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The story takes place in a bustling metropolis filled with lights, wine, and traffic. To survive here, one must put in more effort and cost than others. The sexy and beautiful Yuqi (played by Mo Qiwen) lives here. Yuqi is a woman engaged in a "special profession", in other words, she is a professional "one night stand". Night after night, relying on her youth and beauty, Yuqi received generous rewards to satisfy various desires that she could never be filled with. Just as she was satisfied with her self-sufficiency, the unexpected small life in her belly disrupted all her life plans. Upon learning that Yuqi was pregnant, the men who had once surrounded him with great hospitality scattered like birds and beasts. The only one left behind was the kind man who lived next door to Yuqi. After careful calculation, Yuqi decided to make this man the father of the child.
The film traces the life and times of Esther Eng, a San Francisco native known as Hong Kong’s first “directress.” She directed 10 Cantonese talkies.
A robbery took him out of his fixed routine and into a different kind of life...
On a random night of summer 1998, two good friends from a boarding school travel through time to 15 years ahead by pure happenstance. Wandering in the same neighbourhood where they were still growing up, they discover changes in their friends and loved ones - some of which are inevitable. Places which they enjoyed moments ago became remnants of the past while other shops appear to be timeless. In this magical tale which is also a social commentary, the two children seek to understand the world and themselves in 2013 through their innocent minds, and perhaps learn the first lesson on the passage of time.
In June 2018, Hong Kong singer-songwriter Gin Lee held her solo concert First Of All at the Hong Kong Coliseum for the first time. She kicked off the concert with Guang Huan and Sui Feng Er Lai, Sui Feng Er Qu. Gin performed all her hit numbers, spanning from her debut track "Dive" to the recent hit "Faith." She also reinterpreted Shirley Yamaguchi's Qiu Yi Nong, which she sang on The Voice of China three years ago. Justin Lo appeared as the guest singer and the two sang Kong and Jacky Cheung's classic "Love is Eternal" together. Gin's friend AGA also made a guest appearance to sing their famous duet Yi Jia Yi.
Dr. Leung, Chairman of Top Grain Group, is committed to researching to reject animal genes into plants, hoping to enhance the resistance of plants and try to solve the famine problem in the world. James, a researcher, has inadvertently discovered that the prototype code (DX29) in Dr. Leung’s research has great side effects on plants, and one plant has changed its self-defense mechanism and mutated into a mutant organism that attacks humans. James wants to stop the catastrophe but suddenly disappears. At the same time in the city, people are constantly found attacked by beasts to terrible death. Leung, a police officer, and the forensic Jenny team up to investigate the case. They suspect that it is not a general murder but one by a mutant beast. As the investigation goes into deeper, they find themselves unconsciously caught in an irreversible biohazard...
When Jia Xin runs away from her wedding, her friends are forced to come to terms with their own personal issues.
A Chinese Chiropractor who wants to forget a miserable past, a grandma who depend on her granddaughter for survival, a new immigrant who had suffered domestic violence. Three desperate people survive rigorously and helped each other each in such a difficult time. Their destiny smashes their dream that has been woven under the hard life. An abandoned traffic accident turn their fates into a bond. Miserable memories light up the flames of vengeance of fire, triggering a chain of violence, …. He who kills pays the forfeit of his life. He who rapes pays the forfeit of his life.... All dead! ... Is it that violence must be met by violence., or ... ... even violence has its path! Can providence cover up the intention of killing?
A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.
Sunshine has been fighting on the side of justice since she was little. Cherry is a mute girl who eschews spoken words for messages scribbled on paper planes to communicate her thoughts. A war has been declared on an odiously fawning principal, an overbearing PTA chairman (and overprotective father of Cherry), a team of opportunistic teachers and a class of students innocent no more! Teaming up with a tech-savvy mentor (the school janitor), a range of DIY gadgets and the occasional indulgence of mischievous acts, Cherry conducts a series of covert operations and comes to Cherry’s rescue at a choral speaking competition.
Fighting disabilities and cancer with their chins up, mother and son meander through the city against a tide of indifferent faces and distant eyes and arrive in a park, where blissful tranquility and a ray of sunshine await them.
