Tsui Hark

L to R: Sammo Hung, Li Bingbing, Carina Lau, Andy Lau & Tsui Hark   Director Tsui Hark and cast including Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bingbing and arts director Sammo Hung held a press conference on June 11th for their upcoming movie Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame . At the conference Hark revealed that Andy’s character Detective Dee is involved in a love triangle with Carina’s Empress Wu and Li Bingbing’s Shang-guan Jing-er. Read Full Story

Tsui Hark’s upcoming film Di Renjie recently announced Carina Lau will play the starring role of Wu Zetian, the only woman emperor in Chinese history. Other names attached to the movie are Li Bingbing and Andy Lau. Li will play Shangguan Wan’er, a palace secretary of Empress Wu Zetian. Andy will play Di Renjie, the best detective of the Tang Dynasty. Read Full Story

As Missing ’s end credits rolled, I could only think one thing–this movie is actually going to end. After the two dozen false endings in the third act, it really does feel like it’s never going to stop. There’s probably a post-credits tag, but I’ll never know. Missing is a mix of Harry Potter , The Sixth Sense and Vanilla Sky . I don’t know why it’s got Harry Potter in there, but it does. There’s some stupid mysticism somewhere in it. Maybe a fight between ghosts or the promise of one. Whatever. Strangely, until the last act–the big Vanilla Sky reveal (and I’m ... Read Full Story

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (San suk san geen hap, 1983) Director: Tsui Hark By Roderick Heath Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain made the reputation of director Tsui Hark, and in so doing, redefined the wu xia... Read Full Story

A good fantasy martial arts film staring Donnie Yen, it’s about seven warriors coming together to defeat an evil General, Fire-Wind, who is plaguing village after village by killing it’s inhabitants for a bounty set on the practitioners of martial arts. But the General is taking things to far and killing woman and children too. Retired executioner Fu Qingzhu has seen the wrong he has done and has repented his ways and thwarts Fire-Winds efforts the best one man can, after being wounded after an encounter with his troops, Fu Qingzhu reaches the Martial Village and warns them that Fire-Wind and his troops are ... Read Full Story