Ann Hui’s The Secret (1979), based on a real-life double murder case, helped usher in the Hong Kong New Wave cinema movement, while it was also one of the few women-led films at the time.
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.