Nicholas Tse, the son of actor Patrick Tse Yin and actress Deborah Lee, has not just had a successful singing and acting career, he also founded a restaurant chain and a post-production company.
It may seem strange to put the name of one of Hong Kong’s greatest filmmakers in the same sentence as writer’s block, but there is a case to be made that Michael Hui Koon-man has been suffering from exactly that for the past 30 years. Hui’s career came full circle on July 17 when he received the Hong Kong Film.
Movie stars and other celebrities brought glitz and glamour on Sunday to the first Hong Kong Film Awards held before a live audience since the coronavirus pandemic began more than two years ago. Late director Benny Chan Muk Sing received the two biggest honours of the night, winning the awards for both best director and best film for his final.
Soi Cheang Pou Soi’s nihilistic crime thriller Limbo has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2021 by a panel of critics, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society announced on Jan 17. Marking something of a triumphant return to home soil by Cheang, whose lucrative if critically divisive spell in mainland China saw him direct a trio of special-effects-laden.