The Storm Riders
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
Before superhero cinema took over, Andrew Lau’s The Storm Riders gave Hong Kong its own comic-book apocalypse: peak pop idols Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok, prophecy, magic swords, heroic hair, and CGI in overdrive.
In Conversation with Andrew Lau
This masterclass takes place at Film at Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater.
Saturday, July 11
Showtimes
Mon, July 13
In Conversation with Andrew Lau
This masterclass takes place at Film at Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater.
Saturday, July 11
Before superhero movies ate the world, Hong Kong gave us The Storm Riders: a thunderclap of comic-book wuxia, billowing capes and mythic brooding, impossibly tragic posing and magic swords, flowing hair and dialed-way-up CGI. Andrew Lau hurls Ma Wing-shing’s beloved martial-arts manhua into full end-of-the-century overdrive, with Sonny Chiba devouring the screen as Lord Conquer, a warlord told by prophecy that two boys, Wind and Cloud, will make him invincible… until prophecy changes its mind and marks them as his doom. Raised as his disciples, the two warriors—played by Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok at peak pop-idol intensity—are thrown into a maelstrom of forbidden love and supernatural battles (witness Anthony Wong’s unforgettable Sword Saint). Shu Qi co-stars in this saga built to be seen on the big screen.
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