A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
The undercover agent with dragon tattoo Kowloon continually helped the police to solve mysterious cases, which made him known as a rising star. However, his impulsive personality dragged him into endless troubles. He got himself into fights with the Macau detective, as well as an American Army veteran Alexander who has a secret linkage to Kowloon’s background…
As a director faces a series of setbacks in life including debt and divorce, his elderly father suddenly regains his youth.
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.
Lin is a plain-clothes cop in the crime-riddled district of Mongkok who bungles a vice operation directed at mainland prostitues. He falls for a ditsy hooker who tells him the love of her life is a killer who once svaed her life in a shootout.
After moving to Hong Kong from China, a young martial artist starts a promising career as a stuntwoman. She begins to feel accepted in the business, but a passionate affair with a playboy ends up breaking her heart and unleashing her wild side.
A poet named Butterfly and her friend Kuen visit a stranger's mansion to return some possessions that were unintentionally taken. At the house, they stumbled upon an illegal weapons trade that ultimately went bad. To evade the police from interrogations, the two innocent witnesses wiped away their fingerprints and left a note that stated that the crimes were committed by "The Black Rose," who is known to be a fictional hero in a 1965 movie. However, a recovered fingerprint caused Kuen to be the prime suspect, and the apprentices of the Black Rose, apparently a real hero whose legacy was portrayed in the 1965 movie, attempt to seek the truth in the matter by confronting Butterfly.
This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a tiny village in Hong Kong. The plot revolves around his love interest who has run off to work in downtown Hong Kong and many culture clashes between the peasants and urban life are highlighted.
The movie was originally a TV series exported by "9 Hong Kong Radio & TV Department". Its film version was used as a commemorative work for the 60th Anniversary of Radio 9 Hong Kong for a charity screening at the cinema. It describes the lives of firefighter Jiang Jiahe and his life before his death from cancer. Jiang's family is a dedicated firefighter. He loves his wife and family. Unfortunately, he contracted nasopharyngeal cancer. He was initially calm and under the careful treatment and care of the doctor and his wife, but his family was hit by a series of blows: his father was injured and fell to death; his younger brother’s career was frustrated; to solve family life, He was a part-time taxi driver who suffered from lung cancer because of overwork...
Lawrence Ah Mon is a Director and Actor.
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