Nick Cheung Articles

Screenwriter-director Leon Dai's Taiwanese black-and-white social-cum-family drama No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (above), Taiwan's submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Award, was the top winner at the 2009 Golden Horse Awards ceremony held Saturday evening in Taipei. The real-life inspired tale of a poor single father who fights Taiwanese bureaucracy so as to retain custody of his daughter, No Puedo Vivir Sin [...]

As Hong Kong celebrates 100 years of filmmaking, Wilson Yip's biopic Ip Man (above, top image), starring Donnie Yen as Bruce Lee's kung fu master, was chosen best picture of the year at the 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards. However, the small-scale docudrama The Way We Are (above, bottom image), set in the working-class town of Tin Shui Wai near the border with China, took [...]

2009 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards   Ann Hui's The Way We Are shows life in a working-class Hong Kong suburb. This is Hui's second consecutive Hong Kong Film Critics win. Last year she won for The Postmodern Life of My Aunt.   Best Film: The Way We Are Best Director: Ann Hui, The Way We Are Best Actor: Nick Cheung, The Beast Stalker [...]