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Nine philosophical films directed by YU Yunsheng, covering nine themes: epistemology, ethics, economics, metaphysics, social science, natural science, aesthetics... Inspired by Socrates, they explore various problems through the form of dialogue.
Yin, a ten-years-old boy, grew up in a single parent family, gangs up with bad peers and spend most of his time in video game parlours. One day, Tin is egged on to take part in a theft, and event that will leave an indelible memory in the young delinquent's heart...
Life perhaps resembles a football match. Losses could have been undone if you are ambitious enough. In A Floating Hope, Kit seemingly takes up this football philosophy. As a little school boy, he has to face the consequences of his parents’ divorce. On his birthday, Kit meets his mother for a brief time, wishing to regain a mother-and-son relationship.
Told through the point-of-view of the wandering spirit of the last Javan rhino that was poached in the jungles of Vietnam in 2010, the film takes us through a complex structure of narratives and visuals, both gruesome and beautiful, real and mythological, that have built and upheld certain Vietnamese traditions. From Chinese colonialism and its assertion through the practice of medicine, to French colonialism and their obsession with trophy kills, and throughout the Vietnam war, the animals tell a different side to the story.
Jack Lee stars as a “trustee of Bruce Lee” who is in possession of a book that Bruce wrote that blows the whistle on an unsavory dojo. Naturally, the no-good karate school wants to get their hands on it, so they send some goons to rough him up every five minutes or so. He gets a bit fed up with all the non-stop Kung Fu fighting and entrusts the book to a dude named Rey and his comic relief idiot buddy Tito. When the bad guys kidnap Rey’s gal pal, he dons Bruce Lee’s trademark yellow jumpsuit from Game of Death and sets out to rescue her.
Made by veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing-hon over 10 years, MUSIC BEYOND SOUND tells the story of an unlikely guqin master. In 1974, John Thompson, an American, went to Taiwan, then Hong Kong, to study Chinese and the ancient silk string guqin (7- string zither). After 45 years he plays on, still inspired by the beauty of the music and by the culture that produced it. And In 2010 he was the only non-Chinese among 14 masters the Zhejiang Museum had invited to play in a concert featuring guqins from the Tang dynasty over 1000 years ago. With an indepth interest and insight in both Western and Chinese classical music, John Thompson and his musical journey is an embodiment of East-West cultural exchanges and mutual appreciation.
A documentary that explores the lives of people within the Chinese LGBT community. Through a series of intimate interviews with various gay, lesbian and non-binary people from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, we question identities, love, marriage and other personal queer experiences, while highlighting the constraints or freedoms that each place might bring.
This essay film is about Hong Kong as a place, or rather as a series of places, each with their own series of histories. Mak is after public and private histories, and the ways they commingle, intertwine and sometimes even obliterate each other. Her materials are multiple: she takes what she calls “appropriated archival footage and propaganda films from the 60s and 70s done by the British Hong Kong Government," and cuts, loops, zooms, slows and manipulates them to make striking distortions. To these “official” materials, made strange through video manipulation, Mak adds black-and-white Super 8 video of her own, digitally altered to sometimes look battered and archival, highly worked into a beautifully ghostly, grainy, evanescently visible texture. Images are juxtaposed promiscuously in double and quadruple frames, often paired images of intangibly related material, elegantly matched to be thought provoking as well as to offer visual delight.
A film about a mysterious murder
Love is a long road with moments of separation and reunion. Even an experienced driver must remember safety first and keep the clutch in check to avoid repeating the same mistakes in love. CHAN, a middle-aged man with several different types of driver’s license, is dissatisfied with young hearse driver Zi-ling’s driving skills, so he takes over the position. Two people who lost their better halves embark on a journey of life and death, healing, guilt, and letting go. The film depicts this road trip romance through a series of analogies related to modes of transportation, filling the screen with scenery on the roads of Hong Kong. The film, with its ambitious production scale, also charts the social changes of Hong Kong since the turn of the century.
Ming often talks with the dolls, he meets a young lady who is going to leave Hong Kong. The young lady is determined to get a doll, Ming has decided to help her but failed.
