This past month, on the Criterion Channel, they had this excellent retrospective of Hong Kong action movies, which sent me ...

Filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun returned to the Tokyo International Film Festival nearly three decades after his UFO (United ...

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in ...

These films demonstrated an almost experimental approach to action, with creative camerawork, unorthodox editing, and unabashedly over-the-top emotions. Woo’s work was shot through with a deep ...

Movies, TV dramas, events and scholarships were announced as part of the Chinese giant's shift into support for the territory. By Mathew Scott China’s vast Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment ...

Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan talked through the many changes he’s seen in the Asian film business during his 35-year ...

Peking Opera Blues is set in 1913 Beijing, after the collapse of the last imperial dynasty. China was barely ruled by a weak government, and warlords were carving up the country. It is that rare ...

Hong Kong filmmaking giant Johnnie To on Monday confirmed plans to make a Hong Kong gangster movie to be shot in Japan. Speaking to Variety at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event, To said he’d like ...

Benz Hui, a veteran Hong Kong performer dubbed the "King of Suppporting Actors" during a career which spanned more than five decades, has died at the age of 76. He passed away in the early hours of ...

Stanley Fung Shui-fan, well-known for his comedy and film roles in Hong Kong, has died at 80 in New Taipei, just a week after writing a moving farewell for fellow actor Hui Shiu-hung.