Herman Yau tackles political and social issues, re-proposing the classic atmospheres and themes of Hong Kong Triade cinema in “The Mobfathers,” a gritty and satirical tale of power struggle and a nod to Hong Kong’s troubles with the China-manoeuvred elections.
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The film begins immediately in full swing, with a violent brawl in which Chat (Chapman To), the head of the Metal gang, is arrested and locked up in Stanley prison, just as his beautiful wife discovers she is expecting a baby; an event that for wrong timing fails to divert the course of fate. In fact Chat, with a 5-year sentence, is going to miss the birth and early years of his son and has no other options than to leave his trusty lieutenant Luke (Philip Keung) in charge of the boys of the gang, and also to take care of his wife and child.
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The film begins immediately in full swing, with a violent brawl in which Chat (Chapman To), the head of the Metal gang, is arrested and locked up in Stanley prison, just as his beautiful wife discovers she is expecting a baby; an event that for wrong timing fails to divert the course of fate. In fact Chat, with a 5-year sentence, is going to miss the birth and early years of his son and has no other options than to leave his trusty lieutenant Luke (Philip Keung) in charge of the boys of the gang, and also to take care of his wife and child.
- 8/9/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The tenth entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Johnnie To's Election is now playing in the United States through January 17.***Election (2005) marked an unexpected move in the illustrious career of Johnnie To. As a film about organized crime operating across Hong Kong and China, it has scenes of violence, but no guns are fired; as a story of winning, holding, or losing power, it is less about open, bloody confrontations of gangs or sovereign individuals (the law of the urban, gangster jungle) than backroom manipulations of opinion and allegiance (i.e., politics). And it is a movie in which To’s regularly vertiginous, experimental style is pared right down to a minimalistic concentration on the utterance of words, the performance of small gestures, the conveyance of signs and objects that always have a precise, codified role to play in the proceedings.
- 12/19/2015
- by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin
- MUBI
Johnnie To! The master of Hong Kong genre cinema, whose film career spans over 25 years, celebrates his birthday in April; so what better time to screen one of his finest films. Terracotta Film Club presents Election, a powerful modern Triad thriller set in a criminal underworld, steeped in tradition, code and ritual, starring two Hong Kong cinema stars Simon Yam and Tony Leung Ka Fai. Murky politics and brutal beatings in this intelligent look at Triad society; that’s a ‘must-see’ for fans To, and offers a realistic look at what it means to be a gangster in Hong Kong today. As with previous editions, the event will run for one night only on Wednesday 30 April at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. So get in quick! Synopsis: The secret world of Hong Kong’s Triad society. A crime family flirts with democracy, leading to a fierce gangland battle in...
- 4/14/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
"100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies" is, as James Marsh puts it at Twitch, the Hong Kong Film Archive's "most ambitious program to date," set to unreel over the next four years. Programmer Sam Ho and his team have selected the 100 from its collection of around 90,000 titles, and that 100 includes, of course, such classics as Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China, King Hu's Come Drink with Me (image above), John Woo's A Better Tomorrow and Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild. Marsh: "What is most exciting, however, is the opportunity to plunder areas of Hong Kong's cinematic past that haven't received nearly as much love as its action films. There is a strong contingent of melodramas from the 1950s in the series, featuring such underappreciated classics as Lee Sun Fung's It Was a Cold Winter Night, Wong Tin Lam's The Wild, Wild Rose or even...
- 9/19/2011
- MUBI
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