Ging chaat goo si (1985)

Biao Yuen & Jackie Chan in Wheels on Meals / 快餐車 (1984)

Director: Sammo Hung

Cinematographers: Yiu-Tsou Cheung,  Francisco Riba,  Arthur Wong

"Ready? Let's piss! March!"

A計劃 (Project A), 1983.

Dir. Jackie Chan | Writ. Jackie Chan & Edward Tang | DOP Cheung Yiu Tsou

Jackie Chan in The Legend of Drunken Master (Chia-Liang Liu, 1994) Cast: Jackie Chan, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Chia-Liang Liu, Ken Lo, Kar Lok Chin, Ho-Sung Pak, Chi-Kwong Chung, Yi-Sheng Han, Andy Lau. Screenplay: Edward Tang, Man-Ming Tong, Kai-Chi Yuen. Cinematography: Tony Cheung, Yiu-Tsou Cheung, Wen Yung Huang, Jingle Ma. Production design: Chong-Sing Ho, Eddie Ma. Film editing: Peter Cheung. Music: Michael Wandmacher, Wei Lap Wu. Jackie Chan is his usual charming whirligig self in Chia-Liang Liu's The Legend of Drunken Master, a movie that kung fu film aficionados take a good deal more seriously than I'm able to. In 2010 Time critic Richard Corliss placed it on the magazine's list of the 100 greatest movies made since 1923. There are certainly some breathtaking moments of action in it, along with a hilarious performance by Anita Mui as Chan's stepmother -- she was actually almost a decade younger than he. And I go along with Roger Ebert's comparison of Chan to Buster Keaton, though where Keaton was mostly stillness punctuated by moments of action, Chan is hyperactivity distilled to its essence. Unfortunately, the version of the film I saw was dubbed into English and shorn to fit a different aspect ratio than the original. It also lacks a concluding scene in which Chan's character, Wong Fei-hung, exhibits the effects of drinking methanol, which he does in the climactic fight scene. Apparently it was played for comedy, which the American distributors (perhaps rightly) thought distasteful. If a version of the film closer to the original ever comes around, I'd be happy to give Drunken Master II, which is what its hardcore fans call it, another look.

Police Story (1985) dir. Jackie Chan

Cinematography by Yiu-Tsou Cheung

Jackie Chan in Wheels on Meals / 快餐車 (1984)

Director: Sammo Hung

Cinematographers: Yiu-Tsou Cheung,  Francisco Riba,  Arthur Wong

Impeccable 80s Fashion in Wheels on Meals / 快餐車 (1984)

Director: Sammo Hung

Cinematographers: Yiu-Tsou Cheung,  Francisco Riba,  Arthur Wong

Wheels on Meals / 快餐車 (1984)

Director: Sammo Hung

Cinematographers: Yiu-Tsou Cheung,  Francisco Riba,  Arthur Wong

警察故事續集 (Police Story 2), 1988.

Dir. Jackie Chan | Writ. Jackie Chan, Paul B. Clay & Edward Tang | DOP Yiu-Tsou Cheung & Yu-Tang Li

Good faces from Wheels on Meals / 快餐車 (1984)

Director: Sammo Hung

Cinematographers: Yiu-Tsou Cheung,  Francisco Riba,  Arthur Wong

Jackie Chan and Ken Tong in Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen, 1985) Cast: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung, Yuen Chor, Charlie Cho, Chi-Wing Lau, Hark-On Fung, Hing-Yin Kam, Mars, Tai-Bo, Ken Tong. Screenplay: Jackie Chan, Edward Tang. Cinematography: Yiu-Tsou Cheung. Production design: Oliver Wong. Film editing: Peter Cheung. Music: Kevin Bassinson. Jackie Chan's debt to Buster Keaton has never been more fully displayed, or indeed more fully repaid, than in Police Story, which has a Keatonian moment when he latches onto a passing bus with the crook of an umbrella. Chan plays a cop who goes from hero to goat and back again in this story of an almost one-man crusade against a drug lord. The climax involves the near-total destruction of a shopping mall, with one spectacular set-up after another.

Jackie Chan and Keung-Kuen Lai in Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988) Cast: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung, Keung-Kuen Lai, John Cheung, Charlie Cho, Yuen Chor, Ben Lam, Chi Fai Chan, Shan Kwan, Isabella Wong, Ann Mui. Screenplay: Jackie Chan, Paul B. Clay, Edward Tang. Cinematography: Yiu-Tsou Cheung, Yu-Tang Li. Production design: Oliver Wong. Film editing: Peter Cheung. Music: Yao-Tsu Chang, J. Peter Robinson, Siu-Lam Tang. Jackie Chan's hyperactive policeman Cha Ka-Kui has been demoted to traffic as a result of the mayhem in the first Police Story film, but he bounds back under threat from his old enemies. There's a lot more pyrotechnics in this installment, thanks to the explosives wizardry of the film's chief villain, a deaf mute played by Keung-Kuen Lai.

Police Story

Director: Jackie Chan

Director of Photography: Yiu-Tsou Cheung