Movies: Law Kar
- 1984
Love in a Fallen City (1984)
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Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of...
- 1995
Doctor Mack (1995)
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Since dropping out from the medical school, Lau Mack has been living a humble but contented life, running a small clinic in a shabby area, treating local inhabitants and poor prostitutes working there. One night, he escorts an injured gun robber to t...
- 1998
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1998)
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An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading ...
- 2024
Cinema Strada (2024)
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Having devoted much of his career to programming and film history research, Law Kar, a.k.a. Uncle Kar, places himself before the camera for the first time. This nostalgic trip down memory lane, as he recounts his personal and cinematic experiences, f...
- 1976
CID: Two Teddy Girls (1976)
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In CID: Two Teddy Girls, the pair (Patrick Tam and Joyce Chan) uses a seemingly typical cat-and-mouse chase story between a cop (Mark Cheung Lui) and two criminal "teddy girls" (Ban Ban and Marysia Lam) to portray the lives of Hong Kong's different s...
- 1976
CID: Four Moments of Life (Dawn, Noon, Dusk, Night) (1976)
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Four episodes combined. Dawn: the first cop goes to interrogate the parents of a babygirl who got burnt by an iron. These, eventually admit to be the one responsible but they state it was an accident. Going back on a bus, he reads a newspaper article...
- 2004
Crossings: John Woo (2004)
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Crossings: John Woo starts with Woo's emotional homecoming to Hong Kong in 2004 to promote his latest blockbuster Paycheck. It leads you through his teen years where he made avant garde films, his apprenticeship with Shaw Brothers' martial arts direc...
- 2018
Havana Divas (2018)
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The story focus on Caridad and Georgina, who had learned the art of Cantonese Opera in Havana as a young age and performed as divas for over a decade before their lives were changed by Fidel Castro's revolution....
- 1976
CID: Wrongly Accused (1976)
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One episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho “CID” Series (1976), which won one of the very first awards for Hong Kong in an international television competition....
- 1976
Seven Women: Rosalina Chan (1976)
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The fifth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which was the only episode not directed by Patrick Tam but by renowned critic Law Kar...
- 1976
CID: Murder (1976)
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One episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “CID” series based on real murder incidents in Hong Kong...
- 2013
Golden Gate Girls (2013)
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The film traces the life and times of Esther Eng, a San Francisco native known as Hong Kong’s first “directress.” She directed 10 Cantonese talkies....
- 2002
Lai Man-wai: Father of Hong Kong Cinema (2002)
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In the life of Mr. Lai Man-wai, he had seen the most turbulent times of recent Chinese history. From the fall of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the Republic, from the Sino-Japanese War to the founding of the People’s Republic. With a patriotic s...
- 1976
Social Worker: "Boy" (1976)
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The second episode of the Hong Kong reclaimed “Social Worker” series (1976)...