HOOKED ON YOU, DIR. LAW WING CHEONG (2007)            Luen Wo Market, Fanling, Hong Kong   The Fortune Market gang toke a photo in front of the plaque before the demolition of the market. Scenes from the ’ Hooked On You’ (2007), directed by Law Wing Cheong. Hooked on You is a 2007 Hong Kong comedy-drama film. The storyline was started in 1997 when Miu was a twenty-seven year-old fishmonger working at the Fortune Market. She needed to clear the debts of her gambling and whoring father. Miu dreamed to achieve financial stability and leave Fortune Market

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Echoes of the Rainbow（歲月神偷）, DIR. ALEX LAW (2010) Wing Lee Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong                            The film Echoes of the Rainbow is adapted from the childhood experience of the film director Alex Law. It tells the story of a 4-member working-class family living in the 1960s Sham Shui Po, which was one of the poorest areas in the British colonized Hong Kong. Just like many other families in the 1960s, this working-class family has also gone through lots of ups and downs in this turbulent period. Despite all these traumas and grief that the family has experienced, they still

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SPARROW, DIR. JOHNNIE TO (2008)            Pottinger Street, Central District, Hong Kong Kei using his vintage Rolleiflex to take photos at Pottinger Street. Scenes from the Milkyway Image’s Sparrow 2008, directed by Johnnie To. Sparrow (文雀) is a film produced and directed by Johnnie To Kei-fung and was released by the Milkyway Image in June 2008. It tells a story about how an attractive female stranger suddenly appears in the life of four pickpockets. Kei, as the leader of the pickpockets’ team, enjoys taking photos with his vintage Rolleiflex. One day when he is taking photos

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STILL HUMAN, DIR. CHAN SIU KUEN (2018)            OI MAN ESTATE, Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong “Still Human” is about the relationship between a disabled, paralyzed man in a wheelchair, Leung Cheong-wing, and a Filipino domestic worker, Evelyn Santos. Leung Cheong-wing is a hopeless man who has a fragmented family where his son is living in another country and claims that he does not have any dreams and is just a loser, whereas Evelyn was a former nurse who has put her dream of being a photographer on hold and came to Hong Kong to earn a

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My Prince Edward 金都 (2019), dir. Norris Wong Golden Plaza, Kowloon, Hong Kong My Prince Edward is a romance film talking about a story of two about to get married. Cheung Lee Fong (張莉芳) and Edward (殷俊榮) are working in Golden Plaza and living above Golden Plaza. They are preparing for the wedding in Golden Plaza since most of the materials can be purchased in there. However, Edward discovered that Cheung had fake marriage 10 years ago. They have vigorous arguments when trying on wedding dresses in Golden Plaza. Also, Cheung discover that their values are very different during the

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FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL DIR. GORDON CHAN KAR SEUNG 1991 ESF Sha Tin College — Fo Tan, Hong Kong Fight Back To School is a comedy starring Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat. The film is about a disqualified police, Chow Sing Sing, being chosen to be an undercover student in a school named Edinburgh College to look into a case that a revolver was stolen. He is partnered with an ageing police detective, together being undercover in the school, and has to deal with schoolwork like usual students, resulting different hilarious scenes. Edinburgh College, the main setting in the film,

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CHUNGKING EXPRESS, DIR. WONG KA WAI (1994)            Central-Mid-Levels Escalator and Walkway System, Central District, Hong Kong   Chungking Express is a film released in 1994. Directed by Wong Ka Wai, this film is divided into two parts, each about a policeman dealing with a breakup against the backdrop of the bustling but often lonely concrete jungle that is the city. The first story follows policeman 233 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and a female drug smuggler (Brigitte Lin) at Chungking Mansion in Tsim Sha Tsui. The second story, follows policeman 633 (Tony Leung) and a female staff (Faye

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YI YI, Edward Yang (2000) Jian Family’s apartment area, Da’an, Taipei, Taiwan Released in 2000, Yi Yi tells the tale of a middle-class Taiwanese family and their almost relatable and mundane emotional struggles with daily life. Although not the grandest or most memorable location in the film on the surface (compared to the Grand Hotel or McDonald’s) in fact a signifcant amount of time is spent in or around the area of the Jian Family’s apartment area located along Xinhai Road and parallel to the Jianguo Expressway. Yang masterfully crafts a film centered on the Jian family’s daily life but

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