Car action has always been a defining ingredient of Hong Kong cinema’s hell-for-leather stunt work. Here, we look at some stunt car classics from over the decades.
1. Aces Go Places (1982)
Aces Go Places may have been a wacky comedy – but it was a wacky comedy with cars, motorcycles… and hang-gliders.
Legendary daredevil, stuntman and car stunt choreographer Blackie Ko Shou-liang doubled for Sam Hui Koon-kit in the motorcycle scenes and became instantly famous when he drove straight through a glass store facade in Tsim Sha Tsui East and landed on the road below.
Ko, a motorcycle ace who first became a stuntman in Taiwan, was invited to work on the film by director Eric Tsang Chi-wai and went on to have a prolific entertainment career in Hong Kong.
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