How Hong Kong film The House of 72 Tenants saved the city’s Cantonese-language cinema
It also revived the fortunes of Cantonese-language films in Hong Kong, which audiences had abandoned in the late 1960s in favour of the slick Mandarin-language productions made by Shaw Brothers, which also co-produced Chor’s film. “The film broke the Hong Kong box-office record of the time,” Chor recalled in the Hong Kong Film Archive’s Oral … Read more
