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It's no wonder John Woo and Johnnie To were initially slated to direct it, but that fell through Soi Cheang's direction is more than up to the task as he uses the Walled City set to create an authentic, hyperreal comic book version of the Walled City with props from the 1980s to make the[...]

The first movie was a hit in Hong Kong and Asia with a major pedigree: it starred Michelle Yeoh, singer-actor Anita Mui (the closest Hong Kong had to Madonna in the 1980s and 1990s), and Maggie Cheung (later known internationally for Irma Vep and In the Mood for Love), the three biggest stars in Hong[...]

The movies were directed by Johnnie To years before he became known on the international circuit as a director of ultra-stylish gangster and action movies, with action choreographer Ching Siu-Tung, who directed the classic Tsui Hark-produced A Chinese Ghost Story This was the first time Michelle Yeoh played an actual superhero and one with a[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes; Johnnie To's new crime movie Drug War is getting a fair bit of buzz as it gets a theatrical release in the US this weekend, and deservedly so Hong Kong may be a bit hit-and-miss, but when it hits with a crime drama, it really hits Reviews have been good and it's done[...]