Tsui Hark

Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1951)

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Tsui (徐).

Tsui Hark

Tsui Hark at the New York Asian Film Festival, 10 July 2011

Born|

Tsui Man-kong (徐文光)

(1951-02-01) 1 February 1951 (age 73)

Saigon, Vietnam

Occupation(s)| Film director, producer, presenter, screenwriter, actor
Spouse|

Nansun Shi

(m. 1996; div. 2014)​

Chinese name
Chinese| 徐文光
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Xú Wénguāng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization| Chèuih Mahn Gwōng
Jyutping| Ceoi4 Man4gwong1
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese| 徐克
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Xú Kè
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization| Chèuih Hāk
Jyutping| Ceoi4 Hak1

Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克, Vietnamese: Từ Khắc, born 1 February 1951), born Tsui Man-kong (Vietnamese: Từ Văn Quang), is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Tsui has directed several influential Hong Kong films such as Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), the Once Upon a Time in China film series (1991–1997) and The Blade (1995). Tsui also has been a prolific writer and producer;[1] his productions include A Better Tomorrow (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (1987), A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), The Killer (1989), The Legend of the Swordsman (1992), The Wicked City (1992), Iron Monkey (1993) and Black Mask (1996). He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema and is regarded by critics as "one of the masters of Asian cinematography".[2]

In the late 1990s, Tsui had a short-lived career in the United States, directing the Jean-Claude Van Damme–led films Double Team (1997) and Knock Off (1998). Both films were commercially unsuccessful and critically panned; Tsui himself was unsatisfied with his lack of creative control and returned to Hong Kong to continue his career, where he found commercial and critical success with blockbusters such as the Detective Dee film series, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011), and The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014).

## Early life

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Tsui was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, to a large Chinese (Hoa) family with sixteen siblings.[3] Tsui showed an early interest in show business and films; when he was 10, he and some friends rented an 8 mm camera to film a magic show they put on at school. He also drew comic books, an interest that would influence his cinematic style. By the age of 13, he and his family immigrated to Hong Kong.[4]

Tsui started his secondary education in Hong Kong in 1966. He proceeded to study film in Texas, first at Southern Methodist University and then at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1975. He claims to have told his parents he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps as a pharmacist, and that it was here he changed his given name to Hark ("overcoming").

After graduation, Tsui moved to New York City, where he worked on From Spikes to Spindles (1976), a noted documentary film by Christine Choy on the history of the city's Chinatown. He also worked as an editor for a Chinese newspaper, developed a community theatre group and worked in a Chinese cable TV station. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977.

## Career

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### 1977-1981: New Wave period

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Tsui returned to Hong Kong in 1977 and worked for TVB,[5] the dominant local television station, then moved to its rival, CTV, lured by its general manager Selina Chow. Viewed as having an eye for talent (numerous future New Wave directors got their first directing gigs under Chow)[6] she put Tsui in charge of the martial arts drama, The Gold Dagger Romance, which marked him as a talent to watch.[7]

Producer Ng See-yuen saw Gold Dagger Romance and hired Tsui to direct his first feature, The Butterfly Murders (1979),[8] a technically challenging blend of wuxia, murder mystery and science fiction / fantasy elements. His second film, We're Going to Eat You (1980), was a blend of cannibal horror, black comedy and martial arts. He was quickly typed as a member of Hong Kong's "New Wave" of directors.

Tsui's third film, Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980), was a nihilistic thriller about delinquent youths on a bombing spree. Heavily censored by the British colonial government, it was released in 1981 in a drastically altered version titled Dangerous Encounter – 1st Kind (or alternatively, Don't Play with Fire). The movie out-grossed Tsui's previous two films, however and made him a darling of film critics with writers describing it as “one of those very rare films in the history of Hong Kong cinema that brims with accusation and subversion” and saying that it described “man as trapped animals — this is the popular theme of the New Wave and the one enduring image in their narratives.”[9]

### 1980s-2000s: Golden era

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In 1981, Tsui joined Cinema City & Films Co., a production company founded by comedians Raymond Wong, Karl Maka and Dean Shek. Cinema City & Films Co. was instrumental in codifying the slick Hong Kong blockbuster films of the 1980s.[citation needed] Tsui played his part in the process with pictures like the crime farce All the Wrong Clues (1981), his first hit, and Aces Go Places 3 (1984), part of the studio's long-running spy spoof series.

