Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion opens in #Japan in 1972. Today, this Meiko Kaji film is considered a cult classic, but back then it was pulling in mainstream audiences.

For Drunk for Life, I've translated an interview that Cahiers du Cinema recently conducted with Kiyoshi Kurosawa focusing on Chime and Cloud. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

The time has finally come for one of the greatest films ever to be released on 4K! A truly wild and exhilarating mix of tones, genres and blistering action sequences. Still rmb hunting for this at Kims Video on a trip to New York as it was impossible to find in the UK in the early 2000s.

My latest in the Guardian where I argue that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One of Chor Yuen's pre-Gu Long wuxia action movies with English subs. In his book Planet Hong Kong, David Bordwell analysed a sequence from this film to showcase how some of John Woo's action style was anticipated by the "floating fights of Chor Yuen" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDp...

One of Chor Yuen's pre-Gu Long wuxia action movies with English subs. In his book Planet Hong Kong, David Bordwell analysed a sequence from this film to showcase how some of John Woo's action style was anticipated by the "floating fights of Chor Yuen" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDp...

“Once the level of valuable information reported [by CCTV] was ‘reset to zero,’ naturally no one was willing to pay anymore to appear alongside official propaganda. Meanwhile, the financial support provided by the government was insufficient to maintain the operation of such a massive team.”

Hollywood studio executives are sweating over Warner Bros.’ unusual rights agreement with Ryan Coogler for ‘Sinners,’ with some saying it ‘could end the studio system.’

My review of Kristof Van den Troost's excellent book on Hong Kong crime films: u.osu.edu/mclc/book-re...

"Papa" will be screening from February 28th in a good number of cinemas in the UK and Ireland! It's not an easy watch but it's a really good film. Don't just take my word for it; it's been nominated for 11 Hong Kong Film Awards and is @poohsticks.bsky.social's favourite Hong Kong film of 2024!

Explore the Directors Company A #thirdwindowfilms passion project in spending years clearing the rights and bringing these lost pieces of brilliant, Japanese cinema back to life and out to you! Hope you’re enjoying them! https://buff.ly/4emJvas

You can now download the program for TFAI's Through Her Vision: New Cinema Re-Imagined series from last year about the role of women in the Taiwan New Cinema. It's bilingual and has interviews with the likes of Sylvia Chang, Yang Chia-yun, and Wang Shaudi. reurl.cc/EgMLVA

As part of #SaveThePCC, we are looking to cement our status as a culturally significant institution. We need examples as to why you love what we do & want to hear your most cherished memories of the cinema. So tell us: #ILovePCC because… Tell us here: princecharlescinema.typeform.com/ILovePCC

Looks like Tsui Hark's Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants is coming to UK cinemas from Friday www.odeon.co.uk/films/legend...

"Famous Hong Kong actor Tony Leung (62) will star in an action film about Hong Kong gang warfare with production to take place primarily in Hokkaido. Shooting will commence this winter and is scheduled for a 2027 release. The director is Hong Kong action maestro Johnnie To (69)."

Petition to save the Prince Charles Cinema signed by over 100,000 people in a day www.huckmag.com/article/peti...

Code red people. Share and sign now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Staggering yet unsurprising greed from the poisonous, evil cunts at Criterion Capital. It’s not enough to own 95% of Leicester Square and do nothing of value with it, they have to take the one part that everyone likes and turn that into one more soulless cash funnel for billionaire owner Asif Aziz

To honour the late, great Sonny Chiba's birthday, an edit of X-Ray punches through the ages: The Streetfighter (1974) Bruce Strikes Back (1982) Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) Romeo Must Die (2000) Tom-Yum-Goong (2005) Ashoka (2008) Wu Xia (2011) My Beloved Bodyguard (2016) To The Rescue (2024)

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This is a beautiful tribute.

Loved playing Virtua Tennis in the game arcades in Hong Kong in 2017, but could not find a single Virtua Tennis game machine in any game arcade in Hong Kong in 2023...now re-watching PTU and seeing Virtua Tennis in the game arcade sequences is so nostalgic...

Excited to share my Best Action Scenes of 2024 roundup for MUBI Notebook. What a year. The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

My latest journal article in IMAGES's special issue on "Censorship in Film and Audio-Visual Media". I tried to draw on my own experience as an ex-officer in Hong Kong's Film Censorship Authority, my knowledge in film industry, and my academic studies. pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/...

