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9 September, 2024
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ComplexCon Hong Kong 2025 unveils a star-studded music lineup featuring headliners Metro Boomin and Zico. Photo: ComplexCon

ComplexCon Hong Kong announces Metro Boomin and Zico as 2025 headliners

A meeting of American and Asian hip-hop, the concerts also feature Quavo, Hong Kong favs MC Jin and Jace, and South Korea’s Changmo and B.I.

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The interior of a typical farmer’s residence in Kuk Po, Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

An abandoned village is brought to life in this debut Hong Kong festival

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Jia Zhangke, a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

How director Jia Zhangke captures China’s rise in his gritty films

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Dylan So in a scene in Papa, in 2024. Photo: Golden Scene

Dylan So debuts in Papa as a young murderer troubled by voices

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Surf’s up: seasoned surfers flock to the famous Cloud 9 surf spot on Siargao Island in the Philippines. Photo: Getty Images

8 Asian surfing spots to ride the waves, from Phuket to Sri Lanka

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Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress Anita Mui wore a wedding gown at one of her last concerts in Hong Kong in November 2003. She died the following month on December 30. Photo: Reuters

When Hong Kong lost Cantopop superstar Anita Mui

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Jay Chou in a still from Initial D (2005), one of five lesser known movies of Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau Wai-keung, director of the Infernal Affairs trilogy and the Young and Dangerous film series.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

From Initial D to Sausalito, 5 films that show director Andrew Lau’s range

Known for the Infernal Affairs trilogy and Young and Dangerous films, Andrew Lau’s output is wide-ranging. We recall some lesser known films.

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Chinese culture

Nezha 2: ancient Chinese tales are a winning formula for animated film success

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Ha Ha Ha Happy New Year: Philip Keung hams it up for bizarre comedy

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China’s box office riding Lunar New Year wave to record Spring Festival haul

Ne Zha 2 and Detective Chinatown 1900 lead the way as billions of yuan in cinema receipts bode well for an industry still looking to bounce back to pre-pandemic numbers.

A poster for Ne Zha 2 appears at a cinema in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Monday. Photo: Getty Images
Fame and celebrity

Obituary | The rise of Meteor Garden star Barbie Hsu, dead at 48

Popularly known as ‘Big S’, Barbie Hsu began her career in 1994 in the pop duo SOS before starring in a number of films and TV series.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

3 of the best Chinese wuxia films made in the 21st century

Sword-fighting films were popular in the 1960s and 1990s. Tsui Hark and Derek Yee were among directors who reinvented the genre this century.

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Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Meet Gordon Lam Ka-tung, a movie star decades in the making

An actor who grew up poor and had to wait decades for his first film awards, Gordon Lam has risen steadily to the top of Hong Kong cinema.

Hong Kong film actor and producer Gordon Lam Ka-tung at an interview with the Post in 2021. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Chinese language cinema

Review | In Chinese fantasy Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force a star is born

Wuershan’s rollicking fantasy adventure sequel to his Creation of the Gods has an expanded role for Nashi, and the actress is a revelation.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Queen of Mahjong: Wong Jing, Patrick Kong join forces on tasteless comedy

Sultans of sexism deliver a torrent of tasteless trash interspersed with shows of skill at the mahjong table. Decent human beings beware.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Hit N Fun, warm-hearted boxing drama by Rob N Roll filmmaker

Albert Mak is back with bittersweet tale of a high-flyer, a washed-up actress and a failing gym boss forced to rethink their purpose in life.

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Chrissie Chau (left) and Louise Wong in a still from Hit N Fun.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | In My Best Bet, Charlene Choi and Louis Cheung battle gambling addiction

A man with an aversion to gamblers marries a gambling addict in Andy Lo’s comedy. The writer-director shows a gift for nonsensical humour.

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Charlene Choi in a still from My Best Bet.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Martial arts maestro’s 36th Chamber of Shaolin sequels a mixed bag

Shaw Brothers backed Lau Kar-leung to make two sequels to The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, one so bad it was the studio’s last martial arts film.

