''Besieged City'' () is a 2008

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directed by

Lawrence Ah Mon Lawrence Ah Mon or Lawrence Lau Kwok Cheong (劉國昌) (born 1949) is a Hong Kong film director. His films are notable for their lurid exploration of the problems of the poor in modern Hong Kong, such as ''Gangs'' (1986), ''Spacked Out'' (2000), ...

. It has a Category III rating in

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. Elizabeth Kerr wrote in ''

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'', " esieged Cityis a quasi- realist Hong Kong urban drama", and film critic

Paul Fonoroff Paul Fonoroff (born 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio) is one of Hong Kong's best known film critics and film historians. Biography A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Paul Kendel Fonoroff began studying Chinese in high school, continuing at Brown University ...

wrote that ''Besieged City'' was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film ''

Gangs A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectivel ...

''. The title refers to

Tin Shui Wai Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northw ...

, a satellite town in the northwestern

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of Hong Kong.

Cast

Cast and roles include: * Tang Tak Po as Ho Ling-kit * Wong Yat Ho as Ho Chun-kit * Wong Hau Yan as Panadoll * Joman Chiang *

Jonathan Cheung Jonathan Cheung Wing-hong (, born 26 December 1981), native of Zhongshan, Guangdong, is a Hong Kong actor since 2001. He is currently contracted to TVB. Career In 2006, Johnathan Cheung joined TVB by Andy's recommendation and mostly played sup ...

as Chu Hin * Dada Chan Ching as Ceci * Joman Chiang as Yee-wah * Sunny Luk Film critic

wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in ''

Spacked Out ''Spacked Out'' (Chinese title: 無人駕駛; ''Mo Yan Ka Sai'') is a 2000 Chinese social realist film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon and produced by Johnnie To. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong. Plot The film follows four teenaged girls ...

'' (2000) and ''Gimme Gimme'' (2001).

Awards and nominations

''Besieged City'' was nominated twice at the

27th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony for the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards was held on 14 April 2008 in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and hosted by Carol Cheng, Sandra Ng and Sammi Cheng. Winners in nineteen categories were unveiled, with film ''The Warlords'' being the year's ...

in 2008: *

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- Wong Hau-Yan *

Best Art Direction The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted fro ...

- Yank Wong

References

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HK cinemagic entry

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Cast

Awards and nominations

See also

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