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43rd Hong Kong Film Awards nominations make The Last Dance front-runner with 18 nods
Drama about funeral rites nominated in nearly every category; Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, set in Kowloon Walled City, has 14 nods
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Hong Kong funeral rites drama The Last Dance is the clear front runner for the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards with 18 nominations, including best picture.
The third feature film by director Anselm Chan, The Last Dance made waves in the city by grossing HK$122 million (US$15.7 million) in its first month of release, making it the highest-grossing Hong Kong film of all time at the local box office.
Coming a close second with 14 nominations is another box office hit, the martial-arts film Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.
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Adapted from the novel City of Darkness by Yuyi and comic of the same name by Andy Seto, the film – shot in a re-creation of the Kowloon Walled City, a once notorious Hong Kong slum – has a star-studded cast, led by Louis Koo Tin-lok, Sammo Hung, Richie Jen and Raymond Lam Fung.
Family drama Papa, starring Lau Ching-wan, has 11 nominations, and another drama, Last Song for You, starring Ekin Cheng, is nominated in seven categories. The Way We Talk, a drama about a trio of deaf people in Hong Kong, is also up for seven awards, and LGBTQ drama All Shall Be Well has five nominations.
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The nominees, announced by organisers on February 14, were chosen from a pool of 46 Hong Kong-made films released in 2024, down from the 50 released in 2023 that contended for awards last year.
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