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Hong Kong Heartbeak LNY Film Week

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Monday 2/23: My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

After a rock-bottom drunk driving accident, a depressed widow finds that her left eye sees g-g-g-ghosts. A handsome specter is her guide through supernatural escapades in an offbeat rom-com that careens wildly from gross-out horror comedy to weepy melodrama.

Wednesday 2/25: Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Maggie Cheung charms in a gentle slice of life rom-com about two lonely friends turning to each other for companionship in the big city. A love letter to the late diaspora pop icon Teresa Teng, whose songs comfort the almost-lovers through a multi-decade situationship (ouch).

Thursday 2/26: Rouge

The ghost of a glamorous 1930s nightclub singer recruits a couple in the search for her long-lost lover, who died in a suicide pact with her. Since 2003 this doomed romance now gives an uncanny feeling; both the lead actors, Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung, tragically died young in the exact same year.

Friday 2/27: Happy Together

Two gay men from Hong Kong dance a toxic tango through the streets of Buenos Aires. A keystone film of New Queer Cinema and the Cannes win that launched Wong Kar-wai into the international spotlight.

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Applicable for additional showtimes of the films listed below as well. Check AFS Cinema schedule for most updated showtimes.

Resurrection

Directed by Bi Gan | China/French
2025, 2h 43min, DCP, In Mandarin with English subtitles.

With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KAILI BLUES) takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure cinematic dreamscape.

Jan. 6-12, 14…30, 31 | In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across the twentieth century and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-cinema expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, RESURRECTION is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind.

THE RED SPECTACLES

Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1, 4 | The first live-action feature from Mamoru Oshii, legendary director of ANGEL’S EGG and GHOST IN THE SHELL. In dystopian Japan, the Kerberos Panzer Cops defy disbandment. Years later, lone survivor Koichi Todome returns with a mysterious suitcase to a Tokyo full of paranoia and absurdity. New 4K restoration.

The wedding banquet

Directed by Ang Lee | Taiwan/USA
1993, 1h 50min, 35mm, n Mandarin and English with English subtitles.

Feb. 6, 8 | You are cordially invited to the biggest sham of the wedding season. Wai‑Tung and his boyfriend Simon live together in New York, while Wei‑Wei, an artist, needs a green card. When Wai‑Tung’s meddling parents insist it’s time for him to marry, he proposes a marriage of convenience — one that may prove to be anything but.

PINK CUT: LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP

Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita | Japan
1983, 1h 8min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

Feb. 6, 7 | Hairstylists Mayumi and Mai give new meaning to “rinse, lather, repeat” when they open the Pink Cut, a barbershop offering everything but a clean cut. Fluffier than a blowout, this pastel‑colored balayage of musical numbers, charm, and humor comes from Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno and Yoshimitsu Morita (HARU, THE FAMILY GAME).

LOVE HOTEL

Directed by Shinji Sōmai | Japan
1985, 1h 28min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

Feb. 13, 14 | Yumi, a sex worker, and Tetsuro, a man circled by loan sharks, reunite long after a violent encounter to rekindle a flame that threatens to engulf them both. TYPHOON CLUB-director Shinji Sōmai directs LOVE HOTEL, an elegiac entry in Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno cycle.

Bumpkin Soup

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan
Japan, 1985, 1h 23min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

Feb. 20, 21 | From Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE, PULSE) comes the story of Akiko, a naive country girl who receives a big‑city education when she enters university in search of her high school crush. She soon discovers that the once‑innocent freshman has become a sex‑obsessed libertine who never attends class. Meanwhile, she draws the attention of Professor Hirayama (Juzo Itami), determined to theorize the very concept of shame.

ABNORMAL FAMILY

Directed by Masayuki Suo | Japan
1984, 1h 3min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

Feb. 27, 28 | A playful ode to the master of Japanese cinema in which a new bride’s arrival introduces modern values into her husband’s traditional household. A bawdy riff on TOKYO STORY, ABNORMAL FAMILY is both an irreverent homage and a sly parody of the films of Yasujirō Ozu from Masayuki Suo, director of SHALL WE DANCE?