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  MSN Encarta - Hong Kong
Hong Kong is bordered on the north by Guangdong Province and on the east, west, and south by the South China Sea.
Hong Kong’s mainland portion consists of the urban area of Kowloon and a portion of the New Territories, a large area that became part of Hong Kong in 1898.
Hong Kong is among the leading trading centers in the world, and shipping and trade continue to be important aspects of its economy.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561507/Hong_Kong.html   (2119 words)

  
 List of movies set in Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
While most of local Hong Kong movies were filmed locally, several foreign movies were also, at least partly, set in Hong Kong.
The movie shows the actual temporary press room, specially set up for the press coverage of the handover, and located in the old part of the Exhibition Centre.
In the Mood for Love (2000) – while set in Hong Kong, the actual filming location of outdoor scenes was Bangkok, Thailand.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_movies_set_in_Hong_Kong   (471 words)

  
 Local and Global Identity: Whither Hong Kong
Following this principle, Hong Kong was a city that absorbed influences from the West and went on to localise and indigenise foreign cultures.
Hong Kong cinema is a transnational cinema because of its success in exporting films to the region, This success has been maintained since the end of the Second World War.
Hong Kong's global identity is hence more or less a question of trying to resolve where it belongs one way or the other.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/7/hongkong.html   (4150 words)

  
 index
Movies from Hong Kong are a minority interest, no doubt about it.
However, those who know Hong Kong movies have come to realise there is more than meets the eye: A true joy of filmmaking, a genuine enthusiasm for things cinematic, one that is notably absent in many contemporary US mainstream movies.
At its best, Hong Kong film towards the end of the 20th century is wildly cinematic, full of robust energy and vivid imagination.
www.angelfire.com /ns/hkfilm   (506 words)

  
 Hong Kong Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Hong Kong has the big city specials like smog, odour, 14 million elbows and an insane love of clatter.
The best thing about being in Hong Kong is getting flummoxed and fired by the confluences and contradictions of a Chinese city with multi-Asian and Western elements.
The Hong Kong film industry is the world's third largest, after Hollywood and Bollywood (do we want 'Hong Kollywood'?).
www.lonelyplanet.com /dest/nea/hong.htm   (278 words)

  
 Hong Kong Movie Links
Hong Kong Cinema - View from the Brooklyn Bridge - A very cool site with over 1000 reviews, tons of pictures and a handy HK cinema timeline.
Hong Kong Film Archive - Home of one of the main forces for the preservation of HK movies.
Hong Kong Obscura - This site had a lot of promise, but unfortunately, the webmaster left the country and so it is left unfinished.
www.hkfilm.net /links.htm   (2698 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hong Kong movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: the Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan.
Hong Kong as a British colony had a great degree of freedom and developed into East Asia's filmmaking hub, the third largest motion picture industry in the world (after Bollywood and Hollywood).
The Wonderful World of Hong Kong Action Cinema (http://kungfu4u.0catch.com/)—includes an extensive bibliography on martial arts films.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hong-Kong-movies   (2176 words)

  
 Hong Kong Movies - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
A Dictionary Of Cantonese Slang: The Language Of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs And City Life
Category III films and VCDs: the failure of deterrence in the copyright ordinance of Hong Kong.
La Hollywood d'oriente: Il cinema di Hong Kong dalle origini a John Woo (Punto movies)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hong_kong_movies.htm   (130 words)

  
 Hong Kong Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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 Another Hong Kong Movie Page -- Links
Hong Kong Movie DataBase: The largest Hong Kong movie info source with a comprehensive searchable database of films and personnel.
Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review: Webmaster Sanney's fine reports are sourced from his Hong Kong entertainment news translations.
Hong Kong Film Archive: There's a different film retrospective playing every few months month at the Archive, with films screening in their classy cinema.
www.kowloonside.com /links.html   (2138 words)

  
 Hong Kong girls with guns
Angel was immensely popular, and began a new genre in Hong Kong cinema, and spawned a whole slew of imitators, a lot of them containing "Angel" somewhere in the title.
Which meant these movies were a breath of fresh air to a jaded action film fan like me. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it was that made them so attractive to me. Maybe it was the intense action.
However, movies such as the "Matrix" prove the styles of Hong Kong and Hollywood can be combined successfully when the filmmakers know what they're doing.
home.att.net /~chanfanatic/gwgindex2.htm   (1590 words)

