Silver screen exhibition marks Hong Kong Film Archive’s silver jubilee (opens in new tab)

Long before K-dramas, Japanese anime and Bollywood movies became instruments of modern soft power, Hong Kong films were the leading Asian force on the big screen. In the 1980s and 90s – the golden age of Hong Kong cinema – the city was the world’s third-largest film producer, with more than 200 releases annually, and the second-largest film exporter. But there’s a lot more to our cinematic history, which stretches all the way back to the “flickers” of the 20s. To mark its 25th anniversary, th...