He changed his calling name from Man-Kong to Hark ("overcoming") when
his fellow students at the University of Texas at Austin used to tease
him by calling him "KingKong"
Studied film at the University of Texas at Austin.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
Speaks fluent English.
Name is pronounced "Choy Hock"
He was the fourth Chinese film director (after Kaige Chen, Jiang Wen and
Edward Yang) to join the board of judges for the 57th Cannes Film Festival
in 2004. Another Chinese film director joined the board of judges after
him in the 58th Cannes Film Festival in 2005: John Woo, with whom Hark
had a falling-out out during production of _Die xue shuang xiong (1989)_.
Was originally attached to the live-action adaptations of Lupin the
Third, Tetsujin 28 (Gigantor), and Initial D, but has since vacated
those projects.
The director with the second highest number of films (five, all made
between 1979 to 1991) selected among the Best 100 Chinese Motion
Pictures by Hong Kong Film Awards in celebration of 100 years of
movies, after Kar-Wai Wong, with six.
Born in Vietnam, moved to Hong Kong at the age of fourteen
Tsui Hark received the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival.
He worked on American TV projects in New York from 1975-1977