Besieged City () 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.

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

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Film critic Paul Fonoroff 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 (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).

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Awards and nominations

Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008: Best New Performer - Wong Hau-Yan Best Art Direction - Yank Wong

See also

The Way We Are, a 2008 film directed by Ann Hui, set in Tin Shui Wai.

References

Further reading

External links

HK cinemagic entry

Love HK Film entry

Hong Kong drama films

2008 films

Films directed by Lawrence Ah Mon

Films set in Hong Kong

Tin Shui Wai

2000s Hong Kong films