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[FIELDWORK]RAISE THE RED LANTERN, QIAO FAMILY COURTYARD

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN, DIR. ZHANG YIMOU (1991) Qiao Family Courtyard, Shanxi Province, China First released at Venice Film Festival in 1991, RAISE THE RED LANTERN tells a story about a female college student Songlian unwillingly marrying the landlord Chen as the fourth concubine during the Warlord era. After the marriage, Songlian experienced a lot of infighting with other concubines. In Chen’s rule, whenever he wanted to spend a night with someone, he let servants hang red lanterns over one’s room door. In that case, the red lantern symbolizes power in Chen’s family. In a series of chaotic events over

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[FIELDWORK] B FOR BUSY, Shang Hai

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B FOR BUSY<愛情神話>，DIR. Shao Yihun, 2016 Shanghai alley and Mr Bai’s house [Mr. Bai and Miss Li leave the scene of the play, scene from B FOR BUSY (2021), directed by Shao Yihun] This is a city movie with a story about love. The film opens with Mr. Bai and Ms. Li watching a play together at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. The words in the picture seem to imply the main tone of the movie – Dramatic. At the same time, the film’s camera always follows Mr. Bai’s delicate Shanghai alley life, and the Shanghai dialect throughout the film,

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Chongqing Express（1994），DIR.Wong Kar Wai

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Chongqing Express is an urban fashion film produced by Zedong Film Company, directed by Wong Kar Wai and released in Hong Kong in 1994. The film tells two love stories, an urban encounter between the lovelorn policeman and the mysterious female killer and the love story of Patrolman 663 and a fast food restaurant girl. Fg1 Chongqing Express The scene of shaking out of focus, boring music, and the female killer played by Lin Qingxia is in the pile of labor. This film has been decadent from the beginning. Beauty wearing sunglasses and fake blonde hair shuttles through the dark and

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[FIELDWORK] GOD OF GAMBLERS, LUCKY PLAZA

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GOD OF GAMBLERS, DIR. WONG JING (1989)            Lucky Plaza, Sha Tin, Hong Kong   God of Gamblers, directed by Mr. Wong, is a famous gambling film in Hong Kong film history. It tells the story of a famous worldwide gambler called Ko Chun who accidentally lost his memory by little knife’s mischief coincidently. During the period of losing memory, he got the nickname chocolate and earn money by his brilliant gambling skill. At the movie’s end, He eventually recovered his memory and won the five-cards game with Chan Kam-sing, the “Demon of Gamblers.” The total box

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[FIELDWORK]MY PRINCE EDWARD,GOLDEN PLAZA MALL

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My Prince Edward is a drama movie directed by Norris Wong premiered in 2016. The film set in Hong Kong’s Golden Plaza mall in the district of Prince Edward narrates the struggles Asian women face in matters of marriage (Imdb, 2021). The movie narrates the love story of Fong and Edward. In order to get married to Edward, Fong must divorce her husband, whom she got married to because she was paid eight years ago.  Fong was offered some payment by Jin Kai-jie, a mainlander who needed a shortcut to obtaining documents allowing him to travel to the United States

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[FIELDWORK] Cold Eyes, Cheonggyecheon

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Cold Eyes was originally a Hong Kong film. It was redirected by Jo Ui-Seok and Kim Byeong-Seo and released in 2013. The film is about a police surveillance team who identified, monitored, and chased an armed robbery group and a leader named James. Most of the scenes were shot in the city center of Seoul. According to director Kim, he tried to differentiate Seoul from Hong Kong, where the city is highly dense. Amongst many places in the film, I selected Cheonggyecheon since it is a crucial place in a film. After the robbery group failed to rob Korea Stock

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[FIELDWORK]God of Gamblers, East Rail Line

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GOD OF GAMBLERS, Wong Jin (1989)            Train, East Rail Line, Hong Kong The East Rail Line train cargo presented in the file.   God of Gamblers (1989) is about a famous gambler called Ko Chun who one day was invited to helped Tanaka in Tokyo to revenge Chan Kam-sing who cheated Tanaka’s father and drove Tanaka’s father to commit suicide. After Ko went back to Hong Kong he went to gamble with his friend and offended the mafia boss, Nam. After Ko escaped from Nam’s  henchmen on the East Rail Line, he fell into the

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[FIELDWORK]God of Gamblers 賭神, Lucky Plaza

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GOD OF GAMBLERS, DIR. Wong Jing (1989) Lucky Plaza, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong God of gamblers is a Hong Kong traditional film directed by Wong Jing and led by Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, and Joey Wong. Ko Chun (Chow Yun-fat) is a famous gambler. The main story begins with Chun escaping from a train. After fighting on the train, Chun accidentally stumbles into Little knife (Andy Lau)’s trap, which is intended to play tricks with an Indian. Ko Chun falls under the hill and hits his head. He loses his memory partially. Little knife does not know who is

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[FIELDWORK]SPARROW, POTTINGER STREET

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SPARROW  Dir. Johnnie To(2008) Pottinger Street, Central,Hong Kong The protagonists of the film are four idle pickpockets. They are Aqi, Zhenbo, Xisu, Ma Zai, of which Aqi is the eldest among them.They stole from pedestrians,mostly for fun.One day, they suddenly met Jenny, who seduced four “Wenques” one by one, and brought disaster to them, under questioning. It turns out that Jenny wants to get rid of the control of the rich Mr. Fu, so they need them to steal her passport for her. After a battle of wits, Jenny got her passport as she wished.By contrast, the thief’s leader, Aqi,

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[FIELDWORK] Kong Fu Hustle

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Kong Fu Hustle is a comedy-action film produced, directed, and co-written by Stephen Chow in 2004. Most of the scenes in this movie were filmed in Shanghai Chedun Film Park, where many old shanghai buildings were constructed or rebuilt for filmmaking and exhibition. These days, when visiting the Shanghai Chedun Film Park, people can also identify many buildings or facilities that appeared in the film; for example, figure 1 shows a traffic light, and it is used by Stephen Chow to detoxify himself from the snake venoms. Many other spaces and buildings are also worth discussing, such as Cage walled

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