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American cinema

Why Hong Kong-set Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is plain offensive

It won three Oscars but the clunky 1955 movie casts Caucasians as Eurasians, features yellowface and had two leads who hated each other.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

10 best Golden Princess films, including John Woo and Tsui Hark classics

A library of Hong Kong films, including the likes of A Chinese Ghost Story and Hard Boiled, has been bought – good news for fans overseas.

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Chow Yun-fat in a still from A Better Tomorrow (1986). Photo: Cinema City & Films
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

How Swordsman, Tsui Hark’s wuxia film, started a new fantasy era

Tsui Hark’s 1990 Hong Kong film Swordsman was a long and rambling affair that was difficult to follow, yet it was a resounding success.

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Sam Hui Koon-kit as Ling-wu Chung in a still from Tsui Hark’s Swordsman (1990), the film adaptation of a Louis Cha wuxia novel that launched and era of fantasy martial arts cinema in Hong Kong. Photo: Fortune Star Media
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Twilight of the Warriors named the best Hong Kong film of 2024 by critics

Director Soi Cheang Pou-soi scores third win in four years for martial arts drama set in Kowloon Walled City; Papa wins two major awards.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Sammo Hung plays his and Jackie Chan’s schoolmaster in Painted Faces

1988 Hong Kong film follows Yu Jim-yuen, the master of the Peking opera school in Kowloon whose pupils included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.

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Review | Remember What I Forgot: nostalgic tale of a Hong Kong cinema geek

Philip Keung and Fish Liew star in Keian Chui’s directorial debut that indulges the audience with memories of Hong Kong cinema.

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Philip Keung (left) and Fish Liew in a still from Remember What I Forgot.
Asian cinema: Korean films

Exhuma, Twilight of the Warriors lead Asian Film Awards nominations

Both movies are up for best picture at the 18th Asian Film Awards, as are All We Imagine as Light, Black Dog and Teki Cometh.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Burning Blood: stars of Young and Dangerous back for awful police thriller

Jerry Lamb, Jason Chu, Jordan Chan and Michael Tse reunite in Wilson Chin’s posthumous final film that is just as bad as his others.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

4 notable Monkey King adaptations in Hong Kong cinema. One stars Donnie Yen

We recall Journey to the West film adaptations, from Stephen Chow’s turn in the title role to one in which Donnie Yen plays the Monkey King.

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Donnie Yen as Monkey King in a still from The Monkey King (2014).
Chinese culture

5 martial arts films that feature the snake style of Shaolin kung fu

From an early Jackie Chan film to Kung Fu Panda and The Karate Kid, here are five movies where snake kung fu appears.

An example of snake kung fu in a still from The Karate Kid. The style also features in an early Jackie Chan film and Kung Fu Panda. Photo: Columbia Pictures
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Meet Dayo Wong, stand-up comedy icon and Hong Kong box office king

The star of The Last Dance has had a tumultuous rise to the top, with a string of failed films but a stellar stand-up career under his belt.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

8 classic Hong Kong movies that influenced filmmaking in the city

Hong Kong filmmaking underwent successive evolutions thanks to films like Fist of Fury, Infernal Affairs and John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow.

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American cinema

How Chinese film fans embraced Cloud Atlas, movie spurned elsewhere

The Wachowkis and Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel was a box-office flop everywhere except China, despite a starry cast.

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Tom Hanks and Raevan Lee Hanan in a still from Cloud Atlas. The 2012 film by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, based on David Mitchell’s novel, flopped everywhere except China, despite fans there seeing an edited version. Photo: Warner Bros
Trending in China

‘Win back their love’: China actress positive over weight-loss popularity plunge

Many feel the thinner actress is less adorable and easy-going, with some saying she resembles ‘a half Jia Ling’.

Chinese actress Jia Ling says she is optimistic despite seeing her popularity slump after she lost weight for a role in a hit movie. Photo: SCMP composite/Weibo
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

The Hong Kong films released in 2024, ranked from worst to best

From We 12 to Papa, Fly Me to the Moon and The Last Dance, our ranking of the Hong Kong films that hit cinemas in the course of the year.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

3 of John Woo’s lesser known action films, one so violent it was shelved

A triad movie with a young Stephen Chow, a crude war film and a crime caper starring Leslie Cheung. These 3 Woo projects fly under the radar.

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