Hong Kong-based Leung So Kee Umbrella Factory is one of the oldest handmade umbrella makers in China, weathering storms from political instability to Japanese competition – but Jet Li was too much.
Lunar New Year comedies are a big part of Hong Kong’s celebrations, and we have picked five of the best, including Fat Choi Spirit starring Andy Lau, Louis Koo, Gigi Leung and Lau Ching-wan.
Released during a year of slapstick costume comedies, martial arts films, violent horror and Category III (equivalent to NC-17 in the US and 18 in the UK) films, the refined melodrama C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri was a surprise hit in Hong Kong in the last months of 1993. Directed by industry veteran Derek Yee Tung-sing, the movie featured Lau.
The Beijing audience whooped at the end of the premiere of stage play Goodfellas in 15 Days in October when director Clifton Ko Chi-sum announced that Ma Boyong, the author of the novel from which the play was adapted, was in the audience. The thunderous response to Ma, who jumped on stage at the Tianqiao Theatre to greet the audience,.