Gangs (film)

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Gangs
Chinese 童黨
Directed by Lawrence Ah Mon
Running time
98 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Gangs is a 1988 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It was Lawrence Ah Mon's debut feature film. [1]

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Cast and roles

Reception

Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "Gangs [was] a milestone in Hong Kong cinematic neorealism and one of the more affecting probes into the city's adolescent gang culture" and that the 2008 film Besieged City by Lawrence Ah Mon was its "21st-century sequel". [1]

Awards and nominations

Gangs was nominated four times at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Fonoroff, Paul (1 May 2008). "Besieged City". South China Morning Post .
  2. "List of Awardees of The 8th Hong Kong Film Awards". Hong Kong Film Awards . Retrieved 26 June 2022.