Besieged City (2008)

Original title

圍城

Directed by

Lawrence Ah Mon

Genre

crime film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows young gang members in a Hong Kong satellite town. It shows their struggles with poverty and violence.

bleaktenseatmosphericstreetwisegrimvisceralurban grit

What happens

Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong. Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama", and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs. The title refers to Tin Shui Wai, a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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