Ann Hui

When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it... (imdb)

A widowed mother and her teenage son live in a Tin Shui Wai estate. She works in a supermarket, and helps a colleague break into her new job. The boy, average in each and every way, grows into adolescence hesitantly. In passing, we find out that the mother has made big sacrifices to her family. (AsianMediaWiki)

A swindler falls in love with a potential target. (imdb)

Award-winning political drama from Ann Hui treads on rich territory and results in a noble, but emotionally lacking effort. Using the work of real-life activist Father Franco Mella (played here by Anthony Wong) as a guideline, Ordinary Heroes moves from the plight of the boat people through the tragedy at Tiananmen Square with a sweeping view of political activism in Hong Kong. (lovehkfilm)

The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at school. Trouble strikes one day when Bing's mother dies of a stroke, leaving her husband old Mr. Sun. Alzheimer's Disease is diagnosed. (imdb)

Yiu-Kwok is a high school teacher, having a perfect family. Good times don't last long, when a student, Choy-Nam, falls in love with him. For dealing with a relationship with Mr. Seng, a beloved teacher of the couple, his wife Man-Ching requests a leave for a month. A midlife crisis mixing with pressure sends him into an emotional tailspin. Everything seems to lead him towards Choy-Nam, the forbidden fruit. History seems to repeat itself. (imdb)

When Peter meets June, he falls in love at first sight, in spite of her claim that she can see ghosts. However, strange things begin happening, one after another: Are these strange events in some way connected to June's ability? (HKFlix)

An Xin is a law enforcer in Yunnan Province of southern China. Before her consummating her marriage with Tiejun, she consummates her romantic fling with Maojie, who is a drug dealer. But neither knew the other's true profession. From then on all but fortunate events flood into An Xin's life - eventually she and the people she knew are twisted in this cruel fate that is the end for them. (Wikipedia)

A Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, who wants to marry of his nephew Dick to the star of the company Ah Gee. (imdb)

A mainland Chinese woman moves to Hong Kong with her husband and two young daughters to find herself trapped in violence and abuse that the authorities and social welfare system seem completely incompetent at dealing with.

A murder case is complicated by the love triangle of those involved.

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones". (imdb)

The film is a sweeping tale of love and understanding between a daughter and her mother. After the World War II ended, Japanese girl Aiko married a Chinese military officer against the wish of her family, but her husband soon moved to Hong Kong, leaving her alone in China. Aiko's relationship with her elder daughter Hueyin had been estranged, until they visited her hometown in Japan together for the first time, when Hueyin finally understood what it felt like to be an exile in a strange land. (YesAsia)

Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he meets a beautiful woman who travels with him. Wu and his new love end up in a refugee camp in Thailand, where they discover many of their countrymen are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. (allmovie)

The time is the late 1930s and a pending war with the Japanese forms a part of the epic setting for a fashionable and old-fashioned love affair between a once-wealthy widow and divorcée newly arrived in Hong Kong and a rich Chinese playboy educated at Cambridge. The epic treatment of their romance is provided by background music in the form of Chinese opera or contemporary love songs and dazzling, opulent settings along the seashore or in tourist spots. (allmovie)

In Shanghai of the '30s, Shuhui (Wang Lei) brings together Manzhen (Wu Chien-lien) and Shijun (Leon Lai), and the two fall in love. However, Shijun's parents in Nanjing have planned for him to marry wealthy Cuizhi (Annie Wu), who instead becomes romantically attracted to Shuhui. Manzhen is concerned about the reputation of Shijun's older sister, prostitute Manlu (Anita Mui). After Manlu marries businessman Hongcai (Ge You), he suggests Manzhen become a concubine and the mother of his children. (allmovie)

A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai. (imdb)

The story is based on the popular novel developed from folk legend. It goes that the Manchurian emperor Qianlong of China (circa 18th Century) was actually the son of a Han Chinese, the subject ethnicity. His brother of blood, Chen Jialuo just happened to be the chief of the Red Flower Society, an anti-Manchu secret society. Chen, a learned scholar, thought he could get his brother turn his back on the Manchu and restore the Han Chinese reign.

A sharp and funny exploration of the complex world of adult relationships, All About Love takes a rare look at the lives of queer women and their specific challenges when it comes to creating a family. (tiff)

A few years in the life of Ah Kam, starting with her joining action director Master Tung's team of regulars. (imdb)

Reuniting superstar Andy Lau with his godmother Deanie Ip on the big screen for the first time in 23 years, A Simple Life is a deeply moving story about the relationship between a young man and a family servant that is handled with exquisite affection and grace by Ann Hui. (tiff.net)

Three young Chinese- Ben, Ming and Cheung with different view to life come to Japan for study. Ben doesn't like studying and Cheung only wants to find back his girlfriend who disappeared in Japan. Ming wants to get a social status so he marries Yuroko, sister of mafia gang's godfather Ishikawa. Ben falls in love with Tit Lan, however she loves a Japanese guy, Asano, who's been taking care by Ishikawa. (hkcinemagic.com)

Based on the highly popular novel of Louis Cha (Jin Yong), the two-part feature totally three hours of fascinating entertainment is set in the middle of 18th century China during the reign of the 5th Qing Emperor, Qian Long. Romance tells the legend of Chen Jialo, an ethnic Han leader of the clandestine Red Flower Society who vows to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty. (KG)

The life story of Xiao Hong, one of China's most famous essayists and novelists, who reflected the progressive thinking not frequently seen during the 1930s.

1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city.

Ann Hui's personal encounters with some of Hong Kong's most notable poets, showing the topography of contemporary poetry on and of the city.

A documentary on its director’s life experience in British Hong Kong.

As Cai Mei, a single 40-year-old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teenager Tian-Ah, she remembers her relationship when she was young with her professor, a married man older than her.