Dangerous Encounters Of The First Kind, Director’s Cut (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong, 1980)

Just for fun three bespectacled geeks set off a small bomb in a crowded cinema. Rumbled by a psychotic female teen named Pearl (Chen Chi Lin) the lads find themselves blackmailed into helping the girl pull off a series of audacious robberies while Pearl’s estranged father (Lieh Lo) turns out to be the detective investigating the bombing. When the boys … Read the rest

Time And Tide (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong, 2000)

Young bodyguard Tyler (Nicholas Tse) and former mercenary Jack (Wu Bai) become friends, then enemies, then friends again in order to protect the heavily pregnant women they love – Ah Hui (Candy Lo) and Ah Jo (Cathy Tsui) – from a gang of South American killers known as the Angels. When Jack kills their leader under the noses of Tyler … Read the rest