GHOST IN THE SHELL, DIR. RUPERT SANDERS (2017)            Montane Mansion, Eastern District, Hong Kong   Ghost in the Shell is a cyberpunk film released in 2017.[1] It follows the main character Matoko Kusanagi, who explores her identity through navigating the futuristic yet dystopian New Port City. Heavily inspired by the urban environment of Hong Kong, the film combines colonial architecture with international modernist style buildings, featuring high-rise post-war style buildings where the rich and powerful live, along with the run-down and traditional buildings, chock full of billboards and futuristic holograms. For a film that is

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Word file of my field report in the correct format [ FIELDWORK] A BETTER TOMORROW， DIR. John Woo (1986) Merit Industrial Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong The film A Better Tomorrow was released in 1986.[1] The film tells a story about a revenge story of two gangsters Sung Tse-Ho, Mark Lee and a policeman Sung Tse-Kit who was a younger brother of Sung Tse-Ho and hated him for their father’s death, showing the friendship and brotherhood. This story mainly took place in Hong Kong. The taxi company was the place Sung Tse- Ho worked in after he went out of prison

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LUOHU PORT, LUO HU DISTRICT, SHEN ZHEN The Crossing is about a 16-year-old girl called Liu Zipei, who studies in Hong Kong but live in Shen Zhen. Two cities, two lives, two identities. She is a secondary student during the day, but in the evening, she becomes a parallel trader. The film delves into the dilemma that the protagonist faced and sheds light on the parallel trading issue, tighten the conflicts of identity in a dramatic way. The only legal way to travel between two cities is to pass the port. It is an indispensable part of the protagonist’s life. It

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CHUNGKING EXPRESS, DIR. WONG KAR-WAI (1994)   Chungking Mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong   Chungking Express, released in 1994, is one of Wong Kar-wai’s most renowned films.  The first half of the film follows Taiwanese cop Qiwu’s journey as he deals with a recent breakup.  His story started in Chungking mansions as he swerved into the crowd on his police chase, passing by a lady in a blonde wig and sunglasses who was recruiting ethnic men into her drug smuggling team.  She was threatened by her drug dealer ex-boyfriend after getting scammed by her team and tries to track

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[FIELDWORK] CHUNGKING EXPRESS Directed by Wong Kar Wai in 1994 CENTRAL TO MID-LEVEL ESCALATOR, HONG KONG Fig.1: Faye is taking the Central to the Mid-Level Escalator to cop 663’s home, Scene from Chungking Express, 1994, directed by Wong Kar Wai “Chungking express” describes two individual storylines of lovelorn policies and the director Wong Kar Wai used his distinct movie technique to show the loneliness of urbanites in a bustling city. In the first story,  Cop 223  struggled to move on after he was dumped by his girlfriend. He would buy a pineapple can that expires on May 1 every day

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