In 1983, Tsui directed the wuxia fantasy film Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) for the studio Golden Harvest. Tsui imported Hollywood technicians to help create special effects whose number and complexity were unprecedented in Chinese-language cinema.[citation needed]

In 1984, Tsui formed the production company Film Workshop with Nansun Shi. He also developed a reputation as a hands-on and even intrusive producer of other directors' work, fuelled by public breaks with major filmmakers like John Woo and King Hu. His most longstanding and fruitful collaboration has probably been with Ching Siu-tung.[citation needed] As action choreographer and/or director on many Film Workshop productions, Ching made a major contribution to the well-known Tsui style.

Film Workshop releases became consistent box office hits in Hong Kong and around Asia, drawing audiences with their visual adventurousness, their broad commercial appeal, and hectic camerawork and pace. With Tsui having been called the 'Steven Spielberg of Asia', Film Workshop became the 'Amblin of Hong Kong'.[10] He produced John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), which launched a craze for Heroic bloodshed movies, and Ching Siu-tung's A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), which did the same for period ghost fantasies. Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain and The Swordsman (1990) birthed the modern-day special effects industry in Hong Kong.

In fact, Tsui's "movie brat" nostalgia is one of the main ingredients in his work. He often resurrects and revises classic films and genres: the murder mystery in The Butterfly Murders (1979); the Shanghai musical comedy in Shanghai Blues (1985). Peking Opera Blues (1986) plays with and pays tribute to the traditions of the Peking opera that his mother took him to see as a small boy and which had such a strong influence on Hong Kong action cinema. The Lovers (1994) adapts a retold, cross-dressing period romance, best known from Li Han-hsiang's 1963 opera film The Love Eterne. A Chinese Ghost Story remakes Li's supernatural romance The Enchanting Shadow (1959) as a special effects action movie.

The pattern is also seen in perhaps Tsui's most successful work to date, the Once Upon a Time in China film series (1991–97). Jet Li played the role of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung in the first three films and the sixth, Once Upon a Time in China and America. This series is the clearest expression in his oeuvre of Tsui's Chinese nationalism and his passionate engagement with the upheavals of Chinese history, particularly in the face of Western power and influence.

Tsui also dabbled in acting, mostly for other directors. Notable roles include one-third of the comic relief trio in Corey Yuen's film Yes, Madam! (1985) and a villain in Patrick Tam's darkly comic crime story Final Victory (1987), written by Wong Kar-wai. He also made frequent cameo appearances in his own productions, such as a music judge in A Better Tomorrow and a phony FBI agent in Aces Go Places II.

In the face of an industry downturn in the '90s, he produced two expensive movies. Green Snake (1993) was a poetic and lyric movie based on a favourite Chinese fairy tale. The Blade (1995) was a gory, deliberately rough-hewn revision of the 1967 wuxia classic The One-Armed Swordsman.

In the mid-to-late '90s, Tsui tried Hollywood with two films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme: Double Team (1997) and Knock Off (1998). In 2002, he made Black Mask 2: City of Masks, an American market sequel to Jet Li's 1996 film. It was released direct-to-video in the United States in December of that year before being theatrically released the next month in Hong Kong.

### 2000s-Now: China-Hong Kong co-productions

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Tsui Hark in 2008

Tsui returned to directing at home in 2000 after not having made a local film since 1996. Time and Tide (2000) and The Legend of Zu (2001) were action extravaganzas with lavish computer-generated imagery that gained cult admirers but no mass success.

Tsui continues to push technical boundaries and revise old favourites. Master Q 2001 was Hong Kong's first combination of live action and Pixar-style 3D computer animation. Era of Vampires (2002; US title, "Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters") reworked a subgenre popular in the '80s, hybrid martial arts / supernatural horror films featuring the "hopping corpses" of Chinese folk legend.

In 2005, Tsui launched the multimedia production Seven Swords, a film adaptation of Liang Yusheng's novels Saiwai Qixia Zhuan and Qijian Xia Tianshan. The film came with a television series counterpart (Seven Swordsmen), a comic book series, a cellphone game, clothing brand, and an online multi-player video game. The film was relatively successful, and in February 2006 Tsui announced plans to begin filming the second late in the year. As of 2008, Tsui continues to work on the script for Seven Swords 2 in between filming projects. In 2011 there has been no news nor plans about a Seven Swords 2. Rumors has it that due to lack of interest by the filmmakers of finishing the hexalogy lead the project into being cancelled.

