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The Hong Kong New Wave was a blanket term applied to a number of young, groundbreaking Hong Kong filmmakers of the late 1970s and 1980s, many trained in overseas film programs and with experience in the territory's thriving television drama scene. Among the most notable members are Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho, and Allen Fong. The New Wave was a major factor in the creation of a cinema with a contemporary Hong Kong identity and in the Cantonese dialect of most residents - between World War II and the '70s, the industry had been led by transplanted mainland Chinese filmmakers who continued the traditions they brought with them, largely in Mandarin dialect films. New Wavers were technically audacious compared with the mainstream Hong Kong cinema of the time. They furthered the use of location shooting and sync sound recording and explored a grittier, rougher look and feel. The vivid use, in Hong Kong film since then, of authentic locations in the bustling, cramped urban space is one of their legacies. The New Wave filmmakers were particularly given to revisionist explorations of popular genres, like the thriller (Hui's 1979 ''The Secret'', Tam's 1981 ''Love Massacre''), martial arts (Tsui's 1979 ''The Butterfly Murders'', Tam's 1980 ''The Sword'') and crime (Alex Cheung's 1979 ''Cops and Robbers'', Yim's 1980 ''The Happenings''). The latter category was particularly friendly to their experiments with realism, and their tactic of wrapping social commentary in genre trappings. But the New Wave also produced personal dramas about relationships, domesticity and family (Fong's 1981 ''Father and Son'', Yim's 1984 ''Homecoming'') and hard-hitting political comment - Hui's 1982 ''Boat People'' presented a brutal portrait of life in communist Vietnam but was widely viewed as an allegory of Hong Kong's anxieties regarding communist China (Teo, 1997). Ng's 1982 ''Once Upon A Rainbow'' explored the theme of youth and the ambitions of gaining fame, with references to the undertones of pop culture (such as the use of narcotics, street violence, relationships, nightlife, and the hardships of surviving in an "on-the-fringes" environment of the entertainment world) as integral parts, and was distinctive in style despite casting a completely fresh group of stars that were considered new to the film industry at the time (Cheuk, 2008). Her film was instrumental in launching the careers of several successful internationally renowned Hong Kong stars, such as Andy Lau, Annabelle Louie 雷安娜, and Eric Tsang. The New Wave helped carve out a small niche for art films in Hong Kong's populist cinema, although most were absorbed into the mainstream to one extent or another (Bordwell, 2000). == Major figures == * Alex Cheung * Tsui Hark (徐克) * Ann Hui (許鞍華) * Yim Ho (嚴浩) * Patrick Tam (譚家明) * Allen Fong (方育平) * Dennis Yu (余允抗) * Kirk Wong (黃志強) * John Woo (吳宇森) * Wong Kar-wai (王家衛) * Siu-wan Ng (吳小雲) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hong Kong New Wave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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