Stanley Kwan Movies

Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sasha Chuk Tsz-yin

A HKIFF short film by Stanley Kwan. Stanley Kwan takes us on a real-time bus trip from the airport to Kowloon in 13 Minutes in the Lives of…...

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Cast: Gordon Lam Ka-Tung

A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hu Jun

Struggling to adjust to her new life in Taipei, introverted high school girl Miao Miao opens up after meeting outgoing classmate Xiao Ai who becomes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sandrine Pinna

Struggling to adjust to her new life in Taipei, introverted high school girl Miao Miao opens up after meeting outgoing classmate Xiao Ai who becomes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sandrine Pinna

The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Leung Ka-Fai

A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sammi Cheng Sau-Man

For 10 years, Ani, a young wife and mother, has sported the same hair style. She has a humdrum life and a platonic relationship with young Mr. Ahua,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lawrence Ng Kai-Wah

Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anita Mui Yim-Fong

Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary. The survivors come under the scrutiny...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching

A late summer typhoon looms as Ting's wedding approaches. Urged on by her mother, Ting sets out from Guangzhou to Hong Kong to look for her father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lin Dongping

Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yang Zishan

Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chow Yun-Fat

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Rayns

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Chen

A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them...

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Cast: Michelle Reis

Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Chang

Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their...

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Cast: Angie Chiu

Inspectors Tong (Shaw Brothers regular Pai Ying) and Cheng (Kent Cheng) are investing a psychopathic serial killer who has been raping and murdering...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Pai Ying

A short feature film by Stanley Kwan, bringing us back to the world of Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung in Rouge, with the new cast Cecilia Yip and Ng...

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Cast: Cecilia Yip Tung

A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company's actresses and a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Josephine Siao Fong-Fong

The unlikely pairing of a spoiled millionaire venture capitalist scouting for extreme wedding tour locations and a grounded science photographer en...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mark Chao

It’s 1994 and Lu Tu (Ethan Juan) is the youngest concierge ever at five-star Chinese hotel; smart, loyal and honest, he’s respected by...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ethan Juan

Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jackie Chan

Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chow Yun-Fat

Three friends begin a contest to find Karen, a particular girl they all like. The limits: one month, and no advertising or radio. The prize: the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Lam Hoi-Fung

A boat load of illegal Chinese immigrants make it to the California coast. But many of those on board are in a sad state. One of them (Tony Liu)...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tony Liu

Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kara Wai Ying-Hung

Genre: Romance

Cast: Fish Liew

A youth film about four city lasses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenny Bee

Stanley Kwan casts an impassive eye on a film crew in a recording studio in "One Day in Our Lives of…" with a diva, a young director, his...

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Cast: Cecilia Yip Tung

Stanley Kwan's 1992 short film starring Josephine Siao and Maggie Cheung

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk

Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuen Biao

Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karena Lam Kar-Yan

Junhao declares to go to Sicily to learn opera and ends the relationship with his fiancée, Xiaoyou. In disbelief, she determines to learn the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lee Joon-gi

Four heroes embark on a secret mission for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist Guard. Relentlessly pursued by the warriors of notorious Warlord Yue Sai...

Genre: Action

Cast: Leung Kar-Yan

Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sammi Cheng Sau-Man

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk

A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Eddie Chen

A personal memoir reflecting upon director Stanley Kwan's career and identity, set upon the backdrop of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. Kwan adopts a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Kwan

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Lam Chi-Cheung

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,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chow Yun-Fat