In August 2008, Tsui provided art direction for the direct-to-video anime feature titled Kungfu Master (a.k.a. Wong Fei Hong vs Kungfu Panda), an apparent unofficial sequel to Kung Fu Panda, featuring Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung.[11] He also directed the 2008 thriller Missing starring Angelica Lee and the 2008 romantic comedy film All About Women featuring comic graphics and extensive ADR dubbing.

Tsui's latest work in 2010 is Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, a rare but successful blend of wuxia, suspense-thriller, mystery, and comedy, which was in competition for the Golden Lion award and was also nominated and won numerous other awards.

In 2010 he announced his first 3-D film, The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, which is a re-imagining of his 1992 film New Dragon Gate Inn starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin. In 2011 Huayi Brothers announced that Tsui will be making a prequel to Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame; shot in 3-D, it was released in 2013 as Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon.

In October 2011, Tsui received the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 16th Busan International Film Festival for his contributions to Hong Kong cinema. He is the fifth Chinese filmmaker to receive this award at Busan.[12]

His film The Taking of Tiger Mountain premiered in China in December 2014.[13]

Tsui worked on a film with Milkyway Image alongside Ann Hui, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-Ping. Each director created a segment based on Hong Kong history.[14] The completed film, Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, was shown at the Busan International Film Festival on 21 October 2020 and at the annual Hong Kong International Film Festival in April 2021.[15]

In 2021 Tsui co-directed The Battle at Lake Changjin with Chen Kaige and Dante Lam. The film is the most expensive film ever produced in China, the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time, and the highest-grossing non-English film.

## Personal life

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Tsui Hark has been married twice. He was briefly married during his time studying in the U.S. in the 1970s, but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1977, he met Nansun Shi while working at Commercial Television, Hong Kong and they began dating a year later. In 1984, they founded a film studio, where Shi was responsible for financing, distribution, and promotion. The couple co-produced over a hundred films. In 1993, rumors circulated about Tsui's affair with Sally Yeh, allegedly causing a temporary split with Shi. In 1996, Tsui and Shi married in Beverly Hills, California. In 2008, Tsui was reported to have been living with Seven Swords (2005) actress Chen Jiajia in Beijing. When asked about their status of marriage, Shi then responded, "Let me give you a standard answer. I’ve been saying this for years: what happens between two people is private and doesn’t concern a third party."[16] By 2011, Tsui began dating his assistant, Lele, whom he had met online during the filming of Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011).[17][18] Shi announced their divorce in 2014, adding that Tsui and Lele had been together for some time.[19][20]

