Why these 1980s Hong Kong crime movies produced by Tsui Hark are hidden gems

Why these 1980s Hong Kong crime movies produced by Tsui Hark are hidden gems



It was not all John Woo Yu-sum when it came to Hong Kong crime films in the late 1980s – filmmakers were still making a variety of interesting cops-and-robbers movies.

The Big Heat (1988)

This skilfully executed police thriller features some gruesome violence – it opens with a dream sequence in which an electric drill rips through a hand – but the sometimes macabre scenes do not seem gratuitous in a tough story of ruthless individuals committing terrible acts.



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