From Jackie Chan's action comedies to Stephen Chow's mo lei tau classics, from Wong Kar-wai's swooning romances to Donnie Yen's martial arts epics, and from the time where hundreds of movies were being churned out every year to the current market completely dominated by Louis Koo, this is the place to go for features, interviews and reviews about movies both classic and new from Hong Kong.
On the cusp of the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, we look back at some of the films that particularly echoed public sentiment at the time of their release and left a lasting legacy on both Hong Kong cinema and the collective consciousness of the city. It is a quirk in the exceedingly commercial nature of.
Is there a hint of truth to the frequently whispered, though seemingly hyperbolic claim that Hong Kong cinema is dead? After all, how do you explain the minimal fanfare when, in April 2021, actor turned director Derek Tsang Kwok Cheung made history as the first Hong Kong-born filmmaker to be in the running for a best international feature film Oscar,.
When a popular character dies in a soap opera, it often causes a stir with its audience, but in the case of the Chinese streaming series Marvelous Women, it was the demise of a cat that upset viewers, in part because they were not convinced the feline survived the ordeal. The offending scene aired in late November and showed a.