Stanley Kwan Movies

A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her...

Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.

A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A...

Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful...

A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them...

Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing...

It’s 1994 and Lu Tu (Ethan Juan) is the youngest concierge ever at five-star Chinese hotel; smart, loyal and honest, he’s respected by...

Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan

For 10 years, Ani, a young wife and mother, has sported the same hair style. She has a humdrum life and a platonic relationship with young Mr. Ahua,...

The unlikely pairing of a spoiled millionaire venture capitalist scouting for extreme wedding tour locations and a grounded science photographer en...

Three friends begin a contest to find Karen, a particular girl they all like. The limits: one month, and no advertising or radio. The prize: the...

Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.

Naked Nations is a deeply human, joyful, poignant and heartbreaking film about freedom and its many manifestations, fragility and limits, a film...

Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong.

A HKIFF short film by Stanley Kwan. Stanley Kwan takes us on a real-time bus trip from the airport to Kowloon in 13 Minutes in the Lives of…...

Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her...

Inspectors Tong (Shaw Brothers regular Pai Ying) and Cheng (Kent Cheng) are investing a psychopathic serial killer who has been raping and murdering...

A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company's actresses and a...

Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their...