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Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark's 1984 comedy classic Shangha Blues has been restored to 4K as Shanghai Blues 2024 and will be screened in the prestigious Cannes Classics programme at the 77th Cannes Film Festival The film is one of the defining titles of Tsui Hark's career after The Butterfly Murders, Dangerous Encounters of the[...]

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[...]

Tsui Hark, a pioneer of the Hong Kong New Wave and one of the best action directors in the world, will co-produce the Chinese pirate epic Shih, Queen of the Sea Hark will partner with screenwriter Anthony McCarten, Dakota Group, and Facing East The movie will be about a real-life woman who was the most[...]

Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, one of the world's greatest action directors, will film the wuxia blockbuster Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero on May 28th The big-budget epic adapts wuxia author Jin Yong's (pen name of Louis Cha) epic novel as the first of a planned trilogy to star current Chinese superstars Xiao[...]

Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmakers like John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui (who worked as his assistant before she became a director), and Sammo Hung are also on hand to talk about his vast influence on them and the entire industry. Still from "Come Drink With Me," featured in "King of Wuxia" in the 10th Old School[...]

Known for his hyper-realistic comics and his universe inspired by both medieval (Chinese and European) and music (he is also a professional guitarist and drummer), this collection is a look at his paintings, advertising illustrations (for which he won a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Lion festival in 2008), storyboard and conceptual design work for feature[...]

Courtesy of Sony Pictures Tsui Hark's latest movie, a collaboration with comedy writer-director Stephen Chow, is the manic, crazy, deconstructionist take on the Journey to the West saga: Journey to the West 2: The Demons Strike Back. Nearly every Chinese person knows this story, as do the Japanese, who adapted it into the popular TV series Saiyuki — which[...]

Courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment Tsui Hark is one of the world's greatest action directors, and it's nice to see him getting a resurgence with a string of hits on the Chinese Mainland since 2010's Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, which put him back on the map, and then with Flying Swords[...]

By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman [audio:http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-99734/TS-951783.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth. They say: We're back with kung fu, wizardry[...]