Peking Opera Blues Archives

Other titles include Eric Tsang's Aces Go Places comedy caper series and Tsui Hark's era-defining movies Peking Opera Blues, Tony Ching Siu Tung's A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy, which Tsui Hark produced, and the Swordsman trilogy, which featured Brigitte Lin as the trans martial arts villainess-turned-antiheroine that turned her into an LGBTQ icon Shout! Studios will[...]

Peking Opera Blues, Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark's seminal 1986 action movie comedy, has been restored and received a rare surprise  screening in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 20th This marks a rare resurfacing of the classic Hong Kong movie set in 1913 China that meshed history, politics, Peking Opera, bedroom farce, and elaborate[...]

The story of Madam Ching is a no-brainer for a producer and director of Tsui Hark's caliber since indomitable heroines have been his stock-in-trade since the 1980s while Hollywood still struggles with "strong female characters." Tsui Hark has directed numerous Hong Kong classics like Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain (1983), Peking Opera Blues, and the[...]