Items21The creator’s order
  1. 1An Autumn's Tale (1987)An Autumn's Tale (1987) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 16, 1987Chow Yun-fat a year after A Better Tomorrow, with no gun in sight. Mabel Cheung sets her romance among Hong Kong emigrants scraping by in New York's Chinatown, and Chow plays a loud, broke, big-hearted chancer who looks out for a homesick student cousin, played by Cherie Chung. Watching the era's…0
  2. 2Rouge (1987)Rouge (1987) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 5, 1987The ghost story that is really about memory. Anita Mui plays a 1930s courtesan from the Shek Tong Tsui teahouses who returns as a ghost to 1987 Hong Kong, searching for the lover, Leslie Cheung, from whom a suicide pact was meant to unite her. Stanley Kwan cuts between the lacquered, lamplit past…0
  3. 3The Eighth Happiness (1988)The Eighth Happiness (1988) 6.3/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 11, 1988The Lunar New Year comedy at full volume. Johnnie To, years before his crime films, directs an ensemble built around three brothers and the women they meet when a phone line fails, with Chow Yun-fat camping it up as a flamboyant womanizer alongside Raymond Wong and Jacky Cheung. The gags are broad…0
  4. 4Chicken and Duck Talk (1988)Chicken and Duck Talk (1988) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 14, 1988Michael Hui, the comic behind The Private Eyes, owns a grubby Cantonese roast duck restaurant, and a gleaming fried chicken chain opens across the street. That is the whole premise, and it lands as a sharp, very funny look at a city where old family shops were losing ground to franchises and shiny…0
  5. 5Song of the Exile (1990)Song of the Exile (1990) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 27, 1990Ann Hui's semi-autobiographical drama about a daughter, played by Maggie Cheung, who comes home from studying in London in the 1970s and clashes with her Japanese mother. Then the film reaches back into the mother's own past in wartime Manchukuo and follows the two of them to her birthplace in…0
  6. 6Fight Back to School (1991)Fight Back to School (1991) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 18, 1991The film that made Stephen Chow's nonsense comedy the biggest thing in Hong Kong. Chow plays a washed-up police officer sent undercover as a student at an elite school to recover a stolen revolver, and the joke is a grown man failing at exams, crushes and teenage politics. The finale turns to guns…0
  7. 7Center Stage (1991)Center Stage (1991) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 29, 1991Also released as Actress. Stanley Kwan's portrait of Ruan Lingyu, the Shanghai silent star who died in 1935, mixes Maggie Cheung's re-created scenes with clips from Ruan's own films and interviews with people who knew her, and even shows the cast discussing the production. The structure sounds dry;…0
  8. 8All's Well, Ends Well (1992)All's Well, Ends Well (1992) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Jan 25, 1992If you watch one Lunar New Year comedy, make it this one. Clifton Ko puts Leslie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Maggie Cheung, Sandra Ng, Teresa Mo and Raymond Wong into one story about three hapless brothers and their romances, and every scene trades on audiences knowing exactly who these stars were.…0
  9. 9Justice, My Foot! (1992)Justice, My Foot! (1992) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 2, 1992A courtroom comedy in Qing dynasty costume. Stephen Chow plays Sung Sai-kit, the slipperiest lawyer in Guangdong, who has retired to run his businesses until a suspicious murder drags him back to court, with Anita Mui as his formidable wife. Mui handles the occasional fight scene; Chow handles…0
  10. 10The Legendary La Rose Noire (1992)The Legendary La Rose Noire (1992) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 2, 1992Released as 92 Legendary La Rose Noire. Jeffrey Lau's comedy is a fond, ridiculous tribute to Black Rose, the vigilante of Chor Yuen's 1960s Hong Kong films, in which a novelist who imitates the heroine ends up kidnapped by the real Black Rose's apprentices. Much of the fun is in how lovingly it…0