sometimes you really don't have to understand the film you just have to feel it live with it❤❤

Are u gonna have a content for Byambaasuren Daava ?

The Cup was one of most memorable movies of my (Asian) Childhood❤

Do you ever take a break from over-analyzing films to enjoy them?

I learned about the touch base policy from this movie. Overall, I'd say this is a rather impactful and important movie.

Ah, so kinda like now?

Wasn’t Shaw studio based in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 (in which Cantonese is the most common language spoken)

I love CAT III films. The girls are gorgeous, they’re more interesting than Hollywood, and a lot more fun than what you get today. Sister Cindy in Naked Killer is the image of my dream dominatrix. Can’t get any better than that!

I just watched this movie to gawk at Shu Qi, and honestly that is the real reason i clicked on this video. I've learned nothing.

What are you waffling about

Thanks for the recommendation, will hunt it down. Also, subbed.

On the list, thanks!

A masterpiece. I saw this back in 1991 on a VHS as a jr in a middle school...saw this and asked myself what the heck I just watched...left me a strong impression of its artistic portrayal of lost souls.

I shall watch some Patrick Lung Kong films

A tale of two sisters. Based on a Korean folklore. Where their stepmother, conspired to banished them by faking an abortion, by using a mouse fetus.

how can i watch this? i love hk cinema

….I lost the game….😅

what is movie name at 1:45 ?

Thank you ❤

Fear of social unrest in 1960's Hong Kong was always on residents mind because of the free press brought news of developments in China including political betrayal of the Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom political movement, the economic disaster and resulting mass starvation of the Great Leap Forward which coincided with a drought that led to tens of millions starving to death and bodies floating down the river through Hong Kong. Other social psychological factors include the Viet Nam War and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. Hong Kong government is always aware that the Communist government might decide to cut off the water supply to Hong Kong, or cut off the electricity supply, or militarily invade Hong Kong. Corruption is also a major source of tension. Modernity and technological change also create tension. So, Hong Kongers tended to focus on making money to pay rent and feed the family as the focus is on survival living in a British colony next to a then chaotic China.

Chungking Express and Lost in Translation are the two best movies that touch on loneliness in the modern era. How can there be so many people constantly moving around me and feel so lost? These films answer this question as good as anyone can.

Thanks for your work, I’m looking forward to give them a try 🔥

To be pedantic, The Cup is set and filmed in northern India, not Tibet. Its director, Khyentse Norbu, is from Bhutan. But it is set within the Tibetan exile community and the world of Tibetan Buddhism, so I would agree it does count as 'Tibetan cinema'. And 'monastic' is pronounced moNAstik ;-)

I played Mountain Patrol for a group of friends and they pretty much cursed me out at the end. A difficult film to endure, but powerful.

What's the song around the 6 minute mark

wonderfully explained Sir. short and sweet, to the point. I loved the socio-political and economic background of HK from the mid 90s which you fantastically weaved in to give context. thank you

I watched the film because i wanted to watch this video and know what it's about. You'd love the excellent Bangal's filmaker Jahir Rayhan and his quote, "Everything is politics. "

Well done. Hollywood and popular culture in general largely token-ized all non-white groups and women generally. The most significant moves away from that profound reality began in the decade following the 1960 release of this film. There was much progress since then, but fetishing and token-nizing certain groups of course remains all too alive in most cultures around the world. Back to this film, this review and Kwan’s arguments presented in it are spot on.

I love this movie.

Can you do a video on modern Roman porno films ?

This has become my favourite WKW and seeing it on the big screen was one of the most transformative cinema experiences I’ve ever had. Great video.

You pick up so many details in the background of the film many critics failed to acknowledge

awesome

I really love this film. Never understood the criticism.

i like honesty of nikkiatsu tho, their about us page have full intorduction of themselves and they stated that they did get monetary uplifement from roman p*rn* after facing loss

the poem Only envious of mandarin ducks, not immortals." Combining the meaning of painting and affection, Ning Caichen concluded by writing the inscription and stamping on painting, which also perfectly combined the traditional Chinese art of poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing. This combination also completed the entire affirmation of love. The process of love between Ning n Nie

