Production Design
Kwok plays a cyber security engineer who develops an AI programme with the potential to disable the region’s entire networks, but then has to prevent it falling into the wrong hands.
Production Design
The chaos began at the Winter Solstice dinner eight years ago. The father lost his temper, the son, not able to forgive his father, ran away from home. Eight years have passed, and the family's relationship is still cold and distant. A cousin returns to Hong Kong from England and hopes to gather everyone for a Winter Solstice dinner. The long-awaited gathering prompted everyone to rethink their relationships with family members. Some choose to leave, some are back. When things are about to fall apart, it might as well be an opportunity to mend connections.
Art Direction
Mei-fung was once a top artiste manager but she quit when she got pregnant. After years of living as a housewife, distance has grown between her and her husband. The fact that her 17-year-old son Hin is about to study abroad prompts her to re-enter the entertainment world. A chance encounter with Ching, a delivery boy at a local cafe, leads her to a talented singer. With her connections and his raw talent, the public soon falls in love with him. But while her career flourishes, her son Hin only sees a caring mother turning into a career-driven stranger. When their family falls apart and Ching arrives on the scene, a rivalry develops between Hin and Ching.
Production Design
Where is home? For a group of Chinese students studying and working in Tokyo, it might be the Nankokute restaurant whose manager has been in Japan for years without ever managing to obtain a residence permit. The cook left his family in China and hasn't yet managed to have them brought over to join him and one waiter's father is sick while the other's is a violent alcoholic. An engaging fresco of everyday life with touching moments and an authentic, natural atmosphere.
Producer
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
Director
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
Costume Design
Siete amigos se reúnen para cenar y deciden jugar a un juego: tendrán que compartir con toda la mesa los mensajes y las llamadas que llegan a sus móviles.
Production Design
When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared for by his first wife. A conflict ensues, and Huiying's daughter, an intrepid reporter, breaks the story as the three women search for proof of love.
Consulting Editor
Siguiendo inmediatamente los sucesos de la primera parte, el comisionado de policía Sean Lau recibe una llamada informándole del secuestro de su mujer, chantajeándole con que deje suelto a Joe Lee a cambio de la vida de su esposa.
Art Direction
Michelle and Marco Tol, a former pastor, meet at a party. They discuss what happened five years ago, when a scandal involving the pair erupted and disgraced Tol.
Production Design
Ching atraviesa una crisis vital, agravada por el hecho de que su marido la engaña con una joven. El hermano de Ching cree vivir con menos problemas, pero lo cierto es que está obsesionado con la belleza y esto es un lastre para su esposa, una modelo que comienza a envejecer. Ambos mantienen una fría relación con su padre. Humor negro y fantasía salpican esta oscura radiografía de la familia.
Production Design
Desde la infancia, Sook-Hee ha sido entrenada para convertirse en una asesina sin piedad. Cuando Madame Kwon, la jefa del servicio de información de Corea del Sur, la recluta como agente durmiente, le ofrece una segunda oportunidad. “Danos diez años de tu vida y tendrás tu libertad”. Su nueva identidad es Chae Yeon-Soo, una actriz de teatro de 27 años. Con la promesa de una libertad completa a cambio de servir a su país durante diez años, Sook-Hee emprende una nueva vida. Para esta mujer que ha vivido como asesina, llevar una existencia normal no resulta una tarea sencilla. Pero cuando dos hombres entran en su vida, los secretos de su pasado … (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Un thriller de espionaje ambientado en los años 1950 que adapta la novela "Year Suan/Plot Against" de May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai interpreta a un hombre ciego que trabaja para un afinador de pianos. Jake ha sido reclutado para una misión de espionaje debido a su excepcional sentido de la audición.
Production Design
Manson Law, a celebrated stockbroker in Hong Kong, is injured in a car accident. The police, led by Inspector Jack Ho, discovers a military surveillance device in the car wreck. Meanwhile, the wiretapper Joe Szema is unveiling his extensive plan that targets the mysterious financial conglomerate, the Landlord Club. The fate of these three men soon intertwines in the cat-and-mouse game that may bring down the entire stock market.
Production Design
La historia, ambientada en el siglo XIX, gira en torno a la gran amistad entre dos mujeres que tuvieron que sobrevivir en una época de rígidos códigos de conducta.
