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Tsui Hark has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Iron Monkey.
Miracles: The Canton Godfather
1989
Crime · Action
Once Upon a Time in China II
1992 · Movie · Director
Top 13%Max · Included
Once Upon a Time in China
1991 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 14%Max · Included
Yes, Madam!
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included
Twin Dragons
1992 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 21%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
2014 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 30%Prime Video · Included
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
2010 · Movie · Director
Top 36%Prime Video · Included
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.
Dir. Yuen Woo-ping · With Yu Rongguang, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang Ching-Ying
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen from the military.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam, Max Mok Siu-Chung
During the Ming Dynasty, power-crazed eunuch Tso Siu Yan rules his desert region of China as if he were Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.
Dir. Raymond Lee Wai-Man · With Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka-fai
In late 19th-century Canton, legendary hero Wong Fei-Hung battles foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee returns from America totally westernised, Wong assumes the role of protector. This proves difficult when his martial arts school and local militia become involved in fierce battles with foreign and local governments. As violence escalates, even Aunt Yee has to question her new western ideals, but is it possible to fight guns with Kung Fu?
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau
Two snake spirits become human and learn about love and suffering. A monk discovers his own weaknesses and finds that morality is not as simple as he had thought.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
Dir. John Woo · With Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Dean Shek Tin
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
Dir. Corey Yuen · With Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, John Shum Kin-Fun
Adopted by a renowned swordsmith, a young man discovers that his biological father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs afoul of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront Lung.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo, Xiong Xinxin, Sonny Song
Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.
Dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung, Tsui Hark · With Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Zhang Hanyu, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Tong Liya
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Andy Lau, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao
When old martial arts master Master Tak disappears, his best student, Jet, steps in to find him. However, when he learns that Tak's life is in danger, he decides to protect him at all costs.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jet Li, Yuen Wah, Crystal Kwok
Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.
Dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung · With Brigitte Lin, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam
When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.
Dir. Stephen Chow · With Lin Yun, Deng Chao, Zhang Yuqi
A streetwise young man becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He befriends a disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life anew. They find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, but their partnership ultimately can't last.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung, Wu Bai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
100 years after the events of the first film, Buddhist Bai Yun and his disciple Fong journey through a small town to transport a golden idol of Buddha. However, local thieves thwart their journey, forcing them to take shelter at the ghostly Orchid Temple.
Dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau, Joey Wong
Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam, Max Mok Siu-Chung
Before the events of A Better Tomorrow (1986), Mark 'Gor' Lee heads to Saigon during the Vietnam War to bring home his uncle and cousin, but his task becomes complicated when a well-known criminal tries to help him.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Chow Yun-Fat, Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Tony Leung Ka-fai
Weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world, a powerful swordsman banishes himself to the humble life a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly. The master swordsman must regain the ability to wield his sword and fight those disrupting the peace he so desperately craves.
Dir. Derek Yee Tung-Sing · With Lin Gengxin, Jiang Mengjie, Jiang Yiyan
Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress Wu, who is at the beginning of her reign, has commissioned the fierce detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night and makes it unsafe.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Mark Chao, AngelaBaby, William Feng
Dee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of mysterious warriors wearing Chiyou ghost masks, foxes that speak human language and the pillar sculptures in the palace coming alive.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Mark Chao, William Feng, Carina Lau
Super-soldier recruit Tsui Chik is forced to escape with his comrades after the project is canceled. Months later, he's trying to have a quiet life as a librarian with his best friend, Inspector Shek Wai-Ho. However, a string of vicious gangland murders begins that has all the markings of Tsui's former compatriots who seem to have turned to crime. Realizing that the police are helpless, he decides to take them on himself. With a disguise, Tsui becomes the mysterious superhero known only as Black Mask.
Dir. Daniel Lee · With Jet Li, Lau Ching-Wan, Karen Mok Man-Wai
Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun
In the middle of the 17th century, the Manchus conquered China and founded the Ching dynasty. Due to widespread uprisings against the new rulers, the study and practice of traditional martial arts is forbidden and punishable by death. The unscrupulous leader of a troop of mercenaries takes advantage of this situation to make a fortune with the bounty on his head.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Leon Lai Ming, Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei, Lu Yi
Director · Writer
Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are not in agreement. After a series of demon-capturing events, the monk and his disciples gain mutual understanding of each others' hardships and unease. Finally, they resolve their inner conflict and work together to become an all-conquering, demon-exorcising team.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Kris Wu, Lin Gengxin, Yao Chen
Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United States and China.
Dir. Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, Dante Lam Chiu-yin · With Wu Jing, Jackson Yee, Duan Yihong
A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon
A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke
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