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Electric Signs

The film's narrator, an observer modeled on the critic Walter Benjamin, takes us on a journey through a variety of urban landscapes, examining public spaces and making connections between light, perception and the culture of attractions in today's consumer society. Structured as a documentary essay in the spirit of city symphony films, ELECTRIC SIGNS features footage in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York, and other cities around the world. Also featured are interviews with prominent lighting designers; advertising and marketing professionals; urban sociologists and visual culture experts; and community activists.

Electric Signs

NR 2020
Five Blessings in a Row

Law Hing is forced by her stepmother to marry the dumb son of the Tang family. Another girl Au To is forced to marry Ma Siu-fuk, son of the rich Ma family, to pay off her father's debts. On the wedding day, To's lover See Fuk-chau returns from Vietnam. Deeply in love with Fuk-chau, To decides to go to the Ma family to decline the arranged marriage. To avoid the Ma elders and her father from losing face, she begs Siu-fuk to stage a pretended marriage. As the wedding ceremonies proceed, To's bridal sedan collides with Hing's in the street. The carriers lock in a row and a confusion reigns in which the brides take the wrong sedans. To is mistakenly taken to the Tang family, while Hing is sent to the Ma family. Although Siu-fuk is attracted to Hing, he agrees to send her home. The four families attempt to settle the case in court. The judge rules that the previous arrangements are but trades and declares them null and void. Fuk-chau and To can now fulfill their wish.

Five Blessings in a Row

NR 1950
Children's Game #23: Step On A Crack

A sprite in a blue pinafore, plimsolls, and white facemask flits through Hong Kong, enclosed in a quicksilver bubble of magic. Streets become the dull, slow backdrop to her vividness. Oblivious to storefronts and curious stares, seeing only the yellow lines and the cracks in the pavement, she snakes and two-steps around seams and lines without loss of élan, chanting spells that shade into vague sounds. “Step on a line, break the devil’s spine, Step on a crack, break the devil’s back, Step in a ditch, your mother’s nose will itch, But if you step in between, everything will be keen!” By igniting her route with meaning, she briefly wrests public space from the commercial values this city lives by.

Children's Game #23: Step On A Crack

NR 2020
The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian

Student rebels, labor organizers, Trotskyites, anarchists, sojourners in Paris, and human rights activists are the cast of real-life characters featured in THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WU ZHONG XIAN. Based on a stage play, this DV feature traces the poignant trajectory of a rebel whose dream of world revolution first landed him in battles against British colonialism in the 70s, and later on his deathbed in the mid-90s, in agonies over the uncertain fate of a revitalized China. Revealing a little-known chapter of rebellion and idealism, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WU ZHONG XIAN is a timely, resonant docu-drama for today's Hong Kong, China, and our ideologically-disillusioned era.

The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian

NR 2003
Talks Overnight

They do everything together: they read poetries, have breakfast, see friends, argue with each other, comfort each other, share their childhood and past memories. With imagination, they introspect in solitude and rest in intimacy. At the beginning of twenty years of the 21st century, the world seemed to be in a state of chaos and disorder, with individuals slipping into depression and confusion. The middle-aged intellectual couple engage in one 'long talk' and try their best to express with words, although they might step into a greater unknown. However, expression and communication, imagination and poetry, are already the basis for something.

Talks Overnight

NR 2023
Far From Home

In autumn 2019, at the peak of the anti-extradition law amendment bill movement, Yung and Yin meet on the streets. After the arrest of Yung, Yin finds herself in the awkward situation of visiting Yung’s home for the first time. Meeting the parents, Yin has to skip the usual polite chatter and put away Yung’s items before the court warrant arrives. In this austere and awkward first meeting, they talk about the absent son. The long night drags on as the shocked and worried parents are overwhelmed by the opposing political views, by relationships torn and healed, by their hopes and regrets. When dawn comes, what will become of Yung?

Far From Home

NR 2021
Between Man and Ghost

Mo Yinhua fell in love with Lu Tianhe, but Hua was forced to marry Sun Ruochong as his concubine, and was later slandered by Chong's wife Chen Shi for having an affair with He. After Hua gave birth to Shaozong, she was pushed down the cliff, but fortunately survived, and turned into a Sheqing ghost to take revenge. Many years later, He finally reunited with Hua, and Shi Zong shot Hua in order to capture the green ghost, thus exposing the past, and the truth came out.

