Wong’s influential international breakthrough is fascinating, sensual and carefree, and an essential Hong Kong classic from the ’90s.
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Chungking Express (1994)
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Days of Being Wild (1990)
Wong Kar-Wai became one of contemporary Chinese cinema’s most distinctive auteurs with this dreamy-romantic if fatalistic evocation of 1960s alienation and forlornness.
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Police Story (1985)
Jackie Chan puts on a rare snarly front as a framed police officer out to clear his name in this terrific spectacle of death-defying stunts and goofy comedy, still regarded as one of his finest achievements.
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Ebola Syndrome (1996)
This notorious Hong Kong Cat III cult classic is either one of the most offensive movies ever made—or a hilarious ‘feel-good’ romp made more relevant with an ongoing pandemic.
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Three Sisters (2012)
The China that you won’t see, as Wang Bing observes with tenderness the daily lives of a young girl and her siblings in a poor rural village in Yunnan province.
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‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Wang Bing’s extraordinary observational documentary shows us what it’s like in a mental asylum in China—for four gruelling hours, we find ourselves full of human empathy and incapable of rendering judgment.
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Autumn’s Tale, An (1987)
Chow Yun-Fat and Cherie Chung sparkle in Mabel Cheung’s earnest and easy-going romance, shot in the grimy streets of New York.
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Once a Thief (1991)
John Woo goes into light-hearted (but still heroic bloodshed) mode in this rather pretentious heist-comedy with jarring tonal shifts.
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Autumn Moon (1992)
A Japanese man and a Hong Kong schoolgirl try to find meaning in their lonely existence as they are faced with uncertainties of the future in this thoughtful and introspective drama.
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Soong Sisters, The (1997)
China’s turbulent 20th century history is captured sweepingly in Mabel Cheung’s effective if straightforward film about the contributions and exploits of three pivotal sisters.
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