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 Crown colony, Hong Kong had a g
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.
British Hong Kong
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Hong Kong was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1982, and a dependent territory from 1 January 1983 to 30 June 1997. However, from 1941 to 1945, it was under a period of Japanese occup
Cinema of Hong Kong
…the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former Crown colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of artistic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including…
Possibly the earliest painting of Hong Kong Island, showing the waterfront settlement which became Victoria City
Spring Garden Lane, 1846
View of Hong Kong, 1855
New York Tribune front page, giving details on 1906 Hong Kong typhoon