Costume Design
Champion competitive marksman Ken comes across an armored van robbery. He sees a policeman held hostage and shoots and kills four of the robbers. One of the robbers escapes and the policeman survives. The case is handled by Jerry Chang, whom Ken knows from having recently beaten him in a shooting match. Ken is found not guilty in court. Soon after, Ken is attacked by the escaped robber Pang Tao. Their confrontation reveals a very different background story and brings about a myriad of lies and traps and changes in relationships as Jerry and Ken try to outsmart each other.
Art Direction
Champion competitive marksman Ken comes across an armored van robbery. He sees a policeman held hostage and shoots and kills four of the robbers. One of the robbers escapes and the policeman survives. The case is handled by Jerry Chang, whom Ken knows from having recently beaten him in a shooting match. Ken is found not guilty in court. Soon after, Ken is attacked by the escaped robber Pang Tao. Their confrontation reveals a very different background story and brings about a myriad of lies and traps and changes in relationships as Jerry and Ken try to outsmart each other.
Production Design
Una mujer que desde niña vivía en un viejo edificio frente a Victoria Bay, el puerto de Hong Kong, del cual tenía una vista no solo al mar sino a toda la ciudad. Según fueron pasando los años, las constructoras iban demoliendo los edificios, haciendo sitio para un gran complejo residencial.
Art Direction
Dos policías de la unidad de vigilancia descubren un plan de estafa financiera, destapando así todo un entramado de negocios sucios. Los policías no son inmunes a la tentación del dinero fácil, y no tardan en hacerse con las acciones gracias a la información privilegiada de que disponen.
Production Designer
La trilogía Infernal Affairs (readaptada por Martin Scorsese en "The Departed") volvió a demostrar que la ex-colonia británica, cuando quiere, sabe mover ficha y volver a convertirse en foco de atención mundial. Tras diversificar sus propuestas, Lau y Mak han vuelto a Hong Kong para rodar este elegante thriller urbano que retoma en buena parte las coordenadas de su éxito. Su título original, cuya traducción sería "Ciudad herida", se adapta como un guante a esta historia de personajes, amarga como el whisky con el que un detective intenta olvidar el suicidio de su novia, y triste como el pasado de un policía cuyo suegro ha sido brutalmente asesinado (información de cinemasitges.com). (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
A Macao police officer's bachelor life is interrupted by the daughter he never knew he fathered.
Costume Design
May's son has gone missing, and in order to win him back, the devoted mother is going to have to face her worst fears as she navigates a treacherous maze of incomprehensible evil. If she can make it out alive, she might just get a second chance at motherhood. If she falls prey to the darkness that surrounds her, however, she will suffer a fate worse than death as she is forced to confront every mother's worst nightmare.
Production Design
Joker is a computer programmer working on a 3-D adventure game starring a virtual idol. Stuck for inspiration, he ends up finding it in Ling, a bartender at a dance club. While in a drug-induced stupor, Joker imagines Ling to be the perfect image of his virtual girl. He's immediately smitten, but more important, he now has a model for his virtual heroine: Princess D.
Art Direction
Lam es un profesor de instituto que enseña su gran pasión, la literatura china. Casado desde hace veinte años, con dos hijos adolescentes, el matrimonio de Lam parece perfecto a ojos de los demás, pero nada más lejos de la realidad. Cuando el antiguo profesor y mentor de Lam vuelva a hacer acto de presencia en su vida trayendo consigo los fantasmas del pasado todo comenzará a desmoronarse, al tiempo que a Lam le será cada vez más difícil resistirse en caer en la tentación de tener una aventura con una atractiva alumna que está enamorada de él y no tiene ningún pudor en hacérselo saber.
Art Direction
Hong Kong, 1962. Chow, redactor jefe de un diario local, se muda con su mujer a un edificio habitado principalmente por gentes de Shanghai. Allí conoce a Li-zhen, una joven que acaba de instalarse en el mismo edificio con su esposo. Ella es secretaria de una empresa de exportación y su marido está continuamente de viaje de negocios. Como la mujer de Chow también está casi siempre fuera de casa, Li-zhen y Chow pasan cada vez más tiempo juntos y se hacen muy amigos. Un día, ambos descubrirán que sus respectivos cónyuges los están traicionando.
Art Direction
A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.
Art Direction
Made up of four short stories. One, a lonely hooker can't stop crying whenever she has sex with her clients. She approaches a shrink and ends up stalking him. Two, a long suffering wife and the mistress of her husband bonds. Three, a weird tale of a lesbian avenging her comatose twin sister by killing her unfaithful boyfriend. And lastly, a woman one day suddenly decides that she had enough of her failing marriage and desperately seeks a reinvention of her life.
