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A man named Dhama created the Shaolin temple, where Chinese Kung-Fu originated. Here is the inside story of his struggles, the secret style he invented, and how he became the "Grand Master of Shaolin Kung-Fu".

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.

Three years since his last concert series at Hong Kong Coliseum, Julian "Chi Lam" Cheung takes over the storied venue once again in 2014 for Crazy Hours! Celebrate nearly a quarter-decade of Chi Lam's unforgettable tunes with this concert recording, which features chart-topping hits like "Wish You Well," "You're Too Kind" and "In Love with an Alien."

A girl called Christy is missing. The case haunts Detective Max, time and time again, leaving him with a sense of remorse. Following a trail, Max arrives at an abandoned school where he finds traces of a cult ritual and a murder scene. Suddenly he finds himself in a stylish bar where he sees his former colleague and Christy. Meanwhile the murderer is lurking behind... Will Max find hope and redemption from the dismal past? Shot in black and white, this mysterious thriller employs the stylistic elements of neo-noir and horror to recreate our urban terrors of missing people.

From April 24 to 26, 2014, Jenny performed at the Performing Arts Theatre for the first time and held a "non Jenny concert".

Entry to the Nikon Film Festival yearly contest to make a film on a given topic in less than 2min20. This year's topic was "the number 13". Synopsis: Alex suffers from triskaidekaphobia, an intense and irrational fear of the number 13. Will he be able to overcome his anxiety triggered by the simple sight of the number 13?

The movie is a horror movie with a deep moral. A number of ghosts appear in the movie, including a ghost that escaped from the Ghost Gate, an unjust ghost released from the City of Wasted Death, a sleazy ghost trapped in the Beauty Gate and a living hangman's neck.

A Chinese musical

Wong Kwong, a ninety-year-old man called Ice-Cream Uncle, keeps pulling a trolley with a load of dozens of kilometers and walks a long way to sell his ice creams everyday. He never minds working hard or thinks about retiring. All of his life shows the traditional spirit of Hong Kong, which has set an example for the young people. Although he has never been able afford to buy a Rolls-Royce in his entire life, this laborer has gained the respect of many teachers and students, as well as the neighborhood.

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Everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity, and the person below is just a stepping stone up the chain of power. When two boys are left home alone with Grandpa going about his usual business in antiques and collectibles, their improvised ball game results in the breaking of a precious vase. Sly big brother attempts to lay the blame on little brother, by hook and by crook, but Grandpa is as savvy a collector as he is a guardian. The little culprits duly accept their punishment, the blows cushioned by a padding of good humour.

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A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.

K.M.Lo , tech-nomad, filmmaker, trainer, starts an ONE-MAN-MISSION, he uses a Tuk Tuk (tricycle) as platform/symbol to run a mobile film school by day and open air cinema by night, to train young folks in developing world to get film education, a sense of achievement and organizing self-generated entertainment and cinema art as cultural events. He wishes to spread happiness to the community and it might eventually change the world.

A family of four and their dog arrive at a seaside hotel in Kui Buri, Thailand. What appears to be an ordinary vacation turns into a series of interactions that betray an unspoken tension in their relationships. The next day, complexities unfold in a cave housing Buddha statues.

Hong Kong horror drama movie from 1956.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of her debut, Sammi Cheng embarked on her first solo concert tour in five years. Over a whopping 12 shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum, Sammi enthralled fans with her greatest hits, including "Can't Let Go," "Lifelong Beauty" and "Only You Are Irreplaceable," and one of her incredible shows has been captured in Touch Mi World Tour Live!This edition includes behind-the-scenes footage.

The Winter Solstice has been for the Chinese an important family occasion; however, will this time-honoured tradition become obsolete? The children head back to their family home in the country to see their elderly mother. All seems well on the surface, but each faces their own crisis and difficulty: The eldest brother struggles to raise several kids; the well off second sister plans to leave Hong Kong; estranged from her husband, the younger sister keeps up appearances; and the youngest brother commits to the difficult career as a farmer. The cheerful, animated conversation at the dinner table is overshadowed by simmering anxieties.

Hong Kong figure skater Wing-yee travels to Toronto alone for advanced training, aspiring to compete on the international stage. Despite the warm welcome and encouragement she receives there, very soon Win-yee faces setbacks and realises she is falling behind her peers. It is the friendship and support of warm-hearted Christy that eventually helps Wing-yee through her initial confusion and self-doubt, and she gradually develops a fondness for this beautiful roommate. Filmed between wintry Canada and mild Hong Kong, the short offers a poetic tale of two cities, about young passion, loss, and loneliness.

