Posts in Films
Anthony Bourdain in Hong Kong

Producer:  Travel Channel

Director: Tom Vitale

Year: 2011

Production: The Layover Season 1, Episode 5

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Tony finds himself on a 48-hour layover in the fast-paced, fascinating city of Hong Kong ... in the middle of summer. Tony fights the sweltering heat and oppressive smog as he attempts to get his fill of dim sum and roasted meat before his flight home.

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Producer:  CNN

Director: Asia Argento

Year: 2018

Production: Parts Unknown Season 11, Episode 5

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Bourdain experiences Hong Kong through the eyes and lens of legendary cinematographer and longtime Hong Kong resident Christopher Doyle.

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Hong Kong Tattoo Legend: VICE INTL

Producer:  ViCE

Year: 2014

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With his traditional Chinese/Japanese patterns, Jimmy Ho, now in his sixties, remains one of the coolest and most forward ­thinking tattooists in Hong Kong.

James Ho, Jimmy’s father, is widely recognized as Hong Kong’s very first local tattoo artist as he started inking foreign sailors as early as 1960s ­ so if anything, Jimmy learnt everything from his old man.

Jimmy opened his first tattoo shop at the age of 14, followed by more than 40 years serving clients including film stars and local gangsters. We visited his shop in Portland Street, Mong Kok, to talk to the veteran about his glorious career and “the golden age of Hong Kong tattoo”, while getting a koi fish tattoo on ourselves.

Bloodsport

Director:  Newt Arnold

Year: 1988

IMDB Score: 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 40%

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U.S. soldier Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial-arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent (Leah Ayres), Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?

Ferry to Hong Kong

Director:  Lewis Gilbert

Year: 1959

IMDB Score: 5.6/10

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Mark Conrad (Curt Jurgens), a debonair Anglo-Austrian former playboy and junk owner, now an alcoholic down-and-out, is expelled from Hong Kong. He is placed on an ancient ferry boat, the Fa Tsan (known to its crew as the Fat Annie), despite the protests of the pompous owner, Captain Cecil Hart (Orson Welles).

Enter the Dragon

Director: Robert Clouse

Year: 1973

IMDB Score: 7.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%

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Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister. Lee enters a kung fu competition in an attempt to fight his way to the dealer's headquarters with the help of some friends.

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

Director: Henry King, Otto Lang

Year: 1960

IMDB Score: 6.5/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 50%

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In Hong Kong in 1949, Mark Elliott (William Holden) is an American reporter covering the Chinese civil war. Undergoing a trial separation from his wife, he meets the beautiful Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones), a widowed physician from mainland China. As the pair fall in love, they encounter disapproval from both her family and his friends about their interracial romance. Although the film was a commercial success upon release, the casting of Jones in an Asian role has since been criticized.

The World of Suzie Wong

Director: Richard Quine

Year: 1960

IMDB Score: 7.1/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 38%

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When American artist Robert Lomax (William Holden) first meets beautiful Chinese native Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan) aboard a ferry, she claims to be the virginal daughter of a prominent man. But when Robert spots her again in a Hong Kong brothel, she admits she is actually a prostitute. As Suzie models for Robert's paintings, their friendship deepens into love, to the disapproval of Robert's crusty British friend O'Neill (Laurence Naismith) and his daughter, Kay (Sylvia Syms), who fancies Robert.

The man with the golden gun

Director: Guy Hamilton

Year: 1974

IMDB Score: 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 44%

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Cool government operative James Bond (Roger Moore) searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), a hit man so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland), and together they track Scaramanga to a tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.

Chungking Express

Director: Kar-Wai Wong

Year: 1997

IMDB Score: 8.1/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87%

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Photo credit: asianwiki.com

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. He's also got his eye on a mysterious woman in a blond wig (Brigitte Lin), oblivious of the fact she's a drug dealer. The second half shows Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl (Faye Wong) at a local lunch counter.