Tsui Hark

Tsui Hark (English: Tsui Hark, February 15, 1951 -), formerly known as Xu Wenguang, is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is one of the important figures in the new wave of Hong Kong films. His ancestral home is Haifeng County, Guangdong Province, China. He was born in Saigon City, South Vietnam (today's Ho Chi Minh City). When he was young, he moved with his family to Guangzhou City, China, and later to British Hong Kong. In 1984, he established a film studio with his ex-wife Shi Nansheng and became famous at home and abroad with films such as "A Better Tomorrow", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Once Upon a Time" and "Knife", pioneering "new martial arts" movies. In 1989, Tsui Hark went to Beijing to shoot the movie "Terracotta Warriors", which was the first co-production between China and Hong Kong. Since 2009, Tsui Hark has collaborated with Huayi Brothers and Bona Pictures in mainland China to produce films such as "Detective Dee: The Sky", "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", "Detective Dee: The Dragon King" and "Take the Tiger Mountain". Tsui Hark won the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director Award three times. In addition, in 1981, "Ghost Horses and Stars" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" and "Changjin Lake" won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director. He is the second Chinese-language Grand Slam director to win the Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards, Hong Kong Film Awards, and China Film Golden Rooster Awards, after Peter Chan. In 2025, Tsui Hark was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards.