FILM DIRECTOR

Tsui Hark

1950 - Today

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Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克, Vietnamese: Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong (Vietnamese: Từ Văn Quang), is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter. Tsui has directed several influential Hong Kong films such as Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), the Once Upon a Time in China film series (1991–1997) and The Blade (1995). Tsui also has been a prolific writer and producer; his productions include A Better Tomorrow (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (1987), A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), The Killer (1989), The Legend of the Swordsman (1992), The Wicked City (1992), Iron Monkey (1993) and Black Mask (1996). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsui Hark has received more than 725,946 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 33 in 2019). Tsui Hark is the 250th most popular film director (up from 299th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 730k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tsui Harks by language

Over the past year Tsui Hark has had the most page views in the with 103,254 views, followed by English (87,049), and French (25,622). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbo-Croatian (219.38%), Finnish (193.09%), and Tagalog (164.94%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tsui Hark ranks 250 out of 2,041. Before him are Víctor Erice, John Sturges, Lucio Fulci, Karel Zeman, G. W. Pabst, and Hirokazu Kore-eda. After him are Edward Dmytryk, Patrice Chéreau, Frank Darabont, Assi Dayan, Julien Duvivier, and Peter Bogdanovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Tsui Hark ranks 74. Before him are Helen Clark, Grigory Sokolov, Brad Dourif, Miki Manojlović, Robert B. Laughlin, and Sônia Braga. After him are Corinne Cléry, Miou-Miou, Neda Ukraden, Marcheline Bertrand, Eric Carr, and Nora Roberts.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Tsui Hark ranks 25 out of 136. Before him are Charles Sobhraj (1944), Minh Mạng (1791), Son Sen (1930), Lê Lợi (1384), Tôn Đức Thắng (1888), and Riccardo Cocciante (1946). After him are Nguyễn Xuân Phúc (1954), Trường Chinh (1907), Phạm Văn Đồng (1906), Lady Triệu (225), Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (1910), and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Vietnam

Among film directors born in Vietnam, Tsui Hark ranks 1. After him are Tran Anh Hung (1962).

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Filmography

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Director
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
Sep 18o 20106.5 / 10
Once Upon a Time in China
Director
Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.
Aug 15o 19917.152 / 10
Double Team
Director
A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.
Apr 4o 19975.131 / 10