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How long should you wait for love? They say every love story is a ghost story, and Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (胭脂扣) is a love story in more ways than one. A love letter to old Hong Kong, Rouge laments the passing of time and defeat of beauty by efficiency but then stops to wonder if perhaps that isn’t better and if we’re all secretly happier in world in which dying for love has gone out of fashion.

We begin in the early 1930s as courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui Yim-fong), dressed as a man and singing of doomed love, catches the eye of nobleman Master 12 Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing). He lavishes gifts on her and the pair fall madly in love, but his family do not approve of the match and are set on Chen-pang marrying their chosen bride. Out of options, the pair decide on double suicide, but Fleur finds herself all alone in the afterlife and, after 50 years have passed, makes her way to the Hong Kong of the late 1980s in search of lost love.

Many things have changed in the Hong Kong of 1988, but luckily they still have classified ads which is how Fleur decides to find Chen-pang. Of course, ghosts don’t generally have need of money which means she’s still out of luck, but for some reason she finds herself attached to the kindly clerk, Yuen (Alex Man Chi-leung), who eventually agrees to “admit” her while he and his reporter girlfriend Chu (Irene Wan Bik-ha) help track down Chen-pang in the hope that Fleur can find him before the next memorial of her passing in two days’ time.

Kwan contrasts the opulence of the 1930s with the stark efficiency of the modern city in which pleasure palaces have been replaced with convenience stores. Fleur wanders through a world much changed, and sees its ghosts everywhere she goes. The Yi Hung teahouse is place of decadent delight filled with music, colour, and elegance but it’s also one built on misery in which young women are trapped and exploited as a direct result of generalised poverty. Hong Kong has moved on and is now one of

Director: Taylor Wong Tai Loy
Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau Tak Wah, Alex Man Chi Leung, O Chun Hung, Alan Tam Wing Lun, Lam Chung, Shing Fui On, Carina Lau Kar Ling, Wong Chi Keung, Pauline Wong Siu Fung, Fan Mei Sheng, Danny Lee Sau Yin
Running Time: 104 min.

By Joseph Kuby

Hollywood inspired crime thriller! Rich and Famous, according to author Stephen Teo (of Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions), was one of many heroic bloodshed/Hong Kong crime thrillers inspired by Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America i.e. an epic crime saga, dealing with loyalty, honour and betrayal and maybe featuring scenes of the gangsters as children before they hit the big time. Other examples of this include Flaming Brothers and Bullet In The Head.

Rich and Famous is essentially a tale of violence, shattered innocence, brotherhood and cowardice.

The film borrows liberally from Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America (whose film inspired many Hong Kong crime thrillers such as Brotherhood and City On Fire). It’s ironic that Sergio was originally going to be the director for Godfather. One may draw comparisons between Taylor Wong’s film and its U.S. equivalents such as this being a period crime thriller involving betrayal (among relatives) which takes place over a series of decades (complete with a wedding assassination sequence just like in Godfather), but it seems to be wanting to ape the artistic success of the swan song that helped cement Sergio’s reputation as a director of fantastic product dripping with excellence.

With the wedding sequence mentioned before, the sequence handled here is fairly gripping and engaging as we feel involved with the characters despite not getting to know that much about them as the level of exhaustive yet absorbing detail seen in

Known as one of the 'Four Heavenly Kings' of Cantopop, Jacky Cheung has enjoyed a stellar career as an actor and singer since 1984

This is the 35th instalment in abiweekly seriesprofiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.

As one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Cantopop, Jacky Cheung Hok-yau is among the most famous and enduring faces in Hong Kong entertainment history.

The pop music icon, who is nicknamed the "God of Songs" for his vocal talent, shot to fame in the early 1990s after releasing a string of soulful ballads that showcased his rich baritone voice.

Before long, the singer gained international popularity and numerous accolades, among them being crowned the world's bestselling Asian artist at the World Music Awards two years in a row during the mid-90s.

Cheung is also a formidable actor, having appeared in films such as Wong Kar-wai's As Tears Go By (1988), John Woo Yu-sum's Bullet in the Head (1990) and Ann Hui On-wah's July Rhapsody (2002).

Born in Hong Kong in 1961, the singer and actor worked as a reservations officer for the airline Cathay Pacific before deciding to take part in an amateur singing contest in 1984. He beat out 10,000 contestants to win first prize, and was signed by the label PolyGram Records (now Universal Music Group).

Cheung seemed to achieve instant success. His first two albums, Smile (1985) and Amour (1986), achieved multi-platinum status and his songs were recognised in both the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards and RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards.

However, it took several years for Cheung to achieve peak stardom - the singer went through a slump and his fifth album only sold about 20,000 copies.

"I was really worried ... I still hadn't earned enough money for my family," Cheung said in a talk at Hong Kong's Lingnan University in 2014. "I started drinking ... and got drunk five days a week."

Back then, the Hong Kong entertainment scene was dominated by the "Three Kings and a Qu

Hong Kong film and television actor

Not to be confused with Tony Leung Ka-fai.

In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Leung. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Tony Leung and the Chinese-style name is Leung Chiu-wai.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Chinese: 梁朝偉; pinyin: Liáng Cháowěi, born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognized actors. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festivalaward for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time".

Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films, including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film FestivalGolden Lion-winning films: A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Leung also starred in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero (2002), the cult classic Hard Boiled (1992), and box office hits Infernal Affairs (2002) and Red Cliff (2008). He later came to prominence in Hollywood with his role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

Leung has an extensive list of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also an eight-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the