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Kind of like a Michael Bay with more commitment to formal and structured moviemaking.
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Stephen Chow - his movie Mermaid is a massive hit in China (and a really subversive one) and he's still probably the best-known movie star and comedian over there.ĭante Lam - he just had a huge hit with Operation Red Sea and while his movies can sometimes be a little soulless he's come to be the master of action in China.
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Here are the folks I think are big, but also have big profiles and personalities, if that makes any sense: As in, who wouldn't guessed Chen Sicheng, or Tian Yusheng, or Wuer Shan would helm some of the biggest blockbusters ever made in China.īut you're right that folks like Stephen Chow are still a big deal. Otherwise, the movies that take the top slot are often from directors who don't have big media personalities or a long string of hits. I mean, Wu Jing supposedly directed the top grossing movie of all time, Wolf Warrior 2, but I dunno.I feel like there's more to that story. That's tough to say, simply because the top grossing movies in China are hard to keep track of and often from relatively anonymous directors. Its impact in Hong Kong goes far beyond its box office. The movie is better remembered today than a lot of other films that came out in 1994, and it even made some of its locations famous both for tourists and for Hong Kong people. It also had a huge impact on other filmmakers in Hong Kong and people like Jan Lam Hoi-fung and Eddie Fong Ching-ling would borrow from it wholesale for their later movies. The step printing technique he used started popping up in tons of HK films in subsequent years, and parodies of the movie appeared in films by Wong Jing and Stephen Chow (films that made way more money than Chungking Express). It also won Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards (and got a Golden Horse for Tony Leung for Best Actor) which did more for his career than the modest box office, reassuring nervous bosses that he was still a guy who could get them something for their money.Įven more, its cultural impact was massive. Actually, the movie did okay at the Hong Kong box office and gave a huge boost to Wong Kar-wai's career which had suffered two black eyes after the expensive Days of Being Wild and Ashes of Time flopped back-to-back.