FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL, DIR. GORDON CHAN (1991) Shatin College, Shatin District, Hong Kong Note:A panoramic  shot of the school and its surroundings. Released by Orange Sky Golden Harvest in 1991, Fight Back To School would go on to become the year’s highest grossing film and also marks the beginning of a series that would captivate not just local, but an international audience as well, if its various adaptations in different languages are anything to go by. The film follows Chow-Sing-Sing (Played by Stephan Chow), an undercover cop posing as a student to recover a stolen weapon. Along with his

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AS TEARS GO BY, DIR. KAR-WAI WONG (1988)            Yau Ma Tei Theatre & Portland St., Kowloon District, Hong Kong   Wah, the head of Fly, is persuading Fly to give up dangerous actions and sell fish balls for living. Fly’s street stall is located at Yau Ma Tei Theatre at the Reclamation Street. Scenes from the In-gear Film’s As Tears Go By 1988, directed by Kar-wai Wong. As Tears Go By (Chinese Title: Mongkok Carmen) is the debut film of Kar-wai Wong’s as a director, who is now putatively a fame-winning director by his hetrodox methods

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CHUNKING EXPRESS, DIR. WONG KA WAI (1994)            Central-Mid-levels Escalator, Central, Mid-Levels District, Hong Kong Jet Tone Productions released Chungking Express in September 1994.¹ The film tells a 2 part story, both about a Hong Kong policeman coping with a break up in their own ways. The plot advances as the characters run and navigate their way through different locations of Hong Kong, each with its own urban landscape and identity unique to Hong Kong, accentuating the sense of loneliness and urban isolation in the hyperdensity of Hong Kong. This report will analyse one such key reoccurring

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