Hong Kong protest drama "May You Stay Forever Young" has been uploaded to Youtube and is available to view for free -- and, for now, without a VPN in Hong Kong. Trigger warning for those who were in Hong Kong in 2019. But also here's passing on the message that: "Even if in vain, we will sustain."

Behold! The 2024 Action Movies video recap! An overview of the most interesting 2024 actioners: Twilight of the Warriors, 100 Yards, Life After Fighting, Baby Assassins 3, Kill, Blade of Fury, Shadow Strays, and dozens more. This time with guests! youtu.be/59XTLbybGMg

2024 was a great year for action movies. Here is my final list of the best of the year, split into must-watches and the best of the rest, and where to watch them. It's listed in alphabetical order, but also that fortuitously means my favorite of the year is first. www.polygon.com/24091121/bes...

Diaspora within and beyond the cinema has never been so relevant to Hong Kong as an imagined community, and I feel an urge to discuss this. Thanks Transtext(e)s editors @jennywcreative.bsky.social and @gblee.bsky.social for publishing this paper by me and Wong Ching. Links: beacons.ai/siuheng

Dayo Wong’s The Last Dance is now the highest-grossing Chinese-language film of all time in Hong Kong, with a total of HK$122 million as of Saturday morning. Including English language films, it is 7th all-time, behind Titanic, the 2 Avatars, and the 3 Avengers films www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

The author Qiong Yao 瓊瑤 with Brigitte Lin 林青霞, the most frequent and best embodiment of her many romantic protagonists-

OMG youtu.be/kGZvmngLfBI

Tony Jaa has a new film hitting North American cinemas this week, courtesy of @wellgousa.bsky.social! Will more Chinese-produced actioners reach international cinemas in the future? A release worth supporting if you're an action fan and the film is playing near you. filmexposure.ch/2024/12/02/s...

Tsui Hark casually dropping that he's making a Hong Kong movie with the Hui Brothers.

Ahead of its International Premiere at LIFFF this Sunday, I sat down with Gakuryu Ishii to discuss his SELF-REVOLUTIONARY CINEMATIC STRUGGLE, a cinema-exclusive experience unlike anything you've ever seen desperatelyseekingsubtitles.substack.com/p/gakuryu-is...

＜長毛致寶瑩家書＞ A letter from imprisoned socialist activist "Long Hair" Leung kwok-hung to wife, Chan Po-ying. Translation by RazvenHK.

watched "10 Rillington Place" and "The Conversation" over the past couple of days and was struck by the way their colour schemes and mise-en-scene resonate with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure" (I know KK is a big fan of Fleischer's "The Boston Strangler" so the influence may be at least partly direct)

As the defendants were escorted away by the corrections officers, Joshua Wong yelled: “I love Hong Kong, bye bye!” hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/b...

Powerful statement from journalist turned activist Gwyneth Ho on her FB, published after she was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Hong Kong court today: "we rose above fear and emerged as a genuine civil society."

I posted "A dark day for Hong Kong" on Facebook (the only social media my mother and many friends over 60 use). Actually, I should have posted "ANOTHER dark day for Hong Kong". We've had so many since June 12th, 2019. 7/21. 8/31. 10/1. 11/11. And so on and on. June 30/July 1, 2020. Etc.

From roughly 2003-2020 HK had a thriving civil society, despite the system being stacked against it. People were engaged in all sorts of organizing and action. Today's sentencing and the broader sweep of repression isn't just about ending opposition. It's about strangling that civil society.

delighted to speak with Fu Ting from the Associated Press about one of my favorite topics -- bookstores! Unfortunately, the fate of many bookstores in China isn't so rosy... apnews.com/article/chin...

The new Hong Kong movie The Last Dance is currently the No.2 highest grossing film at UK box offices, with Gladiator II at No.1. A remarkable achievement when Gladiator II is screening at 712 cinemas while The Last Dance is screening at only 59 cinemas. More cinemas should take a chance on it

The new Hong Kong movie The Last Dance ( 破. 地獄) is selling out cinemas across the UK and even Mark Kermode has now reviewed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CSQ...