HMV's five local stores carry about 450 of the more than 1,000 titles made by Shaw Brothers. Its top seller is , a 1992 comedy starring Stephen Chow Sing-chi as an unscrupulous lawyer, followed by , a musical drama set in imperial China, and , an adaptation of a traditional Chinese opera called . The latter is a film that Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee said always made him cry.

"The usual buyers are around 40 to 60 years old, but the movies have a cult following in the younger generation," Luk said. "There's always a Shaw Brothers section in each of our stores."

While Sir Run Run is best known beyond Asia for helping to popularise the kung fu action genre, others remember him for his interest in, and support of, science and education. Most notably, he created the annual Shaw Prize awards for academic excellence, dubbed "Asia's Nobels".

"I've always found it amazing that a movie mogul would care so much about excellence in academic research," said Jane Luu, an American professor and 2012 recipient of the Shaw Prize for astronomy. "Many institutes of higher learning bear his name, and scientists who may never have seen his movies are aware of the prestigious Shaw prizes … I will forever be grateful for what he has done to my career."