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There were 56 Hong Kong films and 220 foreign films released in 2011. [ 8 ] In 2017, the box office gross was HK$1.85 billion compared with HK$1.95 billion in 2016. 331 films were released in 2017, dropped from 348 the year before.
More than 300 people died of torture and starvation. During the Japanese occupation, a total of 20,000 Hong Kong people and 20,000 mainlanders were abducted to mine in Hainan Island, where they were abused and many died of starvation.Of the 40,000 Chinese workers on Hainan Island, only 5,000 survived.
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 ...
The film was released on 22 March 1972 in Hong Kong by Golden Harvest, and first released in the United States on 7 November 1972 in New York [citation needed] before Lee's first major film, The Big Boss, was released there. [9] In Japan, the film was released on 20 July 1974. Several scenes in the Japanese version were censored due to Raymond ...
- 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 recently released Gary Bettinson and Daniel Martin edited collection, Hong Kong Horror (2018), contains a chapter on 1950s Cantonese horror films written by Raymond Tsang. Beyond academia, more effort has been placed on documenting Hong Kong film history. Publications by the Hong Kong Film Archive and the Hong Kong International Film ...
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Another major Hong Kong film company, the Cathay Organization, co-produced a number of romantic tourist films — with a similar Oriental-Orientalist narrative in which the Japanese male protagonist falls in love with a local Chinese girl — such as Honkon no yoru (Night at Hong Kong, Yasuki Chiba, 1961), Honkon no hoshi (Star of Hong Kong ...