## Filmography

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1979  | The Butterfly Murders | Yes  | No  | No  |
1980  | We're Going to Eat You | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Also known as Hell Has No Gates
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
1981  | All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
1983  | Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Yes  | No  | No  |
Search for the Gods | Yes  | No  | No  | Short film
1984  | Shanghai Blues | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
Aces Go Places 3 | Yes  | No  | No  | Also known as Mad Mission 3
1985  | Working Class | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
1986  | A Better Tomorrow | No  | No  | Yes  |
Peking Opera Blues | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
1987  | A Chinese Ghost Story | No  | No  | Yes  |
A Better Tomorrow II | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
1988  | The Big Heat | Uncredited  | No  | Yes  |
I Love Maria | Uncredited  | Uncredited  | Yes  | Also known as Roboforce
1989  | A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
The Killer | No  | No  | Yes  |
1990  | Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior | No  | No  | Yes  |
The Swordsman | Uncredited  | No  | Yes  |
Spygame | No  | No  | Yes  |
A Chinese Ghost Story II | No  | No  | Yes  | Also editor
1991  | Once Upon a Time in China | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
The Raid | Uncredited  | Yes  | Yes  |
A Chinese Ghost Story III | Uncredited  | Yes  | Yes  |
King of Chess | Uncredited  | No  | Executive  |
The Banquet | Yes[a] | Yes  | No  |
1992  | Twin Dragons | Yes[b] | Yes  | No  | Also known as Shuang long hui
and Brother vs. Brother
Once Upon a Time in China II | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
The Master | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Filmed in 1989
Swordsman II | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Also known as The Legend of the Swordsman
New Dragon Gate Inn | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Also known as Dragon Inn
The Wicked City | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
1993  | Iron Monkey | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
The East Is Red | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Also known as Swordsman III
Once Upon a Time in China III | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
Green Snake | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
Once Upon a Time in China IV | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
1994  | Burning Paradise | No  | No  | Yes  |
The Lovers | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
Once Upon a Time in China V | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
1995  | The Chinese Feast | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
Love in the Time of Twilight | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
The Blade | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also editor and production manager
1996  | Tristar | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
Shanghai Grand | No  | No  | Yes  |
Black Mask | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
1997  | Once Upon a Time in China and America | No  | No  | Yes  |
Double Team | Yes  | No  | No  | American and English-language debut
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation | No  | Yes  | Executive  | Also editor
1998  | Knock Off | Yes  | No  | No  |
2000  | Time and Tide | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2001  | The Legend of Zu | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also known as Zu Warriors
Old Master Q 2001 | No  | No  | Yes  |
2002  | The Era of Vampires | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Also known as Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters
Black Mask 2: City of Masks | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
2003  | 1:99 Shorts | Yes  | No  | No  | 1 segment
2004  | Xanda | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Also known as Sanda
2005  | Seven Swords | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2006  | The Warrior | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Also action director
2007  | Triangle | Yes[c] | Yes  | Yes  |
2008  | Missing | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
All About Women | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also editor
2010  | Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
2011  | Flying Swords of Dragon Gate | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2013  | Sheng dan mei gui | No  | No  | Yes  |
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2014  | The Taking of Tiger Mountain | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2016  | Sword Master | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
2017  | Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
The Thousand Faces of Dunjia | No  | Yes  | Executive  |
2018  | Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings | Yes  | Story  | Yes
2019  | The Climbers | No  | No  | Yes  |
2020  | Septet: The Story of Hong Kong | Yes  | Yes  | No  | 1 segment, also acted as editor
2021  | The Battle at Lake Changjin | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Also editor
2022  | The Battle at Lake Changjin II | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
2024  | Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2025  | Shih, Queen of the Sea | No  | No  | Yes  |

Television

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1986  | Spirit Chaser Aisha | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Lost media
1995–1996  | Wong Fei Hung Series | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Episodes "The Final Victory" and "The Ideal Century"
2005–2006  | Seven Swordsmen | No  | Yes  | Yes  |

### Acting roles

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1980  | Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind | Interpol Officer  | Uncredited cameo
1982  | Aces Go Places | Ballerina Director  | Also known as Diamondfinger and Mad Mission
Yi jiu ling wu de dong tian | Li Shutong  |
1983  | Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Blue Army soldier fighting Fat Man  |
Aces Go Places 2 | FBI  | Also known as Mad Mission II
Wo ai Ye Laixiang | Japanese Ambassador  |
1984  | Shanghai Blues | Pedestrian Who Gets Soaked  |
Aces Go Places 3 | Police Officer in Computer Room  | Also known as Mad Mission 3
Run, Tiger, Run | Grandpa Steak  |
1985  | Kung Hei Fat Choy | Gold Grabber  |
Working Class | Sunny  |
Yes, Madam | Panadol  |
1986  | A Better Tomorrow | Music Judge  |
Happy Ghost III | Reincarnation Director  |
1987  | Final Victory | Big Bo  |
1988  | The Big Heat | Inspector Yiuming Butt  | Uncredited
I Love Maria | Whiskey  | Also known as Roboforce
1989  | A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon | Police Officer in Computer Room  |
1992  | The Wicked City | Card player  |
1997  | A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation | Solid Gold (voice)  |
2000  | Time and Tide | Narrator (voice)  | Uncredited cameo
2008  | All About Women | Taxi driver  | Uncredited cameo
2011  | A Simple Life | Director Tsui  | Also known as Sister Peach
The Great Magician | Warlord  |
2016  | The Mermaid | Uncle Rich  | Credited under the name "Ke Xu"
The Bodyguard | Old Man  |
2017  | Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back | Theater employee  |

### Other credits

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1983  | All the Wrong Spies | Production designer  |
1986  | Righting Wrongs | Action choreographer  | Also known as Above the Law

## Awards and nominations

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### Golden Horse Awards

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Year  | Category  | Film  | Result

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1981 | Best Director | All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution | Won
1992 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Swordsman II | Nominated
1994 | Best Adapted Screenplay  | The Lovers | Nominated
1997 | Best Adapted Screenplay  | A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation | Nominated
2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay  | Seven Swords | Nominated
2014 | Best Director  | The Taking of Tiger Mountain | Nominated

