This summer, prepare for even more high-octane action and thrills when Shout! Studios and Hong Kong Cinema Classics™ invite movie enthusiasts and loyal fans to binge-watch some of the acclaimed early works by legendary filmmakers John Woo and Tsui Hark, and internationally celebrated actors Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, and Sally Yeh, among others. Many of these highly sought-after movies from Shout!’s Golden Princess library and seminal Hong Kong classics have been dormant and out–of–print for decades outside of Asia.
The Hong Kong Cinema Classics theatrical retrospective will continue in cities across the United States and Canada into 2026 wich includes new 4K restorations of films by directors Tsui Hark and John Woo. The Los Angeles retrospective began already with a screening of Hard Boiled and continues through August 30. Other films include Woo's The Killer, Bullet in the Head and the A Better Tomorrow trilogy, the first two directed by Woo and third by Director Tsui Hark. Tsui Hark's films City on Fire, Peking Opera Blues and A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy are also part of the series.
Surplus 35 mm theatrical trailersPeking Opera Blues, Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark's seminal 1986 action movie comedy, has been restored and received a rare surprise screening in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 20th. This marks a rare resurfacing of the classic Hong Kong movie set in 1913 China that meshed history, politics, Peking Opera, bedroom farce, and elaborate action sequences with subtext that made it a cult favourite in the LGBTQ community for years.
The screening was arranged as a free fan event by Felix Lu of Felix Comic Art that was opened to the public after the booked seats were filled. Director Tsui Hark adds: "The inspiration of PEKING OPERA BLUES came from a scene from SHANGHAI BLUES in 1984. In a spoof of Peking Opera, I made a comedy about Peking Opera, and so PEKING OPERA BLUES was born. SHANGHAI BLUES is the debut film of Film Workshop, and PEKING OPERA BLUES follows it”. Quentin Tarantino has called it "one of the greatest films ever made."
