Michael Hui
The martial arts films starred by Bruce Lee, including the 1971 "The Big Boss" () and "Fist of Fury" () the following year, were sensational. Cornered for some times by Western and Mandarin films, Cantonese films were much revived in the 1970s, with the great success of 1976 "The Private Eyes" (), directed by Michael Hui, which is said to remain the all-time box-office king of Hong Kong cinema when inflation is taken into account.