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
Click on film titles to read scmp.com reviews.
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)