The same five titles dominate the nominations in all major categories of the Hong Kong Film Awards 2024. Post film editor Edmund Lee predicts the winners and reflects on who or what actually should win.
In Rob N Roll, Lam Ka-tung and Richie Jen play two middle-aged losers who get caught up in the fall-out from an armed robbery led by Aaron Kwok’s former pro wrestler. It’s well acted, but convoluted.
Our 12 best Asian films from 2023 include a cyberpunk detective story, Godzilla’s 37th feature film, a Korean disaster movie, a Tony Leung -led spy thriller and basketball anime Slam Dunk.
Based on a true story, In Broad Daylight follows a journalist, played by Jennifer Yu, who works undercover at a Hong Kong care home for the disabled to expose abuse and mistreatment.
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.