{"id":89659,"date":"2026-10-02T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89659"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:29:01","slug":"how-hong-kong-new-wave-directors-hijacked-martial-arts-and-crime-films-to-make-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89659","title":{"rendered":"How Hong Kong New Wave directors hijacked martial arts and crime films to make art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/30\/62c001fa-3361-42a1-943d-29b95f336f9b_75c2519d.jpg?itok=aEVE4jP2&amp;v=1790758664\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is easy to misremember the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Nearly five decades after its inception, that iconic chapter in the city\u2019s cinema history is generally thought of as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">a socially inclined art-house movement<\/span> that addressed everyday issues \u2013 a stark contrast to the martial arts films that dominated the local box office at the time.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While partially true, viewing New Wave films merely as local iterations of 1960s and 70s rarefied European art-house cinema misses the mark. The movement maintained a push-pull relationship with Hong Kong\u2019s entrenched commercial cinema scene, producing firmly genre-based works.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Moreover, despite viewing <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">martial arts films<\/span> as outmoded because they said nothing about modern Hong Kong, some New Wave directors even made <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">wuxia<\/em> movies<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3369332\/how-hong-kong-new-wave-directors-hijacked-martial-arts-and-crime-films-make-art?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy to misremember the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and 80s. Nearly five decades after its inception, that iconic chapter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1501,4681,1372,3737,4921,30978,3569,5231,6106,7156],"class_list":["post-89659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-crime","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hijacked","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-martial","tag-wave","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}