### Hong Kong Film Awards

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Year  | Category  | Film  | Result

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1985 | Best Film | Shanghai Blues | Nominated
Best Director | Nominated
1987 | Best Film  | A Better Tomorrow | Won
Best Action Choreography | Righting Wrongs | Nominated
1988 | Best Film  | A Chinese Ghost Story | Nominated
Best Supporting Actor | Final Victory | Nominated
1990 | Best Film  | The Killer | Nominated
1992 | Best Film  | Once Upon a Time in China | Nominated
Best Director  | Won
1993 | Best Film  | Once Upon a Time in China II | Nominated
Best Director  | Nominated
1995 | Best Director  | The Lovers | Nominated
2006 | Best Film  | Seven Swords | Nominated
Best Director  | Nominated
2011 | Best Film  | Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame | Nominated
Best Director  | Won
2012 | Best Film  | Flying Swords of Dragon Gate | Nominated
Best Director  | Nominated
2016 | Best Director  | The Taking of Tiger Mountain | Won

## Explanatory notes

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1. ^ Co-directed with Alfred Cheung, Joe Cheung and Clifton Ko
2. ^ Co-directed with Ringo Lam
3. ^ Co-directed with Ringo Lam and Johnnie To

## Citations

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1. ^ Hendrix, Grady (26 April 2020). "Tsui Hark – Senses of Cinema". Retrieved 10 October 2020.
2. ^ Phil Mills (26 October 2011). "Interview: Tsui Hark". Far East Films.
3. ^ "Online Exclusive: An Annotated* Tsui Hark Interview". Film Comment.
4. ^ "Online Exclusive: An Annotated* Tsui Hark Interview (Part II, aka Annotation Overload)". Film Comment.
5. ^ "Tsui Hark: Filmography – Senses of Cinema". 17 December 2013.
6. ^ "Hong Kong New Wave cinema: The directors and their ground-breaking movies". 25 June 2023.
7. ^ "Online Exclusive: An Annotated* Tsui Hark Interview (Part II, aka Annotation Overload)".
8. ^ "Online Exclusive: An Annotated* Tsui Hark Interview (Part II, aka Annotation Overload)".
9. ^ The Cinema of Tsui Hark. McFarland. January 2001. ISBN 978-0-7864-0990-7.
10. ^ CORLISS, Richard (2 July 2001). "He makes movies move That's why Tsui Hark is the Hong Kong Spielberg". Time. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
11. ^ "Kungfu Master". Product listing. Sensasian. Retrieved 1 September 2008.[dead link]
12. ^ "Tsui Hark to receive Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award at Busan". Asia Pacific Arts. 9 February 2011.
13. ^ Stephen Cremin (18 April 2014). "John Woo's Crossing joins 3-D December". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
14. ^ Shackleton, Liz (6 February 2015). "Johnnie To assembles top Hong Kong talent". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
15. ^ "Must-watch Chinese film premieres at the 2021 Hong Kong International Film Festival". igafencu.com. 2021-04-07
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17. ^ "徐克為新歡放棄「最好的女人」 曾與樂壇天后傳緋聞傳激嬲施南生嗌分手". Sing Tao Canada 星島加拿大 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
18. ^ "徐克被曝半年前结束30年婚姻 剧组人员默认-搜狐娱乐". yule.sohu.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
19. ^ 自由時報電子報 (4 July 2014). "徐克施南生終結18年婚 - 自由娛樂". ent.ltn.com.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
20. ^ "徐克高调约会年轻女助理 前妻：最近已离婚(图)-中新网". www.chinanews.com.cn. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

## General and cited references

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* Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-674-00214-8.
* Dannen, Fredric, and Barry Long. Hong Kong Babylon: The Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East. New York: Miramax, 1997. ISBN 0-7868-6267-X.
* Hampton, Howard. "Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong: Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-tung". Film Comment July–August 1997: pp. 16–19 & 24–27.
* Morton, Lisa. The Cinema of Tsui Hark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2001. ISBN 0-7864-0990-8.
* Teo, Stephen. Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. London: British Film Institute, 1997. ISBN 0-85170-514-6.
* Yang, Jeff, and Dina Gan, Terry Hong and the staff of A. magazine. Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. ISBN 0-395-76341-X.
* "Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D". The New York Times.

