Ann Hui - Kkiste

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Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.

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2020 History 111 min Spielen

5.9

Our Time Will Come

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.

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5.9

2017 Drama 130 min Spielen

5.2

Beautiful 2012

A superb package of shorts by four leading East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.

A Simple Life

The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman, who has been the family's helper for sixty years.

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7.4

2011 Drama 118 min Spielen

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July Rhapsody

Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) ...

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6

2002 Drama 103 min Spielen

6.9

Visible Secret

Urban tale of fantasies, genre greatly favoured by Hong-Kong cinematography, the latest movie of filmmaker Ann Hui combines elements of horror films with other comical aspects to offer an intriguing and terrifying work of great visual strength.

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6.9

2001 Fantasy 89 min Spielen

6.3

Ordinary Heroes

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.

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6.3

1999 Drama 128 min Spielen

7.4

Eighteen Springs

Based on an Eileen Chang novel, a story of romance and fate set in the Shanghai of the 1930s. Manjing (Wu Chien-lien), a young woman from a once-well-off family, works in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun (Leon Lai), the son of wealthy Nanjing merchants. Despite Shujun's reservations about Manjing's family (her sister, Manlu (Anita Mui) works as a nightclub "hostess"), they manage, in stages, to fall in love. The expected progress through engagement to marriage is interrupted, ...

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7.4

1997 Drama 126 min Spielen

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The Stunt Woman

A few years in the life of Ah Kam, starting with her joining action director Master Tung's team of regulars.

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7

1996 Action 95 min Spielen

6.7

Summer Snow

The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at school. Trouble strikes one day when Bing's mother dies of a stroke, leaving her husband old Mr. Sun. Alzheimer's Disease is diagnosed. From that day on, the family's daily life is thrown into a poignant. Old Mr. Sun develops a tendency to wander off and get lost, he wakes up yelling in the middle of the ...

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6.7

1995 Comedy 101 min Spielen

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My American Grandson

A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.

Meister des Schwertes

China, während der Ming-Dynastie. Aus der königlichen Bibliothek wird eine geheime Martial Arts Schriftrolle gestohlen. Damit dieser Vorfall nicht an die Öffentlichkeit dringt, beseitigt der für das Gebiet verantwortliche Beamte mit seinem Helfer Au Yeung alle Zeugen. Ein Tatverdächtiger ist auch schnell in dem ehemaligen Beamten Lam gefunden, dessen Haus umstellt wird. Dort halten sich aber auch zwei Mitglieder der Hua Mountain Schwertkampfschule auf, Seniorschüler Ling Wu Chung und die ...

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6.8

1990 Abenteuer 120 min Spielen

6.6

The Secret

A real murder case which was complicated by the ménage à trois relationship the victim had with the main suspects. As different witnesses narrated their conflicting stories, the case seemed set to lead to nowhere; especially when the real identity of the dead person was finally discovered.

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6.6

1979 Drama 85 min Spielen