Hong Kong Movie Reviews

Sharp Tongue's reviews can be found on HKMDB under STSH.

Cinema Potato's Reviews


Introducing the reviewers :

Sharp Tongue, Cinema Potato and JLH are collectively known as The Triad. We have in common that we are all writers, all male, and all passionately and completely crazy about HK films, which we watch together (and separately) as often as possible. CP and JLH do not have their own webpages.

* Sharp Tongue (or STSH, or Andrew in real life) is me, the writer of this site. I've been mad keen about HK movies since 1990, when I saw Kung Fu Vs Acrobatic, and shortly after, was converted from a fan to a fanatic by Chinese Ghost Story I & II.

* Cinema Potato (Warren Lawson) is most comfortable in his natural habitat, The Cinema, from whence he has written more reviews than I've had hot dinners. He has been a HK maniac since the early 70s.

* JLH (Jeff Harris) has the advantage of pay-tv, on which he watches oceans of HK TV as well as movies, and his fascination with all things HK goes back even further. Jeff also wrote an article about the peculiar HK genre wu'xia (flying people).

I would also like to thank Joseph Fierra and Tetsuo Takagi for their invaluable help in identifying HK actors and correcting some of my mis-identifications.


A brief list at some great HK flicks - look them up on HKMDB

**** Classic

Erotic Ghost Story I & II - Chinese Ghost Story I & II - Drunken Master II - City Hunter - Love and the City -

*** 1/2 Outstanding

High Risk - Song of the Exile - God of Gamblers 2 (Return) - Fist of Legend - Tai Chi Master - Madam Q -

*** Pretty Damn Good

Sex & Zen - Moon Warriors - Heroic Trio - Fong Sai Yuk 2 - Lover of the Last Empress - La Peintre - Tuen Mun Rapist - A Moment of Romance I & II - Sichuan Concubines - Kung Fu Cult Master - Young & Dangerous I & II - Naked Killer -


Other Hong Kong movie bits .........

Read fascinating short pieces about the meaning of wu'xia(flying people) or how Japanese names are rendered into Cantonese or the meaning of "gwailo"

Want a laugh ? Read some hilarious HK movie subtitles

Want to discuss HK movies with me ?

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