Discoveries from Hong Kong SAR China World Cinema

Women train to become members of a SWAT team.

Upon returning home, sailor Yu (Richard Ng) is shock to discover that not only his wife left him, but the house has also been sub-letted to an old maid, May Wong (Josephine Siu). Both Yu and Wong have their own strange habits, and them living together under the same roof causes numerous hilarious incidents.

ATM is a Hong Kong Comedy-Drama starring Stanley Fung.

Essentially an adaptation of Gaston Leroux's classic The Phantom of the Opera, Mid-Nightmare is set in a Huangmei diao teahouse theatre, which an embittered and horribly disfigured ex-performer ‘haunts', looking to extract revenge on his enemies and falling in love with a talented and beautiful, but ultimately unattainable, ingénue.

In the vein of "Romeo And Juliet", Hong Kong style, the small ensemble cast and little-known director Michihko do a big league job with their rendition of "Romeo And Juliet" in "The Young Lovers". Although poor boy (Derek Erh Tung-Sheng) and rich girl (Yu An-An) are from opposite ends of the spectrum, their undying love refuses to let anyone get in their way, including their parents. Shakespeare would be moved.

Two up-and-coming young fighters struggle to reach the top of their sport and survive the difficulties of life outside the ring. An inspirational drama with exciting boxing footage.

The Organized Crime Bureau investigates a ring of drug dealers from Taiwan. After losing the life of an undercover cop and $5,000,000 in borrowed drug money Chow and Lee pursue the drug dealer to Taiwan. Chow is caught and pretends to be a Hong Kong drug dealer. With Chow on the inside and Lee on the outside they are lead to the big finale.

A cartoonist accidentally killed his best friend, and came out with a creative way to dispose the body. He soon found that his best friend was sleeping with his girlfriend, and drawn the attention of a serial killer.

Heung, a fishwerwoman, is determined to help Kai, an amateur aromatherapist, find the ultimate elixir for the princess who has a bad case of body odour. Although Kai's initial aim is to find the cure and win the princess' heart, he and Heung draw closer every day in the quest for the ultimate cure.

An HK police officer sends his son to America to protect him from the influence of the HK triads. However, his son becomes enmired in Chinatown triad dealings in America and returns to Hong Kong as a marked and wanted man.

The hunt for The Swallow Thief.

A loving mother makes a death pact with a spirit by sacrificing her life to save her child. Years later, he grows up and is bullied whilst studying in medical school, resulting in his death. Reunited in death as vengeful spirits, mother and son open up a hell hole to those who had wronged them.

Since the death of his wife three years ago, Ka Chu has become an assassin for Maria who has feelings for him that he cant reciprocate. On a mission in Seoul to take out Chue Chung, the Taiwanese gangster who controls South East Asia, Ka Chu realises that over these three years hes systematically taken out almost the whole of Chungs generation, leaving his younger brother Yung to take control. Realising that hes the next target with Marias finger on the trigger, an injured Ka Chu goes on the run with Kinko, a Korean woman he rescues from Chungs sexual advances, pursued by Yung and rogue Seoul policeman Wu.

A shipment of gold, collected as charity, is high-jacked in transit. Two con-men witness the robbery, and become wrongly accused as the robbers. At first they compete to capture each other for the rewards on their heads; but eventually work together to find the gold and expose the real bandits. However, the bandit chief isn't giving up so easily....

Siew and his family live in Hong Kong. When they arrived Malaysia, they meet Cui-Fong, a tour guide who is a cunning schemer; Pumpkin BB, a local backpacker; Orchid, a hostel owner who look a lot like their mother. During the trip from Kuala Lumpur to Cameron Highland, Siew's family had met these three people, whom introduced them to whole new experiences and romance they have never had before. On the way, they also faced lots of problems and challenges. In the end, they intruded a local aboriginal village, and almost ruin the entire ‘Cloud Sea’ tour, and the newly built relationship among Siew's family. Can Siew’s family unite and solve the problem together, and succeeded in saving the ‘Cloud Sea’ tour? Can they help those strangers they met to released themselves, and lead them toward good endings? Most importantly, could this trip help Siew's lifeless family to regain happiness?

The Menu is a 2016 Hong Kong drama film about journalism and the sequel to the television series of the same name.

