--- name: "Tsui Hark" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tsui-hark" fi1m_id: "tsui-hark" imdb_id: "nm0007139" tmdb_id: 26760 wikidata_id: "Q317814" roles: ["Director","Producer"] born: "15 February 1950" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T02:04:45.176522+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Tsui Hark ## Identity Tsui Hark - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tsui-hark - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tsui-hark - **IMDb ID:** nm0007139 - **TMDB ID:** 26760 - **Wikidata ID:** Q317814 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsui_Hark, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317814, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007139/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26760 Director and producer. Born 15 February 1950 in Saigon, Vietnam. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Producer - **Born:** 15 February 1950, Saigon, Vietnam - **Active:** 1986–1991 - **Also known as:** Hark Tsui, Xu Ke, 서극, Hak Chui, 徐克, 徐文光, Сюй Вэнь Гуан, Xu Wen Guang, Tsui Man-kong - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing - **Frequently works with:** [Yuen Kai-Chi](https://film.one/person/yuen-kai-chi.md) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 1990s 81 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsui_Hark, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317814, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007139/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26760 ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*A Chinese Ghost Story*](https://film.one/film/a-chinese-ghost-story.md) (82) - **HBO Max:** [*Once Upon a Time in China*](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-china.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Tsui Hark is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he studied film at the University of Texas at Austin before returning to Hong Kong in 1977, where he began working in television and directed his debut feature, The Butterfly Murders (1979). He co-founded the production company Film Workshop in 1984. Tsui directed and produced Peking Opera Blues (1986) and directed, wrote and produced Once Upon a Time in China (1991). He is a leading figure of the Hong Kong New Wave and has worked extensively as a producer on other films including A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) — the average rests on these - *Once Upon a Time in China* (1991), Fi1m 81, Director, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-china.md) ### Produced (1) - *A Chinese Ghost Story* (1987), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-chinese-ghost-story.md) ## Complete filmography (123) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants* (2025), Director, Writer - *Dear Audience* (2025), series, Actor - *The King of Wuxia Part 2* (2022), Actor - *The King of Wuxia Part 1* (2022), Actor - *Septet: The Story of Hong Kong* (2022), Editor, Director, Writer - *The Battle at Lake Changjin II: Water Gate Bridge* (2022), Director - *The Battle at Lake Changjin* (2021), Executive Producer, Director - *Kung Fu Stuntmen* (2021), Actor - *Keep Rolling* (2020), Actor - *The Climbers* (2019), Producer - *Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings* (2018), Director - *The Thousand Faces of Dunjia* (2017), Writer, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer, Editor - *Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back* (2017), as Theater Employee (uncredited) · Director, Writer, Editor - *Sword Master* (2016), Producer, Screenplay - *The Bodyguard* (2016), as Old Man - *Yi Ge Cheng Ren Dian Ying Gong Zuo Zhe De Zi Bai* (2016), as Director Tsui Hark - *The Bodyguard* (2016), as Old Man C - *The Mermaid* (2016), as Uncle Rich - *The Crossing II* (2015), Editor - *The Taking of Tiger Mountain* (2014), Director, Writer - *The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom* (2014), Consulting Accountant, Art Direction - *Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer - *Christmas Rose* (2013), Producer - *A Simple Life* (2012), as Director Tsui - *The Great Magician* (2011), as Warlord - *Flying Swords of Dragon Gate* (2011), Writer, Director, Producer - *Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame* (2010), Director, Producer - *All About Women* (2008), as Taxi Driver (uncredited) · Director, Writer, Story - *Missing* (2008), Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Kungfu Master* (2008), as Art Direction - *Triangle* (2007), Director, Producer, Executive Producer - *In the Blue* (2006), Consulting Accountant, Art Direction - *Seven Swords* (2005), Screenplay, Director, Producer - *The Warrior* (2005), as Art Direction - *Xanda* (2004), Producer - *1:99 Shorts* (2003), Director - *The Master: Chang Cheh Documentary* (2003), Actor - *Vampire Hunters* (2003), Producer, Screenplay - *Black Mask 2: City of Masks* (2002), Director, Producer, Story - *Zu Warriors* (2001), Producer, Director, Writer - *Master Q 2001* (2001), Screenplay, Producer - *Time and Tide* (2000), Producer, Writer, Director - *Knock Off* (1998), Director - *A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation* (1997), as Solid Gold (voice) · Writer, Editor, Production Design, Producer - *Double Team* (1997), Director - *Once Upon a Time in China and America* (1997), Producer - *Black Mask* (1996), Producer, Screenplay - *Shanghai Grand* (1996), Producer - *Wong Fei Hung Series : The Final Victory* (1996), Producer - *Wong Fei Hung Series : The Ideal Century* (1996), Producer - *Wong Fei Hung Series : The Headless General* (1996), as Compositor · Producer - *Tri-Star* (1996), Producer, Writer, Director - *Wong Fei Hung Series : The Suspicious Temple* (1996), Producer - *The Blade* (1995), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay - *Wong Fei Hung Series : The Eight Assassins* (1995), Producer - *Love in the Time of Twilight* (1995), Director, Writer, Producer - *The Chinese Feast* (1995), Producer, Director, Writer - *The Lovers* (1994), Writer, Director, Producer - *Once Upon a Time in China V* (1994), Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Producer - *Burning Paradise* (1994), Producer - *Forging the Swords* (1994), Presenter, Producer - *Green Snake* (1993), Director, Producer, Screenplay - *Iron Monkey* (1993), Screenplay, Producer - *The Magic Crane* (1993), Producer, Writer, Screenplay - *Swordsman III: The East Is Red* (1993), Writer, Producer - *Once Upon a Time in China IV* (1993), Screenplay, Producer - *Once Upon a Time in China III* (1993), Producer, Director, Author - *Wicked City* (1992), Executive Producer, Screenplay, Co-Director - *New Dragon Gate Inn* (1992), Producer, Screenplay - *The Legend of the Swordsman* (1992), Producer, Writer - *The Master* (1992), Story, Director, Producer - *Once Upon a Time in China II* (1992), Author, Director, Producer - *Twin Dragons* (1992), as Card Player · Director, Writer, Story - *The Banquet* (1991), Director, Writer - *King of Chess* (1991), Producer, Director - *Once Upon a Time in China* (1991), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-china.md) - *A Chinese Ghost Story III* (1991), Producer, Writer - *The Raid* (1991), Writer, Director, Executive Producer - *A Chinese Ghost Story II* (1990), Producer - *Happy Ghost IV* (1990), VFX Artist - *Swordsman* (1990), Director, Producer - *Spy Games* (1989), Producer - *A Terra-Cotta Warrior* (1989), Producer - *A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon* (1989), Writer, Producer, Director, Editor - *Incredibly Strange Film Show - Tsui Hark* (1989), Actor - *Web of Deception* (1989), Producer - *Just Heroes* (1989), Producer - *The Killer* (1989), Producer - *Gunmen* (1988), Producer - *The Laser Man* (1988), Executive Producer - *The Big Heat* (1988), Producer - *Three Wishes* (1988), VFX Artist - *Diary of a Big Man* (1988), Producer - *I Love Maria* (1988), as Whiskey · Writer, Producer, Co-Director - *A Better Tomorrow II* (1987), Story, Producer, Presenter - *A Chinese Ghost Story* (1987), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-chinese-ghost-story.md) - *Final Victory* (1987), as Big Bo - *Peking Opera Blues* (1986), Director, Producer - *A Better Tomorrow* (1986), as Music Judge · Executive Producer - *Happy Ghost III* (1986), as Godfather · Visual Effects Coordinator - *Yes, Madam!* (1985), as Panadol - *Working Class* (1985), as Sunny · Director - *Run Tiger Run* (1985), as Grandpa Steak - *Kung Hei Fat Choy* (1985), as Grabbing Gold - *Shanghai Blues* (1984), as Pedestrian Who Gets Soaked · Director, Producer - *Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street* (1984), as Police Officer in Computer Room · Director - *The Perfect Wife?!* (1983), Production Designer - *Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?* (1983), Director of Photography - *All the Wrong Spies* (1983), as Japanese Ambassador - *Twinkle Twinkle Little Star* (1983), as Reporter - *Aces Go Places II* (1983), as Camco - *Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain* (1983), as Blue Army Soldier (uncredited) · Director - *The Winter of 1905* (1982), as Li Shutong - *It Takes Two* (1982), as Taoist Priest - *Aces Go Places* (1982), as Ballet Director - *Chasing Girls* (1981), as [deleted scenes] - *All the Wrong Clues* (1981), Story, Director - *Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind* (1980), as Interpol Officer · Director, Screenplay - *We're Going to Eat You* (1980), Director, Screenplay - *The Butterfly Murders* (1979), Director - *A House is Not a Home* (1977), series, Actor - *Shih, Queen of the Sea*, Producer - *Better Tomorrow*, Original Story ## Gallery - ![Tsui Hark](https://film.one/media/person/3925193/gallery-f2685dd0cfd3.jpg) Tsui Hark — Raffi Asdourian, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Tsui_Hark2011_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Tsui_Hark2011_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Tsui Hark at Dubai Film Fest 2008 Closing Ceremony](https://film.one/media/person/3925193/gallery-96f4c1d2698e.jpg) Tsui Hark at Dubai Film Fest 2008 Closing Ceremony — Edmund Yeo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Tsui_Hark.jpg/1280px-Tsui_Hark.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Tsui Hark](https://film.one/media/person/3925193/gallery-4303014b088d.jpg) Tsui Hark — Image via TMDB - ![Tsui Hark](https://film.one/media/person/3925193/gallery-67f4b4bff2c1.jpg) Tsui Hark — Image via TMDB - ![Tsui Hark](https://film.one/media/person/3925193/gallery-f3ad74a0b356.jpg) Tsui Hark — Image via TMDB - ![Tsui Hark](https://film.one/media/person/3925193/gallery-a6236e80cc22.jpg) Tsui Hark — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 5 won - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director 2016: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director (won), for *The Taking of Tiger Mountain* - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Director 2016: Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Director (won), for *The Taking of Tiger Mountain* - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director 2011: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director (won), for *Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame* - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director 1992: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director (won), for *Once Upon a Time in China II* - Golden Horse Award for Best Director 1981: Golden Horse Award for Best Director (won), for *All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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