Herman Yau directs Louis Koo, Julian Cheung and Francis Ng in murder mystery Death Notice, which sees a police task force hot on the heels of a serial killer who re-emerges after disappearing for a decade.
Ringo Lam’s 1997 crime thriller Full Alert, starring Lau Ching-wan and Francis Ng, was a comment on the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, as well as featuring a hyper-realistic car chase.
Actors from Hong Kong who were household names in the 1990s and 200s are hot property again, this time in China, where they compete in song-and-dance reality-TV shows.
Review | Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong movie review: Louis Koo, Francis Ng in yet another police corruption drama by Wong Jing
Fictional tale about the early days of Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency and its fight to reel in a drug dealer and his corrupt police ally is enjoyable
Tony Leung Ka-fai and Francis Ng are understated as the two criminals in a deftly crafted narrative that shows Wong knows how to satisfy China’s censors