Blue Island (Hong Kong/Japan/Taiwan, 2022) [CAAMFest 2022]
Since the region’s harrowing protests in 2019, Hong Kong’s tumultuous political landscape continues to erode in the face of ongoing retaliation from its mainland counterparts....
Drifting (Hong Kong, 2021) [CVF 2021]
After his audacious directorial feature debut in 2018 with Tracey, fans of Hong Kong cinema have been patiently awaiting Jun Li’s sophomore outing. Fresh and...
Keep Rolling (Hong Kong, 2020) [OAFF 2021]
Compared to fellow Hong Kong auteurs like John Woo, Tsui Hark, and Wong Kar-wai, Ann Hui’s name isn’t as well known but this veteran filmmaker...
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down (Hong Kong, 2019) [Focus Hong Kong 2021]
Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly’s four-vignette film presents differing aspects of and perspectives on Hong Kong lives, from the very personal and insular to the...
Snake Eaters by Quentin Lee & Jericho Li
Jericho Li, an MA Communications student at Baptist University, escorts us through Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po in this cellphone video shot with the assistance...
No.7 Cherry Lane (Hong Kong/China, 2019) [TIFF 2019]
As local Hong Kong cinema has undoubtedly lost momentum over the past decade, its presence on the international film festival scene has also noticeably diminished....
3006 by Matthew Leung
Films that treat their cities as characters elicit a certain melancholic sentimentality that other films don’t. This challenges the common notion that a city is...
TVB – A Necessary Evil in the Hong Kong Entertainment Industry
So here’s the thing, I used to be a huge fan of TVB. Like every other (Cantonese-speaking) Asian person I knew, watching TVB wasn’t just...
Love on a Diet (Hong Kong, 2001)
This doesn’t happen as often anymore, but back in the early 2000s, Johnnie To would space out his highly stylized crime thrillers with crowd pleasing...
Interview with Ng Ka-leung [Five Flavours 2016]
When you search for Ng Ka-leung on IMDb, what you get is a single credit for his film Ten Years which was the Hong Kong...