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In this deeply moving tale, a wealthy young man, Tak (Pak Wan), falls in love with his aunt’s servant, Ling (Pak Yin). However, their relationship is cut short by the stark difference in their social statuses. Unbeknownst to Tak, Ling becomes pregnant and is cruelly cast out of her employer’s household, facing the stigma of unmarried motherhood. Tragedy soon follows as her child suffers from an acute illness, forcing Ling into prostitution to survive. Her plight worsens when she is falsely accused of murdering a client who has, in fact, committed suicide. When Tak, now a lawyer, learns of her suffering, he returns to seek justice for her.

A fascinating glimpse of the Chinese diaspora across southeast Asia, this Hong Kong production follows a wayward husband through Southern China and Thailand, and tracks the travails of the wife he leaves behind.

A vivid portrait of a generation of Hong Kongers committed to creating a new more democratic Hong Kong. Schoolboy Joshua Wong dedicates himself to stopping the introduction of National Education. Whilst former classmate Ma Jai fights against political oppression on the streets and in the courts. Catapulting the viewer on to the streets of Hong Kong and into the heart of the action. The viewer is confronted with Hong Kong's oppressive heat, stifling humidity and air thick with dissent. Filmed over 18 months this is a kaleidoscopic, visceral experience of their epic struggle.

Three stand-alone shorts offer insight into contemporary Hong Kong. In Departure, we meet a young couple who are soul searching en route to the airport. In 06:00 AM, an anxiety-ridden student enters a nightmare reality where she is forced to submit to compulsory government surveillance. In The Night Before, three twenty-somethings from different walks of life become fast friends as a result of their participation in the pro-democracy movement.

Cao Cao is the intelligent, powerful and ambitious prime minister of Han Dynasty who controls the child emperor. However, he is teased by a civilian called Zuo Ci...

Mok Ming moves into Po Tak-yan’s old mansion. Po's mistress, the songstress Tsi Law-heung, has died in it. Her spirit haunts the mansion as she is unburied. Mok sees her ghost and notes that she resembles his late wife Kit-ching. Mok dreams that his wife has possessed Tsi's body in return. Mok asks Uncle Tak to take him to the coffin. Tsi resurrects as Kit-ching. Mok accepts that his wife has returned from death, but he is suspicious. He brings her to a nightclub, where they chance upon Po and his mistress, Chan Mei-chu. Po is suspicious. Mok explained that his wife has returned through Tsi's body. Two reporters are there and the news is reported in the papers. To resolve his suspicions, Po goes to the old mansion. He meets Mok, his “wife,” and Uncle Tak. The wife denies that she is Tsi. Po retrieves a pistol and goes to confront the woman. Mok intervenes. In the struggle, Po falls down the railing to his death, but Tsi is shot. Now it is time for her to tell Mok of her past.

A murdered woman is reincarnated as a fish . . .

After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a youth shaped by imprisonment, scars and dreams. Lingering with fading images and fragile memories, they together build a space where unspeakable collective traumas can exist and be held.

Wong's no-budget indie (dreamt up in a night, shot in a week) tells four distinct stories which intersect in the manner of Mystery Train. They range from character-based comedy (a young couple nervously venture into a 'love hotel' for the first time) to Grand Guignol melodrama (a Filipina maid seeks revenge on her two-timing lover - the actress being the director's mother's real-life maid).

In the 1970s, the boat people of Un Chau Chai in Tai Po lived in wooden huts in extremely cramped and horrible conditions. "Ode To Un Chau Chai" tells the story of boatman Dai-Shing, a gambling addict whose wife works her fingers to the bone to support their large family and whose father helps out by selling dried seaweed.

Five young Hong Kongers, equipped with digital camcorders, help filmmaker Ruby Yang create a portrait of a city in transition.

Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.

To retrieve his stolen egg waffle, Cowboy unknowingly boards a tram that transports him from 1980s Hong Kong to 2025.

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.

Early 2000s Hong Kong horror flick

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?

A seemingly perfect middle-class Chinese family faces an unprecedented situation when Lei brings a man home on NYE to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her same-sex girlfriend's unexpected visit intertwined her with a real intimacy crisis.

