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‘TIME’ FOR MORE ASIAN ACTION

Hot on the heels of the success of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” the Film Forum is bringing back two classics of the Hong Kong martial-arts genre, “Once Upon a Time in China” (1991) and “Once Upon a Time in China II” (1992).

Each is directed by Vietnamese-born, Texas-educated Tsui Hark, who has been called “the Steven Spielberg of Hong Kong.”

In fact, he was lured to Hollywood, where he helmed “Double Team” (1997) and “Knock Off” (1998).

In “Once Upon a Time in China” and its sequel, Hark tries to do for late-19th-century China what Sergio Leone did for the American frontier in “Once Upon a Time in the West.”

The fighting hero is portrayed by Jet Li, who achieved international fame thanks to these flicks. Rosamund Kwan appears as his fiery lover.

“Once Upon a Time” unreels Friday through May 3. The sequel (the first of four, actually) gets its turn May 4-10.

Film Forum is on Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street; http://www.filmforum.com

There’s lots more by Hark on the horizon. His latest, “Time and Tide, opens May 11 at the Village East.

And he’ll be getting a retrospective in late May at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village and the Plaza Twin in Brooklyn.

* Artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel and his wife, Olatz, threw open the doors of their West Village home (a former perfume factory with 20-foot ceilings) for a party honoring the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.

Guests downed pizza and cake while a Cuban band played dance music.

Among those spotted by Cine File were Sigourney Weaver, John Waters, Mike Figgis, Jim Jarmusch, Willem Dafoe, Gretchen Mol, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Chazz Palminteri, Abel Ferrara, David Byrne, Seymour Cassel, and Steve Van Zandt and a handful of other cast members from “The Sopranos.”

A sign on one door warned, “Please don’t knock. Children sleeping,” although it was doubtful anybody could snooze through the racket.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post. His e-mail: vam@nypost.com