Netting Sandra Ng Best Actress honors from the Hong Kong Film Awards and Shu Qi Best Supporting from the same competition and Golden Horse, “Portland Street Blues” is a spin-off of the “Young and Dangerous” series, focusing, however, on a female character this time.
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The story starts with Sister 13 already being a boss, although her life is not exactly easy within the utterly male-dominated triad world and the fact that she is a lesbian does not make things any easier. After a few scenes in the present, and during a ceremony for the day of the death of her father, she begins narrating her life story to her comrades. Her father was a gambling addict who was repeatedly exploited by triad members, and particularly one mentioned as Sob, while Sister 13 was mostly hanging around with Kristy, trying to hustle some money here and there,...
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The story starts with Sister 13 already being a boss, although her life is not exactly easy within the utterly male-dominated triad world and the fact that she is a lesbian does not make things any easier. After a few scenes in the present, and during a ceremony for the day of the death of her father, she begins narrating her life story to her comrades. Her father was a gambling addict who was repeatedly exploited by triad members, and particularly one mentioned as Sob, while Sister 13 was mostly hanging around with Kristy, trying to hustle some money here and there,...
- 11/4/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
If you're going to talk about cinema at present, even if you're not talking very thoroughly, it's inevitable that Yu Lik-wai's work, if not his name, will come up. If anyone's got answers about the present, it's the man who shot Unknown Pleasures. Yu is one of our greatest cinematographers, probably the greatest shooting excluively in digital formats, and he also happens to be a damn good director. It's the former that he's best known: as Jia Zhang-ke's director of photography and producer, he forms half of one of the great partnerships in filmmaking. The famous story (possibly apocryphal) is that Jia saw a few minutes of Yu's feature debut, Love Will Tear Us Apart 1996 documentary Neon Goddesses at a film festival and decided they had to work together. Apart, they're two singular men who think very seriously about the world they live in and cinema's ability to express it.
- 10/27/2009
- MUBI
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