Is Simon Yam Hong Kong’s most fearless actor? Triads, gigolos, killers, he played them all
He has said in interviews that it is important to be on time, be prepared, and to get on and do the work. He loves acting and wants to make …
Hong Kong cinema
Changing culture in Hong Kong around 1997 handover captured in Fruit Chan’s films The Longest Summer and Little Cheung
Instead, Chan depicted how the return to China was changing Hong Kong’s culture and identity. He showed this by filming the small daily occurrences he saw around him. “None of …
Photographs that pay homage to Hong Kong cinema heyday paired with post-punk band at M+ museum event
Girard, who will give opening remarks at the May 11 show, first visited Hong Kong in 1974 as a 19-year-old. He was instantly “hooked” on the “mesmerising city”, he told …
How Rush Hour made Jackie Chan a Hollywood superstar, and why it wasn’t enough to stop him returning to Hong Kong
Perhaps because of his early interactions with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan always wanted to make it big in the United States. One of the reasons that Chan signed with Golden …
How The Joy Luck Club director Wayne Wang grew as a filmmaker, and why Hong Kong frustrated him
His second film, Chan Is Missing (1982), an independent film that loosely focuses on the search for a missing friend, was the first Asian-American film to garner attention in the …
Love at First Lie movie review: Patrick Kong romance starring Edward Chen and Mandy Tam offers passable entertainment, until things get awkward
2/5 stars Patrick Kong Pak-leung made his first film under the name Yip Lim-sum in 2004. It says as much about the dearth of directors making romantic comedies in Hong …
How Tsui Hark made two of Hong Kong cinema’s most nihilistic films in 1980’s New Wave entries We Are Going to Eat You and Dangerous Encounter of the First Kind
So, as his second film for Seasonal, he allowed Tsui to make something equally unusual: the bizarre horror comedy We Are Going to Eat You. ‘Stunts keep Chan ahead’: every …
Every Hong Kong film released in 2023, ranked from worst to best in the year that new directors continue to make history
Ng is far from being the only first-time director to have made his mark in this new golden age for debutant filmmakers. Among the top 10 films included in this …
What happened in Hong Kong cinema during the 1970s beyond Bruce Lee and the New Wave movement: Michael Hui, Jackie Chan, the rise of kung fu and sex movies, and more
Lee did not make an appearance until Way of The Dragon (1972) showed up in seventh place, behind foreign blockbusters like Jaws and The Towering Inferno, and Chor Yuen’s popular …
How Hong Kong’s First Feature Film Initiative subsidies helped a new generation of directors – and how every movie from scheme’s first 10 years fared
2. Mad World (2017) Produced by: Derek Chiu, Heiward Mak Box office: HK$16.9 million The FFFI got its first taste of commercial success with Wong Chun’s film, about a recovering …