By David Pountain Yesterday’s Hong Kong Film Awards proved to be something of a culmination point for one of this past year’s biggest underdog stories of national cinema. Produced on a shoestring budget, the five-part […]
Hong Kong films
By David Pountain Lee Po-cheung’s funny and affecting Gangster Payday is not your typical Hong Kong triad flick. Bypassing the taut set pieces and operatic violence you would usually associate with the genre, the film […]
By David Pountain Directed by Lee Po-cheung For those of you familiar with the cinematic record of beloved Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong (which includes such crime-thriller classics as Infernal Affairs, Hard Boiled and Exiled), […]