Based on a short story found in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (1640–1715)

He is a strict self-disciplinarian, embracing the uniformity and routine of his Spartan lifestyle sustained on a diet of canned food, video games balanced off with the occasional push-ups. On the flip side of the coin, he is loser-defeatist resigned to failure and victimhood. Then a woman from his past comes back into his life and just when things start looking up, complications come pouring in the form of the intriguingly rude and brutish landlord. Will he succumb to cowardice and turn a blind eye to the casual flirtation and infidelity unfolding before him, or will he step out of his comfort zone and pluck up the courage to fight for his love?

On winter solstice day, a tram arrives at the terminus, depositing the last passenger in an old neighbourhood. Roaming eerily empty streets among surroundings at once familiar and strange, the old woman has her mind firmly set on one task, prompting her panic-stricken son to abandon his work and speed to her side. Somewhere, sometime else, a young woman is frantically searching for her little boy. In a city that prides itself on overnight transformations and clearing out the old to make way for the new, the mother takes her son on a reverie where the past and the present, memories and realisations are immutably and inexorably mixed.

A young Patrick Tse Yin, in one of his breakout roles, shines as a suave jewellery thief who targets wealthy women, stealing both their valuables and affections with effortless charm. After a high-stakes heist in Thailand, he flees to Hong Kong, pursued by a relentless police inspector (Sima Wah-lung). But everything changes when he falls in love with a terminally ill girl (Patsy Kar Ling), igniting a desire to turn his life around. As the story unfolds, an unlikely friendship also develops between the outlaw and the lawman. The film showcases Tse at his most magnetic, in a role seemingly tailor-made for his talent and charm.

A short film set in NY.

Lee Wai Shing’s short film focuses on family in response to Huang Canran’s poem ‘So Close’, narrating a son’s journey to visit his mother in North Point

Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Yeung Kung-Leung.

HKNY was inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities. Garcia draws on the concept of in-betweenness to construct a story of an individual (the filmmaker) reflecting on his position between Hong Kong, his birthplace, and New York, where he resides.

The Heroic Lovers from the Tomb was a martial arts movie produced by Hsin Hwa Motion Picture Company in Hong Kong and shot in Taiwan. It tells the story of a gang and two teams of warriors seeking revenge for the murder of their parents. In comparison with The Return of the Condor Heroes written by Jin Yong and published in 1959, it is easy to see the influence of the novel on the film, including the similarities that the disciples are asked to be abstinent, the romance between the hero and the heroine and the Blade-Dance of the Two Lovers.

In 2000, cases of charcoal-burning suicide were increasing on the island Cheung Chau. The islanders' livelihood was affected so they formed the life-saving squad. The guesthouse owner set up “ The Three No's Rental Rules”. The part-time girl at the supermarket observed customers who might buy charcoal for suicide. Some islanders were on the lookout for distressed visitors. Occasionally, they succeeded in stopping the tragedy. Some survivors even joined the squad. At times, they made funny mistakes and met with hiccups in the life-saving endeavors. With trial and error, they explored the essential needs in people's hearts.

A woman conspired with her lover to kill her husband, chopped him into pieces and threw his body into the bottom of the White Goose Pond. Unexpectedly, her husband turned into a ghost to seek revenge on them.

Drama from Hong Kong directed by Wong Toi.

In late 2015, a group of high school students arranged a four-day exchange program between an international school and a local school in Hong Kong. The exchange was filmed by a team of students from both schools and developed into a 40-minute documentary titled, “One Education, Two Systems”. The aim of the project was to develop mutual understanding and appreciation between students at international schools and traditional local schools in Hong Kong and help bridge the divide in the education system. At the same time, the documentary also seeks to spark discussion on education-related topics, various disparities and other differences between the two systems (teaching styles, mental health, learning attitude, general atmosphere and competitiveness).

In 1995, Anna Wu introduced a private bill on Equal Opportunities in Hong Kong covering sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, and family responsibilities. Anson Mak, with fellow activists from Queer Sister, organized playful, creative demonstrations as alternatives to traditional protests. Highlighting a pivotal moment in Hong Kong’s queer and feminist movement, this video documents the group’s actions and their discussions on identity, coming out, activism, and media representation.

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Away for years, what is the unit for alienation? The saxophone at the intersection eleven years ago, the Korean music on the street four years ago, the flight broadcasts after the epidemic, the voices of family members, the days and nights when Taipei and Hong Kong were at a standstill, some moments linger.