Tangled spirals, rapid encounters, a quiet war between the vertical and the horizontal: Simon Liu’s Refuse Room captures Hong Kong’s architectural densities and lurid fluorescence through shadows, graffiti, and detritus, surfacing the tense and dizzying atmospheres of a city in anxious slumber, caught between fragmentation and solidarity.
Many things happen under the wall, and many people always talk with the wall just like Charlie Brown. This story is talking about the relationship of the wall, city, memory and history.
In 1994, the Hong Kong government suddenly launched an initiative to tear down "rooftop dwellings", even though it had actually accepted their existance for many years. The Housing Authority regarded them as private property and denied owners the opportunity to apply for public housing. Now the government has ordered these 40,000 dwellings to be removed, without offering fair resettlement terms for the residents who had moved in after 1982. Video Power recorded the negotiations before some of these houses were torn down in Mongkok.
Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.
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 suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride that will forever change her perspective on life.
In 2015, an actress is casting for a sci-fi disaster film set in 2003. Dialogues in the audition jolted her memories when she recalled being a stand-in actress on one fateful night in 2003. “Were such memories once real? Or is it just a story?” she doubted. People in front of her looked oddly familiar, overlapping with people she encountered from the past. In this short, the actress experiences the mystical passage of time, but no one is sure if it is forward or backward. At this very moment, could she be simply playing a role from the past?
In 2013, My Voice, My Life followed classes of students from three high schools for underprivileged kids and one school for the visually impaired as they embarked on a voyage of self-discovery through taking part in a musical production. Six years later, what kinds of lives are they leading now? My Voice, My Life Revisited goes in search of four of those students: Ah Bok, Coby, Sio Fan and Tsz Nok, charting their transformation and how they have grown over these past few years, as well as the challenges they are facing today.
Emperor Qin ending the Warring States period and unified the country. By using his mysterious technology combing human and machine, people became immortal but at the same time, fully controlled by his dictatorship. After 200 years, a robot find that he has the memory from a high priest who lived during the Warring States period. In order to uncover the truth of his soul and the secret of Qin’s technology, he has to find the train to Miluo River, where his “past life” has drowned himself.
Lok Chen, a primary school student, was sent by her father to a school that champion perfection. Anything that is less is intolerable. With a grading scheme of either a full 100 or 0, those who fail to perform to perfection will be modified for improvements. Soon, Lok Chen discovers that the system itself is flawed with dystopic intent. Whether she will survive the system now becomes the question.
Philippine kung fu movie
Faces & Places - Till We Meet Again is a Hong Kong made-for-TV-movie starring Andy Lau
The salt deserts of the Argentine Andes are being disrupted by profound changes that impact the environment, entire communities, and individual lives. As corporations extract lithium from the soil, two young political leaders, activist Vanesa and miner Elbio, run for president in their respective indigenous communities. In Buenos Aires, teenager Milagros protests outside the parliament as it holds uncertain national elections.
A hidden gem produced at the height of the Hong Kong left-wing cinema. The Japanese army wants to force resistance leader Cheung (Bow Fong) to appear by capturing his family. Cheung's wife dies and, despite the protection by the nurse Yeung (Chu Hung) and other villagers, Cheung's daughter is captured. In the end Cheung's subordinate Lee Fu (Jiang Han) regroups with the resistance and saves the day, defeating the enemy and rescuing everyone. This film clearly references wartime productions in the mainland of China, with elements such as the Japanese taking hostages, resistance guerilla fighters, and the contrast between ‘heroes' and ‘villains' made obvious through camerawork and make-up designs. Street scenes shot in Macau merge seamlessly with studio scenes to recreate northern Chinese towns. War epics were not a strong suit of Hong Kong cinema. This film takes inspirations from Euro-American spy films and pays attention to character development and the mise-en-scène.
Following Asia's best young musicians as they learn to work together, this film explores the higher ideals that music inspires.
When Shing Chi Tat got fired by his school, he luckily got into a primary school to continue his teaching career. He was assigned to manage the campus TV while teaching visual arts. But this new environment wasn’t as wonderful as he thought. This time, he has to face complains from parents, and got no support from his superior. Not to mention all the difficulties he has to face during the campus TV shooting process. But this time, he chooses to face the problems together with his students. And this time, he got to rethink what education really means.
