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Artists’ Choice #8: Ho Yuhang (director) lists his 11 Favorite Hong Kong Movies

was trained as an engineer but went into film-making due to his love for vintage films. He began his career by shooting commercials in the mid 1990's. In 2000, he co-directed a Malaysian documentary “Semangat Insan: Masters of Tradition” highlighting the need to preserve Malaysia's traditional art forms. He then made his feature film directorial debut in the 2003 film “Min”.He went to receive international recognition for his film “Rain Dogs”, won the New Talent Award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2006 and also named best director at the Festival of the Three Continents in 2006.

His 2009 revenge drama “At The End of Daybreak” revived the career of the veteran actress Kara Hui, who was an action star of the Shaw Brothers era. “Daybreak” earned her seven best actress awards. She has since gone on to star in “Wu Xia,” “Rigor Mortis,” and “The Midnight After.” Ho Yuhang collaborated again with her on “Mrs K

Here are his top eleven Hong Kong Films

1. Security Unlimited (Michael Hui, 1981)

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2. The Spooky Bunch (Ann Hui, 1980 )

3. Final Victory (Patrick Tam, 1987)

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4. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai, 1990)

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5. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-Leung, 1984)

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6. The Killer (John Woo, 1989)

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7. Come Drink With Me (King Hu, 1966)

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8. Election (Johnnie To, 2005)

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9. A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora's Box (Jeff Lau, 1995)

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10. Full Alert (Ringo Lam, 1997)

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11. Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind aka Don't Play With Fire (Tsui Hark, 1980 )

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About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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