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China · Taiwan · HK

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Hong Kongends in 11 days
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Netflix drama Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? review: Koji Yakusho leads amnesia comedy

3.5/5 stars Lead cast: Koji Yakusho, Kento Kaku, Kenichi Matsuyama In Netflix’s new comedy series Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?, Koji Yakusho stars as a world-famous Japanese actor who discovers…

SCMP Film13 Oct
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From Jumbo Floating Restaurant to neon, nostalgia aplenty at Hong Kong art-tech show

When Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsized and sank in the South China Sea in 2022, social media users lamented the loss of a culinary icon.

SCMP Film13 Oct
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Good Trip review: Nick Cheung, Chung Suet-ying play father and daughter in road comedy

3.5/5 stars In Good Trip, a father and daughter’s impromptu final excursion unfolds as a deceptively playful comedy road movie.

SCMP Film13 Oct
Hong Kong Free Press

Hong Kong actor Angela Yuen calls for eradication of film industry’s ‘misogynistic’ culture

A Hong Kong actor has urged for the “eradication” of sexual harassment and what she called “misogynistic” behaviour in the local film industry in a widely shared social media post detailing sexist…

Hong Kong Free Press13 Oct
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Opera Hong Kong’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci double bill lights up the stage

Opera Hong Kong’s first fully staged production of Pietro Mascagni’s 1890 Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 Pagliacci does justice to the classic double bill.

SCMP Film12 Oct
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Who is Callina Liang, the actress playing Chun-Li in the new Street Fighter movie?

When Kitao Sakurai, the Japanese-American director of a new film adaptation of the Street Fighter video game franchise, called to say she had the role, Callina Liang reacted the way anyone might…

SCMP Film12 Oct
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Bling Empire’s Dorothy Wang is back. This time, it’s her wedding, her rules

For Dorothy Wang, documenting her life is hardly new territory. After years of appearing on reality television, including Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, Bling Empire and Bling Empire: New York, the…

SCMP Film10 Oct
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How Cantopop pioneer and avid arts lover Anthony Wong Yiu-ming shaped Hong Kong culture

This is the 87th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.

SCMP Film9 Oct
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Netflix K-drama Dead-End Job: Squid Game meets supernatural horror in uneven thrill ride

Lead cast: Lee Jae-wook, Go Min-si, Kim Min-ha, Lee Hee-jun In Dead-End Job, Lee Jae-wook (Alchemy of Souls) stars as a desperate loser who takes a series of dangerous, increasingly bizarre part-time…

SCMP Film8 Oct
Hong Kong Free Press

Clockenflap 2026 line-up: Slowdive, Queens of the Stone Age, Hayley Williams, Keshi

Asia’s premier international outdoor music and arts festival Clockenflap has unveiled its initial line-up for this year’s event at the Central Harbourfront Event Space.

Hong Kong Free Press8 Oct
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Hong Kong couple’s mountain retreat, HRT’s effects on dementia: 7 Lifestyle highlights

We have selected seven Lifestyle stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Bali or Europe?

SCMP Film8 Oct
Sixth Tone

China’s DeepZang AI Aims to Improve Tibetan Translation

Released in March, the model, which can convert speech and writing between Tibetan, Mandarin Chinese, and English, will undergo a series of linguistic upgrades.

Sixth Tone8 Oct
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The Mage review: Josie Ho scavenges lost souls in supernatural detective thriller

2.5/5 stars A seemingly deranged rubbish collector makes for an unorthodox cinematic sleuth. Yet this is precisely the conceit of The Mage, a supernatural whodunnit that pairs the pungent outcast…

SCMP Film7 Oct
RADII

Zhang Yimou Teases A Homegrown Chinese ‘Three-Body Problem’ Film

Finished binging the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s mind-bending sci-fi saga, The Three-Body Problem ? Sad that it’s all over?

RADII7 Oct
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How Broadway Cinematheque, Hong Kong’s longest-running art house cinema, is thriving at 30

While cinemas worldwide have suffered waves of closures over the past decade, Hong Kong’s longest-running art house theatre has bucked the trend.

SCMP Film7 Oct

Box office · No. 1 by market

Each market’s latest weekend

  1. ChinaResident Evil$40.6M
  2. TaiwanPrimetime$16K
  3. Hong KongPrimetime$94K
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