Movie
1997
Chinese Box is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, and Michael Hui. It is set and was made at the time of Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China on June 30, 1997. The film credits Paul Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explores in his 1997 novel Kowloon Tong. It enjoyed modest box office success in the United States.
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In today's world film makers tend not to deal with important political and economic events as they happen. This is partly because those events usually catch film makers by surprise and by the time production starts the events cease to be that relevant. There are very few occasions when events of such nature allow film makers to prepare in advance. One of such golden opportunities was British handover of Hong Kong to…More
