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Tsui Hark2011 (cropped)
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Raffi Asdourian
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CC BY 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

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Tsui Hark
By
Edmund Yeo
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CC BY-SA 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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徐克

Xú Kè
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Tsui Hark, Hong Kong film director and producer, pioneer of the Hong Kong New Wave

About Tsui Hark

born 1951 · 导演 director

Hong Kong director who remade martial-arts cinema with fast action and special effects, above all in the 黄飞鸿 films with Jet Li. Later hits include the 狄仁杰 detective films and 智取威虎山.

Also called  徐文光

Examples

HSK 6
Xú Kè dǎoyǎn de 《 Huáng Fēihóng 》 xìliè fēicháng jīngdiǎn.
Tsui Hark's 'Once Upon a Time in China' series is a classic.
HSK 7-9
Xú Kè bǎ wǔxiápiàn dàidào le xīn de gāodù.
Tsui Hark took the wuxia film to a whole new level.

Tips

culture
His nickname is 徐老怪, 'Old Oddball Xu'. His 2011 《龙门飞甲》 was the first wuxia film in 3D. Tsui Hark is simply the Cantonese reading of 徐克.

Stroke Order

徐 xú
克 kè