Amongst a group of films – such as Yim Ho’s “The Extras” and Alex Cheung’s “Cops and Robbers” – that ushered in the Hong Kong New Wave, “The Secret” is the debut feature by veteran and prolific directress Ann Hui. Like many of her fellow directors of the New wave Movement, she received her film education abroad, at the London Film School, after a degree in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and she proceeded in working briefly as an assistant to the director King Hu and then making television films for Radio Television Hong Kong (Rthk) and Television Broadcasts Limited (Tvb). Her experience with local broadcasting corporations mixed with her European film studies resulted in an accomplished and excitingly fresh piece of work.
In the opening credits a Taoist funeral ritual is being performed and we are thrown immediately into a mood of superstition and death.
In the opening credits a Taoist funeral ritual is being performed and we are thrown immediately into a mood of superstition and death.
- 5/17/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Audiences looking for the next “Crazy Rich Asians” might take some delight in Stanley Kwan’s diva-licious “First Night Nerves,” a “Feud”-like behind-the-scenes rivalry which forces center stage all the drama between high-maintenance Hong Kong actresses Yuan Xiuling (Sammi Cheng) and He Yuwen (Gigi Leung). Set during the final week of rehearsals for a new play called “Two Sisters,” the film feels soapier than a broken dishwasher, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for audiences who relish the chance to watch actresses display their full range of emotion in a movie that gives even the smallest female parts more dimension than most movies offer their ostensible leading ladies.
One of Hong Kong’s only openly gay directors, Kwan has crafted a movie that’s nearly Almodóvarian in the appreciation and respect it showers upon ladies of all classes — not just the city’s Ferrari-driving super-elite, but...
One of Hong Kong’s only openly gay directors, Kwan has crafted a movie that’s nearly Almodóvarian in the appreciation and respect it showers upon ladies of all classes — not just the city’s Ferrari-driving super-elite, but...
- 10/5/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Stanley Kwan and Hong Kong star actress Sammi Cheng spoke Friday at the Busan International Film Festival of the physical pain of performance.
The director and co-star of “First Night Nerves” reminisced about Kwan’s previous Busan title “Everlasting Regret,” some 13 years ago. “Last time I was here, I was quite sick. I think I threw myself in too deeply to the film and the character,” said Cheng. “Since then. I’ve had time to recover.”
“In ‘Everlasting Regret,’ Sammi got too far into the film and suffered both mentally and physically,” Kwan said.
But with “First Night Nerves” portraying a transgender stage director and containing multiple Lgbt plot points, the conversation returned several times to sex, homosexuality and gender identity.
“My friends ask me if this film means that I want to be transgender. No. I prefer to live as a man with femininity and sensitivity. I’m a hermaphrodite,...
The director and co-star of “First Night Nerves” reminisced about Kwan’s previous Busan title “Everlasting Regret,” some 13 years ago. “Last time I was here, I was quite sick. I think I threw myself in too deeply to the film and the character,” said Cheng. “Since then. I’ve had time to recover.”
“In ‘Everlasting Regret,’ Sammi got too far into the film and suffered both mentally and physically,” Kwan said.
But with “First Night Nerves” portraying a transgender stage director and containing multiple Lgbt plot points, the conversation returned several times to sex, homosexuality and gender identity.
“My friends ask me if this film means that I want to be transgender. No. I prefer to live as a man with femininity and sensitivity. I’m a hermaphrodite,...
- 10/5/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Wesley Wong comes from a famed Chinese acting family. His father is Melvin Wong, a comedic and martial arts actor who worked closely with Jackie Chan while his mother Angie Chiu was one of China’s biggest TV stars. As the son of actors, it seemed like Wong would want to pursue a similar career path — not so much. Wong stopped by the New Hollywood Podcast to talk about how before making the decision to become an actor and his debut in Pacific Rim: Uprising, he took a detour from his expected career route.
At first, Wong wasn’t necessarily avoiding an acting career, but it wasn’t at the top of his list. He moved from China to the U.S. and spent some time in the San Francisco Bay Area and then went on to the University of Southern California to study finance and earned a degree in Business Administration.
At first, Wong wasn’t necessarily avoiding an acting career, but it wasn’t at the top of his list. He moved from China to the U.S. and spent some time in the San Francisco Bay Area and then went on to the University of Southern California to study finance and earned a degree in Business Administration.
- 4/3/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Rising Star Wesley Wong, son of legendary Hong Kong actors Angie Chiu and Melvin Wong, will star in the GenFilms SciFi original production ‘Qi : Spacetime Warriors’, a J. Kerry Film, directed by renowned Hong Kong – Hollywood Action Director and Stunt Coordinator Andy Cheng (End Game, Red Line, Rush Hour, Into The Badlands), featuring original music by Kevin Kiner (Stargate SG1, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Wars : Clone Wars).
In March 2018, Wong makes his U.S. film debut in the Legendary Entertainment/ Universal Pictures U.S. – China co-production ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ as one of a new generation of Jaeger Pilots, Ou-Yang Jinhai. A graduate of Bejing Film Academy, his feature roles included a supporting lead role in Sorry I Love You (2013), a remake of a successful Korean drama filmed in Bejing and Vancouver; a supporting role in the Thai-China co-production Massagist (2015); and lead roles in the Singaporean film Ah Boys...
In March 2018, Wong makes his U.S. film debut in the Legendary Entertainment/ Universal Pictures U.S. – China co-production ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ as one of a new generation of Jaeger Pilots, Ou-Yang Jinhai. A graduate of Bejing Film Academy, his feature roles included a supporting lead role in Sorry I Love You (2013), a remake of a successful Korean drama filmed in Bejing and Vancouver; a supporting role in the Thai-China co-production Massagist (2015); and lead roles in the Singaporean film Ah Boys...
- 3/15/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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