Ranking every Hong Kong film released in 2020, from worst to best

Donnie Yen shines in Enter the Fat Dragon, My Prince Edward delicately captures fading love, and Beyond the Dream is filled with desire and yearning

Patrick Kong finally finds maturity with The Calling of a Bus Driver, Gladys Li shows she is one to watch, and Stephy Tang cements her leading actress status

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Stephy Tang in a still from My Prince Edward, which features in the Post’s worst and best Hong Kong films of 2020.

Published: 12:20pm, 24 Dec 2020Updated: 2:18pm, 30 Dec 2020

Is Hong Kong cinema dead? Or is it merely in a medically induced coma?

After a year rocked by political tension and social unrest that prompted this writer to wonder whether we have finally hit rock bottom (what did I know?), the Hong Kong film industry – like the rest of the world, including the biggest studios in Hollywood – ground to a halt in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic led to reduced capacity at cinemas for long periods, if not outright forced closure for months on end.

As production companies pulled their planned releases for a post-Covid-19 world, and the Hong Kong Film Awards took the unprecedented step of essentially cancelling their 2021 edition, the year 2020 turned out to be a complete write-off. It was so bad, in fact, that we got to see the typically omnipresent Louis Koo Tin-lok in only one movie – the long-shelved Taiwanese production A Choo – and in a forgettable supporting role.

Here is our list of Hong Kong films released in the past 12 months, ranked from worst to best. Let us all pray for a much better 2021.

Michelle Wai in a still from Lost and Found in Tokyo.

24. Lost and Found in Tokyo

This cartoonish account of a heartbroken Hong Kong woman’s travel experiences in Tokyo is a chaotic mess. While the promising scenario offers the possibility of a scenic travelogue or a whimsical tale of soul-searching, writer-director Charlie Choi Kit-ling passes up those opportunities in favour of one of the most atrociously scripted comedies in recent memory. Read the full review