Zero, who, like many Hong Kong youngsters, has a handful of unsteady jobs. She takes a fancy to Chan Kwok Chan, whom she stalks. Chan in turn, has a job donning exotic costumes as a cyber paper doll for a porn website and a sex-worker lover who has a son and a separate husband on… Continue reading Let’s Love Hongkong (dir. Yau Ching, 2002)
Angelica Lee as Wong Kar Mun in The Eye (2008) Photo: IMDB. com 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… Continue reading (The Eye, dir. Pang & Pang, 2008)
In the Mood for Love. 2000. Hong Kong. Directed by Wong Kar Wai. With Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man Yuk. 35mm. In Cantonese; English subtitles. 98 min. 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… Continue reading In the mood for love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
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