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Leon Lai

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Golden Chicken 2 (Samson Chiu, 2003)
Sandra Ng

Golden Chicken 2 (Samson Chiu, 2003)

The first Golden Chicken filtered 30 years of Hong Kong history through the life of one ridiculous prostitute and dared you not to be moved by her. Samson Chiu’s sequel, released one year later, tries the same trick, but with 30 years of Hong Kong cinema instead, most specifically
03 Aug 2014 2 min read
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)
Peter Chan

Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)

A descendant of Pál Fejős’s 1928 Lonesome, about two people who find love in the urban crowd and then lose it. The crowd here is Hong Kong in 1986 and the people are Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai. Freshly emigrated from Northern China, Lai barely speaks Cantonese or English
01 Jan 2014 3 min read
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