What Chinese films have been remade in the USA?

Question

For example: Internal Affairs to The Departed

Duh! Infernal Affairs was the spoof remake of the award-winning Internal Affairs. Plus, Dark Waters is Japanese!

Answer 1

Pretty much all the John Woo stuff.
Except of course the really good ones, like Better Tomorrow.
I seem to think Ringo Lam's 'City on Fire' was remade but have nothing to back it up. If there is an overlooked director though it's Ringo. Seeing as most of the other good directors have already done Hollywood movies.

It is only recently that Hollywood has started to remake this stuff.
Hong Kong's filmmakers have now progressed beyond martial arts costume dramas. And the old martial arts stuff would only transfer to 'C' budget Chuck Norris or Dragon films.
The delicate dramas (like Ang Lee's stuff, from Taiwan) are often firmly rooted in their culture and also wouldn't transfer.
Expect to see a lot more remakes though, and not just from China/Taiwan. Korea and Japan, along with a maturing Indian film industry also make real stories. Something that Hollywood has seemed to have forgotten.

Answer 2

Infernal Affairs, not Internal Affairs

Answer 3

I thnk they should stop remaking classics as well and remaking a silent into a color talkie would be horrible. The greatness of a silent is the fact that a story is being told without all of the babble. Writers and producers need to be creative and come up with their own ideas. Unfortunatly society is becomming a bunch of mindless idiots that think movies like Mall Cop are good and Tv shows like 30 Rock are funny. Next they will think the shows on the Spanish stations that have fat people running around in bumble Bee costumes are funny too. It is really not that hard to be creative and use your ideas to come up with a unique story, so maybe it is just laziness that causes them to take a movie and redo it. I think the only time it works is with classic stories such as Charles Dickens novels... Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol and so on.

Answer 4

Dark Water was originally a Chinese film because I saw it on Television.

Answer 5

I don't know of any. But there are plently of japanese remakes

Answer 6

"seeing Ghosts" is being remade as "The Eye" and will be released next year.

Answer 7

too freakin many
because hollywood is out of good ideas

Answer 8

return of the dragon with bruce lee **{bruce lee imitation}** Waaaaaaaahhhh!!!