Even though film is primarily a visual medium, sound and in particular spoken language is a crucial part of any motion picture’s narration. There is a whole sub industry of film people dealing with all kinds of languages from all …

Many animated Japanese TV series are based on serialized comics that have already proved themselves in paper form. The relationship between comic and TV series varies; some animation studios stick close to the original while others run off with the …

The Postgal Workshop (猫室) has become the champion of homegrown animation in Hong Kong. Its recent comic book and animated shorts series, Din Dong (癲噹), went from being a local indie favorite to being aired on Japanese TV. Din …

Headliner (頭條新聞, 1989-present) is, my family likes to joke, the last show that survived the attacks on free speech in Hong Kong. Legally speaking, Hong Kong does indeed have a freedom of press, but in reality, the radio and TV …

Airing nearly 400 years after the story was written, the 1986 TV series Journey to the West (西游记) combines magnificent acting and awesomely fun special effects into an adaption so popular in Mainland China that it’s been rerun on TV …

I first discovered I am MT (我叫MT, 2009-2010) while reading an article about the Tudou Video Festival Awards 2010. Tudou is one of China’s Youtube clones and its annual awards ceremony was once dubbed by a friend as China’s Sundance …

My brother and I watched it on TV as teenagers in Hong Kong. Our mother stood behind us, telling us not to watch it but unable to avert her eyes or suppress her laughter. Then we saw babies on a …