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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • GILApple

    What do you get if you combine an apple with a doll? A good question for a Japanese fashion designer. And one that gets mysterious…
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  • Drunken Master

    One of Jackie Chan’s early films that saved the kung fu genre from plunging further down the box office after Bruce Lee’s death. Features acrobatic…
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  • Duel to the Death

    The storyline is just an excuse for Ching to reinvent wuxia in cinema, incorporating western techniques and his own innovations. Acrobatic combats wit
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  • Pedicab Driver

    1980s Hong Kong action cinema drew upon new elements such as romance and burlesque. This fine example has heart-warming love stories, fun tricycle cha
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  • The Story of Wong Fei-hung, Part 1: Wong Fei-hung’s Whip That Smacks the Candle

    Wong Fei-hung was an ordinary fight instructor before over 100 films raised him to legendary status. Superstar Jet Li then picked up the role. With…
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  • King Boxer

    The film that introduced kung fu to the West in 1972. More violent than its contemporaries, King Boxer’s eye-gouging, skull-cracking fight scenes, pai
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  • Portland Street Blues

    Mainstream genre film about Triad gang wars in Hong Kong excels in acting and well-written roles for the film characters (with e.g. the phenomenal San
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  • Motorola

    What happens when Wong Kar-wai can make a 3-minute commercial for mobile phones.
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  • Hold You Tight

    Kwan’s most liberated and open-hearted film so far is about people who swing between fidelity and infidelity, marriage and divorce, motherhood and chi
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  • Xiao Wu

    ‘No budget’ feature starts as an exercise in raw social realism, but slowly develops into something more special. Xiao Wu is a scummy-yet-likeable pet
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