A place to share snippets of superfluous trivia about the many Hong Kong movies we all love and adore!
1. The opening music from Tsui Hark's We're Going To Eat You (1980) is a "borrowed" cue from Goblin's score for Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977).
2. A large portion of the score for John Woo's The Killer (1989), attributed to Lowell Lo in the credits, is actually "borrowed" cues from James Horner's score for Walter Hill's Red Heat (1988).
3. Jet Li did not post-synch his own voice until Gordon Chan's Hitman (1998) which, ironically, was his last major Hong Kong feature (the fact that the film is, by and large, pretty dreadful is also widely debated).
4. Sammo Hung's The Moon Warriors (1992) was, in fact, helmed by numerous directors before Hung was brought in to finish the production. It was commenced under Alex Law and Mabel Cheung, who relinquished the reins to veteran action choreographer Corey Yuen, who was joined by Tony Ching on action direction, before it was decided to wrap up the production under Hung's helm as was well known for hemming in and completing "out of control" productions as well as being cost effective.
5. Both Johnnie To and Andrew Kam were sacked from Tsui Hark's production The Big Heat (1988) when Tsui decided neither were delivering what he wanted -- Tsui finished the film himself.
6. Tsui Hark's birthname is Tsui Man Kong.
7. Shu Qi's birthname is Lin Li Hui
That's all from me for now as I'm off to the local Chinese supermarket with my wife to do the grocery shopping, so feel free to join in and share whatever you all know -- I'll be back on and off with dozens of facts.