The title of Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong cheekily references a phrase you might have seen printed on the packaging for an action figure way back in 1997, the year of the film’s original release. But it also refers to the young, wannabe triad member with the unlikely name of Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), as well as to the production circumstances of the film itself. Its declarative label is somewhat excessive, though, as there’s no mistaking where and when Moon’s misadventures take place: Chan’s quirky, gangster-adjacent flick, so infused with washed-out and blue-filtered imagery, presents a portrait of Hong Kong that bears more than a passing resemblance to Wong Kar-wai and Christopher Doyle’s early collaborations.
From its handheld shots racing through open-air markets, to its use of expressionistic step-printed slow motion, to the way its perspectives on the city take inspiration from the cramped...
From its handheld shots racing through open-air markets, to its use of expressionistic step-printed slow motion, to the way its perspectives on the city take inspiration from the cramped...
- 12/13/2023
- by Pat Brown
- Slant Magazine
First effort at a movie by TV director Hsu Fu-hsiang, “Trick or Treat” is a messy mashup of various genres and filmmakers’ styles, which aims at entertainment, mostly through absurdity. Let us take things from the beginning, though.
“Treat or Trick” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Feng is a cop, but as himself states, not exactly a shining example of one, since his connections with organized crime frequently drive him to unlawful actions. During a police raid that ends up in a series of intense events, mostly instigated by Psycho, a trigger-happy colleague, another officer, who works undercover and happens to be Feng’s best friend and in the scene, Chiang, takes the diamonds found and skips town. The local crime boss Feng has ties with, gets wind of what happened, takes Psycho as hostage, and tasks Feng with finding the diamonds in 48 hours, while attaching to him one of his henchmen,...
“Treat or Trick” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Feng is a cop, but as himself states, not exactly a shining example of one, since his connections with organized crime frequently drive him to unlawful actions. During a police raid that ends up in a series of intense events, mostly instigated by Psycho, a trigger-happy colleague, another officer, who works undercover and happens to be Feng’s best friend and in the scene, Chiang, takes the diamonds found and skips town. The local crime boss Feng has ties with, gets wind of what happened, takes Psycho as hostage, and tasks Feng with finding the diamonds in 48 hours, while attaching to him one of his henchmen,...
- 4/2/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Shot in true guerrilla style, using spare pieces of film from the movies he worked at, with five crew members loaning money for the equipment and only two months of production, “Made in Hong Kong” became one of Hk and Fruit Chan’s trademark films, as it managed to win a plethora of awards, both in Hong Kong and internationally.
The recent, 4K restoration of the film was promoted by the Far East Film Festival on the occasion of the 20th anniversary since the film’s first public screening in 1997, the same year as Hong Kong’s handover to China. The restoration was made from the original camera negative with the supervision of director Fruit Chan and cinematographer O Sing-pui and was carried out in 2017 in the Hong Kong and Bologna headquarters of L’Immagine Ritrovata.
“Made in Hong Kong” screened at Five Flavours
Moon is a young delinquent who...
The recent, 4K restoration of the film was promoted by the Far East Film Festival on the occasion of the 20th anniversary since the film’s first public screening in 1997, the same year as Hong Kong’s handover to China. The restoration was made from the original camera negative with the supervision of director Fruit Chan and cinematographer O Sing-pui and was carried out in 2017 in the Hong Kong and Bologna headquarters of L’Immagine Ritrovata.
“Made in Hong Kong” screened at Five Flavours
Moon is a young delinquent who...
- 5/4/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong came out right after Hong Kong Handover to Mainland China in 1997. With its youthful energy and boisterous amateur cast, the film reflects rather an anxious and pessimistic view of what lays ahead for the new generation facing uncertainty. It's a kinetic, viseral, shoe-string budget film about a wayward high school drop out/triad wannabe Moon (Sam Lee in a star making role) working as a low level debt collector. Moon spends most of his days jerking off, going through his mom's purse, hanging out with his buddy Sylvester (Wenders Li), a big simpleton who gets bullied around by high school students. Moon terrorizes people who owe Big Brother Cheung money for living. On one of these runs for collecting...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
- 3/4/2020
- Screen Anarchy
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.