Top 50 Hong Kong Films of the 1990s

Below is the list I submitted to LoveHKFilm.com for the Top 50 list of HK films for the 1990s.

Here is my list:

1. Hard Boiled


2. Chungking Express


3. Chinese Odyssey I & II


4. Once Upon a Time in China II


5. Swordsmen II


6. C'est la vie, mon chéri


7. Once A Thief


8. Legend of the Liquid Sword


9. Bullet in the Head


10. Royal Tramp I


11. Once Upon a Time in China IV


12. City Hunter


13. The Bare-Footed Kid


14. The Bride with White Hair


15. A Moment of Romance


16. Ashes of Time


17. Armour of God II: Operation Condor


18. Mermaid Got Married


19. The Longest Nite


20. Tom, Dick and Hairy

The hard part about putting this list together was the that according to this HK Film archive promoted by Lord Kozo of LoveHKFilm.com, there were 1,344 movies released in the the 1990s. Looking at that list really fast, I probably saw about 30-40% of those. That's a lot of films I missed out on. On the other side is that I didn't re-watch the majority of the films. So, I really can't remember all of them. But the list above are the movies I remember and they are fond memories.

Did I forget some films that should make my top 20? Absolutely! But with 1,344 films, this is all I could do for the time allotted me by life.

In the future, I would like to re-watch these. At the moment, I've only seen 4 of these in the past 10 years. So, I am going purely off memory. Netflix, here I come!

BTW - I don't consider "Ashes of Time" a 00s film, even if WKW redux it. Just like I still consider Star Wars a 1977 film, even though GL redux it with new scenes and graphics in 1997.