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Top 5 films to watch in Hong Kong this week: August 18-24
Gripping one-take thriller, an old-fashioned period action drama and a fantasy samurai animation set in feudal Japan are this week’s picks
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Move aside Birdman. While it might sound like a gimmick, German actor-director Sebastian Schipper’s single-take sensation is in fact a tautly paced heist thriller that remains captivating throughout its 138-minute runtime. This is an incredible feat of filmmaking. (Opens on August 18)
A simple story marvellously told, director Benny Chan’s period actioner brings back the old-fashioned good-versus-evil drama of Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone’s 1960s classics, while adding Sammo Hung’s martial arts choreography to the delirious mix. (Opens on August 18)
Edmund Lee is the film editor of the Post. Before joining the Culture desk in 2013, he was the arts and culture editor of Time Out Hong Kong. Since he graduated in English and Comparative Literature, Edmund has also studied law and written an MPhil thesis on Hirokazu Koreeda. He is on a masochistic mission to review every Hong Kong film being released.
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