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The season runs at the London venue from 9 July to 27 August…

Following the Hong Kong New Wave 1979–1989 season in 2025, The Garden Cinema broadens its focus to the wider Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema, a remarkable era spanning the late 1970s through to the 1990s when the territory emerged as one of the world’s most prolific, dynamic, and influential filmmaking centres.

At its peak, Hong Kong was producing hundreds of features a year and ranked as the world’s second-largest exporter of films after Hollywood. Yet the Golden Age was defined by far more than industrial scale; it was a period in which auteur diversity, star power, genre innovation, and international circulation reached unprecedented heights.

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I miss this time where so much great content coming out of Hong Kong. Consumed a lot of it growing up. TV dramas and music I felt was better too. Very natural, expressive, warm, with heart. Not as polished, superficial, censored like the stuff mainland China’s putting out or is co-producing.

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The heavy hand of the mainland censors is why any film or show even attempting to be interesting has to be set abroad or in the past to try to get some jeopardy, which of course can’t exist in the perfect paradise the Party has brought the people. And then when, as a direct result, 90% of stuff ends up being about office girls time-travelling to Dynasty X, Y or Z , they ban that too 😂

Tried watching Heroes (2020) with Vincent Zhao, but after enduring two episodes, I just couldn’t any more. Even with the “get-out clause” of being set before the PRC, and a budget greater than the GDP of some small nations, it was deathly dull with every major character (exclusively male) spending 90% of their time being tiresomely worthy & virtuous. I’d rather watch Zhao in Fong Saiyuk a thousand times than one more episode of Heroes.

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