extremely violent on society, with characters who wreak destruction for the hell of it.
Although Hong Kong cinema has often used shocks to attract audiences, proper Cantonese-language ghost films didn't start being produced until the 1980s, when the genre was combined with kung fu and comedy in hit films like Sammo Hung Kam-bo's Encounter of the Spooky Kind. As for horror, cheap copies of American movies were produced in the early 1970s to ride.
“Lee legend cheapened,” screamed a headline in the South China Morning Post in 1978, highlighting film critic Noel Parrott’s distaste for Game of Death , the disastrous movie which posthumously cut 11 minutes of unseen Lee fight footage into a movie with a trashy storyline, foreign actors and Lee lookalikes made to cash in on the star’s fame. “With Game.
Bruce Lee's debut Hong Kong martial arts movie The Big Boss made him an instant star in Hong Kong. Opening on the last day of October, 1971, it drew full houses for its seven daily screenings and took HK$3.2 million (S$558,200) at the box office during its 19-day run. It made a million of those in just two days, and.