【港你知】The 100 Greatest Hong Kong Films【Part 3】

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No.80 The Great Devotion 可憐天下父母心 (1960)

Dir Chor Yuen (Cheung Wood-yau, Pak Yin)

“It’s the parents’ duty to bring up their kids. Why can’t we even manage that?”

A beloved schoolteacher contracts tuberculosis, sees his five children begging on the street for his wife’s medical fees, and borrows from a loanshark before finding his infant daughter dead due to delayed medical attention in this classic melodrama – arguably the ultimate weepie for parents.

No.79 Happy Together 春光乍洩 (1997)

Dir Wong Kar-wai (Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen)

“Lai Yiu-fai, could we start over again?”

A pair of bickering Cantonese gay lovers (Cheung and Leung) stranded in Argentina may be an unusual idea of cinematic poetry but Wong, who was named best director at Cannes, managed the impossible with this lyrical break-up movie. His eye for wistful symbolism – highlighting Buenos Aires as Hong Kong’s antipode – is out of this world.

No.78 C’est la vie, mon chéri 新不了情 (1993)

Dir Derek Yee (Anita Yuen, Lau Ching-wan)

“Don’t look down upon me, I’m not big mouth. I’ve come back from the dead, kid.”

Yuen plays the role of her life in this superb remake of Doe Ching’s Shaw Brothers tearjerker Love Without End (1961). As an ultra-bubbly cancer patient from a Cantonese opera-singing family, her doomed romance with Lau’s worn-out jazz composer is still one of our cinema’s greatest romances.

No.77 Ah Ying 半邊人 (1983)

Dir Allen Fong (Hui So-ying, Peter Wang)

“I want to make a film that reflects our time. If I don’t, no one will know we ever existed.”

A pioneer of Chinese docu-drama, Fong’s naturalistic movie compassionately tells the tale of an unlikely relationship between two frustrated dreamers: a young woman (Hui essentially playing herself) reluctantly working for her fish hawker parents, and an idealistic middle-aged acting teacher (Wang) hoping to realise his film project.

No.76 Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan 愛奴 (1972)

Dir Chor Yuen (Lily Ho, Betty Pei Ti, Yueh Hua)

“I use love to take my revenge.”

Controversial on its initial release due to its lesbian and exploitation themes, Chor’s rape-revenge epic – mixing swordplay with period erotica – still arrests the senses with the sheer intensity of its tale, which sees a defiant beauty (Ho) exacting vicious retribution on her tormentors years after being abducted into a high-class brothel.

No.75 The Purple Hairpin 紫釵記 (1959)

Dir Lee Tit (Yam Kim-fai, Pak Suet-sin, Leung Sing-po)

“To be a great man is to love his wife and be loyal.”

A laborious collaboration with the influential Cantonese opera librettist Tong Tik-sang, and a seminal masterpiece for any enthusiast of the art form, Lee’s screen adaptation of the Ming dynasty opera is arguably the best Yam-Pak film alongside Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom, also directed by Li in 1959.

No.74 Beast Cops 野獸刑警 (1998)

Dir Gordon Chan, Dante Lam (Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Michael Wong)

“Sometimes I feel there’s a barrier between us. A plastic barrier.”

One of the funniest police thrillers Hong Kong cinema has ever seen, this offbeat dramedy alternates between ferocious meat cleaver battles with vicious mobsters and bantering sessions among three unorthodox cops, who philosophise their way through a lifestyle of drugs, bribes and loose women.

No.73 The House of 72 Tenants 七十二家房客 (1973)

Dir Chor Yuen (Hu Chin, Yueh Hua, Ching Li)

“Turn off the water tap downstairs! Is this a rebellion?”

A crowd-pleasing social satire which struck a chord with the TVB-loving population of the time, Chor’s adaptation of a 1940s stage comedy turns domineering landlords, corrupt firefighters and policemen into the laughing stock of the people – revitalising Cantonese dialect cinema along the way.

No.72 PTU (2003)

Dir Johnnie To (Simon Yam, Maggie Shiu, Lam Suet)

“He’s fine. There’s no complaint. There’s no case.”

Yam bends the rules in this convoluted nocturnal thriller, which is set in nightmarish motion when Lam’s uniformed buffoon loses his gun and his Police Tactical Unit mates decide to secretly retrieve it for him before the night ends. Cynical irony abounds.

No.71 The Blue and the Black 藍與黑
The Blue and the Black 2 藍與黑續集 (1966)

Dir Doe Ching (Linda Lin Dai, Kwan Shan, Pat Ting Hung)

“If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t hate you.”

Released in two parts on the second anniversary of Lin’s suicide, Ching’s adaptation of Taiwanese writer Wang Lan’s poignant WWII novel charts the decade-spanning affair of a pair of star-crossed lovers, who have long been kept apart by family pressure, the ongoing war, and more than a few lamentable life decisions.

To be continued.

Source:Time Out,Hong Kong

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