Tsui Hark (, vi, Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter. Tsui has directed several influential Hong Kong films such as ''

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain ''Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' ( zh, t=新蜀山劍俠) is a 1983 Hong Kong supernatural ''wuxia'' fantasy film directed by Tsui Hark and based on the xianxia novel '' Legend of the Swordsmen of the Mountains of Shu'' by Huanzhulouzh ...

'' (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; his productions include ''

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'' (1986), ''

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'' (1987), ''

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'' (1987), '' The Killer'' (1989), ''

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'' (1992), '' The Wicked City'' (1992), '' Iron Monkey'' (1993) and '' Black Mask'' (1996). He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of

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and is regarded by critics as "one of the masters of Asian

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". In the late 1990s, Tsui had a short-lived career in the United States, directing the

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–led films ''

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'' (1997) and ''

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'' (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, ''

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'' (2011), and ''

The Taking of Tiger Mountain ''The Taking of Tiger Mountain'' () is a 2014 Chinese-Hong Kong epic action film directed by Tsui Hark, produced by Huang Jianxin and Yu Dong, and based on the novel ''Tracks in the Snowy Forest'' by Qu Bo. The story is based on a conflict be ...

'' (2014).

Early life

Tsui was born and raised in

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, to a large Chinese ( Hoa) family with sixteen siblings. 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. Tsui started his secondary education in Hong Kong in 1966. He proceeded to study film in

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, first at

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and then at the

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, graduating in 1975. He claims to have told his parents he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps as a

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, and that it was here he changed his given name to Hark ("overcoming"). After graduation, Tsui moved to

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, where he worked on ''From Spikes to Spindles'' (1976), a noted documentary film by

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on the history of the city's Chinatown. He also worked as an editor for a Chinese newspaper, developed a

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group and worked in a Chinese cable TV station. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977.

Career

New Wave period

Upon turning to feature filmmaking, Tsui was quickly typed as a member of the "New Wave" of young, iconoclastic directors. His debut film, ''

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'' (1979), was a technically challenging blend of

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, murder mystery and science fiction / fantasy elements. His second film, ''

We're Going to Eat You ''We're Going to Eat You'' ( zh, 地獄無門) is a 1980 Hong Kong horror comedy film directed by Tsui Hark. The film is about a secret agent, Agent 999, who is attempting to capture a thief named Rolex. Agent 999's hunt leads him to a village t ...

'' (1980), was a blend of cannibal horror, black comedy and martial arts. Tsui's third film, ''

Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind ''Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind'' () is a 1980 Hong Kong crime film directed by Tsui Hark. The initial cut of the film was banned for its violence, generating public interest in the film that caused its edited version to become a box o ...

'' (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''). It was not a financial success. However, it helped make Tsui a darling of film critics who had coined the New Wave label, and who were hopeful for a more aesthetically daring cinema more engaged with the realities of contemporary Hong Kong.

Cinema City

In 1981, Tsui joined Cinema City & Films Co., a production company founded by comedians Raymond Wong,

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and

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. Cinema City & Films Co. was instrumental in codifying the slick Hong Kong blockbuster films of the 1980s. Tsui played his part in the process with pictures like the crime farce ''

All the Wrong Clues ''All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution'' () is a 1981 Hong Kong comedy film directed and co-written by Tsui Hark. The film stars George Lam as Yoho, Karl Maka as Ah Capone and Teddy Robin Kwan as Inspector Robin. Yoho is a down on his lu ...

'' (1981), his first hit, and ''

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'' (1984), part of the studio's long-running spy spoof series. In 1983, Tsui directed the

fantasy film ''

'' (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.

Mogul

In 1984, Tsui formed the production company

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with

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. 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

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and

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. His most longstanding and fruitful collaboration has probably been with

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. 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'. He produced

's ''

'' (1986), which launched a craze for

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movies, and Ching Siu-tung's ''

'' (1987), which did the same for period ghost fantasies. ''

'' 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 ''

'' (1979); the Shanghai musical comedy in ''Shanghai Blues'' (1985). ''

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'' (1986) plays with and pays tribute to the traditions of the

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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).

