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Cheung King-Wai

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Biography

Cheung King-Wai (張經緯) is a Hong Kong film director and scriptwriter. He studied Music, Philosophy and Film at The City University of New York. In 2001, his graduation projects, Farewell Hong Kong, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2008, his first feature-length documentary, All’s Right with the World (歌舞昇平) screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. In 2009, his second documentary KJ: Music and Life (音樂人生) won him the Best New Director prize at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards, and Best Documentary, Best Editing and Best Sound Effect at the Golden Horse Awards. In 2011, his third documentary feature One Nation, Two Cities (一國雙城) screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and had a five months theater run. In 2016, he released his fourth documentary feature, The Taste of Youth (少年滋味). Apart for his documentary work, he also directed fiction short films including Crimson Jade (墨綠嫣紅) in 2010 and The Waves (驚濤洶湧) in 2012. In 2018, he directed his full-length feature debut, Somewhere Beyond the Mist (藍天白雲).

Known For

Night and Fog
7.3

A troubled marriage fueled by the husband's jealousy, abuse, and financial struggles takes a dark turn as he becomes increasingly controlling, and subjects his wife to unbearable torment.

Night and Fog

2009
Somewhere Beyond the Mist
8.8

Two bodies are recovered in a reservoir. They are of a married couple who now leaves behind two orphaned young adult children. When Angela, the cop tasked to investigate the deaths, breaks the news to the couple’s daughter Connie, Angela is stunned. Not only does the cool and undeterred Connie already know about the deaths, she claims she’s responsible for them. So begins the mystery, but also the relationship between confessor, whose tragic backstory we learn about in flashbacks, and her investigator, who has parental troubles of her own.

Somewhere Beyond the Mist

2018
KJ: Music and Life
7.8

KJ is a biography of a HK musical genius. At the age of 11, KJ won the Best Pianist price and went to Czech to perform with a professional orchestra. Touching on subjects such as the meaning of life, God and the artistic process, the director’s 6-year-conversations with KJ reveal how a young man inspires by his music teacher, Nancy Loo and how he conflicts with his peers and parents. KJ is not about the victory of a genius, but how he learns to be a "human being".

KJ: Music and Life

2009
One Nation, Two Cities
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Every three months, a Chinese single mother, Xue takes a 10-hour-journey from Hong Kong to her hometown in Fujian, China with one hand dragging her heavy luggage and another hand holding her child. She has to extend her visiting visa to stay with her family, which migrated to Hong Kong when she was 8. In 1980s, the Chinese local government would let the family migrate except one child, so they would send money back. The tragic starts from here.

One Nation, Two Cities

2011
Crimson Jade
6.0

It's based on an urban myth – drug abuse during pregnancy results in green fetuses. Jade is pregnant. This film follows her one-day psychological journey in experiencing life and death, guilt and forgiveness.

Crimson Jade

2010
All's Right With The World
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The film explores the hidden face of poverty in one of the world's most affluent and capitalistic cities. Directed by CHEUNG King Wai (KJ: Music and Life), the film follows five Hong Kong families of different backgrounds that receive government subsidies. How do the poor get by in a glossy city that flaunts conspicuous consumption and hides poverty in cavernous public housing estates? All's Right With The World shares the different stories of these low-income families, their daily living conditions, and their ways of celebrating Chinese New Year.

All's Right With The World

2007
The Taste of Youth
7.0

A sober exploration of this generation's hopes, dreams and fears for themselves and for post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong.

The Taste of Youth

2016