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The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, sometimes known as Asia's Oscars, is a Taiwan-based event showcasing Chinese-language films from around the world.
Hong Kong filmmakers are being urged to think twice before attending the ceremony for the Golden Horse Awards for fear that untoward comments during the event could see their work banned in mainland China or worse, fall afoul of the national security law.
- On May 13, 1969, riots broke out in Kuala Lumpur that left as many as 600 civilians dead, mostly ethnic Chinese, with few who survived willing to talk about it
- Director Chong Keat Aun reveals the many challenges in making the film and how it is yet to pass Malaysia’s censors, despite having been shown worldwide
Golden Horse Awards winner Old Fox depicts Taiwan after the end of martial law, a time of rapid change. Director Hsiao Ya-chuan hopes its message resonates today as it did in the era in which it is set.
Sandra Ng Kwan-yue, now a respected Hong Kong actress and producer, started out playing minor, unattractive roles in the 1980s. But through hard work and humility, she carved a path to success.
The Japanese remake of Taiwanese romantic fantasy My Missing Valentine attempts to address some of the original film’s deeply problematic issues in its story about consent – but fails.
Hong Kong actor Chapman To, famous for his roles in the Infernal Affairs films, and a number of lowbrow comedies, found working in Hong Kong difficult after his vocal support for pro-democracy causes.
Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film, and a Korean historical epic, lead the field in the 17th Asian Film Awards. Two Hong Kong films each have nominations in three categories.
Leon Lai Ming, one of the most well-liked celebrities in Hong Kong and one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop’, has been in show business for more than 35 years.
On the 20th anniversary of Anita Mui’s death, we look back at the singer’s rise to fame, move into acting, and her legacy of philanthropy in support of hospitals and Hong Kong’s young and old.
Jin Ong’s award-winning debut feature Abang Adik sees Wu Kang-ren star as a deaf-mute in Kuala Lumpur, whose friendship with a fellow undocumented orphan is tested by a sudden act of accidental violence.
Up-and-coming director earns nod at top film awards in Taiwan for his socially conscious drama about family trauma and student suicide.
Once called the Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong, actress Cherie Chung rose to fame during the 1980s and appeared in almost 50 films – before walking away from it all at the age of 31.
Hong Kong’s First Feature Film Initiative was founded in 2013 to spot new directing talent and help fund their first features. We look at the performance of the 13 films funded in the FFFI’s first 10 years.
Hong Kong family drama Time Still Turns the Pages, by writer-director Nick Cheuk, uses student suicides as the cue for a poignant tale of emotional torture, regret and redemption.
Forced into retirement by Alzheimer’s disease, Hou Hsiao-hsien leaves a legacy of 18 feature films. We rank his top 10, from Millennium Mambo to The Assassin, his last film, and A City of Sadness.
In a slick crime drama, Ethan Ruan plays a hitman whose plan to turn himself in changes after he finds out he’s not the most wanted criminal in Taiwan. He decides to take out his rivals so he will be.
Time Still Turns The Pages leads Hong Kong contenders at the 2023 Golden Horse Awards, a Taiwan showpiece film event that has been boycotted by mainland China for the fifth year running.
Born in mainland China, Carina Lau grew up thinking she’d be a factory worker, but moved to Hong Kong and, through hard work, built an acting career despite a kidnap ordeal. She met and wed fellow actor Tony Leung.
Known today as a leading Hong Kong actor, Aaron Kwok started his career as a backup dancer, before being anointed one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop’. He’s also a husband and proud father.
Gaga, by Golden Horse best director winner Laha Medow, follows an indigenous Taiwanese family over the course of a year as they navigate hardships, struggles and the disappearance of their way of life.
Cheung plays a struggling businessman and Yuen his assistant, a poor single mother, in Lam Sum’s poignant film that delicately dramatises Hong Kong people’s anxiety.
Wong won the best actor award for playing a Hong Kong taxi driver helping a Pakistani refugee boy in The Sunny Side of the Street.
Young Chinese short-film directors are winning at international festivals while Chinese feature films are having a quiet time. What will happen when this new generation transitions to making features?
Lou Yi-an, director and co-writer of Goddamned Asura, Taiwan’s entry for the 2023 best international feature Oscar, says he used his own personality to build his characters.
Limbo, with 14 nominations, and The Sunny Side of the Street, with six, lead an impressive showing for Hong Kong cinema at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, despite producers being warned over attending.
Authorities asked directors of short film Losing Sight of A Longed Place to edit out one-second scene showing ‘illegal occupation’.
Kai Ko, Gingle Wang and Vivian Sung star in this Taiwanese fantasy romance about a young slacker who dies in an accident and must earn credit in the afterlife to be reincarnated.
American Girl unfolds during the Sars outbreak of 2003 and follows the story of Lily (Karena Lam Ka-yan), who moves back to Taiwan from the US with her daughters after she is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Chinese internet users have complained that, of the six nominees for best picture at the Golden Rooster Awards, five are patriotic films, and that this damages the ceremony’s credibility.
Director Kiwi Chow’s 2½-hour documentary Revolution of Our Times records how demonstrators operated on ground during months of unrest in 2019.
