Anonymous ID: 230c20 Dec. 30, 2018, 5:50 p.m. No.4529018   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Ringo Lam, the seminal Hong Kong action director, has died. He was 63. Lam is best known in the west for his collaborations with Jean-Claude Van Damme and for the highly influential City on Fire. The film–written, directed, and produced by Lam– starred Chow Yun-fat as a conflicted undercover cop who gets caught up in a jewelry store robbery gone wrong. If that sounds like the exact plot of Reservoir Dogs, that’s because it is. Tarantino told the Baltimore Sun that City on Fire was “a really cool movie. It influenced me a lot. I got some stuff from it.” In Hong Kong cinema, City on Fire kickstarted a whole genre of conflicted men killing and being killed by less conflicted men.

 

 

https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/city-on-fire-director-ringo-lam-is-dead.html