Movement
Hong Kong New Wave
Television-trained directors who brought location shooting and genre energy back to Cantonese cinema, and set up everything that followed in the eighties.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Boat People
Ann Hui · 1982
The Butterfly Murders
Tsui Hark · 1979
Father and Son
Tim Heidecker · 2010
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
Tsui Hark · 1980
More in Movement
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Set the clock, pick the awards, and let your guild nominate. Six films over three months is the recommended shape.
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