Ryouma ga Yuku

8.0

Ryoma ga Yuku is a five-hour epic which chronicles the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to study swordsmanship, Ryoma heads for Edo where he meets many…

Kung Fu Kids IV

In accidentally stumbling upon a time tunnel while studying art, the great Kung Fu master Huo Yuan Jia crosses through, from the Qing Dynasty to modern day. Dazed and befuddled by the difference of visible stars above,…

Return of the Evil Fox

6.0

1391: The good Chiang Su Su manages to defeat the evil spirit Elf Fox, but has her soul transferred to a jasper incense holder and remains dormant for hundreds of years. In 1991 the Elf Fox returns to lethal life to…

The Hit-and-Run Family

4.0

Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to…

Tenshi no yo ni Ikitemitai

What is it like to genuinely meet the needs of patients and staff in a new hospital? The social workers who are the central focus of this drama bring a fresh perspective to the problems of providing "human" care in…

An Artillery Major

It tells the story of Chu Ning’s 20 years of experience, from an artillery soldier in a rolling minefield to an artillery major who never forgets his original intention and loyally serves the cause of modern national…

Izu no Odorikko

6.0

Set in the pre-war years, a young high school student (the high school being the equivalent of a modern university, and any student there virtually promised an elite career) is holidaying in the hills of Izu when he…

Burning Ambition

7.1

This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan’s unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film "Shogun’s Samurai" (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern-day Chinese gangsters battling…

The Other Side of Romance

A happily married man contracts the AIDS virus and must deal with the mental and physical anguish of this infectious disease. A dramatic look at AIDS and its effect on modern day Hong Kong. (Source: Letterboxd)

A Purple Handkerchief

Mothers of long-term prisoners of conscience currently suffer an excruciating oppression from the absence of their sons. Donned in the color purple to express the anguish in their lives, these women unflinchingly unveil…

Zhu Feng

Zhu Feng is a Chinese actor. Prior to embarking on the path of acting, he was a Chinese professional singer who won the championship of the 3rd National Golden Award Young Singer competition. In 2000, he left the stage and entered ATV Academy of Performing Arts to study acting under the tutelage of…

Billy Lau

Billy Lau is an actor, writer, and director who has been performing since 1982. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award for Mr. Vampire (1985).

Tony Chow

Tony Chow is a film editor known for his work on All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution (1981), Mad Mission (1982) and All the Wrong Spies (1983). He was active from 1973-2003. He also won the 1981 Golden Horse Award for Best Film Editing for All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution. (Source:…

Kato Daisuke

Kato Daisuke, whose real name was Kato Tokunosuke (加藤徳之), was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Seventh Junior High School and began his career as a kabuki actor before transitioning to film. His father, Takejima Denzo, was a playwright and assistant…

Blackie Ko

Blackie Ko was a Taiwanese actor, singer, stuntman, director, and race car driver. Born in the Yushan Archipelago, Linhai, Zhejiang, China, during the Chinese Civil War, he followed his father, Ko Wei Lin, to Taiwan in 1955, settling in Taitung after the retreat of the Nationalist forces from the Dachen…

Meg Lam

Meg has been in films from the mid-70’s right up to the present. Her best role - for which she garnered a HKFA Best Supporting Actress nomination - may well be that of one of pregnant prisoner in the very gritty and grim The First Time is the Last Time in 1989. (Source: HKCM)

Jeon Heon Tae

Jeon Heon Tae is a South Korean actor.

Michael Chow

Michael Chow is a Canadian-Chinese actor. After graduating from psychology at York University of Toronto (his mother was a professor in East Asian Studies, there), he pursued his acting career in Hong Kong. Knowing almost no Chinese, nor acting, he worked his way up the ladder, developing his skills.…

Carrie Ng

Carrie Ng is a Hong Kong actress well known for both Category-III cult and mainstream films. She won Best Actress at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival awards for her performance in Remains of a Woman and Best Supporting Actress at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Awards for The Kid.

Lo Wei

Lo Wei is a a Hong Konger film director and film actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee in "The Big Boss and Fist of Fury" and Jackie Chan, in "New Fist of Fury". After Lee's death, it was Lo who gave Jackie Chan his first shot at the big time as part of the wave…