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      • Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.
      Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama", and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs. The title refers to Tin Shui Wai, a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.


      Cast


      Cast and roles include:

      Tang Tak Po as Ho Ling-kit
      Wong Yat Ho as Ho Chun-kit
      Wong Hau Yan as Panadoll
      Joman Chiang
      Jonathan Cheung as Chu Hin
      Dada Chan Ching as Ceci
      Joman Chiang as Yee-wah
      Sunny Luk
      Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).


      Awards and nominations


      Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008:

      Best New Performer - Wong Hau-Yan
      Best Art Direction - Yank Wong


      See also


      The Way We Are, a 2008 film directed by Ann Hui, set in Tin Shui Wai.


      References




      Further reading


      "Interview with Lawrence Lau about Besieged City". Hong Kong Cinemagic. 2008.
      Van Holsteijn, Jasper (2019). "Chapter 4 - The Myth of Brotherhood: Lawrence Ah Mon's Besieged City". Besieged brotherhood and the transformation of triad traditions : the Hong Kong triad genre as an allegorical critique of plutocratic hypocrisy (Thesis). The University of Hong Kong. pp. 149–164.


      External links


      Besieged City at IMDb
      HK cinemagic entry
      Love HK Film entry

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