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.
Despite a prolific screen career that spanned 66 years, Kenneth Tsang Kong, who has died aged 87, never played the leading man. Instead, the former matinee idol is best remembered for being the handsome bad guy in an array of Hong Kong cinema classics such as Teddy Girls, one of 25 films in which he appeared in a single year,.
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Broker and Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave were among the most talked about movies at Asia’s biggest film industry trade event last week.