Ab-normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) first published by EyeforFilm, 22 September 2005 In both their solo projects and their collaborations, Hong Kong twin filmmakers Danny and Oxide Pang have rightly earned the reputation of being amongst Asia’s preeminent visual stylists, even if there is rarely enough substance in their highly derivative genre films (like…
First published by EyeforFilm With its criss-crossing lives, dizzying coincidences and karmic symmetries, One Nite In Mongkok, not unlike the Infernal Affairs trilogy before it, is a taut crime thriller that moonlights as ensemble morality tale and allegory of Hong Kong’s post-handover relationship with mainland China. In Derek Yee’s gritty urban noir, Mongkok is not…