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Hong Kong films A Better Tomorrow (1986) and A Touch of Zen (1970) will be showing at film festivals around the world this year after being restored and remastered by Italian outfit L’Immagine Ritrovata, which is opening Asia’s first film restoration laboratory in Hong Kong on April 11.
Film restorer sets up lab in Hong Kong
Hong Kong films A Better Tomorrow (1986) and A Touch of Zen (1970) will be showing at film festivals around the world this year after being restored and remastered by Italian outfit L’Immagine Ritrovata, which is opening Asia’s first film restoration laboratory in Hong Kong on April 11.
The lab, which specialises in film repair, washing and scanning, along with the digitisation of films, has been working on Hong Kong movies since 2008, when it restored the1938 film Confucius.
Last year, the company’s restored versions of Dragon Gate Inn (1967) and Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996) premiered at the Cannes and Venice film festivals respectively.
L’Immagine Ritrovata’s Hong Kong office will be located in Kwun Tong and headed by local film guru Bede Cheng Tze-wang, who’s currently a senior programme manager at The Metroplex cinema. Cheng will finish that gig on April 10 — a day before starting the new job.