Film Series
Stephen Chow: The King of Comedy
Co-presented with Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York
Hong Kong actor, writer, and director Stephen Chow’s audaciously anarchic comedies combine surreal sight gags, out-of-left-field non-sequiturs, extensive pop-culture quoting, and gravity-defying martial arts to sublimely silly effect. With his endlessly inventive, anything goes brand of humor, the reigning king of Hong Kong mo lei tau (“nonsense comedy”) yields unfiltered cinematic pleasure.

Chow is a disgraced celebrity chef in this wildly absurdist kung food comedy.

A spoiled nobleman’s son sets out to become a martial arts master in this “chopsocky” spoof.

Chow stars as a crooked lawyer cursed by karma in this deliriously freewheeling farce.

Chow’s most autobiographical work, featuring a John Woo spoof and a cameo by Jackie Chan.

Martial arts meets Looney Tunes in Chow’s dazzlingly imaginative action comedy.

Chow’s dizzyingly daffy sports comedy reaches transcendently absurd heights.

Chow stars as the time-traveling Monkey King reincarnate in this zany epic.

A rookie demon hunter tangles with evil spirits in Chow’s thoroughly nutso fantasy.