Discoveries from Hong Kong SAR China World Cinema

This Movie is in Chinese without subtitles so it's hard to give a full description. Famous for being a film from 1959 with a scene depicting hopping vampires.

A girl moves into a mansion with her father and falls in love with the painter she tries to evict.

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the world. But they share a demand for democracy and freedom. They have the will and the courage to fight – and they can see that things are going in the wrong direction in the small island city, which officially has autonomy under China but is now tightening its grip and demanding that ‘troublemakers’ be put away or silenced. Amid the violent protests, we meet a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a new father.

A boy is obsessed with the comic book hero Zhong Kui, an eccentric ghost catcher armed with a magic sword and sack. When his mother and younger sister are abducted by demons, the boy decides to seek help from Zhong to fight against vampires and revenants, zombies and goblins. Taking advantage of such special effects as freeze-frame and step-printing, The Ghost Catcher is a spectacular visual adventure.

Countless moving cuboids dispersed across the city act as witnesses to the secret whispers that are drowned out by the crowd.

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So Sam-long becomes a monk to disguise his revolutionary activities. On learning that his natural mother is still alive and living in Japan, he goes searching for her. There he meets his cousin Shizuko and falls in love with her. However, cognizant of the fact that he is a monk, So returns to China, leaving a letter for his lover.

John and his wife Mary come to Canada, where their neighbor is a single female guest, Wansi. One night, when Mary came back from the dance, she found a woman hanging in the house.

A night delivery man meets a woman who works in a publishing house. He helps her deliver books to a warehouse during rainy days, and in each encounter an endearing bond forms between them.

A taxi driver on the verge of losing his home shares a fleeting connection with an isolated foreign student.

Cut & paste film that uses footage from the Thai movie 9 ทรชน [1987].

Nani is practicing for a dance performance on the upcoming Children’s Day. However, her mother is too busy making scarecrows to sell. Eventually Nani has to take care of a younger sibling that forces her to give up her dream and opportunities.

With over a dozen series of one-man talk shows on his resume since his debut in 1990, Dayo Wong is the first and widely regarded the best stand-up comedian in Hong Kong. He is now in preparation for his upcoming series of gag shows in November 2010, which marks his 20 years in perfecting the performance art form. Last year, Wong did a successful tour with sold-out shows in Hong Kong, China, and North America. His sharp wits and patented sense of humor are showcased in his jokes about every topic from the financial crunch to Facebook, relationships, various social issues, entertainment gossips, and more. Fans can now own the acclaimed show on DVD with "guaranteed" satisfaction (refer to track #1)!

A Guangdong girl takes bold risks to mend her fractured family. By lending her boyfriend money for a film project, she disrupts the strained marriage her parents tried to preserve. In the end, she repairs the rift, rebuilds her family, and restores the bond that was on the brink of collapse.

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Chinese Opera genre picture directed by Chun Kim.

Allen Fong portrays the strains of marriage through the eyes of a young couple.

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A young man, Jian, travels from Hong Kong to Liuzhou in China to visit his aging father who runs a spicy noodles shop with his caregiver and occasional noodle cook, Ah Ping. She fears that Jian will eventually take over the eatery but is unaware that he can only taste sweet, sour and bitter flavours but not hot spicy chili peppers, a crucial ingredient in his father’s signature dish. When Jian reconnects with his childhood friend, now a striking woman working at the local market, their passionate encounter reawakens his senses restoring his ability to taste hot peppers.

Seven activists from Hong Kong joint the global fight against the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Japan 2008. Given the fact that global warming, labor and energy issues were discussed and covered by mainstream media, they tried to get their voice heard to the leaders at the Windsor Hotel in Toyako (The Toya Lake), but they experienced hospitality of Japanese police brutality from the city rallies to the protest in the mountains.

