#20 - Tsui Hark, the Spielberg of Hong Kong

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A deep dive into the filmography of one of the most energetic (and popular) filmmakers of all time leads the club watch the nihilistic anger scream Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980) and the maximum fun blast that is Peking Opera Blues (1986) Justin explains why HK cinema is his favorite in the world, Will is a scholar of Chinese history (not really) and they both wax rhapsodical about the wonders of mutating monster wrestlers in BLACK MASK 2: CITY OF MASKS. Its the most action packed episode yet!

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:10.4	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.
0:12.8	And today, we're going to be talking about Choy Hock.
0:16.5	Chorri Hark?
0:17.4	Choy Hark. And I know that because that's what IMDB says.
0:20.6	T-S-U-I-S-U-I-H-A-K, but it's pronounced Hawk. And I talked to someone who worked with Choi Hock in Hong Kong, and he said everybody called them Trey Hark. Okay. We're just going to call him Choi Hock. And we're going to mispronounce a lot of names today.
0:38.7	So don't email us. Don't let us know. We are aware of what's happening.
0:42.3	Mr. Choi, if you're listening, please feel free to write into what's our email?
0:46.2	It is Important Cinema Club podcast at gmail.com.
0:49.5	Right. Mr. Choi, Mrs. Choi, feel free to send a letter.
0:54.5	All right. Now, Choi Hawk is, feel free to send a letter. All right.
0:54.9	Now, Choi Hawk is the Steven Spielberg of Hong Kong.
0:58.4	That's how he is called in every write-up of him.
1:01.2	This is your topic that you chose.
1:02.9	Why did you choose this?
1:04.1	I love Hong Kong cinema.
1:05.5	If I had to pick one worldwide, what would you call it?
1:10.3	Movement. Movement. National cinema movement. Yeah, national cinema movie. It would have to be Hong Kong. worldwide, what would you call? Movement?
1:11.1	Movement.
1:12.3	National cinema movement.
1:13.2	Yeah, national cinema movie.
1:14.5	It would have to be Hong Kong.
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