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1991-2010

Films of Note

Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wei) [MORE] [ADD]

Swordsman II (Ching Siu-Tung) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Qiuyue (Clara Law) [MORE] [ADD]

Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan) [MORE] [ADD]

Full Contact (Ringo Lam) [MORE] [ADD]

Hard-Boiled (John Woo) [MORE] [ADD]

The Iceman Cometh (Fok Yiu-Leung) [MORE] [ADD]

Banned in its native China, Kaige Chen's Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine), is released in Hong Kong.   Fengyi Zhang and Leslie Cheung star as Dieyi Cheng and Xialou Duan, two opera stars whose lives are inextricably linked. [MORE] [ADD]

Hong Kong 1993: Other Films of Note

Bride With White Hair (Ronny Yu) [MORE] [ADD]

The East is Red (Ching Siu-Tung) [MORE] [ADD]

Director Yimou Zhang’s Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao (Shanghai Triad), his seventh collaboration with actress Li Gong, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Too Many ways to be No 1 [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

A Hero Never Dies [MORE] [ADD]

The Storm Riders (Andy Lau) [MORE] [ADD]

Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Ang Lee’s tribute to the wuxia films that fired his passion for films, is released.   An all-star cast includes Yun-fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi. [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow) [MORE] [ADD]

Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang’s Jian gui (The Eye) is released.   Lee Sin-je stars as a girl who starts seeing terrifying visions after receiving a cornea transplant.  [MORE] [ADD]

Yimou Zhang’s Ying xiong (Hero) is released.   Jet Li, Chen Dao Ming, Donnie Yen, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi star.  [MORE] [ADD]

Hong Kong 2002: Other Films of Note

Infernal Affairs (Andy Lau)  [MORE] [ADD]

Yimou Zhang's Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers) is released.  Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau star as military agents attempting to capture a resistance leader through the previous leader’s blind daughter (Ziyi Zhang). [MORE] [ADD]

2046, Kar Wai Wong's sumptuous quasi-sequel to In the Mood for Love (2000) is released.   Tony Leung Chiu Wai returns as the hero of the first film, living now in a run-down Hong Kong hotel in the 60s.   Ziyi Zhang also stars as a good-time girl neighbour who falls badly for him. [MORE] [ADD]

Stephen Chow’s kung fu comedy Gung fu (Kung Fu Hustle) is released.   Chow stars as Sing, a would-be gangster who's trying to impress the notorious Axe gang. [MORE] [ADD]

Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle is voted the best film of 2004 at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards.   Derek Yee wins the best director award for One Nite in Mongkok. [MORE] [ADD]

China Daily reports that Peter Chan Ho-sunis’ Yu guo. Oi (Perhaps Love) has set box-office records on the Chinese mainland by earning $2.2 million in its first weekend. [MORE] [ADD]

The government announces the provision of $38.5 million for developing new talent in the country’s film industry.  [MORE] [ADD]

Song Kang-ho’s monster movie The Host wins four awards, including best film and actor, at the inaugural Asian Film Awards.   Jia Zhangke wins Best Director for Still Life.  [MORE] [ADD]

B-list actor Edison Chen’s performance is reported to be cut from the forthcoming film, Jump, after a flood of photographs showing him engaging in sex with a number of female actresses, are posted on the internet. [MORE] [ADD]

Lydia Shum (aka Fei Fei’), one of Hong Kong’s best-loved film and TV stars, dies from liver cancer in Queen Mary Hospital at the age of 60. [MORE] [ADD]

Edison Chen, the B-list actor embroiled in the celebrity photos scandal, in which photographs of him having sex with various actresses were posted on the internet, announces his retirement from the Hong Kong entertainment industry. [MORE] [ADD]

Three Kingdoms - Resurrection of the Dragon, a pan-Asian co-production starring Andy Lau, Sammo Hung and Maggie Q, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

The government refuses to help finance billionaire businessman Yu Panglin’s plans to to turn martial arts icon Bruce Lee’s former home in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district into a Lee museum. [MORE]

Edison Chen refuses to testify at the trial of a man accused of distributing explicit pictures of him engaging in sexual acts with a number of women. [MORE]

A dispute over ownership of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival which was previously jointly-managed by arthouse exhibitor Broadway Cinematheque and the non-profit independent film-makers group Ying E Chi, results in Ying E Chi breaking away to create its own festival, the Hong Kong Asian Independent Film Festival. [MORE]

John Woo’s Red Cliff Part II, the sequel to 2008's Red Cliff, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Edison Chen gives evidence in Vancouver via video-link for the trial of Ho-Chun Sze, a computer technician accused of releasing sexual images of the actor he stole from a laptop belonging to Chen that he was repairing. [MORE]

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Three Japanese films – Tokyo Sonata, Still Walking and Departures – win four of the top prizes at this year’s Asian Film Awards. [MORE]

Computer technician Ho-Chun Sze is sentenced to 34 weeks imprisonment for stealing 1,300 private shots of Edison Chen and female sexual partners from the actor’s computer and subsequently posting them on the internet. [MORE]

Golden Harvest, the Hong Kong film studio which rose to prominence in the 70s with a series of Kung Fu films is resurrected as Orange Sky Golden Harvest following its merger with Orange Sky Entertainment Group in 2007.  The company announces it intends to release five films a year and expand its cinema chain from 12 to 600 venues within three years. [MORE] [ADD]

Teddy Chen’s action thriller Bodyguards and Assassins wins eight awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor. [MORE]