On his son's first birthday, Siu-cheung takes his family to the countryside for a family portrait when he suddenly receives a call from his mother. His father, a bird photographer suffering from dementia, is missing. Siu-cheung looks for him in the country parks where his father visits to take photos of birds. He fails to find his father, but finds himself getting closer to his father's inner world. He slowly gains more appreciation and understanding of his father whom he considered irresponsible. As he goes over his father’s works at home, a secret unveiled……

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.

A man and his elderly father take a journey to an offshore island. Believing this to be their final trip, the son desperately captures their moments together with his newly bought secondhand digital camera. Suddenly, the pictures are inexplicably erased, and there's no way to restore them. A reflection on the modern human's reliance on digital technology, this father-son drama shows that we can use technology to store memories, but no gadget can make them for us. After all, how the memories are made is more worth remembering than the memories themselves.

Secondary school teacher Mr. Leung meets his student Emily in a classroom after school to talk about her behavioural problems. He is subsequently arrested on Emily’s allegation of sexual assault. Before the trial takes place, Mr. Leung’s colleagues have already decided on his guilt. The school is anxious to brush the matter aside to save its reputation. Ms. Chan has known Mr. Leung for many years and is the only person who believes in his innocence, yet she is criticised and chastised by the others for supporting Mr. Leung. Under pressure from all sides, Ms. Chan hesitates to serve as Mr. Leung’s character witness.

Blocks of white marble from a Greek quarry are shipped to China, where sculptors turn them into Hellenistic-style statues and columns. The leftover grit is processed into fridge magnets and other souvenirs, which are returned to Europe and sold to Chinese tourists.

The plot is about a bloodthirsty lord called Pi Hao who have young girls kidnapped to satisfy his lusty desires. He orders the killing of Shao Shao, one of the young girls, and his henchmen burry her body in the forest. Her sister Sho Kown goes after her and - as the two sister were very much look-alike - Pi Hao send his men to check the place where the body is buried. But the grave is empty and all the men who were sent to burry it are found dead...

Handover Law met his girlfriend, Rayna, at the last July 1st march in 2010. This year, they will march again to celebrate their meeting, his birthday and protest the government. This joyful day takes a turn when Rayna runs into her 'mainland Chinese' schoolmate.

Egg suffers from severe hearing impairment and mild intellectual disability. She is sent to a home for the mentally handicapped when she loses the most important person in her life. Walking alone into a strange community, she believes that her father did the same by starting his own journey along the seacoast. Today is the birthday of Ham. He has been waiting for a new change and for his mother to take him away. However, days go by and nothing happens. Locked up in a security room, he is all anxious and depressed until he meets Egg who is trying to escape. In an abandoned house facing the sea, Ham and Egg build an ark, hoping to sail to the time before the world began.

Pledging to stay together in sickness and in health may be an ordinary marriage vow, but this commitment can be put to a great test. In this woeful tale of society inspired by a real event, the caring husband Cheung devotes himself in caring for his stroke-stricken wife after their seriously ill son committed suicide ten years ago. For Cheung, taking care of a stroke patient is physically exhausting and mentally draining. As his wife’s conditions deteriorate after a second stroke, Cheung is filled with despair and faces an unthinkable dilemma. The short highlights the helpless situations faced by grassroot seniors in the society and the severe lack of public support services available to them.

What's on your menu? Ho and Fung explore the intracices of Chinese dessert as their friendship blossoms into romance. Their happiness, however, is short-lived. Feeling unaccepted by those around them, the couple embark on an increasingly perilous journey featuring hallucinations, jaywalking and unorthodox conversion therapy. Will their love triumph in the end?

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There are people and places that we used to hold dear in our hearts and gradually became sediments of buried memories. When Charlotte encounters a suitcase at the second hand shop she works at, her emotions are unearthed and bring her back to the days of innocence with Chan. Charlotte did believe that Chan, just like the neighbourhood in bygone times, would remain constant. Yet all old things are helplessly abandoned and crushed beneath the wheel of time. At the same time, Ling is depressed and lonely because of Chan's death. Sending Chan's things away to purge her negative emotions and to set herself free from the past, a treasured relationship reveals itself like ripples of emotions.

