A trio of Hong Kong directors provides a ghostly anthology.
Category - The Fruit Chan Project (17/22 complete)
An effort to review all of Fruit Chan’s films and to analyze his cinema (will also include interview, a list of his favorite Hong Kong movies and a retrospective article)
Instead of hitting hard, the story remains filled with sensibility due to its innocent lead roles.
Begins as an effort to portray, realistically, the lives of delinquents and small time triad members, but is soon swamped in a permeating nihilism which...
A great documentary about a truly important individual.
Before becoming a full feature, “Dumplings” was a short film, part of a great horror trilogy titled “Three… Extremes”, which, apart from Fruit Chan's, also...
The last part of the “Tales from the Dark” omnibus, which consisted of three parts by different directors based in Lilian Lee's works (“Farewell my Concubine”...
Originally released in 1996, Hideo Nakata scored one of his earliest genre hits with his tale of a ghostly presence disrupting and terrorizing the crew of a...
There is something fascinating about having a director who has become known for independent and/or arthouse films directing a movie that falls under the action...
Fruit Chan was born in 1969 in China, from where his family emigrated to Hong Kong. A director, producer, actor and screenwriter, representing what is known as...
Fruit Chan's cinematic efforts in the 21st century have been unequal. Films like “Three Husbands” and “The Midnight After” highlight the reasons he is still...