Tse, who also directs the action, plays a customs officer who intercepts a boatload of weapons and single-handedly stops their terrorist owners grabbing them back in Herman Yau’s highly implausible film.

Action film brings in 1.59 million viewers and box office sales of HK$105 million since its premiere earlier this year.

He got his first action director credit for Customs Frontline: Hong Kong actor/singer Nicholas Tse talks about how he avoided CGI, even for explosions, to keep the film’s stunts as real as possible.

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.

A teenage student cramming for Hong Kong’s university entrance exam joins YouTuber Hui Yin, who is resitting it at 30 to put right his past failures, in documentary Once Upon a Time in HKDSE.

The Valiant Ones, King Hu’s 1975 martial arts drama, was rediscovered after being ‘lost’ for two decades. A film critic tells the Post why it stands out from the director’s other films.

Eason Chan is one of the most influential Hong Kong pop singers and has a won a string of awards in a three-decade career, despite taking some controversial stances and facing some low moments.

With the release this month of Herman Yau’s Crisis Negotiators – which reimagines 1998 Hollywood movie The Negotiator – we consider 5 other Chinese-language remakes of films from the US.

Adults-only and mainstream crime films, sex films, and serious dramas with Alex Law and Ann Hui – Simon Yam has done them all. Good-looking and with an expressive face, he has a work ethic second to none.

Martial arts films are heavily linked with Chinese culture, from the Shaolin Temple in China to famous martial artists in history, such as Wong Fei-hung, Fong Sai-yuk and Hong Xiguan.

Lau Ching-wan plays a police hostage negotiator framed for murder and Francis Ng an ex-colleague in Herman Yau’s pale remake of Hollywood movie The Negotiator.

One Love Asia Festival organiser adds 30 per cent of ticket holders sought refunds after the concert was rescheduled over weather concerns.

Readers discuss how the Doraemon manga can inspire us to solve real-world problems, why Hong Kong should be more selective about mega events and how a politeness campaign should extend to the city’s motorways.

Gordon Liu, who sneaked off to learn kung fu behind his parents’ backs as a child, has had a career that spanned decades. Notably, he appeared as two different characters in the Kill Bill films.

Joey Wong, who retired at the peak of her career, was one of the most well-known actresses of the 1980s and 90s Hong Kong entertainment scene. We look back at her life and career, and at where she is today.

Chaos at Waterbomb Hong Kong music festival after long queues caused by delayed start and hours-long wait to retrieve bags from cloakroom after event ends.

Hit 2010 film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, starring Andy Lau, had many of the hallmarks of Tsui Hark’s earlier wuxia films. Sammo Hung choreographed the action. Two more films followed.

Fruit Chan Gor’s Made in Hong Kong, The Longest Summer and Little Cheung depict Hong Kong working-class life at the time of the handover from British to Chinese rule, and the start of cultural change.

Jan Lamb of Cantopop duo Softhard is nothing if not versatile. The Hong Kong entertainer has been an actor, graphic designer, rapper, stand-up comedian, popular radio host, dramatist, and film director.

Competition will take place on June 15 and 16 in Tsim Sha Tsui East with over 170 teams taking part.

Christopher Sun’s film has the trappings of a social realist drama, but in fact is a well constructed mystery. Not without its flaws, it is a welcome addition to the Hong Kong film canon.

Public, band members and fans left outraged after police arrest man and 15-year-old boy for allegedly defacing grave of rock band’s former lead vocalist.

Co-accused Yip Tsz-to, 23, granted bail but unnamed 15-year-old kept in custody as he is on bail for another criminal case.

Inspired casting, with Andy Lau facing off against Maggie Q and Sammo Hung narrating, helped Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon succeed. Martial arts scenes light up God of War, some involving Hung.

Infernal Affairs, the 2002 psychological Hong Kong cop drama starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau, was a box-office hit, but proved a hard act to follow when the studio asked for two more films.

With Lydia Sum ‘everything came from the heart’, said the TV producer who turbocharged the career of the comedian and actress. Known as Fei Fei, she is remembered for the joy she brought audiences.

In 1975’s The Man from Hong Kong, Jimmy Wang Yu thought he had found the vehicle that would propel him to Bruce Lee-level international fame – but the James Bond-like film did not click with viewers.

Mayday’s second show rescheduled to May 9 after first performance was moved online amid heavy rainfall.