Anger breeds anger, and hatred breeds hatred. Restaurant owner Mr. Wong stresses about the business when he has to face rent increases every year. Restless and tense, he channels his anger to Ka Yeung, the timid newest employee. Taunted by his customers, his boss and life in general, Ka Yeung is barely keeping his head above the water with his father being an unlicensed hawker. One incident escalates to another like a Greek tragedy and anger spirals out of control, causing irreparable outcome. This is a story about two men who live in an unforgiving city, both trying to find their way out but ended up hurting each other.

A woman picks up and starts reading the book The Hero in History: A Study in Limitation and Possibility by Sidney HOOK. Her image juxtaposes with found footage of the 1967 riots showing thousands demonstrating on the streets as if it was a carnival. Truthfulness and limitations of recorded images are brought into discussion.

In a desperate act of erasure, he inhales the scent of chocolate paper—a futile ritual to suffocate his memory. Now, the man wanders a labyrinth where waking and dreaming bleed into one question: Can escape exist when every oblivion resurrects him?

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Special insurance investigator Nick Goldman and his partner Ken have been assigned to their toughest case yet: locate the missing “Star of India” diamond which was recently stolen from its owner Hector Bates in Paris. Not only does it transpire that Bates in on the heist, but the thieves plan to double cross him. Except that the stone is a fake, so the race is on to find out who actually has the original.

Sandy Lam's concert in 2011.

From March 24 to April 15, 2017, Joey Yung held 17 shows for her My Secret Live tour, her first concert series devoted to side tracks. Instead of the Hong Kong Coliseum, the diva chose the smaller, more intimate venue of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Lyric Theatre for this rare concert tour spotlighting the secret gems in her discography.

Choi used to leave voice message to Sze since she had a cell phone. He did it even more when Sze got a smart phone few years later. Years after, Choi was getting old. He needs to visit physiotherapist and underoccupied. One day when Choi is loading of the bamboo in a construction site earthquake happened in Hong Kong

As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territory's citizens has steadily grown. What began as a series of spontaneous protests against an extradition law in March 2019 has now escalated in to a full-blown popular uprising that shows no signs of abating. ABC Four Corners reports from the frontline of the action, capturing extraordinary footage of the growing tension and violence.

A young boy explores Hong Kong after staying at with his sick Grandmother.

Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against protesters has intensified. Repeatedly the target of censorship*, Raise the Umbrellas traces the lineage of the massive Hong Kong protest to the global Occupy movement, 1989 Tiananmen, and its democratic struggles since British colonial days. Highlights range from the Umbrella Movement’s eco-awareness and its burgeoning aspiration for independence, to its empowerment of women -- “umbrella mothers” -- and the rainbow-bridging activism of LGBTQ iconic artists. Incisive and intimate, driven by stirring on-site footage in a major Asian metropolis riven by protest, Umbrellas includes anti-Occupy views that lay bare the sheer political risk for post-colonial Hong Kong’s universal-suffragist striving to define its autonomy within China.

An early Drama by the Shaw Brothers Film Company

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A story taking place in a Hong Kong with a different history. Hong Kong has not undergone a transfer of sovereignty in 1997. In 2003, a teenager, Lap Yan stays at home because of SARS. A girl who is a new neighbor of Lap Yan visits him and stays with him all day. Lap Yan does not realise the outside world is changing, which will affect his own future.

Hard-working Chunho delivers dumplings to fancy apartments in Hong Kong. Among his deliveries, he pines for the cute British expat who seems not to notice him whenever he shows up with his steaming package. But just when things start to look romantic for these two, class differences threaten to get in the way. (Frameline)

A man is strolling down a wasteland near the airport. He has just watched his ex-wife and kids leave Hong Kong for good. A stranger is stalking him, bugging him with unsolicited questions and weird advice. How to get rid of him?

Memories of his four-year journey focused on the Hong Kong protests. Narrated in the first person, is rich with reflections and contemplations, most intertwined with feelings of guilt.

An adaptation of Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat.