In David Asavanond’s romantic sci-fi, your apartment can fall in love with you, and then stop you from leaving.
Time and Tide
Tsui Hark’s semi-classic hasn’t aged as well as it would have liked, but it’s got its charms.
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Tragedy, coincidence and loneliness clash in Peter Chan’s romantic comedy-drama.
Anita
Longman Leung puts on his rosiest lens and delivers a superficial but sweet retelling of Anita Mui’s life.
Focus Hong Kong: Making Waves
For three days only, Focus Hong Kong returns to London with its touring programme Making Waves – Navigators of Hong Kong Cinema.
The City of Lost Souls
Cultures clash on the streets of Tokyo in one of Takashi Miike’s more subdued gangster thrillers.
Illang: The Wolf Brigade
There’s a lot of bark but not much bite in Kim Jee-Woon’s Wolf Brigade remake.
Naked Killer
Clarence Fok delivers on nudity and killers in Naked Killer, though not in the quantities one might have hoped.
Metamorphosis
A young intersex teen comes to term with who they are in J.E. Tiglao’s uplifting drama.
East Palace, West Palace
Love and lust are volatile, unexpected and anywhere in Zhang Yuan’s arresting drama.
24
A deceased boom mic operator visits old haunts in Royston Tan’s meditative drama.
Beautiful Boxer
A young boxer literally fights for what she believes in, in Ekachai Uekrongtham’s sports biopic.