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Besieged City

2008 Hong Kong film

Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.[1]

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Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama",[2] and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs.[1] The title refers to Tin Shui Wai,[1] a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.

Cast

Cast and roles include:[3][4][5]

  • Tang Tak Po as Ho Ling-kit
  • Wong Yat Ho as Ho Chun-kit
  • Wong Hau Yan as Panadoll
  • Joman Chiang
  • Jonathan Cheung as Chu Hin
  • Dada Chan Ching as Ceci
  • Joman Chiang as Yee-wah
  • Sunny Luk

Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).[1]

Awards and nominations

Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008:

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Fonoroff, Paul (1 May 2008). "Besieged City". South China Morning Post.
  2. [2]
    Kerr, Elizabeth (2 April 2008). "Besieged City". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. [3]
    Besieged City at HKMDB
  4. [4]
    Besieged City at chinesemov.com
  5. [5]
    Besieged City at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata

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