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Soi Cheang (born 11 July 1972), also known as Bob Cheng or by his birth name Cheang Pou-soi, is a Macau-born Hong Kong filmmaker. Known for his contribution to action crime films, his works Motorway (2012), Limbo (2021) and Mad Fate (2023) earned him three Best Director nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, which he won for the latter.
Soi Cheang was born on 5 January 1972 in Portuguese Macau [now China]. He is an actor and director, known for Dog Bite Dog (2006), Limbo (2021) and New Blood (2002).
May 24, 2024 · But since the Handover of 1997 and the subsequent Asian financial crisis, the industry has slid into a slow and steady decline, with only a few figures consistently delivering work of a quality that pushes against this gloomy rhetoric. One of them is Soi Cheang.
Jun 11, 2023 · Soi Cheang and the art of darkness. Maverick Hong Kong filmmaker honored by the city he celebrates in his movies. With "Mad Fate," director Soi Cheang taps into Hong Kong's fascination with the...
Nov 18, 2021 · Limbo: Directed by Soi Cheang. With Ka-Tung Lam, Yase Liu, Mason Lee, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi. Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.
Jan 16, 2024 · Gut check: the latest pair of films from Soi Cheang, a Hong Kong genre master little known in the U.S., demonstrate the sleek blend of existential bleakness and technical wizardry that characterizes his cinema.
May 21, 2024 · Unfolding in the cramped corridors of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City (it was one of the most dangerously dense urban areas on Earth before being demolished in 1993), Soi Cheang ‘s ’80s-set “...
