Hong Kong
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Since it was first announced back in 2013, the nostalgia-fuelled martial arts epic set within the labyrinthine back alleys of Kowloon Walled City has nurtured a mythical status to rival… Read More
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This week sees the release of Ip Man 4: The Finale, the last instalment in Donnie Yen Ji-dan’s blockbuster action franchise. After squaring off against the Japanese military, British colonialists… Read More
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Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, yet it can also be one of the most stressful. From the months of planning, to interfering… Read More
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Asia has not always been at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Even in Asian cinema, too often it’s the men who wrestle with world-changing events, while the… Read More
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Nick Cheung plays a pathologist station at a mortuary on Christmas Eve, when Richie Jen’s gang of masked criminals descend on the establishment in order to retrieve some incriminating evidence… Read More
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Cinema is filled with stories about journeys, and none more so than the long, slow march towards death that each of us must travel. Ageing and mortality are inevitable facts… Read More
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Max Zhang stars as a Hong Kong cop on the trailer of a serial killer who targets female police officers in Fruit Chan’s woeful martial arts thriller. Download the podcast Read More
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Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong Chau-sang was the toast of northern Italy this month, when he received the Golden Mulberry award for outstanding achievement at the 21st Far East Film… Read More
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Anthony Wong plays a curmudgeonly wheelchair-bound divorcee who forms an unlikely friendship with his new Filipino domestic helper, bringing a great deal of humour to the drama. Download the podcast Read More
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This weekend, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma will make Oscars history if it becomes the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Should it do so, the Oscar… Read More
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More Than Blue, the Taiwanese remake of the 2009 South Korean tear-jerker, is sending audiences reaching for the Kleenex once again. It stars Jasper Liu Yi-hao as a young man… Read More
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Max Zhang Jin reprises his role from Ip Man 3, taking centre stage to help defend his neighbourhood from Kevin Cheng’s evil gang of drug dealers. Along the way he… Read More
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Veteran character actor Philip Keung lands his first leading role as a middle-aged family man with a long-buried secret. Download the podcast Read More
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The first solo feature from director Jevons Au focuses on the numerous problems and challenges facing special needs children, their families and the education system that struggles to accommodate them. Read More
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Donnie Yen plays a former US Marine and troubled teen who returns to his Hong Kong secondary school to mentor struggling students. Broad emotional strokes and hugely entertaining fight sequences… Read More
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Fish Liew stars in Derek Chiu’s drama of social unrest in Hong Kong, as a student caught up in the 1967 Maoist protests, as well as the aftermath of the… Read More
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The ugly side of China’s economic boom is explored in Walking Past the Future, which premiered as the only Chinese entrant at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But despite the… Read More
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Nick Cheung writes, directs and stars in this ambitious futuristic thriller about an undercover cop tasked with smoking out an elusive criminal mastermind. (at 12:20) Read More
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