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Hong Kong Cinema's Fresh New Wave

Trivisa was a big winner at this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards but judging by the number of new talents whose films were nominated and awarded, the Hong Kong film industry was perhaps the biggest winner of all, as a...

Ann Hui's THE GOLDEN ERA Triumphs At Hong Kong Film Awards

The 34th Hong Kong Film Awards have named Ann Hui's epic drama The Golden Era Best Film of the year, with Hui taking the Best Director prize. The film, which stars Tang Wei as famed Chinese writer Xiao Hong, won five...

OVERHEARD 3 Tops Hong Kong Film Award Nominations

The third installment of Alan Mak and Felix Chong's surveillance thriller series, Overheard 3, scored nominations in 11 categories, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, when the nominations for the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards were announced this...

Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER Tops Hong Kong Critics Poll

The results of the 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards were announced earlier today, with Fruit Chan's surreal science fiction comedy thriller The Midnight After named as Best Film of 2014. Chan was also named Best Director, while Lau...

A Dozen New Post-Apocalyptic Images From Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER

After its world premiere in Berlin last month, Hong Kong is poised to experience Fruit Chan's post-apocalyptic thriller The Midnight After when it screens as one of the official opening films of the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival on...

Check Out The Intriguing Full Trailer For Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER

Fruit Chan is easily one of the most interesting filmmakers working in Hong Kong today. Since he came to fame with his 1997 directorial effort Made In Hong Kong, he has made a number of films that have a very...

Berlinale 2014 Review: THE MIDNIGHT AFTER, Fruit Chan's Maddening Pop-Art Apocalypse

It should have been clear as soon as the title, "Based on the novel by PIZZA", rolled onscreen. Fruit Chan's The Midnight After was sure to be loopy, irreverent and a rare kind of crazy. And it was! But...

Check The First Images From Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER

When director Fruit Chan last took a trip to the darker parts of his brain the result was Dumplings, one of the most disturbing horror films of recent years - so much so that I cannot imagine myself ever wanting...

Watch The Stellar First Trailer For Juno Mak's RIGOR MORTIS

Juno Mak is bringing back the hopping vampire and - with the help of The Grudge director Shimizu Takashi - he's taking them in a dark and thoroughly compelling direction. It was back in June that our own James Marsh...

Ten Essential Films From Lau Kar Leung

With word breaking early this morning that iconic martial arts performer, fight choreographer and director Lau Kar Leung has passed away now seems the perfect time to cast an eye back over his career. With his professional life beginning in...

Juno Mak Brings Back The Chinese Vampire In First Stills From His RIGOR MORTIS

The vampire is coming back to Hong Kong screens. Once a staple genre in Hong Kong, the geung si has fallen out of favor in recent years, something that doesn't sit well at all with Juno Mak. He has made...

Three Fresh Teasers From Ho Yuhang's AT THE END OF DAYBREAK

Malaysia's Ho Yuhang is a great favorite in these parts, the director further cementing his reputation with this year's dark drama At The End of Daybreak.  Malaysia now, 23-year-old Tuck Chai is dating Ying, a schoolgirl who isn't yet 16...

TIFF 09: AT THE END OF DAYBREAK Review

If it seems like the sort of story that could happen in real life, that's because it is. Pulled from actual headlines, Rain Dogs director Ho Yuhang returns with At The End Of Daybreak, a story of class division...