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Imagi Crystal, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Imagi International Holdings, is making its debut at Filmart as it expands into sales and distribution.

Its inaugural slate includes Due West 2: Tokyo Adventure, an erotic film starring Hong Kong’s first adult-video actress Erena So.

Christopher Sun, director of 2011’s 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy and producer of 2012’s Due West: Our Sex Journey, will direct alongside Terry Cheng. Justin Cheung (Breakout Brothers franchise) co-stars in the film, which is backed by Imagi Crystal.

The Hong Kong-based company has also picked up international sales rights to Golden Boy, starring Louis Cheung...

Following his multi-awarded short “We Shall Overcome”, Kelvin Shum now presents his feature debut “Deliverance”, a family drama that also unfolds as a psychological thriller.

Deliverance is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema

Nicole returns home to Hong Kong to work in a hospital, after being away for 15 years, and she is reunited with her brothers. However, she still clings to the shattered memory from the night of her mother’s passing, continuing to be in doubt regarding her death, despite the fact that any kind of human intervention has been ruled out. Through hypnosis sessions with her big brother Joseph, who also teaches criminal psychology, she tries to remember exactly what happened, but as more memories come to the fore, she starts doubting her brothers’ behavior, while her grip on reality becomes thinner and thinner. As the movie progresses, the questions pile up. Is Nicole losing it from the...

It is fair to say that Hong Kong cinema has been in a slump for a number of years now. Even with an uptick in the quality of productions recently, genuinely good output has been few and far between and, with the sanctions and regulations being put in place by the Mainland, its future seems worrisome now more than ever. “Legendary in Action!” from first timers Li Ho and actor-turned-director Justin Cheung thus comes as a timely, introspective feature about the Hong Kong film industry.

Legendary in Action is screening on New York Asian Film Festival

Bill “Tiger” Cheung was once a promising aspect, winning the Best Director award at the Bucheon Film Festival with his first work, but an early-career flop relegated him to directing low-budget titillating shorts to make ends meet. When an offer from a dodgy investor comes to make a wuxia feature, Tiger takes it as...

2022 brings Far East Film back to its historical dimension. The Feff is once again what it has always been since 1999, but it also carries the imprint of all the latest changes: it is an augmented festival, more inclusive, and even more curious. If in the last two years Far East Film was forced to reinventing itself and review its formula with different parameters, these last few months have generated a sudden and wonderful acceleration: a wave of new energy, a vital frenzy which has shaped the twenty-fourth edition.

The Teatro Nuovo “Giovanni da Udine” with its 1200 seats will firmly resume its role as headquarters and it will be joined by the Visionary, an outpost of the special sections and retrospectives. The 2022 selection will include a total of 72 titles of which 42 in competition. 15 countries will be represented (including an Italy-China co-production), the number of female directors rises to 12 (of which 8 in...

The romantic comedy “My Indian Boyfriend” is the second movie by Hong Kong-based director and dance instructor Sri Kishore, and the first shot in the country he has called home for more than a decade. With it, he has tried to create the first Bollywood-style Hong Kong movie in history.

“My Indian Boyfriend” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

Krishna (Karan Cholia in an over the top Bollywood performance), a good-for-nothing young Indian man who lives in Hong Kong with his mother and father, falls in love with Jasmine (Shirley Chan Yan-Yin), a Chinese model and dancer who moves to his apartment building. The problem is that she is promised to Richard (Justin Cheung), a slimy rich older man whom she doesn’t love.

“My Indian Boyfriend” is a mess. There’s no doubt about it. The story makes no sense most of the time, neither do the relationships between the characters.

There’s something immensely satisfying about a prison escape movie. A group of outlaws planning a breakout only for it to all go to hell come freedom day is a reliable formula for success. Part of what makes such movies so entertaining is the loveable crooks behind the plotting, which is precisely what you get with Ho Pong Mak’s “Breakout Brothers”. The prison-break film combines the best of action and comedy to be a thrilling romp full of memorable characters.

“Breakout Brothers” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

Unlike most prison inmates, Chan Ho-Ching (Louis Cheung) enjoys his brief stints behind bars, seeing them as a welcome break from everyday life. However, his current vacation takes a sour turn when he’s unable to see his dying mother, who needs him for an urgent organ transplant. To make matters worse, Chan has been roped in with Mar...

