20 Films & TV Shows Set In Hong Kong During The 1960s
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Where the Wind Blows
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sThe most momentous but unacknowledged chapter in the past thirty years of Hong Kong's history — Once so full of righteousness, young Lui Lok and Nam Kong joined forces to forge their own career dominions, even attaining Chief Detectives Chinese. Yet just at the pinnacles of their lives they became fugitives, forced to flee to foreign countries, never to have the chance to return to their homelands -- because they were Worldwide Wanted as the ICAC's Most Wanted Corrupt Officials.
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Ip Man 4: The Finale
California 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sFollowing the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.
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Chasing the Dragon
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1960sAn illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
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Dealer/Healer
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1960sThe movie is based on a true story about a repented gangster preaching the word of God and guiding his brotherhood to turn over a new leaf. Chen once was the leader of the famous gang "The 13 Tsz Wan Shan", he lost his family, lovers, brothers and finally ended up imprisoned for his drug abuse and trafficking. After jail, he devoted himself to save the lost fellows and was selected as "The JCI Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons". Being respected by the world, Chen is always asked to solve the most difficult situations between evil and good. People give him a nickname "The Fixer". However, there are two sides of a coin, Chen can work out any problem of others, but he does not know how to deal with his personal knot with his love, with whom he has had guilty conscience all his life. Can he fix it eventually?
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Illinois District of Columbia 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇭 Cambodia Africa - General The 1960s The 2010sThe invasion we always feared. An enemy we never expected. — The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
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Fantasia
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sIn Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit and the Hong Kong Columbia Radio Night School graduate Pufferfish, he follows the target Lascar Row. The trio stumbles into an antique shop and breaks many antiques in the store. The cheap Man force Kit and Pufferfish to take responsibility. Kit wisely makes Pufferfish take sole responsibility. The dumb Pufferfish helpless buys the pile of shattered antiques with his own money. In the pieces he finds a broken magic lamp...
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In the Mood for Love
Shanghai 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1960sFeel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode. — A melancholy story set in Hong Kong in 1962. A woman and a man who live in the same crowded apartment building discover that their husband and wife are having an affair.
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Chinese Midnight Express
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sTony Leung Chiu Wai heads to prison in Chinese Midnight Express, a harrowing prison drama from director Billy Tang. The setting is 1960s Hong Kong, and righteous reporter On (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) publishes an article exposing corruption in the police force. Unfortunately, he's framed for drug distribution and confesses to the charges when the corrupt cops (led by Ben Ng) threaten his family. Forced to undergo the rigorous hazing rites of all new inmates, On struggles to regain hope and rise above his situation. Meanwhile, On's loyal girlfriend (Pinky Cheung) is terrorized by the cops who put him away, and On faces new challenges, and even finds new allies, while stuck in prison.
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Those Were the Days
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960s"Those Were the days" speculates on what would happen if a hot international art house director were transported back in time to the 1960s Hong Kong film industry. Highlights include: WKW meets Wong Jing as a child and profoundly influences career; WKW attempts to make his kind of films with the resources, talent, and expectations of 1960s HK filmmakers, and a lot of other Hong Kong /Wong Jing style zaniness.
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As Time Goes By
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s1997 documentary, part of the Taiwan-produced series "Personal Memoir of Hong Kong", is both a self-portrait and a depiction of Hong Kong during the 40 years preceding the handover by the United Kingdom to China.
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The Golden Girls
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1960sA screenwriter gets involved with two actresses who are trying to succeed in the 1960s Hong Kong film industry.
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1990s The 1960sYuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel gimmick, Yuen meets his parents during their joyous courtship. Yuen comes to understand and admire his dad, and reflect on his own moral defects.
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Double Impact
California 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960s The 1990sTwo brothers separated by the violence. Now together in a mission of revenge. — Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
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To Be Number One
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1960sThe story of Ho, a chinese peasant/slave worker who escapes to Hong Kong and becomes one of the most feared crime bosses in Hong Kong.
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Lee Rock
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThe film chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police force that Lee Rock becomes a part of.
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Lee Rock II
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sHe is now the most powerful person in the police force...but he chooses to retreat...because he knows the rules of the power struggle. LEE ROCK - A legend of Hong Kong. — The second part of the trilogy chronicling the rise and fall of Hong Kong's top corrupt official. During this time period, Lee Rock enjoys his sucess and has found a new love. But jealousy within the ranks and a new departmrnt designed to clean up the corruption within the system is threating the comfort that Lee Rock enjoys.
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Bullet in the Head
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sWhen three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
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Days of Being Wild
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1960sYuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
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Painted Faces
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sThe critically-acclaimed story of three young men growing from a traditional Chinese theatrical school to stardom in Hong Kong's thriving film industry. — The story of Peking Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students.
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The Last Grenade
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBreaking into Red China someone has to end the madness... — British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