## Further reading

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* Ho, Sam, ed. The Swordsman and His Juang Hu: Tsui Hark and Hong Kong Film. Hong Kong University Press, 2002. ISBN 962-8050-15-X.
* Schroeder, Andrew. Tsui Hark's Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. ISBN 962-209-651-4.

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Films by Tsui Hark

Films directed|

* The Butterfly Murders (1979)
* We're Going to Eat You (1980, also writer)
* Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980, also writer)
* All the Wrong Clues (1981)
* Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
* Shanghai Blues (1984, also produced)
* Aces Go Places 3 (1984)
* Peking Opera Blues (1986, also produced)
* A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (1989, also produced)
* Once Upon a Time in China (1991, also writer and produced)
* Once Upon a Time in China II (1992, also writer and produced)
* The Master (1992, also produced)
* Green Snake (1993, also writer and produced)
* Once Upon a Time in China III (1993, also writer and produced)
* The Lovers (1994, also writer and produced)
* Once Upon a Time in China V (1994, also writer and produced)
* The Blade (1995, also writer and produced)
* The Chinese Feast (1995, also writer and produced)
* Tristar (1996, also writer and produced)
* Double Team (1997)
* Knock Off (1998)
* Time and Tide (2000, also writer and produced)
* The Legend of Zu (2001, also writer and produced)
* Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002, also produced)
* Seven Swords (2005, also writer and produced)
* Missing (2008, also writer and produced)
* All About Women (2008, also writer and produced)
* Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010, also produced)
* Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011, also writer and produced)
* Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013, also writer and produced)
* The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014, also writer)
* Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017, also writer and produced)
* Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018, also produced)

Films written|

* A Better Tomorrow II (1987; also produced)
* A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991, also produced)
* Swordsman II (1992, also produced)
* New Dragon Gate Inn (1992, also produced)
* The Wicked City (1992; also produced)
* The East Is Red (1993; also produced)
* Once Upon a Time in China IV (1993; also produced)
* The Magic Crane (1993, also produced)
* Iron Monkey (1993; also produced)
* Black Mask (1996; also produced)
* The Era of Vampires (2002, also produced)
* Sword Master (2016; also produced)
* The Thousand Faces of Dunjia (2017)

Films produced only|

* A Better Tomorrow (1986)
* A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
* The Big Heat (1988)
* I Love Maria (1988)
* The Killer (1989)
* A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1990)
* The Swordsman (1990)
* A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
* Shanghai Grand (1996)
* Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)
* The Climbers (2019)

Collaborating director|

* The Banquet (1991)
* Twin Dragons (1992)
* Triangle (2007)
* Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020)
* The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
* The Battle at Lake Changjin II (2022)

* v
* t
* e

Busan International Film Festival for Asian Filmmaker of the Year

* Mohsen Makhmalbaf (2003)
* Hou Hsiao-hsien (2004)
* NHK (2005)
* Andy Lau (2006)
* Edward Yang (2007)
* Gulnara Sarsenova (2008)
* Yash Chopra (2009)
* Tsai Ming-liang (2010)
* Tsui Hark (2011)
* Kōji Wakamatsu (2012)
* Rithy Panh (2013)
* Ann Hui (2014)
* Studio Ghibli (2015)
* Abbas Kiarostami (2016)
* Seijun Suzuki (2017)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto (2018)
* Hirokazu Kore-eda (2019)
* Im Kwon-taek (2021)
* Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2022)
* Chow Yun-fat (2023)
* Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Golden Horse Award for Best Director

