A feast of Asian filmmaking and an Asian-American coming-of-age tale featuring Chinese-American actress Joan Chen are the draws for cinema-goers in Hong Kong this weekend.
For those sticking to the sofa for entertainment, Han Suk-kyu’s criminal profiler in drama series Doubt promises intrigue, and two other contrasting K-dramas, both female-led, are full of appeal.
1. Didi
A cute coming-of-age tale, Didi sprang from the mind of first-time writer-director Sean Wang, who successfully mines his own Asian-American adolescence and the awkwardness it entailed.
Set in 2008, just as Facebook was becoming a thing and kids were beginning to live their lives online, the film sees Wang-Wang hang out with fellow nerds Fahad (Raul Dial) and “Soup” (Aaron Chang).
Didi opens in cinemas today.