Besieged City

Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.[1]

Besieged City
Chinese圍城
Directed byLawrence Ah Mon
Written byDennis Chan
Frankie Tam
Produced byDennis Chan
CinematographyGavin Liew
Edited byLi Ka-Wing
Distributed byMei Ah Entertainment
Release date
  • 22 March 2008 (2008-03-22)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama",[2] and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs.[1] The title refers to Tin Shui Wai,[1] a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.

Cast

Cast and roles include:[3][4][5]

  • Tang Tak Po as Ho Ling-kit
  • Wong Yat Ho as Ho Chun-kit
  • Wong Hau Yan as Panadoll
  • Joman Chiang
  • Jonathan Cheung as Chu Hin
  • Dada Chan Ching as Ceci
  • Joman Chiang as Yee-wah
  • Sunny Luk

Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).[1]

Awards and nominations

Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008:

See also

References
  1. Fonoroff, Paul (1 May 2008). "Besieged City". South China Morning Post.
  2. Kerr, Elizabeth (2 April 2008). "Besieged City". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. Besieged City at HKMDB
  4. Besieged City at chinesemov.com
  5. Besieged City at IMDb

Further reading


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