Hong Kong's international vortex unites Liam Chan; a successful lawyer in Hong Kong; and Yan Li; an heiress to a hotel empire in China. They couldn't be from more disparate backgrounds leading them to question everything they knew.
When a young couple moves into a home, they find a mysterious doll that changes their lives forever.
Fong Ka-Man, has been leading a middle class lifestyle. One day, during a heavy rain in the dusk, bearing the fear of illness, she is unwillingly staying away from the rain inside the tunnel. She first encounters a weird tramp, and then a young farmer who is rushing to deliver his harvest. It’s about how the “normal” passes by the “abnormal”. What makes them “normal” and “abnormal” seems to be realistic, but maybe it is just a void. Fong Ka-Man is anxious to find an exit from the difficult circumstance, but accidentally she finds out that what she yearns for is the disappeared end of this city.
As a child, Bobby Mak was known as Mcdull. Although Mcdull wasn‘t the sharpest tool in the shed, his mother was a different story. Her astounding intelligence and resourcefulness enabled her to, for example, simultaneously run more than six businesses from a space of less than 100 square feet. Mcdull and his mother lived together happily during Mcdull‘s childhood, but things began to change as Mcdull got older. A distance that never existed before began to grow between him and his mother…
Through a series of intricately composed long takes, Epilepsy exposes the robotic state of students today through the eyes of a young boy. For him, going to school simply means a continuous dose of discipline and punishment from all sides. His education simply means taking what he's given, and any dissent or deviation from the norm is discouraged with force. Even when a girl begins to inspire change in him, will he be able to face a strange, new world that is so different from the one he knows?
When you are concerned with the needed, you have to understand what they really suffer. Lok-yan is a Form Five student. She is under great pressure of studying. She always stays at home alone and has meals in convenience store. Lam Hong is homeless. One day, they come across each other in the convenience store. Lok-yan is too young for purchasing alcoholic beverage. With the assistance of Lam Hong, Lok-yan could finally enjoy her first taste of beer. They become friends. However, Lok-yan finds out that she could hardly understand the difficulties which Lam Hong is facing.
Teenager Kiki runs away from home, angry at her mother Jane's profession as a back-street abortionist. For her daughter's sake, Jane retires and finds religion, repenting her sins. Months later, Kiki faints on the street and wakes up in hospital with Jane by her side. The last hope for Kiki is that Jane can return to her former profession...
The lives of two Hong Kong room-mates with an ice cream truck change when an attractive cousin from Taiwan moves in. Cho is a slacker who spends his day selling ice cream with his best friend/roommate Beer. Even though his ice cream truck business is failing, he still has a roof over his head because his apartment belongs to his uncle. When his cousin Tina decides to return to Hong Kong, Cho and Beer are forced to share their home with her, creating an antagonistic relationship between the three. However, Cho and Tina begin to bond over time, though they won't admit to having feelings for each other. When Tina's charismatic boss Machi enters the picture, Cho realizes that he may already be too late.
Shot below the radar, this film follows the journey of Chinese factory migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage.
Heroic Detective is a re-edited TV-Movie from the Series Pandaman starring Eric Tsang and Shawn Yu.
The story is about the struggles of four young people: Before her boyfriend proposes, Tang chooses to study aircraft maintenance; Michael wants to save money for further study on music but is persuaded by a coworker to join a network marketing scheme; Chin Hung lost his way in youth by focusing only on soccer; and Chun Fei feels hopeless and lost about his future after failing a public exam. These four young people face setbacks in life. Will they seize the moment just before making a wish as a shooting star passes by, persist in their beliefs and spread their wings, or will they choose to give up?
Ka-long, a wanderlust graduated from the University of Hong Kong, always dreams of backpacking to many countries with his guitar. While he believes he is trapped in Hong Kong, his family thinks that he is simply wasting his life and not settling down for a better future. He is getting more uplifted after he meets Wen-wen, a girl speaks with a Taiwanese accent. While they are dating, Wen-wen makes an effort to hide her true identity from Ka-long. Can they finally resolve the undercurrent of their relationship? Let’s Get Lost ultilises the thematic motif of road movie genre – both protagonists have to embark on a journey of revealing their true identity. As a result, the film widens its scope to the geo-political differences between Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.
