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Hong Kong’s Leading Stars Hit the Road With High Hopes to Rejuvenate Film Industry

Hong Kong’s beleaguered film industry is looking to rekindle the passion for its movies that once reached fever pitch across Asia during its glory days, with a series of high-profile “gala ...

HK has another hit movie. Can such flicks save the industry from terminal decline?

Hong Kong's latest hit flick, Back To The Past, has made history, smashing the city's box-office records and giving its struggling film industry a fresh glimmer of hope.
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Hong Kong mourns loss of 2 stars of film and television, Chow Chung and Suet Nei

Chow Chung died from pneumonia aged 92 on Friday while Suet Nei, 77, succumbed to cancer on Thursday after long battle against the disease Hong Kong is mourning the loss of two beloved film stars, ...
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Action Legend John Woo Relives His Hong Kong Days, as Hard-to-See ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘The Killer’ Get Another Shot With Audiences

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, as ...
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Bullet-Fu Lovers Unite: What Are The Best Hong Kong Action Movies?

This past month, on the Criterion Channel, they had this excellent retrospective of Hong Kong action movies, which sent me down a rabbit hole of trying to find the best ones. I have to say, as an ...
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Back to the Past

You might be wondering why the makers of “Back to the Past,” an unusual Hong Kong sci-fi/action hybrid, bothered to revive “A ...
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Action Legend John Woo Relives His Hong Kong Days, as Hard-to-See ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘The Killer’ Get Another Shot With Audiences

Where did the idea for shooting with two guns come from? As Woo travels to France’s Lumière Festival to present 4K restorations of his most influential films, he explains the origins of his style. We ...