Category: Hong Kong films
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on In the Mood for Love. Wong Kar-wai (director), In the Mood for Love, 2000. 98 min. Some films are simply like thatβfrom the moment you…
![[REVIEW] “πΌπ π‘βπ ππππ πππ πΏππ£π at 25: Wong Kar-wai’s Cinematic Language of Longing” by G.A. Gowtham](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/in-the-mood-for-love-wong-kar-wai-2020-4k-red-ds-os-195-_blur.webp?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mike Sakas (director), City of Shells: Our Forgotten Oyster Reefs, 2025. 66 min. As Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, we cannot restore our relationships with nature without also engaging…
![[REVIEW] βRe-story-ation of the Hong Kong Oyster: πΆππ‘π¦ ππ πβππππ β by Tim Pit Hok Yau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mike-sakas-director-city-of-shells-2025.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Philip Yung (director), Papa, 2024. 131 min. Prologue: Watching Hong Kong films overseas is a transposing experience. When I leave a cinema in Toronto after watching a…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βππππ: Time to Forgiveβ by Tin Yuet Tam](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/philip-yung-director-papa-2024.-131-min-1.jpg?w=923)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Fly Me to the Moon. Sasha Chuk (director), Fly Me to the Moon δ½ι‘δΊΊι·δΉ , 2023. 112 min. Every era of Hong Kong cinema has…
![[REVIEW] βIn the Wake of Hong Kong Dreaming: Sasha Chuk’s πΉππ¦ ππ π‘π π‘βπ ππππ” by Tin Yuet Tam](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/fly-me-to-the-moon.jpg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on In the Mood for Love. Wong Kar-wai (director), In the Mood for Love, 2000. 98 min. I have been haunted by the same film for twenty-five…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Chungking Express. Wong Kar-wai (director), Chungking Express (4K Restored Edition), 2021 (1994). 103 min. To mark the 30th anniversary of the original release…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “An Ode to Unrequited Love, 30 Years Later: Wong Kar-wai’s πΆβπ’ππππππ πΈπ₯ππππ π ” by Soo Ryon Yoon](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/chungking-express_3.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on In the Mood for Love. Wong Kar-wai (director), In the Mood for Love, 2000. 98 min. Wong Kar-Waiβs In the Mood for Love…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan (director), In Broad Daylight η½ζ₯δΉδΈ, 2023. 106 min. In Broad Daylight combines two major news stories that expose abuses against the vulnerable: the…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βNothing Under the Sun Is Truly New: Lawrence Kwan Chun KanβsΒ πΌπ π΅ππππ π·ππ¦πππβπ‘β by Tin Yuet Tam](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/in-broad-daylight_poster.jpg?w=1024)
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS πRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Fly Me to the Moon. Sasha Chuk (director), Fly Me to the Moon δ½ι‘δΊΊι·δΉ , 2023. 112 min. A story fraught with the problems and pain…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Nick Cheuk (director), Time Still Turns the Pages εΉ΄ε°ζ₯θ¨, 2023. 95 min. This review contains major spoilers. With five nominations in the 60th Golden Horse Awards, Nick Cheukβs tightly…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βA Poignant Appeal: Nick Cheukβs ππππ ππ‘πππ ππ’πππ π‘βπ πππππ ” by Flora Mak](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/time-still-turns-the-pages.jpg?w=980)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tony Rayns, In the Mood for Love, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 96 pgs. βI didnβt think youβd fall in love with me,β says Mrs Chan. βI didnβt either,β says Mr…
![[REVIEW] “Feelings Can Creep Up Just Like That: Wong Kar-wai’s πΌπ π‘βπ ππππ πππ πΏππ£π” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-28-at-13.07.29.png?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Patrick Tam (director),Β Nomad (ηη«ιζ₯), 1982. 157 min. This review contains spoilers. I really didnβt see the final scene coming. On a beach, a forlorn and undeveloped character named Tomato…
![[REVIEW] “Die With Your Pants Down: Patrick Tam’s πππππ” by Matt Turner](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nomad_japanese-poster.webp?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Wong Kar-wai (director),Β Happy Together, 1997. 97 min. βI had no regrets till I met you. Now my regrets could kill me.β And then Lai Yiu-Fai (Tony Leung) runs away…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “They Cannot Be Happy Together, They Cannot Be Happy Apart: Wong Kar-wai’s π»ππππ¦ πππππ‘βππ” by e rathke](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/happy-together_cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Gary Bettinson, The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance, 2014. 176 pgs. In the summer of 1994, I left a cinema in Tsim…
![[REVIEW] βGetting to the Heart of Wong Kar-wai: Gary Bettinsonβs πβπ ππππ π’ππ’π πΆπππππ ππ ππππ πΎππ-π€ππβ by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/29477id_021_0005_29477id_215.webp?w=800)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Chungking Express. Wong Kar-wai (director), Chungking Express, 1994. 92 min. Whenever I think of Wong Kar-waiβs Chungking Express I hear California Dreaminβ by The Mamas…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βTwo Stories in One: Wong Kar-waiβs πΆβπ’ππππππ πΈπ₯ππππ π β by e rathke](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/chungking-express.jpg?w=1000)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chan Tze-Woon (director), Blue Island, 2022. 97 min. A history student, I linger in the Hong Kong Museum of Historyβs condensed Hong Kong Story exhibition: one room per millennium,…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βA Hong Kong History in Chan Tze-Woonβs π΅ππ’π πΌπ ππππβ by Michelle Suen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/blue-island.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Karen Fang, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} β Ann Hui (director), Our Time Will Come (Ming yue ji shi you), 2017.…
![[REVIEW] “War Films: Ann Hui’s ππ’π ππππ ππππ πΆπππ and Christopher Nolan’s π·π’πππππ” by Karen Fang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/our-time-will-come_dunkirk_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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