The 6 most anticipated new Hong Kong films of 2021: from Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok in Theory of Ambitions to Donnie Yen in Raging Fire, who are you looking forward to watching most?
Ann Hui’s Love After Love is based on an Eileen Chang novel, while Nicholas Tse stars opposite Yen in Benny Chan’s last film, and Sammi Cheng and Gigi Leung reunite in First Night Nerves
The smell of popcorn, the big screen, the immersive surround sound, and the moment we settle into our favourite seats … watching a film at the cinema is definitely a inimitable experience.
As we look forward (fingers crossed) to the easing of the pandemic later this year, let’s take a look at upcoming Hong Kong films that will be too good to miss: Sons of the Neon Night, which saw a 1:1 recreation of the Causeway Bay cityscape, Ann Hui’s Love After Love adapted from an Eileen Chang novel, sci-fi movie Warriors of Future with its US$45 million production budget, and Theory of Ambitions featuring a showdown between screen legends Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Aaron Kwok. And that’s just the beginning.
Sons of the Neon Night
Although the release date still hasn’t been confirmed, Sons of the Neon Night is a highly anticipated film, especially for fans of singer, scriptwriter, actor and director Juno Mak’s first film Rigor Mortis in 2013.
In addition to the solid cast – including Louis Koo, Sean Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Gao Yuanyuan – viewers are also looking forward to the life-size replica of Causeway Bay used in the shooting of the film.
To shoot the large-scale explosion scene in the film, the production team built a replica of the iconic junction of Causeway Bay outside Sogo and the areas nearby at an iron and steel mill in Huizhou, Guangdong province.