Hong Kong 1990-1999
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in the Hong Kong Awards in the '90s
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- DirectorChi Leung 'Jacob' CheungStarsBo-Bo FungCecilia YipRichard NgBo-Bo plays a woman who's anger built up inside her since her daughter moved to America.
- DirectorMabel CheungStarsSammo Kam-Bo HungSylvia ChangLawrence Ah-MonChinese ex-pat returns to his home town in China after a long absence in New York.
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsChow Yun-FatSylvia ChangKun-Hsuan HuangA father's ex-girlfriend resurfaces after a 10-year absence wanting to take her son away from him. With his world shattered, he must decide between what is best for his son and his own future happiness.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsChow Yun-FatDanny LeeSally YehA disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
- DirectorAnthony ChanStarsKenny BeeMaggie CheungAnthony ChanIn politically charged 1967 Hong Kong, an ambitious actress and an unlicensed taxi driver living in the same apartment building build a relationship that is constantly impacted by their individual goals and the heated times.
- DirectorGordon ChanStarsLawrence ChengCherie ChungSibelle HuYuppie ad-man Leung Foon separates from his wife Ann, tries to get back together with his former girlfriend and flirts with his woman boss, but finally realizes that he was much better off where he started.
- DirectorTung-Shing YeeStarsKenny BeeMaggie CheungLydia Shum
- DirectorClifton KoStarsMichael HuiRaymond Pak-Ming WongOlivia ChengMr. Coconut, who arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. Mr. Coconut has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and everything.
- DirectorJing WongStarsChow Yun-FatAndy LauJoey WangA master gambler loses his memory and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities.
- DirectorJackie ChanStarsJackie ChanAnita MuiAh-Lei GuaA country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
- DirectorClara LawStarsJoey WangEric TsangWilson LamA woman (Joey Wang) is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a wealthy banker. She finds herself drawn to sadomasochistic affairs and in flashbacks discovers she is the reincarnation of a famous courtesan of ancient China.
- DirectorPatrick TamStarsKenny BeeTony Leung Chiu-waiJoey WangTwo lovers are willing to do anything to reunite after criminals separate them.
- DirectorTaylor WongStarsAndy LauCherie ChungSheila ChanLau Kai Cho is a Hong Kong journalist in Vietnam chasing a story. Getting involved in a motor accident, Lau Kai Cho is handed a prison sentence and has to serve in a strict and unforgiving prison.
- DirectorPun-Hei LeungStarsAndy LauCarrie NgSeason MaA young woman who is jailed after avenging her boyfriend's death at the hands of some ruthless gangsters. Once in prison, she befriends another inmate who, secretly because of the underworld massacre, wants her dead.
- DirectorJimmy HeungJing WongCorey YuenStarsAlan TamAndy LauIdy ChanLaw and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.
- DirectorClarence FokStarsMaggie CheungBiao YuenWah YuenA frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he's tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong.
- DirectorHark TsuiStarsChow Yun-FatTony Ka Fai LeungAnita MuiA man travels from China to Vietnam, on the brink of war with America, to retrieve his uncle and cousin but find complications when he falls in love with a female gangster with a dangerous ex.
- DirectorSammo Kam-Bo HungStarsSammo Kam-Bo HungSiu Chung MokHoi MangLo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection--one a baker, the other a prostitute--are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiJacky CheungWaise LeeWhen three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsMaggie CheungSiu-Kwong ChungTan Lang Jachi TianAfter the Sino-Japanese War, Kwei Dz, one of the family members of Japanese soldiers accepted a Chinese officer's proposal and remained in China. Later they had a daughter named Ann. The officer went to Hong Kong to work, leaving Kwei Dz and Ann in Macao. Kwei Dz, unable to communicate with her in-laws, much less accept their ways, became remorseful. Yet the worst problem she had was that Ann did not accept her as a mother. After Ann got a Master Degree in UK she went back to Hong Kong. Kwei Dz had been feeling very homesick for her mother country and decided to take Ann and return to Japan. In Japan, Ann began to understand her mother's pain because she did not understand Japan or the Japanese. Later a telegram from Canton arrived saying that Ann's grandfather had had a stroke. Upon seeing her to grandfather, Ann realized that, in spite of his now frail body, a body once tortured by Red Guards, he was so hopeful for China's future. Ann saw that China was now trying to find its own way in the midst of its self-inflicted turmoil.
- DirectorSiu-Tung ChingStarsYimou ZhangGong LiTian-Ming WuChina 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned. This is the time Mong Tiang Fong and court lady Twon fall deeply in love. Such a thing is not tolerated at the court and when their relationship is discovered both are sentenced to death. In the meantime the alchemists have discovered the formula of immortality, but decide to destroy their work. However Twon gets possession of one immortality pill which she manages to give to Tiang Fong before he's made a terracotta warrior too. China 1930. While on location a film crew discovers parts of the grave of emperor Qin guarded by the terracotta warriors. Tiang Fong, being immortal, awakes...
- DirectorHo YimStarsBrigitte LinHan ChinMaggie CheungA talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII.
- DirectorLawrence Ah-MonStarsSylvia ChangRain LauYa-Li Liu
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsLeslie CheungMaggie CheungAndy LauA man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
- DirectorJeffrey LauCorey YuenStarsStephen ChowMan-Tat NgSharla CheungA man discovers that his dumb, lovable nephew can see through objects and decides to unleash him into the world of gambling.