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  • Metro Romance (dir. Taylor Wong, 1984)

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    Carlotta Films is slated to re-release Behind the Yellow Line (1984) on Blu-ray under the title Metro Romance in April 2026. Directed by Taylor Wong, the film (originally titled 緣份, Yuan Fen, “Fate”) is a light romantic comedy set on Hong Kong’s newly modernized MTR. The new edition restores a modest but revealing mid-1980s hit.…

  • Let’s Love Hongkong (dir. Yau Ching, 2002)

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                In Let’s Love Hongkong (dir. Yau Ching, 2002), the metropolis is presented as a lesbian dystopia where affections constantly get waylaid and no one seems to fall in love with the right person. Instead, everyone is addicted to cheap thrills and devices. The film revolves around the lives of three lesbians in Y2K-era Hong…

  • (The Eye, dir. Pang & Pang, 2008)

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    Traumas and wounds become embodied indexes of a nation’s technological and cultural transformation in the film, The Eye (2008). The horror story centers on 20-year old Wong Kar Mun, a Hong kong classical violinist who undergoes an eye cornea transplant. Regaining her sense of sight should be a blessing for Wong, but it becomes more…

  • In the mood for love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

    In the mood for love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

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    Hong Kong 1962: Ambitious newspaper editor Chow (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and shy secretary Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) are among the many immigrants who have fled to the British crown colony after the conquest of Shanghai by the Chinese Communists. Although both are married and receive a regular salary, they can afford only a subleased room…