12-year-old Anthony’s secondary school place allocation result is a grave disappointment. Determined to overturn this less-than-perfect destiny, his mother takes him “door-knocking” at her top choice of secondary school. Unfortunately, Anthony forgets to bring a crucial document and fails to complete the entrance exam paper. During a bathroom break, he obtains the answers to the problem by chance. Driven by desperation, he seeks an opportunity to retrieve and complete his exam paper.
Hui-man has the body of a beast. As a former social worker, he still wishes to help others, especially his loved one Ning, a headstrong beauty who resists the world and who lives in the ruins after leaving her wealthy family. Both fight for survival and face their own needs and fears. Reunited despite obstacles, they only wish for a simple candlelight dinner without fanfare.
In 2022, Endy Chow held his first-ever concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum for three nights from September 2 to 4. This Blu-ray release captures the Endy Chow jaugwokyin The End Live concert, including his performances of hit tracks Meguro, Children Song, "Sometimes," "Underground," "Unbeatable," "Only Lonely," "Soul Leave The Body" and more.
Electrifying performances of hook-heavy rock and pop funk music.
This portrait of a Chinese family centers on the paterfamilias, who at the age of 85 still works his land by hand every day, his wife, who feeds and slaughters the chickens, and one of their sons, who lives in an apartment in the city and spends his days keeping company with his television and a steady flow of alcohol.
Diane want to get rid of her relationship with Anthony, however her flatmate Joan doesn’t agree with her.
The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.
A husband is late home for dinner. A Filminute short film.
Zhu Yudi’s almost painfully riveting debut feature chronicles the life of a gambler—the filmmaker’s own father—as he casts his family into spiraling debt with each new “can’t fail” investment in Chinese building construction. Zhu’s documentary project holds the promise of forgiveness and reconciliation, but as his father’s estrangement from his wife and sons grows increasingly acrimonious and desperate, one is left wondering about the countless other families who have become casualties of China’s real estate bubble.
Aisha McAdams, a former competitive runner turned photographer, embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of famed ultra trailrunners, including Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag. Traveling to mythical races—the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of eastern California, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the French Alps—the film marvels at athletes who maintain their intensity as they run 100 miles of mountain trails while climbing thousands of vertical feet.
The pompous heiress Monita is used to suitors vying for her affection and is embittered by the aloof, morose manner of the new student Fannie. Monita's aunt Bei grows increasingly wary of her niece's affection for Fan—an impoverished student who has to work to support himself through school—and presents to the principal vicious slanders against Fan. Already devastated by Fan's expulsion and departure without farewell, Monita is dealt a further blow when her father dies suddenly in the US after the collapse of his business. A near victim of sexual assault, Monita leaves the aunt and her licentious lover and works as a helper of the painter Szi Ming in his studio, but is soon given the boot by his jealous wife. A year passes. Monita is chosen to be the maid of honour at her best friend Ann's wedding which reunites her with Fan. Fan has returned from his sailing tenure to open a restaurant named after the love of his life, Monita. The estranged couple rekindles their love.
On a stormy night, a rich man is murdered, doused in acid and dumped at sea. Luckily, the young wife of the rich man is helped by an old knight-errant who has been in hiding for many years to track down the murderer. It turns out that the murderer is a longtime friend of the rich man, and he has killed him because of his greed.
People in a red-brick-walled compound are barricaded by a group of mysterious men who threaten those in the compound day and night, telling them not to escape and act as if everything is normal. The people inside muse on the drastic changes in their lives, as their limits are constantly being tested and pushed. Some risk their lives trying to escape, while others lose their will and dwell in the surreal realm between dream and reality.
In a traditional fishing village where most youngsters have left to work in the city, the older generations are left behind. Ren, a widow who lives in the village helps her neighbour, Mrs Wah, to deliver a gift to her son, Chung in the city. Ren finds out that Chung is leading a harsh life. Back in the village, there is no one with whom she can share this secret. The only refuge from the sleepless night is her deceased husband. A Thousand Sails is a short tale about the poignant separation between city and village, mother and son, life and death. With long shots and sophisticated art direction, Eric Tsang Hing-weng compellingly captures the actors’ performances, especially that of Professor Chow Po-chung’s surprising debut.