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played the role of Chinese folk hero

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in the first three films and the sixth, ''

Once Upon a Time in China and America ''Once Upon a Time in China and America'', also known as ''Once Upon a Time in China VI'', (Chinese: 黃飛鴻之西域雄獅) is a 1997 Hong Kong martial arts western film directed by Sammo Hung in his last directorial effort until 2016, w ...

''. 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

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's film '' Yes, Madam!'' (1985) and a villain in Patrick Tam's darkly comic crime story ''Final Victory'' (1987), written by

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. He also made frequent cameo appearances in his own productions, such as a music judge in ''

'' and a phony FBI agent in ''

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''. 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

classic ''

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''.

American films

In the mid-to-late '90s, Tsui tried Hollywood with two films starring

: ''

'' (1997) and ''

'' (1998). In 2002, he made '' Black Mask 2: City of Masks'', an American market sequel to Jet Li's 1996 film. It was released

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in the United States in December of that year before being theatrically released the next month in Hong Kong.

2000s

Tsui returned to directing at home in 2000 after not having made a local film since 1996. '' Time and Tide'' (2000) and ''

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'' (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

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-style

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. ''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 ''Seven Swords'' is a 2005 ''wuxia'' film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon. An international co-production between Hong Kong, China, South Korea and the Nether ...

'', a film adaptation of

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's novels '' Saiwai Qixia Zhuan'' and ''

Qijian Xia Tianshan ''Qijian Xia Tianshan'' is a wuxia novel by Liang Yusheng. It was first serialised between 15 February 1956 and 31 March 1957 in the Hong Kong newspaper ''Ta Kung Pao''. It is also closely linked to two of Liang Yusheng's other novels, '' Saiwai ...

''. The film came with a television series counterpart (''

Seven Swordsmen ''Seven Swordsmen'' is a 2006 Chinese television series directed by Clarence Fok and produced by Tsui Hark. The series is loosely adapted from Liang Yusheng's ''wuxia'' novels ''Qijian Xia Tianshan'' and '' Saiwai Qixia Zhuan''. It is also the tel ...

''), 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

anime feature titled ''Kungfu Master'' (a.k.a. ''Wong Fei Hong vs Kungfu Panda''), an apparent unofficial sequel to ''

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'', featuring Chinese folk hero

. Also in 2008 was the thriller ''Missing'' starring

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. His latest comedy film ''

All About Women ''All About Women'' (), originally titled ''She Ain't Mean'' and ''Not All Women Are Bad'', is a 2008 Chinese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Tsui Hark. Starring Zhou Xun, Kitty Zhang and Gwei Lun-mei, the film tells a series of inter ...

'' features wonky sound editing and comic graphics.

2010s

Tsui's latest work in 2010 is ''

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame ''Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame'' (Chinese: 狄仁傑之通天帝國) is a 2010 Chinese-Hong Kong action-adventure mystery film/ gong'an movie directed and produced by Tsui Hark, which stars Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bingbing ...

'', 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 ''New Dragon Gate Inn'' is a 1992 Hong Kong ''wuxia'' film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Maggie Cheung, and Donnie Yen. It was released as ''Dragon Inn'' in North America. The film ...

'' starring

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, Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin. In 2011

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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

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for his contributions to Hong Kong cinema. He is the fifth Chinese filmmaker to receive this award at Busan. His film ''

'' premiered in China in December 2014.

2020s

Tsui worked on a film with

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alongside

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, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam,

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and Yuen Woo-Ping. Each director created a segment based on Hong Kong history. The completed film, ''Septet: The Story of Hong Kong'', was shown at the annual Hong Kong International Film Festival in April 2021. igafencu.com. 2021-04-07 In 2021 Tsui co-directed ''

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'' with

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and

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Cultural references

Tsui was featured on a track which bore his name on the 1994 Sparks album '' Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins''. (Sparks also provided a song, "It's a Knockoff," for the closing credits of ''Knock Off''.)

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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s

Hong Kong Film Awards

References

Sources

* Bordwell, David. ''Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment''. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. . * Dannen, Fredric, and Barry Long. ''Hong Kong Babylon: The Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East''. New York: Miramax, 1997. . * 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. . * Teo, Stephen. ''Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions''. London: British Film Institute, 1997. . * 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. .
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