Hong Kong horror short film
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Hong Kong horror short film
Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Fung Chi-Kong.
A Cantonese factory woman obsessed with a famous Wuxia actor, has her fantasy crushed after discovering he is not the charming and humble person his movies portray him as. - Matthew E Carter
Even if we depart now, we will memorize the seven nights in the late summer of 2022 with this afterheat, to piece together the SUMMER BLUES in our mind with each jigsaw puzzle, to remember the warmth that we once had together.
The Thunderstorm is a 1957 Hong Kong drama film directed by Ng Wui and starring Bruce Lee based on the play Thunderstorm by Chinese dramatist Cao Yu.
Reverberation is an experimental film that centres on Yau Ma Tei—a district in Hong Kong that was home to various independent art and cultural spaces in the 2010s and was also where the filmmaker began her practice. By overlapping new and archival images, the film delves into layers of memories to capture complex emotions about this district as well as the city as a whole.
A Hong Kong Cantonese film released in September 1952
Sparked by the demolition and reconstruction of its century-old campus, Ying Wa Girls' School embarks on a project to chronicle the transformation of its students through the camera of director Mabel Cheung, its distinguished alumna. Following a group of young students since 2011, the documentary captures the trials and tribulations that go with the most turbulent decade in Hong Kong's history.
A woman’s husband and daughter are poisoned and killed. Determined to avenge her family's death, she travels to a mass grave to learn the art of lying at the bottom of a coffin for 79 days to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon. As a result, she practiced to become a female regal ghost and killed all her enemies. Knowing that she has broken the law, the woman turns herself in at the police station.
During the Sino-Japanese War of Resistance, the young daughter of Ma Renshan, the president of North China Hospital, was killed by the Japanese army. His second daughter Ma Xiuyun and his younger brother Ma Shaohua joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas.
O.K. is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Stanley Fung.
A Chinese Opera film by the Shaw and Sons studio.
In late 1989, angered by comments made by Liv Ullmann about Hong Kong's treatment of Vietnamese refugees, Rubie composes a letter to the actress. Passages from the letter are revealed throughout the movie as Rubie, her friends, and family come to terms with the impending handover to China, and decide whether to remain in Hong Kong or emigrate abroad
Traumatised by the doomed rights movement in Garan, former activist Decem seeks refuge and solitude in the forest, fleeing his homeland and all those he held dear. Relief is however short-lived. As time passes, nostalgia and loneliness creep upon the exiled youth. Decem remains trapped in recurrent nightmares of the past and continues to plunge into despair, living with a constant sense of peril. The challenges of living in the forest along with the wildfire in the mountains eventually make him reconsider the path ahead. Mirroring the disturbed youth’s inner turmoil with the sinister wild nature, the psychological drama relates the tormented state of the exiled body and soul.
Four rabbits have been brought into a farm to live with four turtles and many other animals. Yet, the farmer seems to always favour the turtles, and it upsets the rabbits. The rabbits who have always wanted to avenge their ancestors, keep challenging the turtles to a race. Very much annoyed by the rabbits, the turtles ultimately accept the challenge. The animals pull out all the stops in order to win and to stay in the farm. However, through the rally, they will finally understand how valuable their friends are. Friendship is much more important than winning!
Two Parallel Scenes of Manhood
In May 2023, Hacken Lee collaborated again with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert series at the Hong Kong Coliseum. The Cantopop veteran serenaded audiences with impeccable performances of his classic hits like "Red Sun," "Moonlight Serenade," "I Don't Know How to Sing," "Summer Myth" and "Deep Deep Deep." Sing! China Season 6 and Season 7 winners Karrie Ng and Sumi Liang, who were both mentored by Hacken in the program, appeared as guest artists for the concert.
After a video of two students cavorting on the street went viral in 2015, society laughed and the news cycle moved on. In a city of 7 million people, we follow two young lovers on their quest to find a space of their own.
On June 5 and 6, Justin Lo took over Hong Kong Coliseum for the sixth time in his career to kick off the WeTouch Live 2015 world tour. Staged in part to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the singer-songwriter's debut, the show featured Justin's hits through the years, including "Men's KTV," "Love Song," "Undefeated," B.O.K and Three Two One.
Hong Kong horror movie from 1947.
A conservative middle-aged woman, Jane, who is a teacher, a wife, a mother, stumbles on a chance of committing infidelity, due to the difficult circumstances in her family life.
Lucky Chan is an anxious real estate agent who is never lucky. Caught between nightmares and daydreams, he found his boner dry up on him.
Hong Kong movie
In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and political corruption in this thrilling documentary about land defenders battling to save and preserve paradise in the Philippines.
Hong Kong movie
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Paul Chang Chung,
The film is based on a real incident that happened in Hong Kong. Like any other regular people, Dak made 3 months of effort trying to have his “Know TV” account terminated: calling Service Hotline, faxing and mailing forms everyday, invoices nonetheless are still sent to Dak. Sometimes it takes a silly act to start a revolution.
Hong Kong movie
Seventeen-year-old girl Zhang Biyu is born to a well-off family but feels depressed. Biyu’s father is always busy off supporting the family’s economy. Biyu’s mother is addicted to playing mahjong. Both of Biyu’s parents don’t make time for her, Biyu’s brother is also too young, so Biyu has no one to talk to. At school, most of Biyu’s classmates have already have lovers, which makes Biyu feel lonely. Frustrated, Biyu starts having a crush on her teacher.