Lai decides to take a walk on one sleepless night. The scenario is all so familiar, where skater boy is being swept away by the security guard, and gang members getting night snacks at the convenient store. But this night is meant to mean something to Lai which leads her to Shadow, a teenage girl who is having a fight with her boyfriend on the street, and her cat Blacky. The cat helps the two of them to run away from his violence. Shadow may seem too young to know about the world, but not until that moment of encounter, does Lai find her way out.
Colin feels trapped in life with no way out – thrown in at the deep end at work, stuck in a relationship that has run its course, losing touch with friends who have drifted apart and smothered by family pressures with endless bills to pay. Out of the corner of his eye, he notices a dim light flickers, a spark of inspiration to go on an escapade on wheels: a fantasy joyride that promises to drag himself out of the doldrums, allows him to work out a sweat and take in a breath of fresh air, if only just for a stolen moment.
Aging is not all doom and gloom but can be super-duper fun. In a village far, far away from the city live a zany group of elderlies. Old Chap is a Chinese medicine doctor without a single patient, lascivious Old Ben is wheelchair-bound and confined in the village, while Moses the spiritual “flower child” always tries to connect with Mother Nature. When Chiara, Old Chap's granddaughter, appears suddenly as she decides to take a gap year from studying and turns Old Chap’s life upside down by putting on a pole dance show in his clinic, how will Old Chap reconcile with the shock of the new?
Chun and Jane are siblings. They were very close as children, but after Jane graduated and started working, while Chun stayed at school for his PhD and spent most of his time in the dorm, they gradually drifted apart. One morning, Jane receives news that her brother has committed suicide. While handling his affairs, she discovers that he had already bought insurance, suggesting he had planned this for some time. To find out the reason behind his death, Jane uses his computer and starts messaging his friends on social media, slowly rediscovering the brother she once knew. In the end, Jane realizes that her search for answers was not only for her brother—and the culprit was never just one person.
Yee-tou cannot recover from her sorrow at her fiancé’s death. Her admirer Heem with a quiet and introverted character is kind enough to take care of her. Deeply depressed, she resists taking her medication and suffers from frequent hallucinations. Eventually she kills herself in front of Heem, who is consequently infected by her depression, and keeps a tank of goldfishes at home. From a glass fish tank to our world, are we living in a true world or is life an illusion? “The Glass City” is a love story with sad sentiments mentioning the limitations in life as if goldfishes living in a glass tank.
After years of illness, Ken’s wife finally passes away. Ken returns to his job as streetlight repairman after the funeral. Having to work at night, he rarely sees his daughter Ann, who develops a fear for darkness since her mother dies. Often left alone at home, she learns to grow up at a tender age. She makes her father agree to go out and play with her on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, but Ken breaks the promise because of work. During the festive season, father and daughter try hard to re-capture moments of love and concern for each other.
A pair of young highschool lovers fight against a hitman organisation, with violence, forgiveness and redemption. And they built a carousel just for fun.
Inspired by a true story, Eggs tells the tale of A-Li and A-Mai from Vietnam who meet and fall in love in Taiwan. When A-mai gets pregnant, what follows is not necessarily a blessing. Like many lost-contact migrant workers in Taiwan who, worried that they cannot afford to raise their children, flee and take on cash-in-hand jobs, A-Li and A-Mai go up the mountain to a place full of lychee stink bugs where A-Li can earn some money. When stopped by the police, they escape into the mountains and forests for fear of their status as illegal migrant workers. Taking refuge inside an abandoned factory, the couple tries to evade the police and to ensure the safe delivery of the baby.
Chun B, a food delivery boy; Zain, a fashion buyer; Cheng, a high school teacher. They are best friends who met in middle school. After graduation, they lived in a co-rented industrial building in San Po Kong. Two years later, Zain is about to marry his girlfriend and Cheng is going to immigrate with his family. They will all leave Chun B and no longer rent this unit. In this unit, there is a refrigerator that they picked up on the back stairs when they moved in, and it is now broken. After smoking marijuana one night, Chun B insists on getting a funeral for the refrigerator, Zain and Cheng accompany him reluctantly. So they took the refrigerator in the early hours of the morning, looking everywhere for a good place to make a decent funeral...
A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and growth. All of these efforts started with an experience dated back to her childhood.