1976 fengyue movie

Michelle is a middle-aged Hong Kong woman who decides to take a trip to Southern France in order to find some inner resolution about her unhappy marriage. While touring the rainy country with a fairly depressing tour group, she befriends Miki, a quirky young Japanese woman who seems to have some problems of her own. After the end of the tour, the two women decide to extend their vacation by travelling to Morocco but things go horribly wrong when Miki is kidnapped by a modern slave-trader…

The story depict the love between the musician, Kit and the mute girl, Snow. Although Snow cannot talk, she is a sunshine girl that lives her ordinary life happily with her fiancé. One morning, As Snow puts on her slippers; she pulls out her left foot and sees an engagement ring on the toe that corresponds to her ring finger. Kit asks her to marry him. A week before their wedding day, Snow gets into an accident and dies, but a sympathetic angel-in-training named Michael, who wears a bright orange shirt, brings her back to life and gives her three days for the wedding. The day before she has to leave Kit, Kit falls asleep while watching TV and Snow whispers into his ear: I love you so much. I want to be with you forever, but I must leave tomorrow night. A couple hours later, Kit wakes up and tells her that he had the strangest dream where she spoke with a husky and sexy voice, but she said she had to go somewhere and promises her that he'll be there with her, no matter what.

Award-winning actor Ku Feng is Lei Chen-tien, a vicious, cunning, murderous brigand who wants the title treasure. Tsung Hua is Tai Tien-chou, the handsome swordsman who wants to avenge his father's death. Wang Ping is Wu Hsiao-yen, the lovely girl who must disguise herself as a boy to take on this pirate. Tien Feng both directs and co-stars as The Senior Master in this blade and battle-filled adventure of intrigue, treachery, and tragic triumph.

A cop seeks revenge on those who murdered his mother, and later kidnap his blind sister for prostitution.

Music Writer Limin was on a road trip in Malaysia. He came across an old mansion and decided to stay to write his unfinished song. Limin became acquainted to the writer Cow who was living in the mansion. By chance he rescued Tai and Dai, a couple who loved photography. The four had a lot of strange and humorous encounters in the mansion, and had even attracted the attention of the landlord as well as the mysterious Lung Poh and Xiaodie. Xiaodie was murdered 30 years ago. They were touched by her story and decided to help her solve the murder. They asked the help from private investigator Chiyuen but he refused. So they decided to investigate for new clues themselves and surprisingly found …

Because of gambling habits, Cheong Yeung ran away from loan sharks to an old building. He met a ghost who came out every night to have sex with him. Every time when he finished making love, he found some numbers in his underwear. From then on, his luck changes. He started to strike lottery, win on bets….

Lung Yen Fei returns from Japan to investigate the cause of his teachers' death.

Rebels mobilize Japanese troops who are pillaging villages in China, resulting in a failed assassination attempt that has dire consequences for both sides. A Hong Kong re edit of the 1977 Korean film "사생문" (Gate of Life or Death) with added scenes from "Dragon On Fire" and "The Magnificent"

Leung Cheng-Yee is a successful architect who is mistakenly involved in a complex and vicious murder plot. After his wife is murdered and his life turned completely upside down, Leung decides to seek a bloody vengeance himself.

Tomi Akiyama and her boyfriend Nakamura are troubled about allegations about a Comfort House in China. Tomi gets into the camp, first as a journalist, but is then captured and sent in as a participant. Nakamura is upset by this particular event, and the situation in general, and takes action. The progress of several other characters is followed, including a kind-of happy hooker, a jovial chubby Japanese woman and a brutal and rude general, laced with stock war footage and historical inter-titles.

After seeing his father killed by the master of the Black Dragon gang, a man known only as Miracle sets about taking revenge on the entire gang.

Iron is the son of a rebel leader, but prefers to spend his days gambling and getting into fights. When his father's group is arrested and executed, Iron is forced to flee and hide in the woods as a beggar and thief. After being taken in by a Shaolin monastery and trained in the art of Monkey-Style Kung Fu, Iron vows to hunt down his father's killer and avenge his death.

Two Hong Kong cops on leave to Manila take on a group of arms dealers.

An ambitious young man sets off to make his first million in a gigolo club. Wing is a hairdresser whose boss is gay, but he certainly isn't. When a cute young babe gives him a full-on view of her knickers, Wing fantasies about her, causing to get so hard that he pounds the head of the woman whose hair he is shampooing. This woman runs a gigolo club, and invites him to join.

A beautiful supermodel-turned-gangster double crosses her ruthless partners after the gang steals a precious relic from a Manila museum. Now an enterprising young Interpol agent, with the help of a comical taxi driver, must stop the vicious gang and return the relic to its rightful owners.

Cheng Sing gets betrayed by his crime Partners and lands in Jail. After he gets out he's starting his trail of Revenge.

After getting out of prison, Ma returns home to find his wife Ji Ha remarried and his son apparently dead. He kidnaps Siu Ching, Ji Ha's new son, and takes him on a trip through China.

Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.

A late 90s action vehicle with several Girls with Guns ambitions seen in its casting, most obviously Yukari Oshima.

Joseph is an advertising man whose wife and mother in law want a grandson. He is saddled with a loud-mouthed Taiwanese partner, who takes him to Taiwan for a business trip. There, he becomes involved with an apparently sweet Taiwanese woman.