“The Diam Diam Era Too,” the sequel to current release “The Diam Diam Era” by Singapore superstar Jack Neo, and period thriller “Precious is the Night” are among the upcoming releases from regional mini-conglomerate MM2 Entertainment.

The company revealed a host of titles for 2020-21 release at the ongoing Asian Television Forum, which is part of the Singapore Media Festival.

The “Diam Diam” films continue the story of Neo’s 2016 two-parter “Long Long Time Ago” that followed the Lim family against the backdrop of Singapore’s nation-building policies. “The Diam Diam Era Too” is set for a Lunar New Year release in early 2021. The cast includes Richie Koh, Danny Lee and Mark Lee.

Wayne Peng’s “Precious Is The Night” is a thriller set in 1960s Singapore, starring model-photographer Chuando Tan as a doctor caught in a web of deceit, sex and lies. The Golden Horse nominated film also stars Nanyeli,...

Chicago – Season Nine of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) had a grand finale on its Closing Night on October 10th, 2019, by honoring one of the most prolific character actors in Hong Kong cinema with a Lifetime Achievement Award … the incomparable Kenneth Tsang. The actor, who has also appeared in Western films like “Die Another Day” and “Rush Hour 2,” began his career in 1955 and has over 250 credits in his long career.

The Lifetime Achievement Award night was special, as it also served to introduce the newest Director of the Chicago Film Office, Kwame Amoaku, who presented the award to Kenneth Tsang.

Apuc Honored Actor Kenneth Tsang (left) with Sophia Wong Bocchio and Presenter Kwame Amoaku

Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com

After a false start in the film industry, Kenneth Tsang studied architecture at Berkeley in San Francisco. When he settled back in Hong Kong he couldn’t...

Chicago – Season Nine of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) goes out with a celebratory bang as Hong Kong Week begins on Saturday, October 5th, 2019, and culminates with a Lifetime Achievement Award event for actor Kenneth Tsang Kong on Thursday, October 10th. In between, some free events around town also celebrates Filipino American History Month and a Taiwanese film event in partnership with the Illinois Institute of Technology.

The screenings are part of the program-packed Season Nine of Apuc, as their new format (multiple films per week) highlights a different Asian country or theme every week. Apuc is facilitated by founder and veteran film programmer Sophia Wong Bocchio, and Season Nine featured films from South Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, among others. The films mainly screen at Chicago’s AMC River East 21, with various other locations throughout the season (click link below at the end of...

New titles include Herman Yau’s action pic Death Notify with Julian Cheung and Louis Koo.

China 3D Digital Entertainment has launched three new feature titles at Filmart: director Herman Yau’s crime action film Death Notify, Christopher Sun’s thriller Deception Of The Novelist and action drama Deception Of The Novelist, directed and produced by Roy Chow.

Death Notify follows an elite police task force hunting a vigilante serial killer. The film features Julian Cheung, Louis Koo, Francis Ng, Myolie Wu and Pakho Chau.

Deception Of The Novelist follows a young successful writer who gets embroiled in the...

The revival of category III rated Chinese erotic cinema continues with “Due West: Our Sex Journey”, based on the popular internet writings of Xiang Xi Murakami Haruki. Like the recent global hit “Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy”, the film was shot in 3D, and comes from the same team, again written by Mark Wu, who also worked on the screenplay for “Lan Kwai Fong”, and who here makes his directorial debut. Taking the male lead is Justin Cheung, a man with plenty of genre experience, having starred in both “Sex and Zen” and the ridiculous but enjoyable “The 33D Invader”, backed by Wu himself, plus, of course, an impressive number of attractive actresses from across Asia, including Jeana Ho (“Hong Kong Ghost Stories”), Celia Kwok, Angelina Zhang, Daniella Wang, and Japanese Av idol Kizaki Jessica. Justin Cheung stars and narrates as Frankie, a young Hong Kong man brought up in a strict middle class family,...

Frankie (Justin Cheung) is a seriously horny teenager. Brought up in a strict middle class family, he turns to his "sex mentor" Jing (Gregory Wong), who initiates him in the world of smut and lurid behaviour. With the help of Jing, Frankie faces all sorts of embarrassing and hilarious moments, inextricably forcing him to study in the UK, which leads into his young adulthood and eventually a career back in Hong Kong.He gets into a pretty serious relationship with Zeta (Celia Kwok), who to say the least has intimacy issues of her own that do not fully satisfy Frankie. After some instability in his life and a shocking discovery about his father, he decides to reunite with Jing, and in a desperate and melancholic act...