Watch The Grandmaster

A wuxia of exiled swordsmen in a desert, cut and recut for years; Christopher Doyle's desert light.

Donnie Yen as the Wing Chun master during the Japanese occupation; ten black belts at once.

Ip Man opens a school in 1949 Hong Kong and ends up in a ring against a British boxer.

A developer moves on the school and Mike Tyson turns up as his boss; the fight in the lift is the set piece.

Two neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong fall in love by never saying so.

Two Hong Kong cops and two women, canned pineapple and "California Dreamin'"; Wong Kar-wai's pop masterpiece.

Two men from Hong Kong falling apart in Buenos Aires; Wong Kar-wai and the Iguazu falls.

A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.