LOVE IN A PUFF, DIR. Pang Ho-cheung (2010)            Back Alley of Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong   Jimmy (Shawn Yue) and Cherie (Miriam Yeung) smoke romantically in the back alley of Pacific Place. Scene from Love in A Puff, 2010, directed by Pang Ho-cheung. Pang Ho-cheung had portrayed the contemporary social phenomenon by applying the style of romantic comedy, Love in A Puff was filmed mainly in the back alleys near the workplaces, picturing how the Hong Kong employees smoke after the implementation of the indoor smoking ban in 2007. Consisting a range of professions, from

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HEAVEN ETERNAL, EARTH EVERLASTING, DIR. FANGFANG LI(2009)            Ruishi Four-eyed Well, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The gun is sinking in the Ruishi four-eyed well. Scenes from Heaven Eternal, Earth Everlasting 2009, directed by Fangfang Li. The movie is directed by Fangfang Li, who is good at using the lens language telling us the stories that happened on the two main characters, Xingchen and Mingyuan, in the background of the 80s. Many scenes are like pieces of art filled with the unique atmosphere of Hangzhou. The whole movie uses gloomy filters, so the frames are always

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN, DIR. ZHANG YIMOU (1991)            Qiao Family Courtyard, Shanxi Province, China                            de Left: The Qiao Family Courtyard  in real life. Picture from the search engine ‘Baidu’. Right: The Qiao Family Courtyard in the movie. Scenes from ‘Raise The Red Lantern’ 1991, directed by Zhang Yimou. Zhang Yimou released Raise The Red Lantern in December 1991. Set in 1920s China, the film used entrenched social and gender to fuel a gorgeously filmed collision between expectations and reality, dreams and despair. The young and beautiful

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ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, DIR. Alex Law(2010)         Wing Lee Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Echoes of the Rainbow1 is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Alex Law, released in 2010. It looks back at grass-roots life in the 1960s. The story focuses on a family’s hopes and struggles during a rough time in Hong Kong’s history, capturing a past city lifestyle in the working-class area of Shamshuipo. By blending the shots of a real location, lens language, and usage of warm-tone filter, Wing Lee Street has turned into an urban and cultural background of the society demonstrated in

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN, DIR. ZHANG YIMOU (1991) Qiao Family Courtyard, Jinzhong, Shanxi The movie I chose is Raise the Red Lantern directed by Zhang Yimou, which was thoroughly filming in the famous Courtyard of Qiao’s family. The movie revolves around the topic of feudal ethics where the story begins from the female college student Song Lian who was forced to marry the master of a big family by her greedy mother, the story tells about the conflicts between the concubines and a series of tragedies in a large family during the Republic of China era. The overall performance of the

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