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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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Train to Busan.
Edmund Lee

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Train to Busan.
Train to Busan.

1. Train to Busan

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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)

Kaili Blues.
Kaili Blues.
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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)

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