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Besieged City

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Besieged City
Chinese圍城
Directed byLawrence Ah Mon
Written byDennis Chan
Frankie Tam
Produced byDennis Chan
CinematographyGavin Liew
Edited byLi Ka-Wing
Distributed byMei Ah Entertainment
Release date
  • 22 March 2008 (2008-03-22)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.[1]

Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama",[2] and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs.[1] The title refers to Tin Shui Wai,[1] a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.

Cast

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Cast and roles include:[3][4][5]

  • Tang Tak Po as Ho Ling-kit
  • Wong Yat Ho as Ho Chun-kit
  • Wong Hau Yan as Panadoll
  • Joman Chiang
  • Jonathan Cheung as Chu Hin
  • Dada Chan Ching as Ceci
  • Joman Chiang as Yee-wah
  • Sunny Luk

Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).[1]

Awards and nominations

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Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Fonoroff, Paul (1 May 2008). "Besieged City". South China Morning Post.
  2. ^ Kerr, Elizabeth (2 April 2008). "Besieged City". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. ^ Besieged City at HKMDB
  4. ^ Besieged City at chinesemov.com
  5. ^ Besieged City at IMDb

Further reading

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