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4 unusual facts about Cinema of Hong Kong


Golden Gate Girl

Golden Gate Girl, also known as Tears in San Francisco or Jinmen Nü is a 1941 Hong Kong film Directed by Kwan Man Ching, the film was shot in San Francisco but wasn't released in America until 1946.

Hong Kong television drama

Hong Kong television dramas, along with cinema, have fostered an identity for the Cantonese dialect of Chinese separate to that of Standard Mandarin used in mainland China and Taiwan.

Shing Fui-On

Shing Fui On (成奎安; 1 February 1955 - 27 August 2009) was a Hong Kong actor, best known for his supporting roles in Hong Kong cinema.

Zhuangzi Tests His Wife

Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (Traditional Chinese: 莊子試妻 Zhuangzi shi qi) is a 1913 Hong Kong drama film directed by Li Minwei.


Adhu

The film, that has Aravind, a newcomer, Suha, Kazan Khan and Vijayan in supporting and Abbas in a cameo role, is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-Thai-Singaporean film The Eye, which was remade later in the United States under the same title and in Hindi as Naina, starring Jessica Alba and Urmila Matondkar in the lead roles respectively.

Brothers from the Walled City

Brothers from the Walled City (城寨出來者) is a 1982 Hong Kong film directed by Lam Ngai Kai and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.

Hong Kong cultural policy

Hong Kong films have received worldwide critical acclaim and have been remade into blockbuster films by Hollywood, while Hong Kong directors and actors (such as John Woo, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-fat) have gone on to find crossover success in Hollywood.

Hong Kong Movie DataBase

Restricting the addition of data to an editorial team who specialise in Hong Kong cinema means that the database typically contains more accurate information with respect to the films and people it covers than the Internet Movie Database.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (富貴逼人) is a 1987 Hong Kong film, directed by Clifton Ko.

Mari Ayukawa

In 1991, Ayukawa played the role of the wife of Kuen the silk-maker in the Hong Kong Category III classic Sex and Zen.

Needing You...

During the slump in the Hong Kong film industry of the late 1990s, Needing You... raked in HKD 6.5 million during its 1st 3 days of opening in Hong Kong, and amassed a total of HKD 35 million in Hong Kong alone, rivaling John Woo's American film Mission: Impossible II which screened during the same period in Hong Kong and triumphing all other Hong Kong films screened for the past few years.


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