Derek Yee Tung-sing’s crime films One Nite in Mongkok, Protégé and Triple Tap were gritty and realistic, and refused to glamorise the underworld and crime. We unpack these three classics.
Pacita Abad’s political fabric art was dismissed as folksy in her lifetime, much of it spent in the US. Now, 20 years after her death, it is the subject of a major retrospective at New York’s MoMA PS1.
Lively, with slapstick humour and full of romcom tropes, Shanghai Blues remains one of Tsui Hark’s favourite films; 40 years after its release, it was screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
John Woo’s Bullet in the Head, loved by critics and fans alike, is an anti-war film centred around male friendship, a frequent theme for the director, and a political commentary on Hong Kong of its era.
A team of neuroscientists who studied jazz guitarists find common factors in how they achieved a flow state and what their brains have done to help flow arise more easily.
With echoes of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti Westerns, fight scenes featuring some cool weapons, and a great ending, The Avenging Eagle was part of Shaw Brothers’ ‘last hurrah’, film producer Frank Djeng says.
From a deeply upsetting movie about a necrophiliac to a ‘mentally scarring’ film about black magic, an expert on Hong Kong cinema picks his five favourite horror movies produced in the city.
From launching Jackie Chan’s career with kung fu comedies to helping end big studios’ stranglehold on filming, Ng See-yuen has had a huge influence on Hong Kong cinema.
From a Tony Leung Chiu-wai crime thriller to a stylised hit-girl drama to a weird triad fantasy, we revisit and rate the first five films from Milkyway Image, formed by producer-directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai.
Chor Yuen’s 1973 film The House of 72 Tenants took in more money than Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon in Hong Kong, and making it in Cantonese, not Mandarin Chinese, proved a turning point for the industry.
Taiwanese actress-director Sylvia Chang has spoken to the Post on many subjects, from saying no to Hollywood and Asian stereotypes to making films on women. We recall her most quotable quotes.
We look beyond the dangerous stunts and innovative action sequences, and martial arts stars like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, to discover why Hong Kong films have often travelled so well.
Health-centric technologies are being used to make self-care ‘a cornerstone of modern living spaces’ – think smart mattresses, and interactive art that can ‘transform you based on your movement, heartbeat or mood’.