Hong Kong
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One of the most celebrated cinematic love stories of all time, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love returns to Hong Kong cinemas this week in recognition of the film’s… Read More
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The prosecution never rests in Donnie Yen’s new action-infused legal drama The Prosecutor, in which the veteran martial artist plays a righteous cop who quits the force to join the… Read More
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Hong Kong moviegoers continued to prove their willingness to turn out for local productions in 2024, pushing Anselm Chan’s funeral drama The Last Dance to become the most successful local… Read More
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In a year when Hong Kong cinema made history in its own backyard, and prominent filmmakers were chased out of their home countries for daring to speak truth to power,… Read More
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According to Chinese symbology, those born in the Year of the Snake are often regarded as intelligent, if somewhat unscrupulous, characters. In film, however, the snake has been portrayed as… Read More
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Andy Lau and Karen mock lock horns over the fate of the city in Hong Kong’s first radiation disaster movie. Read More
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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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