Hong Kong Action Classics

At its peak in the 1980s and early ’90s, the Hong Kong film industry was unmatched when it came to action spectacle, offering up dazzlingly choreographed, operatically stylized thrill rides that electrified genre fans around the world. From the bullet-riddled underworld odysseys of John Woo (A BETTER TOMORROW, THE KILLER) and Ringo Lam (CITY ON FIRE, SCHOOL ON FIRE) to the eye-popping martial-arts comedies of Jackie Chan (POLICE STORY, MIRACLES) and Sammo Hung (PEDICAB DRIVER, THE MAGNIFICENT BUTCHER) to the sweeping wuxia epics of Tsui Hark (ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA, SWORDSMAN), these films explode with some of the most inventive and furiously entertaining action mayhem ever captured on film.