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Through our
acquisition and conservation efforts, images on Hong Kong's past shall live
on forever, bearing witness to our history. The Archive currently has over
6,300 films in our vaults. The titles go as far back as an 1898 Edison travelogue
on Hong Kong and as recent as box-office hits of the 1990s.
Our collection includes some of Hong Kong's features in the 30s and 40s,
such as Sable Cicada (directed by Bu Wancang, 1938) as well as the
noted war-time drama Orphan Island Paradise (directed by Cai Chusheng,
1939) and Roar of the People (directed by Tang Xiaodan, 1941).
Orphan
Island Paradise |
Roar
of the People |
Social realism, one of the most remarkable characteristic of post-war Hong
Kong cinema, has resulted in many outstanding films. This can be found in
Mandarin comedies like Zhu Shilin's The Dividing Wall (1952) and
Festival Moon (1953), Cantonese dramas like Lung Kong's Teddy
Girls (1969), and Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong (1997).
The
Dividing Wall
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Festival
Moon
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Made
in Hong Kong |
Teddy
Girls |
With the popularisation of radio, many films of the 50s and 60s are adapted
from airwave novels, such as A Mother Remembers (1953), directed
by Chun Kim and adapted from Lang Wun's broadcast script, which was a phenomenal
hit at its time.
A
Mother Remembers |
The martial arts film is certainly the most internationally known genre
of Hong Kong cinema. Our collection includes a print of King Hu's The
Valiant Ones (1975), which we restored with digital technology. Lesser
known internationally but dearly loved locally are Cantonese Opera films
like the 1959 films The Purple Hairpin and Butterfly and Red Tears,
both starring the popular duo Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet-sin.
The
Valiant Ones |
The
Purple Hairpin |
Among our collection are also entries from such unique genres as the puppet
Cantonese Opera film Princess Hibiscus (1957), Chaozhou Opera film
The Portrait of Li Zichang (1963), the Amoy-dialect film The Loyal
Couple (1960), Hong Kong's first colour cartoon feature Old Master
Cute (1981) and the documentary Rising Sun (1980).
Old
Master Cute |
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