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Starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung as gay lovers, Happy Together was a Hong Kong story set in Argentina, Wong said – even the dangerous Buenos Aires location felt like Mong Kok.

Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and John Woo are household names around the world, and martial arts films have done more to promote Hong Kong and its culture than any other cultural offering.

Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia went from being a popular romantic actress in Hong Kong during the 1980s to a martial arts superstar in the early 1990s.

Illegal since the 1960s, psychedelics including psilocybin and LSD are now under the microscope again as researchers see if they can help treat a range of medical conditions.

With Sammo Hung featured and choreographing the action, Huang Feng directing and a script based on a story by Ni Kuang, Shaolin Plot has an epic, big-budget feel.

In a 1997 interview, published for the first time, the Hong Kong actor talks about moving on to more dramatic roles, how he came up with stunts like First Strike’s ladder scene, and the typical Jackie Chan film.

Jonas Bak shot Wood and Water in Hong Kong in 2019 while anti-government protests were in full swing – but while he wove elements of them in, he wanted to keep his film slow and thoughtful.

Lady Vengeance renamed Deep Thrust, a topless scene added to The Water Margin – when adult-film theatres switched from showing X-rated porn to martial arts films, they embellished their plots on posters.

Bruce Lee started Game of Death as a philosophical martial arts film, but after his death completing it became a cynical way to cash in on his stardom.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings had ex-members of Jackie Chan’s stunt team choreographing the action. For the John Wick films, Keanu Reeves used things he learned from Hong Kong choreographer Yuen Woo-ping on The Matrix movies.

Although mostly forgotten now, The Jade Bow was often mentioned as having ushered in the New School wuxia films, shot in Mandarin rather than Cantonese, of directors such as Chang Cheh and King Hu.

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Jackie Chan talks about studying the stunt choreographer on his early films as a lowly stuntman, moving up to the role aged 18, learning fast and, while still a teenager, arranging fight sequences for John Woo.

Spirited Away is Chinese-Canadian Domee Shi’s favourite movie, and anime influenced her direction of Turning Red, as well as her own experience of growing up and clashing with her mother.

Bruce Lee’s role in The Big Boss made him an instant star in Hong Kong. It stood up for the Chinese people and featured a kung fu move that looked so good it became one of his trademark moves.

Action star Donnie Yen Ji-dan, known for his roles in films like Ip Man and Star Wars, has talked about respecting Bruce Lee, what films he cries to and the film that ‘almost jeopardised my career’.

The ninjas in Hong Kong martial arts films such as Five Elements Ninjas were usually portrayed as cheats with no respect for honour because they used sneaky weapons against kung fu fighters.

Jackie Chan and Chang Cheh were two of the farsighted men behind the camera on martial arts films who understood the future of Hong Kong cinema at different times and acted on their hunches.

Sammo Hung combined action and humour in his kung fu comedies to great success. The Prodigal Son and The Magnificent Butcher are two great examples of it.

Cheng Pei-pei, David Chiang, Kara Hui and more on the good, the bad and the ugly of living and working at the fabled Shaw Brothers’ Movietown studio complex.

Wuxia film lives on in the 21st century, with elements of the genre showcased in blockbusters co-financed by China and involving the likes of Donnie Yen and John Woo.

In his star-studded 1982 film Legendary Weapons of China, director Lau Kar-leung celebrates every weapon used in martial arts combat.

Bruce Lee fans in 1970s Britain swapped information, poems, art and more through The KFM Bruce Lee Society, which sought to keep the actor’s memory alive after his death.

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Jackie Chan had big plans for his movie career, but his first foray into Hollywood, to make The Big Brawl and The Cannonball Run, didn’t win him many fans and forced a rethink.

The In the Mood for Love actress didn’t go looking for roles in martial arts films, but when she did take them she excelled, notably in Hero with Jet Li and Tony Leung Chiu-wai and in Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time.

African-Americans readily identified with the underdog themes of Hong Kong kung fu movies, which played into their hope for a better future and, later, were seen as a manifestation of rebellion.

Joseph Kuo Nan-hong, director of films such as 18 Bronzemen and The 7 Grandmasters, helped make movie stars of martial arts actors such as Jack Long and Carter Wong.

From Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Zhang Ziyi in Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster to Jackie Chan in Police Story and Gordon Liu in Dirty Ho, a look back at some of the great Hong Kong martial arts movies.