Both : (Music) Good afternoon! Welcome to C&C podcast!    Ho: C&C podcast will introduce a new movie to you at 2 o’ clock, every Wednesday.   Good afternoon, I am your host Charlotte.    Ip: I am your host Chloe.    Ho: Good afternoon Chloe, it has been a long time since I have seen you without a mask!    Ip: Yes, the day of unmasking had “finally” come. I have waited for this moment for 3   years!    Ho: Seems like we have overcome Covid, right?    Ip: Yea. Covid is a hard time for Hong Kongers,

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Y: Welcome to our podcast on architecture and film, we are your hosts, Yanisha A: and Anson. Today we are talking about the film Hollywood Hong Kong, directed by Fruit Chan, released in 2001. Y: The film takes place in Tai Hom Village, a small Hong Kong shantytown that is overshadowed by a large apartment and mall complex called Plaza Hollywood. The story follows a family of obese pig butchers: Mr Chu and his sons, tiny and Ming; a foolish but charming pimp, Keung; and a Mainland Chinese prostitute Tong Tong. Tong Tong enters the life of these men by

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ANITA; Longman Leung (2021) TSIM SHA TSUI PROMENADE Podcast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thF–0ppkfJ_fIecxhk5alD2tfAnlW7i/view?usp=sharing   Anita is a 2021 film directed by Longman Leung. It is a biographical film about the deceased Cantopop star, Anita Mui that visualizes her life from childhood to the last moment of her life till 2003 when she died of cervical cancer.    As the film shows events from the late 20 century to the beginning of the 21 century, many buildings were removed or renovated now, the production team faced challenges to construct sets to resemble the scene from the past. The director made use of graphical technology like greenscreen

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1. The Narrow Road is a 2022 Hong Kong dream film, directed by Lam Sum, a new director who won the ‘mm2 New Director Program’ in 2017. This film stars Louis Cheung, Angela Yuen, Tung On-na, etc.. 2. The story background is set during the early days of the Covid pandemic in Hong Kong, it tells the story of Chak, cast by Louis Cheung, who struggles to keep his cleaning company afloat. During the challenge, he develops a bond with a newly hired cleaner Candy, cast by Angela Yuen, who is his neighbor and also a single mother. Candy, who

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