  
 Articles on Hong Kong Movies
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2003 by Alison Jobling
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2002 by Alison Jobling
Y2K HK: Hong Kong Movies in Australian in the Year 2000
www.heroic-cinema.com /articles.htm   (235 words)

  
 Travel Resources for Hong Kong from office1000.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The Salisbury YMCA of Hong Kong is situated at the tip of Kowloon Peninsula by the Victoria Harbor front with magnificent views of the Harbor and Hong Kong Island.
Pao Yue-Kong, an eminent industrialist from Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Gold Coast Hotel is a luxury beach resort situated on ten landscaped acres on the South China Sea, approximately 19 miles from Hong Kong International Airport and 30 minutes from downtown Hong Kong.
travel.office1000.com /HongKong.html   (6123 words)

  
 Hong Kong Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In Hong Kong, we have a lot of movies from which we can choose…action movies, love movies, and history movies.
At that time, movies in Hong Kong were not popular because we had only a few actors.
History movies are famous in Hong Kong, but people would prefer love stories and action movies.
www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us /esl/hkmovies.htm   (450 words)

  
 The Original Hong Kong Movies Homepage!
In the meantime, through the web archive you can browse The Original Hong Kong Movies Homepage as it looked in 1996, when it was managed by Timo Kokkonen.
With the imminent take-over of Hong Kong by China looming, and some of the best film-makers in the world (including John Woo, Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark) lining up to work with a no-talent like Jean Claude van-bleedin'-Damme just to get a crack at working in Hollyowood, it's certaily easy to be pessimistic.
More Hong Kong movies are released domestically in the US than since the Kung Fu-boom, and other countries are following suit.
www.viktoria.se /~leh/hkmovie   (664 words)

  
 The Xena + Hong Kong Connection
In fact because of the Hong Kong action influences, I used to have nothing but disdain for Xena:WP until I actually watched it instead of just channel surfing past it...now I'm almost as obsessed with Xena as I am with Hong Kong movies.
In fact, the show was apparently originally conceived as "Xena does Hong Kong action." Part of the fun for me each week is figuring out what HK movie scene is being "ripped off"--and I mean that in a good way.
The Xena + Hong Kong Connection is a fangirl-obsession, not-for-profit site and is not intended to infringe on the copyrights of Universal Television Enterprises, Inc., MCA, Renaissance, Tai Seng Entertainment or any other legal copyright holders of material contained within.
www.sister13.com   (483 words)

  
 Hong Kong Fanatic: Welcome
The goal of this school of sorts is to educate you and hopefully spark your interest in Hong Kong and Asian movies.
Jackie Chan is a true legend in the Hong Kong film industry, but there are plenty of shrines for the man, so we shall focus on his movies instead.
It will contain all of Jet Li's movies in all their many names and forms along with quality examples so you can see what you are getting yourself into.
www.hkfanatic.com   (291 words)

  
 hong kong action movies | TheMovieLife.com
Even before the widespread use of sound and color, simple fl-and-white movies quickly gained a hold on the public imagination.
The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of potential profit within a few years after the process was invented.
As a result, popular movies can become worldwide attractions, especially with the addition of dubbing or translated subtitles to communicate the dialogue.
www.themovielife.com /13/term1849.html   (237 words)

  
 Hong Kong encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Hong Kong politics and officials, Hong Kong History. Travel to ...
Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century.
Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997.
In this agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.
www.hongkongiworld.com   (367 words)

  
 The Devilfinder Search Engine - Hong Kong Movies VCD Cohabitation VCD (1975) by Chung Wa Lam Jan ... - Finding Stuff ...
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Hong Kong Movies vcd Cohabitation (1975) by Chung Wa, Lam Jan Kei, Wang Lai,, Suen Chung,, release by Intercontinental Video Limited from Five Star Laser...
www.devilfinder.com /find.php?q=Hong+Kong+Movies+VCD+Cohabitation+VCD+%281975%29+by+Chung+Wa+Lam+Jan+...   (670 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Cultures and Groups: Asian: Hong Kong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Hong Kong Film Awards - Film critics' choice of ten films annually since 1982.
Hong Kong Legends - General information, reviews, and cover art for various titles.
The Taoist Priest in Hong Kong Cinema - Essay about Taoism as it is represented in popular films and embodied in 'action priest' characters.
dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Cultures_and_Groups/Asian/Hong_Kong   (494 words)

