Hong Kong havoc!

[rumble]

Hong Kong may be most known for its martial arts and gangster movies, but they made a lot of weird stuff in the 70's, including horror, thrillers and comedies. Here are a few - sorry for the temporary photos, I have not yet got around to documenting this part of the collection properly!

I'd love to see Hong Kong posters from other ages and genres too!













(the final one is a blatant rip-off of the tasteful art for UK production INSEMINOID!)

[brude]

Jeezum crow those are cool.
This is a treat -- I have seen very few HK posters from that era.
Wild and different.

[Posteroid]

Those are great posters Lars Erik!
HK cinema was certainly at its best from the early 70's through to the late 90's.

Here is a poster for director Tsui Hark's early (and incredibly violent) movie DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE:


A CHINESE GHOST STORY (beautiful movie)


And these are two pics I took when I first visited Hong Kong in 1991




Sadly, HK cinema has changed considerably since then. Back in the 90's the vast majority of cinemas only played local movies. Nowadays it's mostly boring Hollywood fare....

Armin

[rumble]

Awesome pics! Is that cinema on the top near Mong Kok? In that case I might have gone to it recently!

[Posteroid]

The first cinema was in the Jordan area near Temple Street Road but does not exist anymore (I watched that very movie there and the film was pretty awful). The second billboard was located on the crossing between Jordan and Nathan Road. I think the Watson drugstore is still in the same location.

Armin

[kovacs01]

Great stuff, and it does seem that there was some bizarre stuff coming from HK during that time.  I only have a couple of newer ones.

A pair for Tsui Hark's Seven Swords




And one for Chungking Express

[Mondo Hazardo]

very nice indeed, especially those Shaw Brothers posters. This is a very nice blogsite dedicated to HK posters. Just found it on the net after looking for some titles.
http://hkmovieposter.blogspot.com/#uds-search-results
,
wim

[teamweapon]

oily maniac is a CRAZY MOVIE!!!!
it makes much less sense than 96% of other chop socky flicks!!
i was stunned when i watched it for the first time. its kind of like an evil superman thing?
only instead of a phone box to transform, our slimy hero needs an oil drum to dunk in?
BIZARRO!
pretty sure i have seen curse of evil and bewitched too? but have forgotten them as you do with most SB movies!
i dont have any HK posters to contribute, sorry
only thing i have close is a UK quad for game of death/big boss and it isnt very good either! 

[Ari]

Big Shaw Bros fan here, ANY genre they touch is pure gold.

[quadbod]

Hi, Folks!

We found a small batch of (25) Hong Kong cinema flyers dating from c1950s ...



... apart from those, this is our only HK poster ...



Best wishes,

Terry - www.quadbod.co.uk

[Ari]

Unuslau Lobby card set



couple more cards

[Mondo Hazardo]

Dario has put this one on linen for me

[Tang Lung in Rome]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9BDt5UbYP0&list=UUReABscl9mYkIDkoPYkvAIA

Classic Bolo.....prior to finding this set I only saw 1 single card for sale so when I found this set I did not need to have my arm twisted to buy them , lol

These could actually be 2 different sets (Chinese set and English only set.....like they did with BL films)

[Tang Lung in Rome]

[ab8mf]

Hi everyone. Just joined APF, first post. I now live in HK and was wondering if anyone knew of an actual shop that sells these HK posters?
Thanks Marc

[erik1925]

 First, to the forum, Marc. Have jun and enjoy it and the good poster people that are all a part of it.

Good luck in your search and in locating a local shop[ there that sells the HK posters, too.

[Tang Lung in Rome]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-55MJ3ABk&index=8&list=PLhILsHS_uOWaiKrErdYcQBSiDB6PA7jAw

Missing lower left corner so not exactly mint (but I've seen these with huge chunks missing/torn off so it's adequate)

[erik1925]

Looking good there, Tang, and, as always, a cool video, too!

[Tang Lung in Rome]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/AmgsUH2kzOI" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/AmgsUH2kzOI</a>

It's on the wall now......