Daniel Wu Yin-cho’s recent return to Hong Kong cinema ends a years-long hiatus that caught even the actor by surprise. Before shooting Cold War 1994, which opened in the city in April 2026, he had appeared in just one local production – 2020’s Caught in Time – since his 2016 thriller Sky on Fire. While he spent the intervening decade focusing on Hollywood projects like the Into the Badlands series and Tomb Raider (2018), this recent absence was exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic disrupting...