Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (March 22-28), from Unsane to Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Two classic films showing as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival join three new releases – including Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot psychological thriller – on our pick of the best movies to see this week
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1. Unsane
2. Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Japanese director Masaaki Yuasa’s anime is a showcase of vibrant colours and wildly original storytelling. Following the criss-crossing destinies of a mysterious girl and the schoolboy who has a crush on her, this hallucinatory fantasy offers everything from romance to mystery to unbridled nuttiness. (Opens on March 22)
4. The Headless Woman
5. Turn Around
Charting the transformation of students and teachers in a rural school in Nantou County after Taiwan’s devastating 921 earthquake in 1999, cinematographer-turned-director Chen Ta-pu’s fiction feature wisely sidesteps the usual sentimentality of this kind of material to tell an uplifting and compassionate story. (Opens on March 22)
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