Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Romanisation, Translation and Box Office Records -- Introduction: Main(land) Melody Films and Hong Kong Directors -- 1 How to Take Tiger Mountain? The Tsui Hark Model -- 2 Will Our Time Come? Ann Hui's Fallen City -- 3 Hong Kong Dreams in Mainland China: The Leap of Peter Chan -- 4 Founding an Army with Soft Power: Captain Andrew Lau -- 5 Stepping to the Fore: Dante Lam's Operation Trilogy -- 6 Underneath the Shock Waves: The (Un)told Stories of Herman Yau -- 7 Jumping on the Bandwagon: The Ensemble of Hong Kong Film Directors -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Filmography -- Glossary -- Index