Countries: "China (Hong Kong)"

A Festival of Hong Kong Films

A Festival of Hong Kong Films

China (Hong Kong), UK

Venue: Odeon Convent Garden, London

Date: 02/07/2012 - 14/07/2012

The Hong Kong 15 Film Festival has announced its programme to mark the 15th Anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. Starting 2nd July, this festival [...]

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Wong Fei-hung's Combat with the Five Wolves

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Specials – Once Upon a Hero: The Wong Fei-hung Saga

Many worthwhile titles are not included because of limitations in scheduling, not to mention works that had been lost.

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Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Tribute – The Irreverent Genre-Buster: Kurahara Koreyoshi

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Tribute – The Irreverent Genre-Buster: Kurahara Koreyoshi

From noir crime dramas to New Wave beatnik sagas to popular blockbusters about animals and Antarctica, Kurahara’s cinema can be called anything but boring.

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Southeast the Peacock Flies

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Specials – The Strange Case of Hong Kong Amoy Cinema

Rhe Amoy-dialect cinema of Hong Kong were made in the Amoy dialect of southern Fujian but, as far as we can determine, never shown in the province.

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The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Tribute – The Aesthetics of Discordance: Kawashima Yuzo

The Kawashima Yuzo retrospective, shown on exquisitely restored prints, aims to correct that and introduce new audiences to the delights of this auteur’s world.

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Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: The Documentaries

The 36th HKIFF boasts of a highly-charged array of documentaries in three programmes: Reality Bites, Dear Earth…, and Filmmakers and Filmmaking.

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Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Specials – Ito Takashi, Architecture of the Mind

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Specials – Ito Takashi, Architecture of the Mind

Takashi’s signature aesthetic of illusory movement, a blend of animation, still photography and live action, was borne out of a fascination with the ability of cinema to animate the [...]

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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Exhibition Highlights

Close to a hundred titles in seven programs make up the Exhibition highlights of the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival.

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