pt. 1. Northerners and southerners: Early Hong Kong cinema, the Shanghai hangover ; Shanghai redone, les sing-song girls in Hong Kong ; The early Cantonese cinema ; Father and son ; The romantic and the cynical Mandarins
pt. 2. Martial artists: The dao of King Hu ; The sword and the fist ; Bruce Lee, Narcissus and the Little Dragon ; Jacky Chan, the other kung fu dragon
pt. 3. Path breakers: The new wave ; The new wave's action auteurs ; The second wave
pt. 4. Characters on the edge: Reverence and fear, Hong Kong's China syndrome ; Ghosts, cadavers, demons and other hybrids ; Bad customers and big timers ; Postmodernism and the end of Hong Kong cinema
Bio-filmographies.