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Tsui Hark (徐克, in Mandarin [[pinyin]]: Xú Kè, in Cantonese: Cheui4 Hak1) born Tsui Man-kong, is a realizer hong-kongais born with the Vietnam the January 2nd 1951 (then in Cochinchine French), with which one owes in particular the series of the It was once in China with Jet Li. He is also producer, actor and scenario writer.

Biography

Born with the Vietnam, he studies in HongKong, then share with the the United States, the Texas in the Années 1970 to study the cinema. He returns to HongKong in 1977. He turns initially of the series for television before passing to the cinema in 1979 with Butterfly Murders (a film of saber, the Wu Xia Pian , very popular in China), then two other films. Those, extremely aggressive and provocative, are rejected by the public. In 1981, it enters to the Cinema City of the producer Karl Maka to turn of the more conventional films but which go.

In 1983, Zu, the Warriors of the magic Mountain is the film which marks the turning of its career. It also marks the revival of film of combat hong-kongais with spectacular combat, experts in martial arts who fly… It tries to bring special effects which hold the road as in Western films, but the film left too early to its taste will not have a public success. It thus turns over to the commercial cinema.

To have its independence, it founds its own production company, Film Workshop, in 1984. It overflows of idea and in particular seeks to give to the last style the Chinese culture.

It attacks the whodunnit with has Better Tomorrow in 1986, with film in costumes with Histoires of Chinese phantoms in 1987, with film of saber with Swordman in 1990 and with film of Kung-fu with It was once in China in 1991.

It created its own company of special effects, Cinefex. it is surrounded, in spite of its a little despotic character, talented people, the realizers John Woo (with whom it scrambles themselves in 1990), Ching Siu-tung, Yuen Woo-Ping, Kirk Wong, Ringo Lam, the actors Chow Yun-Conceited person, Leslie Cheung or Zhao Wen-zhou, without forgetting Jet Li (which will be scrambled also temporarily with him after the third opus of It was once in China ) and Brigitte Lin.

In the mitan of the Years 1990, the crisis of the cinema did not save HongKong and the Film Workshop. Tsui Hark was centred on its own achievements. Then it tries its chance in Hollywood for two minor films (with Jean-Claude Van Damme). It was not done with the American methods and thus returned to HongKong where it continues its films related to the Chinese culture (it turned over a new version of Zu in 2001).

Tsui Hark also collaborated in the realization of a cartoon film: History of Chinese phantoms , directed by Andrew Cheng.

Catalog of films

Les names of French films was privileged, failing this those in English then in italic. Between brackets, the original Chinese name with the transcription in Cantonese when one has it and pinyin Mandarin).

Realizer

Actor

  • All The Wrong Spies (1983)
  • In The Line Off Duty alias Yes Madam! (皇家師姐 - huáng jiā shī jiě) (1985) with Michelle Yeoh
  • Run, Tiger Run (1985)
  • final The Victory (最後勝利 - zuì hòu shēng lì) (1987)
  • I Coils Maria (鐵甲無敵瑪莉亞 - tiě jiǎ wú dí mǎ lì yà) (1988) + producing

Producer

  • the trade union of the crime (英雄本色 - yīng xióng běn) (1986) of John Woo
  • the trade union of crime 2 (英雄本色 II - yīng xióng běn II) (1987) of John Woo with Leslie Cheung, Emily Chu
  • Laserman (1988)
  • The Killer (喋血雙雄 - dié xiě shuāng xióng) (1989) of John Woo with Chow Yun-Conceited person and Sally Yeh. Film of the estrangement between Hark and Woo.
  • Web Off Disappointment (驚魂記 - jīng hún jì) (1989)
  • Just Heroes 1989 of John Woo
  • Spy Ranges (1990)
  • Stories of Chinese phantoms 2 (倩女幽魂 II: 人間道 - qiàn nǚ yōu hún II: rén jiān dǎo) (1990) of Chin Siu Tung with Jacky Cheung, Leslie Cheung
  • The Raid (財叔之橫掃千軍 - cái shū zhī héng sǎo qiān jūn) (1990)
  • Stories of Chinese phantoms 3 (倩女幽魂 III: 道道道 - qiàn nǚ yōu hún III: dǎo dǎo dǎo) (1991) of Chin Siu Tung
  • Wicked City (妖獸都市 - yāo shòu dōu shì) (1992)
  • Swordsman 3 - East Is Red (東方不敗之風雲再起 - dōng fāng bú bài zhī fēng yún zài qǐ) (1993) of Chin Siu Tung with Brigitte Lin
  • The Magic Cranium (新仙鶴神針 - xīn xiān He shén zhēn) (1993) of Benny Chan
  • Iron Monkey (少年黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮 - shǎo nián huáng fēi hóng zhī tiě mǎ liú) (1993) of Yuen Woo-Ping
  • It was once in China 4: dance of the dragon (黃飛鴻 IV: 王者之風 - huáng fēi hóng IV: wáng zhě zhī fēng) (1993) of Yuen Bun with Zhao Wen Zhou, Jean Wong, max Mok, Shun Lau
  • the temple of the red lotus (火燒紅蓮寺 - huǒ shāo hóng lián sì) (1994) of Ringo Lam
  • Black Mask (黑俠 - hēi xiá) (1996) of Daniel Lee with Jet Li
  • It was once in China and America (黃飛鴻之西域雄師 - huáng fēi hóng zhī xī yù xióng shī) (1997) of Sammo Hung with Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan
  • has Chinese Ghost Story: The Animated Movie (小倩 - xiǎo qiàn) (1997), cartoon film
  • Master Q 2001 (老夫子 2001) (2001)

Rewards

  • Price of the best realizer at the time of the HongKong Film Awards 1992, for It was once in China .
  • Nominated at the price of the best realizer at the time of the HongKong Film Awards 1995, for The Lovers .

See too

  • Swordman 2 on Mad Movies
  • Trap in Hong-Kong on Jeanclaudevandamme.fr
  • Double TEAM on Jeanclaudevandamme.fr

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