In Patrick Kong’s latest movie ”Never Too Late”, the main characters (Alex Fong and Cecilia So) got lost in their relationship because of their timidity and inferiority.
Welcome to the No Sleep Club where you are never alone in fighting insomnia. The three members of the Club, including the hot-headed and now unemployed chef who often goes on profanity-laced tirades, Tina, a runaway forbidden by her parents to pursue dancing, and William, the poet who feels underappreciated. They share a common objective: to be cured of insomnia and leave the Club. Chi, the latest chairman of the Club, is in charge after losing both his girlfriend and his sleep, bringing a breath of fresh air and a new goal to the Club.
They are frozen in place, stagnating without any direction. Around them, things change rapidly.
Andy Lau brought the second leg of his Unforgettable Live Tour to Mainland China in 2011, covering eleven cities between April and May. The superstar conquered his legions of fans all over the country in a series of spectacular concerts celebrating his 30 years in the show business. Enjoy up to 30 unforgettable classics Andy performed on the China Tour.
Artificial light may have been one of mankind's greatest inventions, but it has also driven us apart from our families because it enables us to work longer and later hours. This drama tells three interconnected stories of people affected by light in different ways – A man forced to step away from work to take care of his injured mother in an apartment constantly lit by florescent billboards, the owner of a lighting shop whose products have suddenly stopped working, and a child who roams the streets stealing light bulbs.
A betrayed woman seeks revenge on the girl who left her in the hands of a chinese gangster in the city of Hong Kong.
Four and a half years after his last trip to the Hong Kong Coliseum, Hins Cheung had his third go-around at the storied venue in October 2014. Now firmly established as one of Hong Kong's best young singer-songwriters, Hins used the concerts to relay to audiences his passion for music and performing. Relive his powerful performance in the Hins Live in Passion 2014 video recording, which features appearances by Joey Yung, Ivana Wong, Shirley Kwan and Helen Tam
Having stuck around for ten years, Alan Tam and Hacken Lee plan to do more as a duo than just singing. Bringing audiences laughter, memories and secrets, their 10th anniversary tour opened in Hong Kong to great reception and drew its curtains in Beijing. Performing a stand-up section penned by famous comedian Dayo Wong, the pair donned a black gold and silver look to make fun of the showbiz as well as the city's hot current affairs in their Alan & Hacken Live 2013 concert.
Every time he looks in the mirror, he sees a different person altogether. He’s a man of a million faces except he’s not an actor, but a social pariah who, out of the anguish of an unrequited crush, has entered a pact with the Devil, assuming the identities of other strangers and living the lives of others with just a strange remnant of memory of past incarnations left. Sounds ideal – but what’s the catch? You don’t get to decide what happens, when it happens in life and your soul is condemned to eternal perdition until the next victim is found. Perhaps it’s a small price to pay for surviving in a city driven by greed, where people are seized by an insatiable craving for something – anything – more and better from the cradle to the grave. Contentment is, after all, a myth.
Van De leads a life of pleasure-seeking pumped up by all the usual suspects: buddies living on video-games and junk food, hormone-charged and alcohol-fuelled night outs, and casual encounters with no strings attached. A young woman gets into a taxi with him outside a club but this ain’t no time nor place for peace, love, unity and respect.
The emotional journey of a 12-year-old boy who is forced to choose between the acceptance of his new friends, and a treasured gift given to him by his father.
The film charts the origins of the Umbrella Movement through the eyes of the activists and ordinary people who made it happen. From the June 4th Candlelit Vigil until September 28th, this documentary puts us at the heart of the action, allowing us to experiencing the highs and lows of that remarkable summer, when Hong Kong witnessed a "blossoming of democracy."
Retired hitwoman Wan is blackmailed into killing again or her cop son Joe will die. As witnesses and assassins are picked off in pairs, Joe investigates his mother’s past and a hidden mastermind.
In a world where only the abuser and the abused exist, suffering and torture are the only outcomes amid the silent cries. 10 year-old Minnie, kidnapped six years ago, is not the only victim. The kidnapper Ha abducts little girls for their youth and immaculate skin in order to create his “masterpiece”. After six years, spared her life, Minnie is all obedience to Ha, even wishing to be part of the sadistic killer’s tour de force. Unfortunately, she is not the perfect collection for him. To Minnie, Ha has become her lifeline, shelter and everything. When the line between the perpetrator and victim blurs, who takes ownership and control over the destiny of the other?
