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December 3, 1999 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on He’s A Woman She’s A Man (1994)
Director Peter Chan Ho-sun earned great commercial success with this gender bending comedy, which earned Anita Yuen Wing-yee her second straight best actress trophy at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Awards. Here, Yuen stars as Wing, a gleeful girl who attends a male
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November 5, 1999 •
Film •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on About: Asianfilm.org
The Asian Film Foundation (AFF) was established in 1999 as a nonprofit 501(c) 3 corporation to raise awareness of and appreciation for Asian culture through film in the U.S. “We are a small but committed group of volunteers whose passion for Asian films
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January 3, 1999 •
Culture, Film, Lifestyle •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Hong Kong Film Basics (1999)
Why are they all subtitled? Hong Kong films are made in Cantonese by an industry whose primary audience is in Hong Kong, the rest of Asia second. The fact that the rest of the world has discovered these films and continues to watch them does not appear to be
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April 22, 1998 •
Storytelling •
Vogue Fish •
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First impression: Survived dramatic landing at Kai Tak airport. Rewarded with a humid, sticky airport. Last impression: Getting continually searched at customs… Had to stand on a box once. There was confusion at the gate as psycho tour guide Jacquelyn
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April 6, 1993 •
Storytelling •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on REMEMBER THAT DAY
I thought I was going to dive head and palms first into Hong Kong harbor. But I didn’t. Instead, I recovered on my backside and only my ego was bruised. I looked up at my little brother and saw him staring at me. I think he knew he almost killed me. I
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January 20, 1993 •
Storytelling •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on TOKENS
I remember the moment I learned to love my mother. I was in my second year at NYU and I had been working at the factory for awhile. I believe it was awhile because I remember feeling particularly frustrated and tired of having to meet my mother at the subway
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