Re-enter the dragon: Hong Kong’s new wave of movies1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShoot the film you’ve always wanted on a shoestring budget or sell out and make a blockbuster? It is a dilemma Hong Kong directors frequently face as mainland China’s lucrative movie industry beckons. Now, with concerns growing about Beijing’s increasing influence on Hong Kong, some film-makers are defying commercial and political pressures to produce homegrown movies with a local voice — and inject new life into the city’s cinema scene.
Hong Kong once pumped out at least 200 films a year, from Bruce Lee’s 1973 “Enter the Dragon” to Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” in 2000, via countless cop and gangster thrillers. But in the past decade the local industry has slumped and just dozens of films are now produced in Hong Kong annually.
via: Agence France Presse
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