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Jet is the star gigolo in Hong Kong. Arrogant, sexy, everyone falls in love with him, but he falls in love with no one… until one day he meets Sam, the hunkiest policeman to ever pound a beat on Hollywood Road. From then on, Jet changes himself into somebody he is not: innocent, sweet, clean, pure. It’s way of setting a trap to catch Sam. But unknowingly Jet falls into the trap himself. Things begin to get out of control when it turns out that Sam’s past is part of Jet’s present.Read More »
Hong Kong
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Yonfan – Mei shao nian zhi lian AKA Bishonen (1998)
1991-2000DramaHong KongQueer Cinema(s)RomanceYonfan -
Lim Chung Man – Hao Hao Pai Dian Ying AKA Keep Rolling (2020)
2011-2020DocumentaryHong KongLim Chung ManOne of Hong Kong’s most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung’s directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.Read More »
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Chung Sun – Xiao ao jiang hu AKA The Proud Youth (1978)
1971-1980ActionChung SunHong KongMartial ArtsNankung Sung sees the seediness of Conflicting Clans’ politics after being cut from his own clan due to a misunderstanding and accepting a quest to give song a entitled “The Proud One”, to the correct musician.Read More »
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Ann Hui – My Way (2012)
2011-2020Ann HuiArthouseHong KongShort FilmAnn Hui’s My Way—starring Francis Ng and Jade Leung—is about a pre-op transsexual man nervously waiting for his operation. It is a stylishly melancholic film, and defined by the moment when he goes to the hospital for the operation, goes to sleep in the male ward (next to a newspaper reading old man) and wakes as a woman in the female ward…and finally indulging in a smile of relief and happiness.Read More »
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Changwei Gu – Longtou (2012)
ArthouseChangwei GuFifth Generation Chinese CinemaHong KongShort FilmGu Changwei’s Longtou—shot documentary style—features a series of characters who dwell on the realities of expectation, punctuated by a series of memorable shots (a cat stalking and jumping onto an air conditioner unit; an elderly man dragging a series plastic bottles; a weight-lifter practicing his moves and a child blowing bubbles) and nice use of music.Read More »
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Ricky Lau – Gui yao gui AKA Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind 2 (1989)
1981-1990ComedyHong KongHorrorRicky LauSYNOPSIS
Sammo Hung and Lam Ching Ying star in this misadventure into the world of the undead. This is one on the many films that Sammo and Lam did in Lams Horror/Comedy series of films, They also worked on some other HK classics together both serious and comedy/horror.The film starts with Sifu and Sammo and the girl running and hiding. Sammo and the girl hide in an old building to be almost immediately haunted by a hopping vampire that’s not very friendly, there Sammo smokes opium with the ghoul and the stage is set for monster mayhem HK style with comedy and horror galore. I really liked the sets in this film as well as the special effects, I cant tell much on the story so as not to ruin the plot for you. Read More » -
Yonfan – Jìyuántái qihào AKA No.7 Cherry Lane (2019)
2011-2020AnimationDramaHong KongYonfanZiming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.Read More »
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Billy Hin-Shing Tang – Woo dung saai yan si gin AKA Interactive Murders (2002)
2001-2010Billy Hin-Shing TangCrimeHong KongMysteryPop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.Read More »
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Michael Hui – Tian cai yu bai chi AKA The Last Message (1975)
Michael Hui1971-1980ComedyHong KongAh Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man and Li (Samuel Hui) is a nurse in the Hang Seng Sanitarium. Together thez engage in dubious plots and exploits.Read More »