Sarah, raised in New York, visits Malaysia for the first time and learns why her grandfather, Gen, and mother, Sophia, have not seen each other since she was born, and why they care so much about their cultural traditions.
There are Tomoki, Shun, Kazuya, and Aita in Oiso, the seaside town. One day, Tomoki finds their teacher, Ito, who is their teacher and Kajya’s uncle, dead.
Hong Kong movie
The latest edition of the Beautiful series, commissioned for the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which asks established and acclaimed directors from across Asia to contemplate the idea of what beauty really is in their own distinctive ways. Following on from Beautiful 2012, this selection sees Jia Zhangke (A Touch Of Sin, Mountains May Depart), Stanley Kwan (Rouge, Centre Stage), Alec Su (The Left Ear) and Hideo Nakata (Ringu, Ghost Theater) step up to the plate.
Tsai Chin returned to grace the Hong Kong Coliseum's stage in 2010. The set list this time features a large selection of classic Mandarin oldies from the 1960s, including the concert theme song "A Wonderful Night on the Sea". The veteran Taiwan singer with a voice like velvet also treated her audience to her fan-favorite numbers, including "Your Eyes", "The Forgotten Time", "One Last Night", and "Just Like Your Tenderness" for a total of over 30 songs.
A recently graduated and intelligent young woman sees plastic surgery as essential to succeeding in both her career and romantic aspirations.
Ghost Bride tells the story of Jason Chen - a young chinese immigrant in New Zealand who keeps his love for Kiwi girl Skye secret from his disapproving mother Alice. Things quickly unravel as his mother introduces him to Madam Yin, a matchmaker who has a very special bride in mind for Jason - the mysterious and silent May Ling.
In Lei Gu Town in Sichuan, Xu who lost his wife during the 2008 earthquake is ready to get married again. His hesitation arises when he sees that his teenage daughter Shan is not yet ready to move on. Shan goes for a walk to landslide dam for a moment of solitude. The dam was formed when landslide debris fell and destroyed a whole village. It is an aftermath of the quake, yet it is at the same time a beautiful scenery. Perhaps not all things brought by a disaster are negative, Shan wonders.
A story of father and son, and a stray dog. Baseball kid Lam doesn’t get along with his father after his mom’s passing. He meets a stray dog named Tomato one day when he is practicing on the street. He takes the dog home and it soon becomes the connection between him and his estranged father. A traffic accident, however, takes Lam’s life. His father immerses himself into mourning for the loss of all beloved ones. With the help of the staff in heaven, Lam finally realizes how much his father loves him, and is given a final chance to show his love.
In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldier's Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong.
The small plane Tinny dreams of becoming a hero, but in a friendly team of inveterate planes he does not get recognition. One day, despite the captain Ben's ban, he sets off to save people from fire, but his life gets in danger, and the captain saves him at the cost of his own life. Out of misery, guilt and fear to take off Tinny leaves the team and starts working at mine. But suddenly the raging fire makes him recollect past times and he rushes to the aid of his friends without fear.
Difference in generational values is perhaps as old as time itself, and can neither be explained nor resolved. An ambitious teenager is eager to explore the world by reaching the other side of the river. He meets an indifferent and unenthusiastic ferryman. The tiny ferry is not large enough to hold dissenting opinions. The ferryman considers the teenager naive while the teenager thinks the other spineless with no stance. Reflecting on the present, their conflicts and separate beliefs make a consensus almost impossible. Two people set for sail, yet only one reaches the shore. On the other side of the river, the youngster, instead of hope, witnesses the end of an era.
The Kindhearted and Bitter
Johnnie got his gun is a mix of interview snippets with To, these are taken from various sources and are cobbled together with clips from including Breaking news, P.T.U and The Mission amongst others. It seems Montmayeur did do an interview but it's so chopped up and mixed in it feels insignificant. Prominent members of casts and crew also feature in interview form but again from many different times and sources.