Tsui Hark

Tsui Hark is one of those filmmakers I genuinely admire for never losing his sense of wonder. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, schooled in Texas, then central to Hong Kong's golden age, he kept inventing, wuxia, fantasy, wire-work, and later CGI, like a kid grabbing every new toy. The stack of Hong Kong Film Awards and a Golden Horse confirm the craft, but what moves me is his restless appetite, still pushing decades in. I love directors who treat the medium as a playground rather than a formula, and Tsui's relentless reinvention is exactly that spirit. A true expander of Asian cinema.

Name (English)

Tsui Hark

Name (Japanese)

ツイ・ハーク

Reading

つい・はーく

Born

February 1, 1951 (age 75)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

Origin

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Occupation

film director / film producer / screenwriter / actor / film actor

University

University of Texas at Austin

Awards & achievements

• 1992 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director
• 1981 Golden Horse Award for Best Director
• 2011 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director
• 2016 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director
• 2016 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Director

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsui%20Hark
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%84%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317814

Tags

• film director
• film producer
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.