Such a classic film, one I feel is underrated. The late 50s/early 60s seemed a ripe period for horror films internationally, due to various social and political post war upheavals - in the UK we had Peeping Tom, Hitchcock made Psycho (2 films that birthed the slasher genre), in France Georges Franju made Eyes Without A Face and Japan released Jigoku, just to name a few. If it isn't already, Hanyeo deserves to be recognised alongside these classics as a great example of Asian horror

im trying so hard to see the meaning and love this movie the way everyone else does but i just can't see anything special in the story.. the cinematography, colors, soundtrack, sure. but the characters?? like why should i care about them

Given that Ozu is a the only God of Cinema, your points and analysis are angelic :)

Really bad video. The anticipatory apology for misspronouncing words is already cringy but what's much worse is the constant unexplained and genuinely unreflected use of buzzwords like "propaganda" or "nationalist" and weird accusations like movies being "derogative" against people, let alone the obvious personal animosity against whatever the people on this channel consider "conservative/nationalist" (in opposition to left-wing radical/communist "propaganda" that seems to remain unquestioned here). The video is just anything but objective and in it's supposed mission to uncover "propaganda" it's "propaganda" itself.

"the island and the country"=you get it

Hey where can i see the time to live and the time do die by hou hsiao hsien? I have searched it for a while but i can’t find it

Thanks!!

I spent over a month in Hong Kong in the 1960's And I spent most of my free evenings in bars in Kowloon. The depiction of Hong Kong bar life is very accurate. While Suzy Wong is one individual she in many way mirrors the real bar girls at that time.....I know because I knew several of them. Hong Kong was growing rapidly due to the influx of Chinese fleeing Communist China. Surviving for many of these people was difficult and jobs were very hard to find. Some choose working as bar girls ...some but not all were prostitutes. Some women did other jobs....One group painted the ships that were in Hong Kong harbor. They painted our ship from a san pan and used very long handle paint rollers to reach high spots. They were paid with food from the ships stores and got lunch by scraping leftover food from the plates of the crew. Our group was know as Mary Soo and Her Side Cleaners. Some of the bar girls were Eurasian not strictly Chinese...and were not accepted in polite White or Asian society. Nancy Kwan is Eurasian. Nancy Kwan has always defended he role in the movie and stated that it helped open the door for Asian actors in Hollywood. So if you watch the movie you are seeing an accurate picture of Hong Kong bar life in the 1960's even if Suzy Wong is much more complicated a role than any stereotype can match. I knew no bar girls that would consider it an honor to be beaten by their boyfriend....so I doubt there is much truth in that. All the bar girls I know in Kowloon were very sophisticated and more savvy than many white women I have know in the USA. There was a madam (Chinese woman) who used the Waltzing Matilda bar in Kowloon as her office. She had a business card that read "Hot Pants Molly Malone 24 hour service". One of her girls was named Lee and on a 1 to 10 scale for beauty was a 12. I also spent time in many bars in Japan and the situation was similar to Hong Kong except that the bar girls were much more likely to be prostitutes than the ones in Kowloon. Suzy Wong worked the bar in Wan Chia district as that was the drinking area for enlisted men while Kowloon was an officers playground. If you think Asian women were objectified in the movie you are correct to some extent....Now tell me white women are not objectified in the good old USA. I would love to see an comments from someone who shared my experience in Hong Kong....compare notes.

relocated to london from hk last year, this movie had me feeling so many things, and it's also so darn pretty

Sometimes you just cant, no matter how much you try, to convince people that bs is art. This movie is waste of time. Period.

I'm Japanese. When I first learned about this film it was 2004, news-shows reporting Takuya Kimura in this film. I knew of this film before I knew who WKW was. When I first watched this in late 2000's or maybe early 2010's, I did not care much for this film. I felt it had little content of story. Style of scenes were cool, but only that. However, when I rewatched it last year in 4K version in theaters, with much more knowledge of HK history and HK cinema, Wong Kar Wai movies, I appreciated this film much more. I could finally understand how these actors were representing the complex relations (affairs) of east Asia.... HK, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan. The anxiety of future and the longing for the past, and the current lust. I still would not say personally that this is WKW's better films, but it deserves recognition for sure. I even own a copy of the DVD.

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OMG!!! Memory unlocked!

It so nice having a Hongkonger perspective of this movie from a western persons. Thank you my friend.