When she did begin acting in the early 1980s, at the age of 18, unlike many second-generation actresses she did it to support her family, she revealed in a 2016 interview with Phoenix TV. Kwan pictured in 1993. Her breakout role came in 1984 in the romantic comedy Challenge on Chasing Girls. Photo: SCMP “I … Read more
“We were a family of five and we only had one bike and one watch, so when I decided to follow in the footsteps of my older brother and train in wushu, we all had to rely on my dad’s watch and a flashlight to read the time to wake us up at 4.30am,” recalls … Read more
It all began in 1885, when ragpicker and repairman Leung Chi-wah (also known as Leung So), who had been fixing European umbrellas for foreigners conducting business in Guangzhou, decided to make Western umbrellas himself using imported materials. He would eventually set up shop in a busier part of the city. Umbrellas for sale at Leung … Read more
Li’s reinvention as a modern action hero was surprisingly successful, and the contemporary actioners he made in Hong Kong before he decamped to Hollywood – alongside a few superior period kung fu pieces like Fearless – proved very entertaining. Why Ann Hui’s debut feature The Secret was such an important Hong Kong film Below we … Read more