This is an atypical police film from 1981 and an opportunity to see a younger Kent Cheng playing a policeman.

Bill Wong works on a wide variety of films, some of modern setting, some with historical backgrounds; some are award winners, some lesser known. As a cinematographer, he does not strive for personal style. Instead, he concentrates on fulfilling the potential of the film and realizing his director’s designs. He is a consummate team player. This documentary features interviews with Wong and five directors with whom he has worked – Patrick Tam, Ann Hui, Tony Au, Lee Chi-ngai and Shu Kei, tracing the paths on which they have travelled together.

Mainland cop travels to Hong Kong to team a Hong Kong police officer in order to investigate a case involving a brutal killer.

Several stories interweaves into this hilarious comedy. Eric Kot plays the genital dermatologist, Dr. Heung, that loves and respects his own profession. He and his assistant Ma work tacitly together professionally but are unable to take a step forward other than work. The up and coming artist Fifi Wong wants to make it big in her career, she later falls for the genteel To Bing at first sight although both of them already have their other important halves.

Ko Ming Chung, a wildly popular movie actor is having an illicit affair with similarly popular thespian Ai Ling. Though Ming Chung's wife quietly puts up with this infidelity, so long as he does not try to leave her, Ai Ling's spouse is less forgiving, a middle-aged oaf prone to violence. When the tabloids get wind of the liaison, the two secret lovers find themselves headline news throughout the colony. Ming Chung's wife soon starts to mount a media blitz, painting Ai Ling as a husband-stealing, home-wrecking shrew.

A young woman who seeks revenge on the master of a kung fu school who murdered her parents is aided by acrobats and a traveling hero and his female friend.

Two CIA agents, a kung fu master and a suave womanizer, track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.

Four telecom employees begrudgingly join the company’s dragon boat team to help keep them immune from encroaching layoffs only to discover themselves.

Joe is betrayed by his gang, who then set out to kill him. On the run, he forcibly enters the apartment of Ann. Despite being initially scared, Joe departs on fairly friendly terms, and catches up with Ann again the next day at her work. One of Ann's students is Sweetie, whose father Mr Fung dotes on her. Fung, a jeweller, is also being romantically pursued by one of his employees, Elsa. The following day, Joe's old gang rob Fung's jewellery shop, during which time they snatch Sweetie.

Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles. Rare interviews with Sir Run Run Shaw, stars Ivy Ling Po, Shaw Yin Yin, Tanny Tie Ni and Cheng Pei Pei are also featured.

Ming Dynasty Wu Zong years, because the emperor Zhu Houzhao (Zhengde Huang) rule the country, so the country is too safe, so the peace of mind all day rush with the gentle beauty of the harem, but the so-called extremes, by the hands of all kinds of strange absurd boudoir stuff, Itself is too long and the original injury, into the time did not move, so they decided to take the same small eunuchs Xiaodongnan looking for doctors, hoping to cure Longgen, one day, the two came to the town of Meron Coincidental in the dragon and phoenix shop in the case of thousands of style Qiao Qiao sister, the results of the Emperor of the Dragon's fate completely changed

Hung, a struggling middle-class man crushed by work pressure and family responsibilities, faces a breaking point when his vengeful former colleague kidnaps his daughter and pregnant wife. Desperate to save them, Hung’s reckless actions, including stealing a police officer’s gun, spark a city-wide panic as he’s misjudged as a dangerous madman. Caught between his love for his family and the chaos he’s unleashed, Hung races against time to redeem himself and bring his family home.

A fun action/comedy movie where Conan Lee & Shing Fui On team up to grab a gang of jewelery robbers with Ben Ng as their leader.

A poor orphan seeks help from her wealthy uncle and his sons.

When Maise's husband walks out on her, she leaves her baby son in a luxury yacht, hoping that he'll be adopted by affluent parents. Little did she know that its owner Daniel has lost everything in derivative speculation that very day. Four years later, Maise has pulled herself together...

A Shaw Brothers co-production with Hai Wai

Fight to Survive is a Hong Kong Triad movie directed by Wai Chi-Ho and starring Alex Man.

When a headless body is found in the trunk of his car, an undercover cop teams up with a coroner in order to clear his name.

Patriotic extravanganza concerning early 20th century political events in Taiwan (i.e. the Republic of China), told in an ensemble format

Sir Li (played by Li Xiuxian) is a Hong Kong policeman who is fair and upright. Uncle Wen (played by Xu Shaoxiong), the boss of the underworld, washed his hands and withdrew from the world, while Kai Ming, who took over, was eager to venture forward and did many illegal things. In order to safeguard justice, Sir Li began to investigate Kai Ming...

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