  
 Xena FAQ: The Hong Kong Influence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Laura Irvine, a Xenite and Hong Kong film fanatic, has collected these and other parallels in The Xena + Hong Kong Connection.
Hong Kong action movies are hard to find in many places.
Another good source is DDD House, a Hong Kong supplier.
www.whoosh.org /faq/faq08.html   (290 words)

  
 Tsinoy.com Forum - Hong Kong Movies
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe.
It is up to a young rookie officer to get Wing back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal.
also, movies that star andy lau and sammi cheng are definitely favorites.
www.tsinoy.com /forum/printthread.php?t=341   (259 words)

  
 Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life (Select Books)
The publication of this Dictionary locates the discussion of its subject, Cantonese slang, within the social, cultural, and political dynamics of Hong Kong society.
The 'slang' of the title refers to a wide range of Hong Kong vernacular Cantonese speech styles, notably the language of the underworld (a major source of innovation in the late 20th-21st century speech), of teenagers, and of Hong Kong movies and comics.
The volume offers a general introduction to the history of 'vernacular' and 'vulgar' dictionaries, including the lexicography of Cantonese; the sociopolitical and linguistic background to Hong Kong; and the specific problems of approach and methodology faced by the linguist as urban anthropologist in researching such issues.
www.selectbooks.com.sg /titles/36827.htm   (220 words)

  
 Chow Yun-Fat of Hong Kong Fan Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
He was born May 18, l955 on Lamma Island, Hong Kong, and
Hong Kong movies, and sometimes worked with John Woo.
continue to work in the US, he will remain living in Hong Kong.
www.chowofhongkong.com   (334 words)

  
 Hong Kong Entertainment Links
This is the main page for old news and it has a database of reviews of Hong Kong movies that are quite extensive, covering films before 1999.
It has reviews of HK movies, as well as info on who directs or acts in the movies.
Ultraman's Hong Kong Entertainment BB This is my message board covering HK entertainment (music, movies, tv), just to make sure you know that I have one.
pages.prodigy.net /ultraman/hklinks.html   (473 words)

  
 JC-News - Jackie Chan News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Recently, each of these people have agreed to support Hong Kong’s Trade Development Department, in opening an event in Shanghai called “Fresh and Colorful” (Movie Week), using different ways to promote Hong Kong movies to mainland Chinese audiences.
This Movie Week, will be held at the end of March, in Xin Tian Di (New Heaven and Earth), Shanghai.
Stanley Tong said, “Of course, being part of Hong Kong’s entertainment industry, I would hope that more people would know about Hong Kong’s movie industry and I have always supported events of the Trade Department.
www.jc-news.net /news.php?id=300   (355 words)

  
 Hong Kong Movies
This was the first movie we watched out of the bunch George bought and it was, BY FAR, my favorite.
Not only is the packaging hilarious, but the movie itself was supreme...no, no...not the story...that was pretty sucky, along with the acting...just not all that special, but ohhhhhh the subtitles.
I cannot stress how anxious I am for George to go back to Hong Kong where he will be able to spend our life savings on many other crapp-ily translated DVDs.
www.americanangst.com /hongkong/hongkongmovies.html   (985 words)

  
 Books & Magazines on Hong Kong movies
This oddly shaped blue book is the source of that "List of Actual Subtitles from Hong Kong Movies" spam that floats around the net, along with the one about the 11 year old with cancer.
The reviews often spill the entire plot of the movies in an effort to inspire you to go find them, so in some ways it's better to read about movies you've seen than those you're planning to.
It's a riveting and astonishing history of the Hong Kong studio system, and covers the main players and the trends.
www.heroic-cinema.com /books.htm   (1576 words)

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