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Following more of a career in socially conscious prestige films, director Ann Hui turned to genre fare much like her debut film “The Secret” to produce a solid hit in the quirky romantic ghost/comedy “Visible Secret.” After the underperforming “Ordinary Heroes,” “Secret” was a more suitable success with several acclaimed nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards with one win and spawning a sequel a year later that earned the film a spot on an emerging impressive slate of releases from Radiance Films.

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After meeting at a club and starting a romance, Peter Choi (Eason Chan), an unemployed hairdresser, and June (Shu Qi), a strange nurse, decide that they can work as a couple and start a relationship. Since meeting her, Peter encounters unexplained things which she says are spirits she can see. They run into people apparently under attack by ghosts and unexplainable deaths,...

Awarded at the 57th Golden Horse Festival, Kwok Zune’s short film depicts the collision of two worlds when a taxi driver picks up a young girl in the middle of the night during the Hong Kong Democracy protests. The fly-on-the-wall documentary like film centers around the night shift of a stubborn cab driver, who serves customers from different isles of society. The on-going demonstrations affect his work as well as the topics of conversations that take place.

Night is Young is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

In a very calm way, the viewer observes the slight change of heart the main protagonist undergoes. In the course of the short, his human nature is more and more revealed as he is introduced as a caring father and lookout for a missing protester. “Night is Young” shines a light on the various viewpoints that the current democracy movement evokes in the people of Hong Kong.