* Doe Ching (1962)
* Li Han-hsiang (1963)
* Li Hsing (1965)
* Li Han-hsiang (1966)
* Lee Chia (1967)
* Pai Ching-jui (1968)
* Pai Ching-jui (1969)
* Chang Tseng-chai (1970)
* Ting Shan-hsi (1971)
* Li Hsing (1972)
* Cheng Kang (1973)
* Liu Yi (1975)
* Chang Pei-cheng (1976)
* Chang Tseng-chai (1977)
* Li Hsing (1978)
* King Hu (1979)
* Wang Chu-chin (1980)
* Tsui Hark (1981)
* Alex Cheung (1982)
* Chen Kun-hou (1983)
* Johnny Mak (1984)
* Chang Yi (1985)
* John Woo (1986)
* Wang Toon (1987)
* Alex Law (1988)
* Hou Hsiao-hsien (1989)
* Yim Ho (1990)
* Wong Kar-wai (1991)
* Wang Toon (1992)
* Ang Lee (1993)
* Tsai Ming-liang (1994)
* Hou Hsiao-hsien (1995)
* Jiang Wen (1996)
* Fruit Chan (1997)
* Joan Chen (1998)
* Ann Hui (1999)
* Johnnie To (2000)
* Stanley Kwan (2001)
* Fruit Chan (2002)
* Andrew Lau and Alan Mak (2003)
* Johnnie To (2004)
* Stephen Chow (2005)
* Peter Chan (2006)
* Ang Lee (2007)
* Peter Chan (2008)
* Leon Dai (2009)
* Chung Mong-hong (2010)
* Ann Hui (2011)
* Johnnie To (2012)
* Tsai Ming-liang (2013)
* Ann Hui (2014)
* Hou Hsiao-hsien (2015)
* Feng Xiaogang (2016)
* Vivian Qu (2017)
* Zhang Yimou (2018)
* Chung Mong-hong (2019)
* Chen Yu-hsun (2020)
* Clara Law (2021)
* Laha Mebow (2022)
* Hsiao Ya-chuan (2023)

* v
* t
* e

Golden Rooster Award for Best Director

1980s|

* Xie Jin (1981)
* Cheng Yin (1982)
* Wu Yigong (1983)
* Tang Xiaodan (1984)
* Ling Zifeng (1985)
* Yan Xueshu (1986)
* Ding Yinnan (1987)
* Wu Tianming (1988)
* Wu Ziniu (1989)

1990s|

* Li Qiankuan/Xiao Guiyun/Xie Tieli/Zhao Yuan (1990)
* none (1991)
* Sun Zhou/director group of Da Juezhan (1992)
* Xia Gang (1993)
* He Ping (1994)
* Huang Jianxin/Yang Yazhou (1995)
* Wu Tianming (1996)
* Wei Lian (1997)
* Hu Bingliu/Sai Fu/Mai Lisi (1998)
* Zhang Yimou (1999)

2000s|

* Zhang Yimou/Chen Guoxing (2000)
* Huo Jianqi (2001)
* Yang Yazhou/Chen Kaige (2002)
* Zhang Yimou (2003)
* Peng Xiaolian (2004)
* Ma Liwen (2005)
* Qi Jian/Yin Li (2007)
* Feng Xiaogang (2009)

2010s|

* Chen Li (2011)
* Peter Chan (2013)
* Tsui Hark (2015)
* Feng Xiaogang (2017)
* Dante Lam (2019)

2020s|

* Wang Rui (2020)
* Zhang Yimou (2021)
* Chen Kaige / Tsui Hark / Dante Lam (2022)
* Er Cheng (2023)

* v
* t
* e

Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director

* Allen Fong (1982)
* Ann Hui (1983)
* Allen Fong (1984)
* Yim Ho (1985)
* Mabel Cheung (1986)
* Allen Fong (1987)
* Ringo Lam (1988)
* Stanley Kwan (1989)
* John Woo (1990)
* Wong Kar-wai (1991)
* Tsui Hark (1992)
* Jacob Cheung (1993)
* Derek Yee (1994)
* Wong Kar-wai (1995)
* Ann Hui (1996)
* Peter Chan (1997)
* Fruit Chan (1998)
* Gordon Chan & Dante Lam (1999)
* Johnnie To (2000)
* Ang Lee (2001)
* Stephen Chow (2002)
* Andrew Lau & Alan Mak (2003)
* Johnnie To (2004)
* Derek Yee (2005)
* Johnnie To (2006)
* Patrick Tam Kar-Ming (2007)
* Peter Chan (2008)
* Ann Hui (2009)
* Teddy Chan (2010)
* Tsui Hark (2011)
* Ann Hui (2012)
* Longman Leung & Sunny Luk (2013)
* Wong Kar-wai (2014)
* Ann Hui (2015)
* Tsui Hark (2016)
* Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong (2017)
* Ann Hui (2018)
* Felix Chong (2019)
* Derek Tsang (2020)
* Benny Chan (2021/2022)
* Wai Ka-fai (2023)
* Soi Cheang (2024)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
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* FAST
* WorldCat

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Academics|

* CiNii

Artists|

* MusicBrainz

People|

* Trove
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Other|

* IdRef
* SNAC

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