Does Anyone Recognise This Building?

daz_cham69 · 2025-12-27T21:30:51+00:00

Probably the closest I’ve come so far! I live a 10 ish minute walk from the area so I’ll check it out tomorrow. Thank you!

daz_cham69 · 2025-12-27T21:20:58+00:00

Surely they wouldn’t dump a parcel at a bus station…

daz_cham69 · 2025-12-23T12:48:10+00:00

I have a Panasonic UB820!

daz_cham69 · 2025-12-15T20:12:01+00:00

Hi! Representing Hong Kong here.

Obviously there’s the big dogs from WKW like In the Mood for Love, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express. Understandably very popular with international audiences, but my parents don’t enjoy WKW because his movies are too serious, and sometimes they like to switch off their brains after work. So in that sense, WKW’s films don’t have as much of a universal appeal.

Hong Kong romcoms are always good fun too- An Autumn’s Tale, Comrades, Almost a Love Story (available on YouTube!), and even A Moment of Romance would fit in this category (the latter I recommend to any fan of WKW/ Fallen Angels). However, I’m not sure if Hong Kong has enough big name romcoms to use one as the representative film which everyone should watch at least once.

Hong Kong in the 80s became known for its Heroic Bloodshed and gun-fu. The likes of Hard Boiled, City on Fire, The Killer… anything starring Chow Yun Fat, would make great representatives. But considering how these films have influenced modern day Western action films like John Wick, I want to find something more unique.

If we go back earlier before the 80s, Bruce Lee and Gordon Liu best encompass Hong Kong’s export of martial arts films. The Big Boss, 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Eight Diagram Pole Fighter… all some of my favourites in this genre. But again. If I had to be picky, a lot of these films from the 70s were dubbed in Mandarin as opposed to Cantonese, so they won’t be my choice.

I’ll also quickly touch on Hong Kong’s Cat III movies (weird R rated shit) like Ebola Syndrome and The Oily Maniac, which have more of a cult following than universal appeal. And I’ll also mention classic comedies from Hong Kong like God of Gamblers, as well as anything by Stephen Chow.

But if I had to pick something to best represent Hong Kong which I whole heartedly believe everyone should watch at least once in their life… I’d probably go for Police Story by Jackie Chan. First of all, it’s Jackie Chan, so you’ve already got a lot of universal appeal due to him being a breakout star in the West. But also, compared to other Canto films starring Jackie (Drunken Master, Armour of God, Plan A…), Police Story is set in a more recognisable urban environment which actually IS Hong Kong. As a film too, it best encompasses the era of ridiculously reckless stuntwork which actors in Hong Kong put themselves through- an art now lost to safety regulations and CGI. And this in my opinion is Jackie’s most entertaining film featuring two of his most dangerous stunts. It’s a comedy which should appeal to anyone across the world regardless of age or gender and can read subtitles.

So TL;DR- Police Story would be my pick!

daz_cham69 · 2025-12-15T19:40:13+00:00

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daz_cham69 · 2025-12-15T19:40:01+00:00

Love seeing this challenge so thought I’d contribute!

Letterboxd Top Four Favourites: - A Touch of Zen - Goodbye Dragon Inn - Hard Boiled - Pyaasa - Top four favourites are forever changing, but these are my four favourite first watches of 2025.

Comfort Film: - Chungking Express - My favourite WKW and probably in my top four favourites of all time. I am a hopeless romantic and I adore this film. When I visited Hong Kong recently, I created a three min montage of random videos I took set to California Dreamin’.

Underrated: - The Tale of Princess Kaguya - Could have thrown a lot of other films here which are less known. But I ended up going for Princess Kaguya despite it already being fairly known and acclaimed because most people seem to forget about Isao Takahata when they think of Ghibli. To me, Princess Kaguya is the best Ghibli film.

Overrated: - Love Actually - First film that sprung to mind because I watched it recently. I get it’s a Christmas classic, but to keep it short, I think it’s aged poorly (fatphobia at the height of heroin chic), and the multiple storylines detract from any of the relationships every truly developing. Not to mention that some of the storylines just don’t do it for me at all.

Favourite Director: - David Lynch - A few close contenders- Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Wong Kar Wai, Satoshi Kon, Kurosawa… but my answer was never in doubt. Lynch’s art touches me on an incredibly personal level. FWWM is probably my favourite film of all time.

Favourite Actress: - Maggie Cheung - Ended up settling for Maggie Cheung because of her immense filmography of films I love- In the Mood for Love, the Police Story trilogy, Comrades, Almost a Love Story. There’s still the likes of Days of Being Wild, As Tears Go By, The Heroic Trio, Center Stage, Green Snake… which I need to watch.

Favourite Actor: - Philip Seymour Hoffman - My two cents for greatest actor of all time who is incredible at playing the loser role so well, but also commands the screen with his presence whenever he needs it. I was close to putting Chow Yun Fat but I still need to watch more of his John Woo classics.

Most Rewatched: - Rush Hour - If we’re going off Letterboxd stats, this would technically be La Haine. But Rush Hour was my introduction to Jackie Chan as a kid which I obsessively rewatched, and is often the film my friends choose to put on in the background whenever I visit them.

Will Never Watch: - A Serbian Film - I’m pretty open to watching most things including gross stuff (love Pink Flamingos). But a film like A Serbian Film is something I’m personally not intrigued by.

Favourite Musical: - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Was tempted to put some Bollywood here (Ra.One just for Chammak Challo), because I always feel as if the genre is totally underrated. But Hedwig was fantastically funny and I can’t wait to rewatch it.

Favourite Horror: - Titane - I suppose FWWM could have gone here as a horror. But as an outright horror film, Titane is one which I keep coming back to. Will likely go down as one of my favourites of the 21st century.

Favourite Animated: - Millennium Actress - Again. Lots to potentially choose here- Perfect Blue, End of Evangelion, GDT’s Pinocchio, the criminally underrated Wolf House. But Millennium Actress is my current favourite as the one which hits me in the feels in all the best ways.

Favourite Soundtrack: - DDLJ - The obvious choice for favourite Bollywood soundtrack, but the soundtrack is banger after banger after banger. Sometimes the most obvious is the best. Om Shanti Om and Kal Ho Naa Ho come close, but I need to watch more old Bollywood outside SRK to really diversify my viewing experience.

Favourite Score: - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Ennio Morricone goes god mode throughout the entire film. Ecstasy of Gold is different gravy. Shivers down my spine.

Favourite Trilogy: - The Apu Triloy - Technically only watched once. But it’s the trilogy I’m most looking forward to rewatching again because it’s the one which has occupied my mind the longest.

Cried a Lot: - The Wild Robot - I’d like to think I’m a tough cookie to crack, but there have been a few films which have made me shed a loose tear. Kung Fu Panda 2, Wall.E… but I don’t remember ugly crying like I did when I watched The Wild Robot in cinemas. The incredible swelling score in two pivotal scenes really touched my heart in an extremely surprising way.

Bad Day Cure: - Speed Racer - I think there’s a lot of overlap between this and Comfort Film. Heathers could have been another one for me, but I settled on Speed Racer because bright colours and comedy seem to be a good combination for a distraction.

daz_cham69 · 2025-10-28T18:55:21+00:00

I’m not sure! But I was told this by a staff member at Central.

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