The directorial debut of Hong Kong Best Actor winner, Nick Cheung, entitled Ghost Rituals, is scaring up interest at this year's Cannes Film Market, and we've got the details you need to see if this is one haunt you're interested in visiting!
From the Press Release
Darclight Films, the edgy genre-driven label of Arclight Films, is pleased to announce the world market premiere of horror-thriller Ghost Rituals in Cannes. Multiple Best Actor Award Winner Nick Cheung (Unbeatable, The Stool Pigeon), who has over 60 films to his credit and a huge following at the box office, makes his directorial debut with this latest horror piece staring himself, Annie Liu (Floating City), Lam Wai (The Silent War, Adventure Of The King) and Carrie Ng (The Silent War, Hi, Fidelity).
The Hong Kong-Malaysian coproduction will be released in July in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Ghost Rituals is produced by Adrian Teh,...
From the Press Release
Darclight Films, the edgy genre-driven label of Arclight Films, is pleased to announce the world market premiere of horror-thriller Ghost Rituals in Cannes. Multiple Best Actor Award Winner Nick Cheung (Unbeatable, The Stool Pigeon), who has over 60 films to his credit and a huge following at the box office, makes his directorial debut with this latest horror piece staring himself, Annie Liu (Floating City), Lam Wai (The Silent War, Adventure Of The King) and Carrie Ng (The Silent War, Hi, Fidelity).
The Hong Kong-Malaysian coproduction will be released in July in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Ghost Rituals is produced by Adrian Teh,...
- 5/16/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Floating City is the journey of Bo Wah Chuen (Aaron Kwok), an adopted biracial child growing up on a fishing boat in British colonized Hong Kong in the 1940s. It was a time when people were clearly divided by their race and British citizenship, and anyone who didn't fit inside a neat box was ostracized. He is called “Mixed” by his own family and barred from attending the local school because parents did not want their children associating with him. When his family falls on hard times, his life becomes even harder, and he has to take on odd jobs and save every penny to provide for his mother and younger siblings. Against all odds, however, he learns to read and speak English, and he rises through the ranks of the Imperial East India to achieve success beyond his wildest dreams. Despite his success, however, one question still lingers. Who is Bo Wah Chuen,...
- 9/26/2013
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Floating City Bo Wah Chuen (Aaron Kwok) is a successful businessman in modern day Hong Kong, but his journey to the top is a trip through the city’s shifting history. Born with blue eyes and abandoned by his mother, Bo grows up with a strong work ethic and a desire to achieve more than his social status would allow. He eventually joins one of the biggest British companies in the colony and sets about making a name for himself while never forgetting the value of family and the concept of giving back. Director Yim Ho‘s film starts a bit slow as Bo’s early days as a child are explored, but once he grows into a young man (and Kwok appears on-screen) the film comes into focus as essentially the modern history of...
- 8/20/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The biggest, most hyped and eagerly awaited Hong Kong thriller of the year arrives in the form of “Cold War”, written and directed by first-timers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. Backed by a massive marketing campaign clearly trying to position it as the new “Infernal Affairs”, the police corruption film is certainly an ambitious affair, with an amazing cast of top stars headlined by Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai, supported by the likes of Eddie Peng (“Tai Chi”), Aarif Lee (“Bruce Lee, My Brother”), Gordon Lam (“Motorway”) and Charlie Young (“Floating City”), with Michael Wong and the immortal Andy Lau on hand for cameo appearances. The effort seems to have paid off, with the film emerging as the biggest Hong Kong money maker of 2012, in addition to having been nominated for a long list of gongs at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The film kicks off with the...
- 2/13/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Yim Ho's Floating City has been withdrawn from competition following mounting political tensions between China and Japan
A Hong Kong-Chinese film has been withdrawn from the Tokyo international film festival owing to ongoing political tensions between China and Japan, reports Screen Daily.
Festival organisers announced on Tuesday that Yim Ho's Floating City, a Cantonese-language drama chronicling the meteoric rise of an illiterate man (played by Aaron Kwok) from a local fishing family to a powerful figure in Hong Kong's corporate world, would not after all be screening in the Japanese capital next month.
"It is with great regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the scheduled screening of Floating City at the 25th Tokyo international film festival owing to certain reasons on the production side," a statement read. "Although we have strongly requested those involved not to call off the plan to take part in the festival, the cancellation has unfortunately been finalised.
A Hong Kong-Chinese film has been withdrawn from the Tokyo international film festival owing to ongoing political tensions between China and Japan, reports Screen Daily.
Festival organisers announced on Tuesday that Yim Ho's Floating City, a Cantonese-language drama chronicling the meteoric rise of an illiterate man (played by Aaron Kwok) from a local fishing family to a powerful figure in Hong Kong's corporate world, would not after all be screening in the Japanese capital next month.
"It is with great regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the scheduled screening of Floating City at the 25th Tokyo international film festival owing to certain reasons on the production side," a statement read. "Although we have strongly requested those involved not to call off the plan to take part in the festival, the cancellation has unfortunately been finalised.
- 9/26/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s always good to keep an eye on the progressing careers of 1980s Hong Kong New Wave directors, and so “Floating City”, the 13th outing from helmer Yim Ho is likely to be of immediate interest for fans. Having been responsible for a number of highly regarded films, in particular “Homecoming” and “Red Dust”, Yim Ho returns to the kind of personal historical and social drama he became known for with a true life tale of an ethnic minority, mixed race fisherman who rises to the top of the British East India Company in Hong Kong during the end of the colonial period. Taking on the challenging, decade spanning lead role is popular actor Aaron Kwok (“Murderer”), with support from actresses Charlie Young (who worked with Kwok on the award winning “After This Our Exile”), Annie Liu (“Exodus”), Josie Ho (“Dream Home”), and veteran Paw Hee Ching (“The Way...
- 8/16/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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