Two couple doubt their partners are having affairs with another, so they try their best to find out the truth.
Hong Kong movie
The two protagonists – an architect and a prisoner living in parallel realities in the present time and an ambiguous distanced past, respectively – conjure up imaginations and experiences of imprisonment. In their dialogue across space and time they debate the relations between humans, the world, and freedom. They talk of visible and invisible imprisonment, existentialism as a means of self-redemption, and at the same time question the relationship of humans to the space around them. An attempt at reconciliation with the world and human nature.
Poet and author Xi Xi is one of Hong Kong's most treasured writers. Though also acclaimed in Taiwan and mainland China for seminal works like the essay Shops, her writings are firmly rooted in the spirit of Hong Kong. Leave it to Fruit Chan, another staunchly grassroots auteur, to make a documentary on Xi Xi's career. Chan sought out renowned critics and writers to discuss Xi Xi's works, starting with 1979's My City. He also juxtaposes photos of a changing Hong Kong with readings of her writings, and even playfully inserts characters from her stories into the film.
Sze-man is facing a dilemma when she participates in an inter-school debate. On the negative side, she is working on the motto “Hong Kong Government should allow Mainlanders to settle down in Hong Kong”. During the course of preparation, however, she is constantly challenging her own position. Her “secret” as a cross-boundary student living in Shenzhen is carefully kept away from her classmates for fear that she will be discriminated against. With more and more drifters crossing the Hong Kong - China border, we are actually facing a changing time with a fast-developing and unique relationship with the Mainlanders, as well as ourselves.
Ssecond film in two filmmakers’ view on Hong Kong shortly before the UK sold its former colony to China. First part was directed by Ingo Petzke.
Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Cho Kei.
This is a Shaw Brothers production
Grandpa Chan, 73 and Grandpa Wong, 82, run into the mist of teargas and try to protect the young protesters from any harm. With all the dangers and hardships they have been through, to them retreat is never an option.
In the last summer before embarking on her journey to study abroad, eighteen-year-old Chen Xi returns to her hometown to bid farewell to the familiar fishing village that holds so many memories. Standing before the vast ocean, Chen Xi finds herself caught in a whirlwind of emotions. The sea, a symbol of freedom, also feels like an invisible cage. Everything she once cherished now seems as insignificant as grains of sand in the face of her growing maturity.
Traveling street peddlers are pressured to pay protection money to the mob and refuse. Meanwhile, a rich college student learns that his father has ties with gangsters. The young man joins the poor gypsies against the criminals.
Taken (Hong Kong Version)
One of today's most celebrated Canto-pop vocalists, Hacken Lee presents another standout performance. Supported by an elite ensemble of musicians including Harpist K, New York's bandoneón expert David Hodges and Korea's talented bass drummer Su Kyeong Jin, Lee performed songs like "Princess and Prince" (CD - Track 2), "Times Square" (CD - Track 8), and "Kowloon Queen" (CD - Track 9). Now his passionate performance comes alive again as audio-visual combo complete with an exclusive DVD featuring a making of documentation as well as 4 special MVs that were shot on Jeju island.
On his way to Lin'an, Lee Tsi-wan survives an attempt on his life by an employee but loses his memory. Maid Siu Yuet-mui of the Sek family comes to the help of the distressed. Lady Sek marries Siu to Lee to vanquish her husband's licentious interest in the maid. The loving couple raises a daughter Siu-fa. A few years later, Wan is hit on the head away at work and regains his memory. The homesick traveller returns to his native home, leaving behind Siu and daughter. The mother and daughter look for the missing man but he hasn't the faintest idea who they are. Apprehended by the incident, Siu plunges into depression. One day, Lee passes by the stone house where the couple used to live in and recalls past episodes of his marriage. The family is happily reunited.
"His name: Jack Kelly. His job: police officer. His opponents: Hong Kong's underworld king Farris Beckmann and his extremely brutal organization. His goal: to eradicate crime once and for all! Detective Kelly should have been killed several times, but all attempts to kill him are unsuccessful. Even Beckmann's hit men can't stop him as Kelly always has a trick up his sleeve. Undeterred, he fights his way through the juggernaut of crime with his partner Danny. Beckmann has built his organization into an empire through ice-cold murder, kidnapping and blackmail. To prevent information from leaking out, he has the pretty Mary under surveillance and her sister kidnapped. But then absolute chaos breaks out..." - DVD Back of the box description. Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1986 Korean film "사랑의 미로 " (Maze of Love) with new scenes.
Drama from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui
After the anti-immigration riots occurred in the UK in early August 2024, far-right called to attack 100 places, such as immigration centres, across the country on 7th Aug. The leftist urged to stand up against racism to show solidarity with communities. I joined one of the counter-protests. I jot down what I saw with my camera and reflected from the perspective of a former activist.
Based on the Chinese, Qing Dynasty legend of the Jiangshi, which first appeared in print in 1789 by writer Ji Xiaolan, this film tells the tale of a dead man who returns from the grave to avenge his brother's betrayal.
Taiwanese movie
Hong Kong movie
Hong Kong romance.
In order to avoid young women being selected to enter the imperial palace, the parents hastily arrange marriages for their unmarried daughters with men they deemed suitable.