Hong Kong romance films have always been notoriously melodramatic. But in the first decade of the 21st century, filmmakers looking for something new to offer audiences started to experiment with the genre. Below are four very different highlights of modern Hong Kong romance films. 1. July Rhapsody (2002) Directed by Ann Hui Romantic angle: love … Read more
3.5/5 stars Working-class despair, relationship troubles and long-buried family secrets vie for attention in Once in a Blue Moon, writer-director Andy Lo Yiu-fai’s long-awaited follow-up to his exquisite 2016 film Happiness. Depicting the prosaic concerns of two adult children in a single-parent family in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic, Lo’s bittersweet film is a … Read more
Her part in the 1988 action comedy The Inspector Wears Skirts earned Ng a best new performer nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards the following year. Her first leading role arrived soon afterwards, alongside Stephen Chow Sing-chi in Jeffrey Lau Chun-wai’s Thunder Cops II (1989). ‘The eyes of six million Hongkongers on me’: all … Read more
3.5/5 stars For all the talk of Table of Six ranking third on the list of highest-grossing Hong Kong films of all time, it is easy to overlook the incongruous fact that the 2022 film was a single-location comedy in which six characters keep talking around a dinner table. It was an unenviable task for … Read more
