From Jackie Chan's action comedies to Stephen Chow's mo lei tau classics, from Wong Kar-wai's swooning romances to Donnie Yen's martial arts epics, and from the time where hundreds of movies were being churned out every year to the current market completely dominated by Louis Koo, this is the place to go for features, interviews and reviews about movies both classic and new from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong directors are often celebrated for making a particular style of film. Not Chor Yuen or Li Hanxiang. The former went from melodramas to martial arts movies, the latter from period dramas to soft-core sex films.
Released during a year of slapstick costume comedies, martial arts films, violent horror and Category III (equivalent to NC-17 in the US and 18 in the UK) films, the refined melodrama C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri was a surprise hit in Hong Kong in the last months of 1993. Directed by industry veteran Derek Yee Tung-sing, the movie featured Lau...
How They Shot the Explosive Pole Jump Stunt in 'Police Story'
A stunt so nice they showed it thrice. Here's the story behind Jackie Chan's legendary leap.
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Welcome to
How’d They Do That? — a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off.
This entry explains how Jackie Chan did the shopping mall pole stunt in Police Story.
Without mincing words:
Jackie Chan‘s career.
Police Story with a vengeance. His most recent Western foray,
The Protector, had outfitted Chan as a serious, gun-wielding Dirty Harry-type. But just as Chan wasn’t Bruce Lee…he also wasn’t Dirty Harry. Those molds weren’t his. And