![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs-with its code-following cops and criminals and its multi-pointed, chamber-to-the-head standoffs-owed a debt to Hong Kong, specifically City On Fire. For many film enthusiasts, the first indication that something was happening across the ocean came via Quentin Tarantino, a Hong Kong enthusiast who, in the many interviews he conducted as an emerging director, happily provided a list of Hong Kong influences. It’s impossible to understate what a shock it was for Western viewers to encounter Hong Kong action films in the early 1990s.
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