Hong Kong Heroines
This section is only seemingly an unusual look at the cinema that is very familiar to Five Flavours' audiences.
An unusual look at Hong Kong cinema through the lens of prominent actresses and their iconic roles.
Hong Kong is associated with action films, which usually bring to mind male protagonists. Most undeservedly so since, thanks to the characteristics of Hong Kong martial arts films in which women have been successfully surmounting their male counterparts with training, agility, and wits for many decades – much earlier than in Hollywood.
On top of that, Hong Kong cinema also features brilliant comedies and dramas, rarely presented outside of Asia. The profit-oriented industry that did not shy away from experiments was an environment which brought to prominence the brilliant actresses who later became pop icons in that part of the world. Maggie Cheung ("Comrades: Almost A Love Story"), Sylvia Chang ("A Light Never Goes Out"), Cheng Pei-Pei ("Come Drink With Me"), Cherry Ngan ("The Way We Dance"), and Cherie Chung ("An Autumn's Tale") are some of the outstanding heroines whose break-through roles are the focus of the section.
