Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
1983 · 52m · N/A Documentary
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Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
Overview
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
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