Ann Hui
Also Known As: 许鞍华, Anne Hui , Ann Hui On-wah, 許鞍華, On Hui, Anhua Xu
Biography: Ann Hui On-wah (born 23 May 1947 to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother) is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Anshan，Liaoning Province，China
Birthday: May 23, 1947
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Gender: Female
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Sunshine Friends
Overview: The war of ratings is over when Mars TV, with its two popular shows bears down Earth TV. Mak, the boss of Mars TV, plan to takeover Earth TV while Lee, the boss of Earth TV wants to jump from a skyscraper to make publicity for his station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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I Am Somebody
Overview: A young man travels from his hometown to Hengdian, the place where the country's biggest movies are filmed. Like many others, his dream is to become a movie star. However, the life of an actor proves to be very harsh, and only a select few will ever be anything more than extras.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-07-03
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Echoes of the Rainbow
Overview: Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-03-11
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The River
Overview: A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-08-07
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Landscape On the Other Side: Hong Kong Cinematographer Bill Wong
Overview: Bill Wong works on a wide variety of films, some of modern setting, some with historical backgrounds; some are award winners, some lesser known. As a cinematographer, he does not strive for personal style. Instead, he concentrates on fulfilling the potential of the film and realizing his director’s designs. He is a consummate team player. This documentary features interviews with Wong and five directors with whom he has worked – Patrick Tam, Ann Hui, Tony Au, Lee Chi-ngai and Shu Kei, tracing the paths on which they have travelled together.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2010-08-29
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Merry-Go-Round
Overview: In a summer holiday, a father (Mr. Kuk) with his children (Ku Fung and Little Kuk-Ku) has decided to open a noodle bar on a 2-month lease. He has great expectations for his noodle business. Kuk Fung quickly falls in love with Carlily (Kuk Fung's friend). Meanwhile, Little Kuk-ku has met a new friend, Wo who is working at the noodle bar. As the vacation is going, the nodle bar has to be closed. Mr Kuk's business performance didn't come up to his expectations, but it ends up with two puppy loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone
Overview: Gang leader Jim Yam has ascended nearly to the pinnacle of power in the underworld, but it brings him few satisfactions. As he watches his peers drop dead around him - many of them amazingly from natural causes - he finds himself more and more soldiering on because that's just what bosses do. Reflecting back on his younger days in London, it is sad to contrast his current lavish - but empty - life as a crime lord in Hong Kong with the joys he experienced as a petty thief in England. These flashbacks and voice overs give us insights not only into Yam himself, but also his closest associates, whom we discover he in truth barely knows.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Simply Actors
Overview: When undercover cops start losing their lives to drug lords who blame their demise on "poor acting", the Police Force counters by sending Hong Kong's Finest to acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2007-06-19
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Forever and Ever
Overview: Based on a true story, Xiao Fu was contracted HIV virus through blood transmission due to hemophilia. He made his difference by writing a book before his death to change the public's view toward patients with HIV.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-03-08
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Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?
Overview: Music producer Sam and his cross-dressing protege Wing have finally professed their love for another, but now what?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-08-15
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The King of Wuxia Part 1
Overview: The life of the epoch-making master of martial arts cinema, King Hu.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-24
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: A young rebel falls for the sister of a local kickboxing champion. In order to stay out of jail, he is advised by his parole officer to begin training in the art of kickboxing. His romance with the girl blossoms but comes to a crashing halt when he is forced to face her brother in the ring. When the brother is accidentally killed, the romance ends and the young kickboxer participates in illegal street fights. When the kickboxer has a shot at the Golden Belt against the Japanese champ, he soon learns that this may be the final fight of his life. Written by Ninja01
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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No Big Deal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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My Name Is Fame
Overview: Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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Love Massacre
Overview: The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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Ordinary Heroes
Overview: Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker, and a priest during the social movements from 1970s to 1980s in Hong Kong. The film is based upon true stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1999-04-10
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The Meaning of Life
Overview: Obstetrician Joey Fong helps childless couple Shiu and Lan kidnap an unloved child and then decides she wants to have a baby with heartless news reporter husband Terrence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-27
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She Recognized the Storm: Xiao Hong and Her Golden Era
Overview: Documentary on the ups and downs of the female writer Xiao Hong's life experience, her works, her love and the golden era she lived in.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-05-07
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Twin Dragons
Overview: Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-15
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As Time Goes By
Overview: 1997 documentary, part of the Taiwan-produced series "Personal Memoir of Hong Kong", is both a self-portrait and a depiction of Hong Kong during the 40 years preceding the handover by the United Kingdom to China.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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The Making of 'Youling renjian - Visible Secret'
Overview: 2001 documentary
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-06-01
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No. 7 Cherry Lane
Overview: Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-09-02
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Winners & Sinners
Overview: Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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Calling the Shots
Overview: Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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Keep Rolling
Overview: One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2020-12-03
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Summer Snow
Overview: Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-05-04
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Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
Overview: Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-08
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Septet: The Story of Hong Kong
Overview: A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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The King of Wuxia Part 2
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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Fighting To Survive
Overview: Bon Bon, a resident of Tuen Mun, who's always attempting to implement his latest pyramid scheme. Bon Bon saves daffy local girl Snooker from a potential rapist and decides to implement his latest scheme, "One Dollar Bodyguard": he'll protect women on their evening strolls for one HK dollar. Bon Bon has to attend to his own problem, which is his inability to ride in a moving vehicle, that strands him in Tuen Mun for life. And there's the romantic issue with Snooker to resolve.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-01-31
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