Top 5 films to watch in Hong Kong this week: August 25-31
South Korean zombie thriller, Chinese art house, British war drama, Hong Kong baseball and a one-take heist film shot around Berlin among the picks
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A record-breaking hit at the South Korean box office, animation director Yeon Sang-ho’s live-action debut is a breathlessly entertaining zombie thriller set on a bullet train. This is just what you get by restaging 28 Days Later in Snowpiercer’s dystopian setting. (Opens on August 25)
2. Kaili Blues
Chinese art-house cinema finds a new star in the independent director Bi Gan, whose spellbinding debut – partly set in the titular city in Guizhou province – follows a gloomy physician as he takes a winding trip through strange lands that distort time and space. (Opens on August 25)
All realistic recreations of war are anti-war by default, and this British drama – based on an incident during the Afghan war – takes the suspense quotient to an extreme with its unflinching look at the gruesome fate of a unit of soldiers stranded in a minefield. (Opens on August 25)
5. Victoria
Joining Timecode (2000) and Russian Ark (2002) on a very short list of notable one-take films, this 138-minute roller-coaster ride by German filmmaker Sebastian Schipper audaciously stages its story across 22 actual locations in Berlin, even pulling a heist along the way. (Now showing)
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