Coffin House

Like the rest of the world, Hong Kong is slap bang in the middle of a housing crisis. With apartment sizes plummeting while prices skyrocket, some are forced into spaces no bigger than 20 square feet, paying up to $500,000 for a space where stretching your limbs out is a luxury. Conversely, Hong Kong also

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Love Massacre 1981 Review

Ivy, played by Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, is a Taiwanese student living in San Francisco. She shares a dormitory with other students of her diaspora. The pupils consume most of their American life in gossips, anecdotes and leisure. For Ivy, who appears to be a relatively serious character, chatters are secondary to spending time with pals

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Hello Kitty Murder Hong Kong

Fan Man-yee was a young adult who suffered unspeakable horrors, horrors that to this day, the world is still unsure of what transpired. A lonely figure who became victim to the darkness that plagues the underbelly of the contemporary world. Her death marked the testament of the suffering that she had to endure, one that

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Chinese Ghost Story 2

When thinking about ghost movies, hardcore cinema buffs most definitely enumerate such classics as The Shining (1980), Poltergeist (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), or The Ring (1998). However, fans of Asian Cinema will also point to yet another popular movie series from Hong Kong; that is, an inconspicuously titled A Chinese Ghost Story. Devised by such acclaimed

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