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Early life. On 23 May 1947, Hui was born in Anshan, a Chinese iron-mining city in Liaoning Province. Hui's mother was Japanese and her father was Chinese. In 1952, Hui moved to Macau, then to Hong Kong at the age of five. Hui attended St. Paul's Convent School. She grew up in an old-fashioned Chinese family.
Oct 3, 2014 · Ann Hui first came to international prominence in the early ’80s with “Boat People,” an intensely harrowing drama about the horrors of life under communism in post-liberation Vietnam.
Dec 9, 2020 · For Hui, the decade kicked off with Song of the Exile, about a Japanese woman and her Chinese daughter as they try to reconcile fraught identities in post-war China – a pertinent story as Hong Kong was starting to reassess its own identity in the spectre of the 1997 handover from British to Chinese rule.
Aug 17, 2021 · She started as a protégé of the legendary King Hu in the 1970s, and hasn’t rested her laurels since.
Ann Hui On-wah, BBS MBE ( Chinese: 許鞍華; born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave.
Born in China in 1947, Ann Hui moved to Hong Kong when she was still in her youth. After graduating in English and Comparative Literature from Hong Kong University, she spent two years at the London Film School.
Oct 3, 2014 · Hui was born in 1947 in Manchuria, to a father who was Chinese and a mother who was Japanese. Escaping the turmoil of revolutionary China, they arrived in Hong Kong when Hui was 5. Popular...
