Directed by the insanely prolific Hong Kong action veteran Wong Jing, Chasing the Dragon (China, 2017) is the filmmaker’s crime epic, a historical drama that charts the rise and fall of two notorious gangsters who thrived in the rampant corruption enabled by Britain’s colonial rule of Hong Kong in the 1960s. The title is slang […]
The Bodyguard (2016), originally titled My Beloved Bodyguard, is directed by Hong Kong martial arts legend Sammo Hung, who also stars as a retired special agent in a small town who is roused back into action when mobsters threaten the life of a young girl (Jacqueline Chan). He’s become a kind of adopted grandad; her […]
Hong Kong movie star and pop singer Andy Lau plays a fictional celebrity with a career that echoes his own in Saving Mr. Wu (2015), a Chinese crime thriller inspired by the real-life kidnapping of a movie star. While Wu is in Beijing, celebrating a new film deal at a casino, a gang of kidnappers […]
