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Kanopy
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7.4
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3.9
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100
/11/
86
/39/

Center Stage (1991)
Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.
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Criterion Channel
77
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7.3
/3997/
72
/91/
73
/77/
3.9
/12139/
83
/6/
86
/61/

Rouge (1987)
Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.
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Criterion Channel
71
61
7.2
/3344/
72
/69/
69
/56/
3.6
/5689/
68
/38/
84
/102/
62
/19/

Lan Yu (2001)
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
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Criterion Channel
64
33
6.7
/503/
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/9/
66
/16/
3.5
/1960/
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Love Unto Wastes (1986)
Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary. The survivors come under the scrutiny of an eccentric cop, and their underlying fears and regrets slowly but surely emerge.
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6.8
/454/
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/10/
77
/9/
3.5
/1956/
56
/3/

Full Moon in New York (1989)
Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.
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7.1
/365/
62
/7/
62
/20/
3.5
/386/

Red Rose White Rose (1994)
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background. Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.
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5.6
/499/
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/7/
55
/12/
3.2
/206/
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/20/

Everlasting Regret (2005)
A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive.
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6.3
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/13/
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/11/
3.5
/276/
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Hold You Tight (1998)
Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing everyone on board, and leaving the friends and family of the two women to talk about what was and what could have been.
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4.5
/37/

Showtime (2010)
Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their graduation performance. Meanwhile, 5 members of a 1936 Shanghai theatre troupe, lead by Master Liu, are transported into the present to broaden their horizons.
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5.4
/16/

Quattro Hong Kong 2 (2011)
Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong.
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7.1
/32/
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Still Love You After All These (1997)
A personal memoir reflecting upon director Stanley Kwan's career and identity, set upon the backdrop of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. Kwan adopts a complicated cinematic structure which includes excerpts from his previous films, his '97 stage play, and the soundtrack to Wong Kar-wai's "Days of Being Wild."
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5.4
/128/
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/2/
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The Island Tales (2000)
A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them to overlook their preconceptions of one another, and they forge a kinship that goes to the heart their identities.
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7.0
/34/
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/3/
70
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Too Happy for Words (1992)
Stanley Kwan's 1992 short film starring Josephine Siao and Maggie Cheung
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6.6
/208/
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/7/
66
/8/
3.4
/406/

Women (1985)
Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her sisters put on, beneath it all, each of them secretly yearns for a man in her life.
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5.4
/39/
10
/1/

Kin chan no Cinema Jack (1993)
Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan
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6.2
/52/
75
/2/
32
/8/

First Night Nerves (2018)
Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She decides to star in Two Sisters, written and directed by transwoman An Ouyang. But, her biggest rival, He Yuwen, a rising actress, also stars in the play. Yuwen plans her theatrical debut through it. During the preparation of the play, such a drama unfolds at the backstage as much as on stage. With the opening night at Hong Kong’s City Hall Theater just seven days away, tensions at rehearsal increase and tempers flare as actresses Xiuling and Yuwen’s buried resentments rise to the surface.
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Beautiful 2016 (2016)
The latest edition of the Beautiful series, commissioned for the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which asks established and acclaimed directors from across Asia to contemplate the idea of what beauty really is in their own distinctive ways. Following on from Beautiful 2012, this selection sees Jia Zhangke (A Touch Of Sin, Mountains May Depart), Stanley Kwan (Rouge, Centre Stage), Alec Su (The Left Ear) and Hideo Nakata (Ringu, Ghost Theater) step up to the plate.
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One 2008th (2008)
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13 Minutes in the Lives of... (2011)
A HKIFF short film by Stanley Kwan. Stanley Kwan takes us on a real-time bus trip from the airport to Kowloon in 13 Minutes in the Lives of… The heady and deadly mix of Hong Kong and cinema; wonder never ceases.
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One Day in Our Lives of… (2016)
Stanley Kwan casts an impassive eye on a film crew in a recording studio in "One Day in Our Lives of…" with a diva, a young director, his lovelorn assistant.
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Human Fireworks (2021)
A short feature film by Stanley Kwan, bringing us back to the world of Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung in Rouge, with the new cast Cecilia Yip and Ng Siu Hin.


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