Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che were the two masters of martial arts films, which established the style of later martial arts films. Later, in 1990, "Swordsman" was hailed as the pioneering work of new style martial arts, and Tsui Hark also began to become leading figures, 1993 Hong Kong's martial arts movies reached their peak in 2015. That year was hailed as the year of martial arts films. Many classic works were born. Some of them flew at the box office, while others were reduced to cannon fodder, and the box office suffered Waterloo.
is based on the box office of 10 million Hong Kong dollars. In 1993, martial arts movies with a box office of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars include Jet Li's two "Fang Shiyu" and "Once Upon a Time: The Three Lions", these three entered the top ten of the annual box office list. Then, "Huang Feihong Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", and "The Demon Lord of the Legend of the Dragon Slayer" also exceeded 10 million box office. "The Demon Lord of the Legend of the Dragon" just failed to achieve the expected results, and the investment was relatively large. So the sequel was not made. After that, Brigitte Lin's "East to Become the West", two "White-haired Witches" and "The Resurrection of the East", Zhao Wenzhuo's "The Wind of the Four Kings of Huang Feihong" reached 10 million box office.
Under the brilliance of Jet Li and Brigitte Lin, there are also many classic martial arts films with a box office of less than 10 million Hong Kong dollars. There are as many as 16 movies. The first are three directed by Johnnie To, namely "The Three Heroes of the East" and "Modern Heroes". "Barefoot Boy", the first two can be regarded as a series of fashion martial arts films. After all, there are also cold weapons. It stands to reason that there are three goddesses Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh. The box office should not be too bad, but it is a pity that "Xia" was only 1.93 million Hong Kong dollars, while "Modern Heroes" was a little better, winning 5.22 million Hong Kong dollars. The only thing that can be explained is that these two films are too advanced. Johnnie To mixes many elements of East and West together, such as science fiction, martial arts, crime and so on.
"Barefoot Boy" is even worse. It was rumored to have a box office of only 1,010 Hong Kong dollars that year, which was the lowest-gross Hong Kong movie in history, and actually won 3.97 million Hong Kong dollars. The remake of this film is from Zhang Che's "Hong Kong Boy", which is a seriously underrated martial arts classic. Not only is the action design wonderful, but it is also very meaningful and thought-provoking.
is followed by Wang Jing’s three works. Among them, "The Laughing Man Chu Liuxiang" and "The Seven Princesses of Martial Arts" were directed by him, earning 3.15 million Hong Kong dollars and 9.81 million Hong Kong dollars respectively. These two works are not much classics, but they still slap most of them. film. There is also "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat" written and produced by Wang Jing and directed by Zhu Yanping. The film is hailed as the Baodaowan version of "East and the West". However, the lineup and the laughter are still poor, but Many stalks definitely make you laugh.
Then there are two films directed by Yuan Heping, namely "The Iron Monkey King" and "Su Qier", the former is only 6.81 million Hong Kong dollars, starring two martial artists, Donnie Yen and Yu Rongguang, the action design is exquisite, the final wooden stake The war climaxed. However, such a classic has not been forgotten, and was later selected by Quentin, and was able to be re-screened in the United States. With the martial arts style of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the United States, "Young Huang Feihong: Iron Monkey" also gained 1468 Ten thousand dollars at the box office.
Objectively speaking, "Su Qier" cannot be compared with "The Iron Monkey King of Huang Feihong", but its box office reached 7.01 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a little more. The only thing that can explain is Huang Feihong’s theme. Everyone is a little bit tired of aesthetics, just like now, when many people hear the words of "Ip Man", there will be a kind of conflicting plot in it.
followed by Tony Leung starring two movies: "New Meteor Butterfly Sword" and "New Crane Sword", which won 9.16 million Hong Kong dollars and 8.17 million Hong Kong dollars respectively. Among them, "New Meteor Butterfly Sword" also featured Donnie Yen, not deleted The ending of the reduced version is that Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh jump into the sea together. I really agreed to the sentence: To have no part is the helplessness of life; to have no part is the sorrow of life.
"New Crane and Divine Needle" is a standard Tsui Hark-style martial arts film. It satirizes some of the so-called decent and decent flags that everyone is fighting for. It finally fell into the hands of the two-person Diancang school master and apprentice, of course the most classic One of her lines is naturally "What you leave in my body, I will use my internal strength to force it out." The classic line above
was left by Guan Zhilin. That year, she also had two classics, namely "One Sword Allure "And "Tang Zhan the Murderer". The former is only 1.97 million Hong Kong dollars. It is regarded as the best martial arts film with the best lines by fans. It has the flavor of ancient dragon martial arts novels.Such as: can't drink enough wine, can't sing the farewell song, can't put down the knife in hand, can't kill the enemy.
Then "Assassin's New Legend: Killer Tang Zhan" is a bit better than "One Sword Allure", and it won 3.38 million Hong Kong dollars. It is a martial arts cult full of cult style, and it feels similar to Lin Lingdong's "New Burning Red Lotus Temple" Somewhat similar, full of sharp and strange style, and more violent, full of blood.
is followed by "Water Margin: The True Colors of Heroes" co-authored by a thousand faces actor Liang Jiahui and Wang Zuxian. Such a hot-blooded martial arts film has only 6 million box office. I especially want to praise Xu Jinjiang’s Lu Zhishen, which is not an ordinary robbery, as if this role is. Born for him in general.
At the same time, Xu Jinjiang also participated in another film "Flying Fox Gaiden", co-starring Liming, Zhang Min and Li Jiaxin. Hu Fei’s soaking skills are relatively high here. The finger-absorbing section is excellent and full of desire. At the same time, the line of this film is also More explicit, eventually won 6.86 million box office.
Then there is a "Bordertown Prodigal Son" written, directed and performed by Chen Xunqi. The box office is also terrible, only 1.54 million Hong Kong dollars. The lineup of this film is still very strong. Ti Lung, Yuan Jieying, Zhang Zhilin, Anita Yuan, Chen Yulian, etc., have the deepest impression after many years. It’s still Yuan Jieying, it’s so beautiful. What’s worth mentioning is that this film is also a work by Zhang Zhilin and Yuan Anyi.
"The Prodigal Son" is not the worst. "The Legend of Shaolin Hero" is only 470,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is lower than any of the above. The name of the film that was released in Hong Kong that year was "Wong Feihong's Man Serving the Country", which obviously suffered from Huang Feihong's loss. Sometimes it is not good to follow the trend and catch up with hot spots. Director Zhang Xinyan is also miserable. The 1992 "Randerer of the East" was only 440,000 Hong Kong dollars, which can only be said to be too lucky. The 16 martial arts classics on
were released in time for the martial arts movie year, but they can only be the cannon fodder for Jet Li and Brigitte Lin. After all, they are the masters of martial arts movies and the most box office appeal. Although none of these 16 movies has a box office of more than 10 million, they are all excellent martial arts films, which are many times better than the current martial arts films. Finally, I just want to say: a low box office is not necessarily a bad movie, and a high box office is not necessarily a good movie. What do you think?
