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 LiuLieh LoA prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.
- DirectorJeffrey LauStarsLawrence Ah-MonFai-Hung ChanKwok Leung CheungThe film is about a movie hero of the 60s called Black Rose, but she was actually real, and a woman in the 90s is mistaken for her because she's in the wrong place at the wrong time and somebody is doing crimes as Black Rose, who isn't the real Black Rose
- DirectorHo-Cheung PangStarsMiriam Chin-Wah 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.
- DirectorGordon 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 HoHua YuehBetty Pei TiThe Four Seasons Brothel is run by a ruthless madam, Lady Chun Yi. Countless young girls have been kidnapped or bought and then sold into a life of servitude, prostitution, and torture at this brothel. Ai Nu, an honest, but poor family's only daughter, is one of the newest girls that was recently kidnapped and sold to Lady Chun. To complicate matters even more, Lady Chun is a lesbian and quickly falls in love with the virginal Ai Nu, who will not let her spirit be broken and tries to escape again and again. This causes Lady Chun to use all of her resources to break her, including auctioning off Ai Nu's virginity to a group of wealthy businessmen. She eventually entrusts Ai Nu with a number of ancient kung-fu secrets like the Ghost Hands, which allows you to thrust your fists into an opponent's chest. Soon after murder erupts within the brothel. A diligent detective, Chi Te, visits the brothel and becomes increasingly involved in the murder investigation. He realizes he must do everything he can to prevent Ai Nu from taking her much deserved revenge on everyone that has wronged her over the years.
- 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 ChangRebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the 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 ChanKuan Tai ChenMei Hua ChenA 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.
- DirectorPatrick TamTong Kay Ming TerryStarsCecilia YipLeslie CheungPatricia HaA story about the experiences of a group of youngsters who feel lost and try to find the true meaning of life.
- DirectorKwok-Ming CheungStarsLun ChiaHing-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.
- DirectorClement Sze-Kit ChengChi-Kin KwokStarsSiu-Lung LeungKuan Tai ChenTeddy 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 LeeThe English was actually The Kid.
- 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.
- DirectorTung-Shing YeeChi-Leung LawStarsLeslie 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.