For fans of Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai: what to watch, read & play next

A tangled web of thieves, debts, and a stolen missile keeps the comedy-crime chaos delightfully unpredictable.

Mystical family curses, a father's dark magic, and a stout-hearted son mix horror with wuxia tradition.

A Taoist priest destined to battle a lovesick Demon King is exactly the kind of absurd cosmic conflict fans relish.

Shifting loyalties and brother-against-brother conflicts deliver the sprawling, kinetic ensemble energy you'd expect.

A kung-fu student tasked with minding a lunatic daughter is pure comedic wuxia in its most charming form.

Two friends stumble on a legendary tomb and accidentally unlock magic — irreverent adventure with genuine mythological heart.

A wartime love story steeped in personal sacrifice and the brutal reality behind Hong Kong's historical ruptures.

A heartbroken wanderer facing new paranormal threats blends romantic melancholy with frenetic supernatural action.

A carpenter posing as the Monkey King's reincarnation sends up wuxia mythology with knowing, cheerful irreverence.

A warrior monk rebuilding after catastrophe, reuniting with a son he thought lost, echoes classic wuxia redemption arcs.

A woman wielding a time-traveling sword across five hundred years to find lost love is sweeping mythological romance.

A beloved monk navigating a dynasty in crisis delivers the mix of sacred and slapstick that defines the genre.

An office worker dropped into a cultivation world captures the fish-out-of-water comedy alongside genuine supernatural stakes.

1930s Shanghai carved up by corrupt factions is a viscerally cinematic backdrop for martial-arts action and moral tension.

A stone-born creature's two-thousand-year love story spans myth and mortality with exactly the right emotional sweep.

A factory owner's ambitions and a forbidden romance play out against the economic upheaval of 1980s China.

Hong Kong cinema-inspired gravity-defying martial arts in a post-apocalyptic Asia — kinetic, stylish, and unapologetically fun.

A life-sim rooted in Chinese family expectations trades fantasy for grounded cultural comedy with genuine warmth.

A 1956 Tokyo murder mystery with a private-eye protagonist carries the same noir-tinged atmosphere of hidden menace.

Twin brothers fighting through a post-apocalyptic city distills martial-arts action to its most archetypal, propulsive form.

A warlord rescuing a captive woman with elemental battlefield magic is mythological warfare played with grand operatic feeling.

An unlikely duo chasing an escaped ancient dragon delivers the buddy-comedy-meets-mythological-chaos energy fans love.

Pandora's box unleashing chaos on the modern world shares that same collision between ancient myth and contemporary disorder.

A kung-fu monk and three warriors on a globe-trotting quest to protect magical artefacts is wuxia-adventure at its most playful.

Two illusionists running illegal cons in a 1919 Boston gangster's club blend supernatural gift with underworld danger stylishly.

A teenager confronting ghosts and his father's secrets in 1907 Vancouver carries the same atmosphere of ancestral dread.

Loyalty and family bonds tested through rain and reunion capture the emotional undertow beneath surface-level comedy.

A spiritual llama on an epic Tibet-to-India quest for stolen jade treasure is adventure myth at its most unhurried and strange.

A breathtaking love story set across the sweep of Chinese history rewards the same appetite for romantic epic stakes.

Peasants watching their garlic crop rot in 1980s China is earthy, furious storytelling about ordinary people under systemic pressure.

An itinerant storyteller in ancient China who must talk his way out of execution is wit and myth perfectly intertwined.

A detective tracing a Hong Kong triad across cities captures the same danger-beneath-the-surface tension of Hong Kong genre cinema.