I have always enjoyed Asian cinema, ever since my father introduced me to Bruce Lee as a child, then moments later, still in the same age, Jackie Chan. Most people (worldwide I'm fairly confident) have been exposed to at least one if not both of these giants of onscreen martial arts goodness, and while I couldn't tell the difference in the cultures (Mandarin, Cantonese, and even Korean and Japanese sounded and looked similar enough to me... at the time), I knew I liked what that region of the world was doing with their films.
Before I ever branched out to Japan, and eventually my biggest love, South Korea, I spent my teens and very early adult years, exploring the action…
I have always enjoyed Asian cinema, ever since my father introduced me to Bruce Lee as a child, then moments later, still in the same age, Jackie Chan. Most people (worldwide I'm fairly confident) have been exposed to at least one if not both of these giants of onscreen martial arts goodness, and while I couldn't tell the difference in the cultures (Mandarin, Cantonese, and even Korean and Japanese sounded and looked similar enough to me... at the time), I knew I liked what that region of the world was doing with their films.
Before I ever branched out to Japan, and eventually my biggest love, South Korea, I spent my teens and very early adult years, exploring the action packed world of Hong Kong movies. Of course some of these are from the mainland in China, and now all these years later, I've seen numerous from China itself and so on, but I wanted to combine the two as they have plenty of crossover.
Here is, according to memory, every slice of HK and Chinese cinema I've laid eyes on in their entirety. Enjoy!