As it celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, AnOther considers the film’s subversive legacy and why it “has never felt more relevant”
) and Tsui Hark were releasing action-packed blockbusters that made superstars of Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li. An explosion of pornographic and gruesomely violent exploitation films occurred with the introduction of Hong Kong’s notorious. And with around 300 full features completed in 1993, the ‘Hollywood of the East’ was exporting works all over the continent to major box office returns.
It wasn’t to last.
But in 2002, two experienced filmmakers Andrew Lau and Alan Mak completed a different kind of Hong Kong crime thriller – resisting pressure from production house Media Asia to “add more action scenes” and instead addressing the country’s identity crisis with nuance. Instead of literally swapping faces, as the absent Woo had done with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in his 1997 Hollywood sensation, Mak wanted his characters to “swap destinies”.
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