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SCMP FilmHong KongBusan 2026: 10 of the festival’s best movies, from Midday Meal to Satoko Always The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which closed on October 15, drew 277,027 visitors, roughly 40,000 more than last year and the highest since 2015.
SCMP FilmHong KongHong Kong Ballet’s visually stunning Dunhuang: In Search of Light fails to fully tell tale There is nothing more difficult than living up to expectations. Dunhuang: In Search of Light is the first new full-length production for Hong Kong Ballet by the husband-and-wife choreographic team of…
SCMP FilmHong KongSri Lankan writer Nifraz Rifaz’s debut novel confronts Islamophobia after Easter bombings On September 22, after a five-year trial, 15 men from Sri Lanka’s minority Muslim community were convicted and sentenced to 200 to 260 years in prison each for their involvement in the 2019 Easter…
SCMP FilmHong KongHow AI is reshaping microdramas as the vertical video format takes a ‘generational jump’ Paddy Ma Wendi, a director of vertical dramas since 2023, has had a front-row seat to how fast and hard artificial intelligence has affected the mobile-first entertainment genre in 2026.
SCMP FilmHong KongWhat Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige reveals about his cinematic obsession 20 years on Before The Dark Knight made him a household name in 2008, Christopher Nolan crafted intricate thrillers such as Following (1998), Memento (2000) and Insomnia (2002).
SCMP FilmHong KongWhy the 1960 film The Wild, Wild Rose is the late Grace Chang’s greatest cinematic triumph Grace Chang, also known by her stage name Ge Lan, died in August at the age of 93. She is widely remembered today for her lively performance in Mambo Girl, the 1957 Chinese-language musical that made…
SCMP FilmHong KongKlara and the Sun review: Jenna Ortega is an android in upbeat but saccharine sci-fi fable 3/5 stars Taika Waititi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Jojo Rabbit (2019), brings his trademark quirk to Klara and the Sun, a sunny-side-up sci-fi fable that occasionally delivers flashes of…
SCMP FilmHong KongDisney+ K-drama The Remarried Empress: Shin Min-a reigns in lavish royal romance fantasy Lead cast: Shin Min-a, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Jong-suk, Lee Se-young Shin Min-a is, for all intents and purposes, Korea’s first Disney Princess as she plays the titular royal in the lavish new K-drama The…
SCMP FilmHong KongFrom 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 FilmHong KongGood 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 FilmHong KongNetflix 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 FilmHong KongOpera 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 FilmHong KongWho 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 FilmHong KongDisney+ K-drama Merry Berry Love: Ji Chang-wook goes to Japan in hollow romantic comedy Lead cast: Ji Chang-wook, Mio Imada Cross-cultural media ties between Japan and South Korea continue to blossom with Merry Berry Love, a rural romance starring Ji Chang-wook (The Worst of Evil) and…
SCMP FilmHong KongDisney+ K-drama Between Steps: Kim So-hyun, Choo Young-woo in Ahn Pan-seok’s final romance Lead cast: Kim So-hyun, Choo Young-woo Latest Nielsen rating: 2.36 per cent Kim So-hyun (My Lovely Liar) and Choo Young-woo (The Tale of Lady Ok) share the screen in this university-set slice-of-life…
SCMP FilmHong KongBling 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 FilmHong KongNetflix K-drama The Blue Road: Son Suk-ku, Eita Nagayama hunt a vicious serial killer Lead cast: Son Suk-ku, Eita Nagayama Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama team up for the transnational crime thriller The Blue Road, Netflix’s upcoming K-drama in which they play rival detectives on the…
SCMP FilmHong KongHow 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 FilmHong KongNetflix 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 FilmHong KongHong 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 FilmHong KongThe 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 FilmHong KongHow 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 FilmHong KongMastermind review: Louis Koo plays detective in ludicrously bad Hong Kong mystery thriller 1/5 stars A fine line separates a labyrinthine murder thriller from an infuriatingly fragmented mess.
SCMP FilmHong KongWhat does the Busan International Film Festival’s new pathway to the Oscars mean for Asia? The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opens its 31st edition today with a renewed sense of relevance and prestige as it celebrates its newly minted status as an A-list festival accredited by…
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