Between Man and Ghost

NR 1965
The Tales of Nights

Part 1 In-suk, a former professional ballerina is a professor at the department of dance and having a normal marriage life. However, she feels bored of the present peaceful life, she happened to encounter Jun-ho at the parking lot. She came back to her normal life despite being attracted by Jun-ho’s young and tough charms. He turned out to be a boyfriend of In-suk’s student. In-suk became more attracted to Jun-ho without consciousness and at last she began to shadow him… Part 2 Jin-woo is a pro-gamer and a playboy. He knows nothing but playing and flirting with other chicks. One day, as he was staggering in an alley while drunk as usual, he found an old joystick and brought it home tying to operate it. As time went by, Hitomi, the heroine of a game, whom he felt in love with appeared to him in person and they started spending every day, making love vehemently. But he began to feel something weird…

The Tales of Nights

7.0 2010
Bright Spring Days

Kuen is a lounge singer on Temple Street. Her son Kakei, now a university student, returns to Hong Kong for just a few days after emigrating to Canada with his father. Kuen's colleague Kit has to work overnight and enlists Kuen’s help to take care of her young son. During the sleepless night, Kuen and Ka-kei relive their past and envisage their future through another pair of mother and son. Under the bright sun, the cycle of life and family relationships continue, made all the more touching by the nuanced moments of care and concern between each other. SHAM Ka-ki of Weeds On Fire plays the son and renders a tender and layered performance full of subtlety.

Bright Spring Days

6.0 2018
Storm Cloud

Storm Cloud is a popular Wuxia (martial arts) comics created by famous comic artist-writer- publisher Ma Wing Shing in 1989. The story revolves around 2 protagonists – Nip Fung and Bo King Wan, who learn martial arts at a young age and grow up to become legendary fighters. From 1989 to 2014, a total of 675 chapters have been published. The story has been adapted into films, The Storm Riders (1998) and The Storm Warriors (2009), and has been converted into different media throughout the 1990s and 2000s, such as online video game, TV series, radio drama and novels. Now, a new chapter of the Storm Cloud in 3D will once again be brought to the silver screen by the most talented production team of the film industry.

Storm Cloud

NR N/A
War City 2 - Red Heat Conspiracy

"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.

War City 2 - Red Heat Conspiracy

NR 1988
李克勤 - 弦續 李克勤港樂演唱會 Hacken Lee X HK Phil Concert 2023

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.

李克勤 - 弦續 李克勤港樂演唱會 Hacken Lee X HK Phil Concert 2023

NR 2023
It So Happens to a Woman

Hung Sin Nui plays a mother of three who is burning with desires to serve society. Working as a journalist, she stays out for long hours, resulting in negligence of her children and her husband’s suspicions of infidelity. The twist, at once ironic and realistic, is that her unsupportive husband had actually written in his youth a book on gender equality. On the verge of divorce, the couple reconciles after the husband’s mother, sympathetic to the difficulties faced by women, rises to the occasion with timely and prudent advice. Hung’s character, a woman stuck between cultures of old and new, was tailor-made for the star by screenwriter Chu Hak. Director Li Pingqian portrays her struggles with realist and humanistic touches, extending gentle critiques of social prejudices without fanning the ire of resentment.

It So Happens to a Woman

NR 1955
Opera Omnibus

Eight segments of opera films: Sheng Xinma performs a monologue from A King's Revenge (1955), followed by an excerpt of The Patriot's Sword (1958). Cibo Liang is featured in An Immortal Refuses Love (1958), and Yutang Bai appears in The Wonder Boy (1961). Segment five shows Xingbo Liang, Jiasheng Lin, and Cibo Liang in The Impartial Bao Gong (1967), while segment six is a performance by Northern opera actress Suqiu Yu. The last two are versions of Red Maid, The Matchmaker, first a 1958 film with Yanfen Fang and An Banri, followed by one titled The Little Go-Between, featuring Baobao Feng and Cibo Liang. It was originally double billed with South China Stars Special.

Opera Omnibus

8.0 1987