[2023.04.19] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY, APRIL 16 2023

For the week ending Sunday, April 16 2023

10 A GUILTY CONSCIENCE
  Can : Duk Sit Dai Jong
  Lit : Poison Tongued Lawyer
    d. Jack Ng Wai Lun
    Dayo Wong Tze Wa, Tse Kwan Ho,
      Louise Wong Dan Nei, Fish Liew Chi Yu,
      Michael Wong Man Tak, Dee Ho Kai Wa, Renci Yeung Sze Wing,
      Adam Pak Tin Nam, Bowie Lam Bo Yi,
      Vincent Kok Tak Siu, Sheldon Lo (Law Hau Yung)
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 135 mins.
  Opening January 7, 14 2023 (Preview)
  Opening January 21 2023
  Teaser : https://youtu.be/JRUKWIv59Uw
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/DYJ828h8k4M

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    A simple supermodel's child abuse case becomes the battleground of justice, power, and fame. When the apex society exercises every network and resource to save itself, how will the barristers pursue justice?

  9 THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
  Can : Bak Yut Ching Chun
  Lit : White Sun Youth
    d. Lau Kok-Rui (Lau Kwok Shui)
    Anthony Wong Chau Sun, Sahal Zaman (Lam Lok), Endy Chow Kwok Yin,
      Inderjeet Singh (Poon Man Sing), Kireanjeet Gill (Kiu Ka Wan)
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 112 mins.
  Opening December 2 2022 (Preview)
  Opening March 30 2023
  Site : https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/film/programme/films/detail/3478?r=en&search_year=2022&search_category=FF&ghff_id=579
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/q0HX9xPbVco

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    A refugee boy is helped by a local taxi driver to flee Hong Kong. They develop the father-son relationship until the boy finds the driver is the murderer of his father.

[ TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 ]
    Hassan is a Hong Kong-born Pakistani kid waiting for refugee status to Canada. His father died in a car accident that Yat is involved in, who himself was a refugee from China in the 1970s. When Hassan joins a refugees' gang and gets entangled with the police, Yat decides to help him flee, but Hassan finds out the truth about his father's death. Can their journey continue?

  8 LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR
    d. Keiichi Hara
    Japanese Animation
    Rating : IIA
    Length : 116 mins.
    Opening March 30 2023
    Trailer : https://youtu.be/eDVpRbBWKJI

[ CINEMA CITY ]
    Kokoro hides in her bedroom after she loses her place in school. One day, the mirror in her room begins to shine, and pulls Kokoro into a fairytale castle. Six other students have been brought to the castle too. A strange girl in a wolf mask tells them that they will grant a wish if they find the key hidden in the castle within a year.

    As Kokoro and her new acquaintances spend more time in their new sanctuary, they begin to unlock the castle's secrets and each other's. Can they get the hidden key? Why are they chosen? And what are their secret wishes?

  7 AIR
    d. Ben Affleck
    Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans,
      Chris Messina, Chris Tucker, Viola Davis

  6 A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT
  Can : Dun For Lan Shan
    d. Anastasia Tsang Hin Ning
    Sylvia Chang (Cheung Ngai Ga), Simon Yam Tat Wa,
      Cecilia Choi Sze Wan, Henick Chou Han Ning
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 103 mins.
  Opening October 25 2022 at the Tokyo International Film Festival
  Opening November 13 2022 at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
  Opening December 2 2022 (Preview)
  Opening April 13 2023
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/BdjneYwpLgA
  fb: https://www.facebook.com/people/%E7%87%88%E7%81%AB%E9%97%8C%E7%8F%8A-A-Light-Never-Goes-Out/100063961423671/
  Tokyo International Film Festival Site : https://2022.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/film/3502ASF06
  Tokyo International Film Festival Trailer : https://youtu.be/UxHsOEU0xNs
  Site : https://www.hkaff.asia/en/film/2022/detail/131

[ 2022 TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
    Devastated by the loss of her skilled neon sign-making husband, a wife decides to carry on his unfinished dream of making neon signs. Simon Yam and Sylvia Chang star in this remarkable HK film.

[ HONG KONG ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ]
    Radiant neon signs once served as icons of Hong Kong's prosperity and vitality. However, such signs have gradually disappeared over the years, along with the craftsmen who spent decades mastering the craft of blowing neon lights. Director Anastasia Tsang revives this long-time tradition in her poignant directorial debut, telling the touching story of a widow who discovers secrets her late husband Bill buried within his neon lights workshop. While reminiscing about Bill, she sets out to fulfill his final wish of recreating a famous demolished neon sign with the help of Bill's young protege.

  5 DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES
    d. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
    Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Rege-Jean Page, Justice Smith,
      Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head

  4 SUZUME
    d. Makoto Shinkai
    Japanese Animation
    Rating : I
    Length : 121 mins.
    Opening March 2 2023

[ CINEMA CITY ]
    Suzume, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a quiet town in Kyushu, meets Souta, a young man looking for a door. Following Souta, Suzume finds an old door in the mountains and reaches out her hands towards the door as if pulled by something. This opened door will bring disaster; thus, Souta must travel round to lock the door to avoid disaster. But then, a mysterious kitten turns Souta into a broken wooden chair. To catch the kitten, Suzume and Souta follow it and travel from Kyushu to Tokyo. "Doors of disaster" begin to appear across Japan simultaneously, and Suzume needs to close and lock the doors one by one to stop the disasters. Unexpectedly, a forgotten truth is waiting for her.

  3 JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4
    d. Chad Stahelski
    Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Clancy Brown,
      Ian McShane, Bill Skarsgard, Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Sanada,
      Shamier Anderson, Rina Sawayama,

  2 OVER MY DEAD BODY
  Can : Sei Si Sei Si Sei Sup Sei
  Lit : Corpse Died At Forty Four
    d. Ho Cheuk Tin
    Teresa Mo Shun Kwan, Ronald Cheng Chung Kei, Wong Yau Nam,
      Jennifer Yu Heung Ying, Edan Lui Cheuk On, Alan Yeung Wai Lun,
      Lau Kong, Bonnie Wong Man Wai, Wu Lai Ying, Jer Lau Ying Ting,
      Hanna Chan, Jiro Leung Sheung Ching, Kenneth Cheung Moon Ting,
      Josie Ho Chiu Yi,
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 119 mins.
  Opening March 10 2023 at the Osaka Asian Film Festival
  Opening April 4 2023
  Teaser : https://youtu.be/57EFTCutFek
  Site : https://www.oaff.jp/2023/en/program/op.html

[ OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 ]
    Welcome to Seaside Heights, a fancy residential building where a group of residents experience a night of chaos and comedy after the nude body of a man appears and threatens to cause scandal and plunging property values!

    It all begins when Ming, together with his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law, finds an anonymous naked body lying at their doorstep. Fearing that the presence of a corpse will turn their unit into a "murder home" and its property value will nosedive and impoverish them, their bickering family unite to pass the buck to their neighbours by moving the corpse to other units on the same floor. Their fiendish plot ropes in a motley bunch of people, including retired elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. CHAN; a single lady and her maid; the CHEUNG's, an irascible father and his cantankerous son; and an overzealous security guard. Last but not least, is a mysterious chain smoking woman named Sue who might hold the key to helping get the body out of the building...

    A dark comedy of manners and Hong Kong home-ownership woes ensues in "Over My Dead Body" as each of these vividly portrayed characters turns on each other in an effort to avoid taking responsibility for both the body and their own personal problems.

  1 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE
    d. Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
    Illumination Animation
    English Voices: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day,
      Jack Black, Seth Rogen