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Apr 26, 2020 · During its heyday from the mid-80s to the mid-90s Hong Kong films dominated the box office in East Asia and enjoyed a cult reputation in the West. Despite the city’s size, it exported more films ...
- Douglas Parkes
Hong Kong’s local film industry is rebounding from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 46 movies being released in the city in 2023, up from 27 in 2022. The movie A Guilty Conscience (毒舌大狀) became the all‑time top grossing local Chinese‑language film in Hong Kong, with box office revenue surpassing HK$100 mn.
- The Origins of Hong Kong Cinema
- The Rivalry Between Mandarin Films and Cantonese Films
- The Boom Years: The 80s and Early 90s
- The New Wave of Hong Kong Cinema
- Decline of Hong Kong Cinema
The early history of Hong Kong cinema is paradoxically absolutely negligible, overshadowed by Shanghai which was the capital of Chinese cinema at the time. The main source of inspiration for early Hong Kong cinema was Chinese opera. The first Hong Kong film is, in fact, Lai Man-wai‘s Zhuangzi Tests His Wife(1913), which was not shown in Hong Kong. ...
With the advent of sound cinema and with the arrival of a large mass of Chinese migrants, Hong Kong cinema had to face the problem of bilingualism, a problem that naturally could not exist in the days of silent cinema. The main productions of Cantonese films, as we have already mentioned, were mostly cinematographic transpositions of Cantonese oper...
The themes and models created in previous years finally matured in the 80s. The Hong Kong cinema at this point was able to produce dozens if not hundreds of films every year of various cinematographic genres: comedies, action films, detective films, period films, fantasy films, horror films, etc, often skilfully mixing these same elements in a sing...
In addition to the more purely action productions, in the nineties, Hong Kong was the protagonist of another authorial revolution with a core of young alternative directors who perhaps constitute the heart and essence of the New Wave of Hong Kong. Directors such as Wong Kar-Wai, Ann Hui, Yim Ho, Stanley Kwan, Lawrence Ah Mon, Fruit Chanwith their s...
Since the second half of the 90s, however, Hong Kong cinema has entered a phase of decline from which it has never recovered. Film production has plummeted from more than 200 films per year to around 100, becoming from a leading production centre to a consumer of Hollywood cinema. Various factors contributed to this decline: the Asian financial cri...
- China Underground
The company was established in 1984 [1] in Kowloon Bay by Mr. Li Kuo Hsing, Hong Kong. During the 1980s, the Group's principal activities were the distribution of videocassette tapes and laser discs. It has been one of the largest videofilm and TV drama distributors of film and TV drama in Hong Kong. Movies distributed by the company are also ...
Mar 1, 2020 · The birth of Hong Kong films. Most historians concur that the first motion pictures that could be considered films began emerging in the late 1800s, and Hong Kong did not fall behind in the trend. Hong Kong’s cinematic history began in 1896 when a French film crew from the Lumière Studio visited the city. 13 years later in 1909, Shanghai’s ...
Nov 30, 2018 · Packed with drama, betrayal and intrigue, the 70-episode period drama won over audiences not only on the mainland, but also in Hong Kong, where it is 2018’s most popular drama aired by ...
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Mar 14, 2019 · Ahead of this year’s Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (Filmart, March 18-21), Screen takes the temperature of the local film business with execs from Media Asia, Universe Entertainment ...
