Chang Chen

Forever Young

Almost eight years after production began on Forever Young, the ambitious historical epic finally arrives on Hong Kong screens with precious little fanfare. Despite an all-star Chinese cast, writer-director Li… Read More
Monk Comes Down The Mountain

Packed with action and steeped in tradition, Chen Kaige’s return to the wuxia genre is an exhilarating drama, as concerned with the philosophy behind martial arts as with their lethal… Read More
Radio Rambles – Helios

This week on Radio 3 I talked about local action thriller Helios, featuring a star-studded cast that includes Jackie Cheung, Nick Cheung, Chang Chen, Janice Man and Choi Siwon. The… Read More
Helios

After the commercial success of their debut Cold War (the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2012) writer-director team Longman Leung and Sunny Luk set their sights higher with Helios, a… Read More
Helios

After the commercial success of their debut Cold War (the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2012) writer-director team Longman Leung and Sunny Luk set their sights higher with Helios, a… Read More
Three Charmed Lives

Disappointing anthology of shorts, each directed by a prominent Asian actor. Francis Ng begins proceedings badly with The Tangerine, following a vagrant fugitive on the run in a Southern Chinese… Read More
Happy Together

I finally caught up with Wong Kar Wai’s much-lauded 1997 film, starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai as tempestuous lovers living in Buenos Aires. To find out what… Read More
The Grandmaster

A decade after it was announced, Wong Kar Wai finally delivers his martial arts epic, starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai as wing chun advocate Ip Man and Zhang Ziyi has… Read More
The Last Supper

Lu Chuan follows up his powerful City of Life and Death with this big-budget retelling of one of China’s many pivotal power struggles. Liu Ye, Daniel Wu and Chang Chen… Read More