1. THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR (1993)
Directed by Ronny Yu (51st State, The Bride of Chucky), Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia star in this highly stylised romantic swordplay fairy tale.
With superb cinematography by Peter Pau, who won an Oscar for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the only way to describe this movie is to imagine if Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes) had made a movie with martial arts!
Arguably the best Hong Kong movie ever…
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The Bride with White Hair 2 (1993)
Bride’s success brought an obligatory sequel. Directed by David Wu (with uncredited work by Yu) it’s not a patch on the original, but still good. And you WILL want to know what happens to the characters in the end.
The Phantom Lover (1995)
Star Cheung, director and cinematographer reunite for another gloriously stylised romantic tale loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera.
Iron Monkey (1993)
Directed by the man responsible for Crouching Tiger’s fight sequences, Yuen Woo-ping, Iron Monkey features a lot of familiar roof walking and some great action sequences that surpass even those in Tiger.
The Stormriders (1998)
After a lull in the mid-nineties of fantasy swordplay movies, director Andrew Lau reinvented the genre for the post-MTV generation with state of the art CGI effects and an all-star cast led by Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok.
