This year saw the return of Chow Yun-fat in his first pure Cantonese-language role in nearly 20 years, while Donnie Yen kicked with some class-acts from old Hong Kong martial-arts movies.

World-renowned Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-fat has voiced his deep affection for his home city and its distinct “charming and arrogant” Cantonese dialect in an interview on YouTube.

This may be a pretty old movie, but Johnny Mak’s Long Arm of the Law is a classic that can be seen as an ancestor of the various crime and gangster films that were to follow in Hong Kong cinema.

By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief “A lot of the great old cinemas of Hong Kong ... at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Just one post-war movie theater still stands, the State Theatre ...

Hongkongers’ fascination for the old Kowloon Walled City is still going strong, fuelled by the popularity of Soi Cheang’s ...

The new censorship rules bring Hong Kong much closer to the Chinese mainland, where films are rigorously vetted and only a handful of Western movies or documentaries see a commercial release each ...

“In the old days when Hong Kong was producing a huge number of movies, it was a case of ‘made in Hong Kong,’” says Wong. “What we’re seeing now is that we have so many ...

“Our generation has fantasies about the past,” said Connie Li, a 30-year-old interior designer ... Walled In,” a martial-arts action movie set in 1980s Hong Kong. Visitors immersed ...