Cinema of Hong Kong
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The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world.
Replica of the Hong Kong Film Awards statuette on the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Runje Shaw, the eldest Shaw brother who started Shaw Brothers Studio, the largest Hong Kong film production company of that era.
Nancy Kwan, a Hong Kong-born American actress.
Julie Yeh Feng, an actress, singer and businesswoman. She starred in various films in throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and is considered to have been one of Hong Kong's biggest stars of the period.
Cinema of China
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The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
1926 Tianyi film Lady Meng Jiang, starring Hu Die
20-year-old Ruan Lingyu, a superstar during the silent film era, in Love and Duty (1931)
Jin Yan, a Korean-born Chinese actor featured in The Big Road (1935), who gained fame during China's golden age of cinema
Zhou Xuan, an iconic Chinese singer and film actress