Hong Kong film

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Don’t Go Breaking My Heart opens HKIFF!

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (單身男女,) a Mandarin language film starring Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, and Gao Yuanyuan, is an inventive romantic comedy set…

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Chow Yun Fat & the curse of The Killer!

Like the hitman he portrayed in the 1989 film, The Killer (喋血雙雄,) Chow Yun Fat has had a hard time escaping his past. Though…

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Hong Kong movies – alive not dead?

Shawn Yue, Miriam Yeung and Pang Ho-Cheung Every decade seems to bring new challenges to the Hong Kong film industry. Over the years there’s…

Film Workshop exhibition at Agnes B.

It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop to Hong Kong cinema in the mid 80’s thru 90’s. The company epitomized…

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The world premiere of The Sniper!

The past week has been a blur of films, receptions, after-parties and late night snacks. Hong Kong has been the epicenter of the Asian…

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Ip Man versus Ong Bak 2!

How many kicks and punches did I witness in the last week? Probably more than most people see in a lifetime! Donnie Yen’s Ip…

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A Decade of Love

Last night I checked out the premier of A Decade of Love, a film that was originally supposed to be screened as part of…

Film premiere: 6th Floor Rear Flat 2!

[photopress:sixth_floor_rear_flat_movie.jpg,full,pp_image] Tuesday night I headed out to Megabox in Kowloon Bay for the premiere of 6th Floor Rear Flat 2. The film is a…

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Hong Kong International Film Festival!

[photopress:Hong_Kong_film_festival_HK.jpg,full,pp_image] The 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival is set to begin on March 17th. This is the time of year you get to…

Johnnie To’s new film EXILED

Last night I went half-way around the west side of Hong Kong Island to a development called the Cyberport to check out a film….

Infernal Affairs vs. The Departed

It’s been a month or two since I watched The Departed, the Hollywood remake of the Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. I can’t help…

New Film: The Banquet

Last year during ROCKIT music festival I bumped into actor Daniel Wu and he was sporting some really long hair. He told me that…

New Film: Dog Bite Dog

After returning from a long trip I recently got a chance to catch up on my Hong Kong movies! Dog Bite Dog, the new…

Love Undercover 3

My friend Takuya came to Hong Kong initially as a model from Japan. He recently went through training to become an actor, (and learn…

Poster for the new film ELECTION

I’m looking forward to checking out the new Johnnie To film ELECTION. I was walking through the MTR and saw the poster today. I…