Ekin Cheng Archives

Future Cops (1993)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 28, 2012Time-Travelling Superheroic Battle

Manically paced Hong Kong action comedy about a time-travelling action team purportedly inspired by the Street Fighter videogame. Imagine The Terminator as a manic slapstick comedy with martial arts sequences.

Director: Wong Jing

Actors: Andy Lau, Jackie Cheung, Simon Yam, Chingmy Yau, Richard Ng, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 October 201224 October 2025 by Roog

The Storm Riders (1998)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 24, 1999Flying Swordsmen Fantasy

A solid variant on the Hong Kong flying swordsman genre that contains some epic plotting This is the point where the Wu Xia film discovered CGI effects

Director: Andrew Lau

Actors: Sonny Chiba, Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Roy Cheung, …

Category: Fantasy

24 September 19998 March 2026 by Roog

A Man Called Hero (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 19, 2001Hong Kong Martial Arts Fantasy

Ambitious Wu Xia film set among Chinese immigrants to the US where director Andrew Lau takes to the fantastical action with some flair

Director: Andrew Lau

Actors: Ekin Cheng, Nicholas Tse, Ken Lo, Kirsty Yang, Yuen Biao, …

Category: Fantasy

19 November 200117 September 2020 by Roog

The Duel (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 15, 2023Wu Xia Film

A Wu Xia film from Andrew Lau, the director of the Infernal Affairs films, in which the two top martial artists in the world issue a challenge to a duel on the roof of the imperial palace

Director: Andrew Lau

Actors: Andy Lau, Ekin Cheng, Elvis Tsui, Patrick Tam, Norman Chu

Category: Fantasy

15 March 202328 January 2026 by Roog

Zu Warriors (2001)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 24, 2013Wu Xia Film

Tsui Hark's follow-up to Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain the film that popularised Wu Xia cinema. The point where Tsui discovered CGI and latches onto it to do more than just show flying swordsmen but create an exquisitely dreamy world of pure fantastique imagination

Director: Tsui Hark

Actors: Ekin Cheng, Sammo Hung, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Kelly Lin, …

Category: Fantasy

24 January 201315 March 2023 by Roog

Storm Warriors (2009)

Rating: ★★

Nov 18, 2014Flying Swordsmen Fantasy

The Pang Brothers are some of the most exciting genre directors in the world. Here they take on the Wu Xia film and make a sequel to The Storm Riders that feels fuelled by too many viewings of 300

Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang

Actors: Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Simon Yam, Nicholas Tse, …

Category: Fantasy

18 November 20148 March 2026 by Roog

East Meets West (2011)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2012Hong Kong Comedy/Eastern Deities Become Superheroes

Hong Kong comedy designed to bring together an ensemble of local stars. The film starts out about the efforts to reunite a band and turns into a wacky effort where everybody discovers they are avatars of deities

Director: Jeffrey Lau

Actors: Karen Mok, Kenny Bee, Eason Chan, William So, …

Category: Fantasy

21 October 201217 October 2025 by Roog