Hong Kong Cinema: Rarities and Restorations
October 23–November 28, 2026
Romantic yearning, swordplay, and the specter of the past infuse these rarities and restorations, which capture important moments and movements in the creative arc of Hong Kong cinema.
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Stanley Kwan: Rouge, 1987
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T’ang Shushuen: The Arch, 1968
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Allen Fong: Just Like Weather, 1986
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Stanley Kwan: Center Stage, 1991
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Ann Hui: The Secret, 1979
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King Hu: The Valiant Ones, 1975
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The Arch
T’ang Shushuen
Hong Kong, 19684K Digital Restoration
Friday, October 23, 7 PMIntroduced by Weihong BaoView DetailsA Ming dynasty widow, beloved for her grace and kindness, becomes tempted by a visiting soldier in this investigation of propriety, tradition, and repression. This early precursor of the Hong Kong New Wave was praised as “a film of poetic beauty” by Anaïs Nin.
Colorful Youth
Chan Wan
Hong Kong, 1966Digital Restoration
Sunday, October 25, 4 PMIntroduced by Paul FonoroffView DetailsA teen melodrama with a touch of song-and-dance, Colorful Youth is the only film with a contemporary setting starring both Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao Fong-fong, unequivocally the most popular teen idols in the history of Cantonese cinema.
Our Sister Hedy
Doe Ching
Hong Kong, 1957Wednesday, October 28, 7 PMIntroduced by Paul FonoroffView DetailsFour grown sisters navigate a tangle of marriage plots in this charming dramedy. Director Doe Ching “casts the four actresses in roles that fit perfectly like a glove” (Hong Kong Film Archive).
The Valiant Ones
King Hu
Hong Kong, 1975BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, November 1, 4 PMView DetailsA righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo is called to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials in King Hu’s masterly work.
The Secret
Ann Hui
Hong Kong, 1979Digital Restoration
Thursday, November 5, 7 PMView DetailsLoosely based on a real-life double-murder case, Ann Hui’s grisly debut feature traces the labyrinthine investigation by one of the victim’s friends, played by Sylvia Chang. At once procedural and spectral, The Secret “thrives on pure cinematic wizardry” (Faith Everard, Senses of Cinema).
The Sword
Patrick Tam
Hong Kong, 1980Saturday, November 7, 6:30 PMView Details“With its blend of melodrama, weapons-based action, and wire-fu choreography . . . [The Sword] gets as swept up by the characters’ quieter moments of their muted agony as it does by their physical violence” (Jake Cole, Slant Magazine).
Just Like Weather
Allen Fong
Hong Kong, 19864K Digital Restoration
Sunday, November 15, 6 PMView DetailsJust Like Weather centers on a young couple on the rocks. Through interviews, reenacted scenes from their everyday lives, fictional episodes, and behind-the-scenes documentary, anxieties of Hong Kong’s future after 1997 bubble to the surface. “Fong has an unerring feel for the ways that people speak, think, laugh, console and wound each other” (Tony Rayns).
Rouge
Stanley Kwan
Hong Kong, 1987Digital Restoration
Sunday, November 22, 6 PMView DetailsFleur (Anita Mui) is a ghost adrift in modern Hong Kong searching for her lost lover, “Twelfth Master” (Leslie Cheung). Slipping back and forth in time, “to watch Rouge today is to be reminded that cinema is a time machine: a repository of the dead, a record of losses, but also its own form of afterlife” (Dennis Lim, Criterion Collection).
Center Stage
Stanley Kwan
Hong Kong, 19914K Digital Restoration
Saturday, November 28, 3 PMView DetailsMaggie Cheung stars in Stanley Kwan’s modernist biopic on the life and tragic early death of Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu. “A masterpiece . . . the greatest Hong Kong film I’ve seen” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).