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I Did It My Way (Jason Kwan, 2023)

I Did It My Way (Jason Kwan, 2023)

I didn’t see the Andy Lau crime movie with a title borrowed from a hit 1960s American pop song that came out a couple of weeks ago, but I did see the one that comes out this week. I skipped The Goldfinger, despite the promise of an Andy Lau-Tony

Mad Fate (Soi Cheang, 2023)

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Mad Fate (Soi Cheang, 2023)

Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)

Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)

Soi Cheang’s latest film might have been a continuation of the SPL series. He directed SPL 2, with the original’s director, Wilson Yip producing, while the two switched roles for the follow-up SPL: Paradox. Yip again produced Limbo, and it shares in common with those other two films

SPL: Paradox (Wilson Yip, 2017)

SPL: Paradox (Wilson Yip, 2017)

It’s unclear if this film is actually a continuation of the SPL series or if it just started as one and then mutated into its own thing. I thought I saw the characters for “Sha Po Lang” on the title card of the movie though, so I’m just

Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2016)

Longman Leung and Sunny Luk

Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2016)

Picking up right where their 2012 hit film, which featured an all-star cast and swept the Hong Kong Film Awards, left off, Longman Leung and Sunny Luk present another suspenseful tale of corruption and double-dealing in the highest echelons of the Hong Kong police department, its two institutional halves at

Trivisa (Jevons Au, Frank Hui, & Vicky Wong, 2016)

Trivisa (Jevons Au, Frank Hui, & Vicky Wong, 2016)

Trivisa is the latest product of Johnnie To’s Milkyway Image studio (at least, until his new film opens here on June 24th). Directed by the young trio of Jevons Au, Vicky Wong, and Frank Hui, it’s a crime story set on the eve of Hong Kong’s handover