The Hong Kong New Wave was a blanket term applied to a number of young, groundbreaking Hong Kong filmmakers of the late 1970s and 1980s, many trained in overseas film programs and with experience in the territory's thriving television drama scene. Among the most notable members are Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho and Allen Fong. The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan. ... Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsü Ko) (born Tsui Man-kong (徐文光) on February 15, 1950) is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong who is also a highly influential producer, often likened to Steven Spielberg for a similar galvanizing effect on his countrys cinematic scene. ... Ann Hui On-Wah (許鞍華, pinyin: Xǔ Ānhuá, born May 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong film director, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave. ... Not to be confused with actor Patrick Tam Yiu-Man Patrick Tam Kar Ming (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born March 25, 1948) is a Hong Kong film director. ... Yim Ho 嚴浩, one of the famous Hong Kong directors in 1980s, and a leader of Hong Kong New Wave. ... Allen Fong Yuk-ping (方育平) is one of the leaders of Hong Kong New Wave of the early 1980s. ...

The New Wave was a major factor in the creation of a cinema with a contemporary Hong Kong identity and in the Cantonese dialect of most residents - between World War II and the '70s, the industry had been led by transplanted mainland Chinese filmmakers who continued the traditions they brought with them, largely in Mandarin dialect films. This article is about all of the Cantonese (Yue) dialects. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The history of Chinese language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. ... This article is on all of the Northern and Southwestern Chinese dialects. ...

New Wavers were technically audacious compared with the mainstream Hong Kong cinema of the time. They furthered the use of location shooting and sync sound recording and explored a grittier, rougher look and feel. The vivid use, in Hong Kong film since then, of authentic locations in the bustling, cramped urban space is one of their legacies. Location shooting is the practice of filming in an actual setting rather than on a sound stage or back lot. ... Sync Sound in movies refers to sound recorded at the time of filming. ...

The New Wave filmmakers were particularly given to revisionist explorations of popular genres, like the thriller (Hui's 1979 The Secret, Tam's 1981 Love Massacre), martial arts (Tsui's 1979 The Butterfly Murders, Tam's 1980 The Sword) and crime (Alex Cheung's 1979 Cops and Robbers, Yim's 1980 The Happenings). The latter category was particularly friendly to their experiments with realism, and their tactic of wrapping social commentary in genre trappings. Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience. ...

But the New Wave also produced personal dramas about relationships, domesticity and family (Fong's 1981 Father and Son, Yim's 1984 Homecoming) and hard-hitting political comment - Hui's 1982 Boat People presented a brutal portrait of communist Vietnam, but was widely viewed as an allegory of Hong Kong's anxieties regarding communist China (Teo, 1997).

The New Wave helped carve out a small niche for art films in Hong Kong's populist cinema, although most were absorbed into the mainstream to one extent or another (Bordwell, 2000).

Major Figures

• Tsui Hark (徐克)
• Ann Hui (許鞍華)
• Yim Ho (嚴浩)
• Patrick Tam (譚家明)
• Allen Fong (方育平)
• Dennis Yu (余允抗)
• Kirk Wong (黃志強)
• Terry Tong (唐基明)
• Lau Shing Hon (劉成漢)
• Alex Cheung (章國明)
• Peter Yung (翁維全)
• Clifford Choi (蔡繼光)
• John Woo
• Wong Kar-wai

Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsü Ko) (born Tsui Man-kong (徐文光) on February 15, 1950) is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong who is also a highly influential producer, often likened to Steven Spielberg for a similar galvanizing effect on his countrys cinematic scene. ... Ann Hui On-Wah (許鞍華, pinyin: Xǔ Ānhuá, born May 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong film director, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave. ... Yim Ho 嚴浩, one of the famous Hong Kong directors in 1980s, and a leader of Hong Kong New Wave. ... Not to be confused with actor Patrick Tam Yiu-Man Patrick Tam Kar Ming (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born March 25, 1948) is a Hong Kong film director. ... Allen Fong Yuk-ping (方育平) is one of the leaders of Hong Kong New Wave of the early 1980s. ... For other uses, see John Woo (disambiguation). ... Wong Kar-wai (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; Shanghainese Latin method: Wan Kawe; born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong film director known for his visually unique, highly stylized art films. ...

References

• Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-674-00214-8

• Teo, Stephen. Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. London: British Film Institute, 1997. ISBN 0-85170-514-6

• Cheuk, Pak Tong. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978–2000). Bristol: Intellect, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84150-148-2