News — 1960s

The Greatest Wedding on Earth 南北一家親 (1962) - Hong Kong   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. After the box office success of “The Greatest Civil War on Earth”, we get an instant sequel with the same theme and tension, replacing the tailor shop with a completing resturant plot-line. Directed by Wong Tin Lam (same as the first film), we get more of the same with a bigger budget and set to play with. Watching the film today, gives the...

The Greatest Civil War on Earth 南北和 (1961) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Trailing back to 1960s, we get a delightful comedy that voices out the obvious tensions between Northern Mandarin and the Southern Cantonese background in Hong Kong. These are all relevant tensions that remains extremely realistic even by modern day Hong Kong. This is the first film of the Northern and Southern trilogy that became one of the biggest box office hits of...