Hong Kong Movie Industry In Trouble....

The China Daily laments the decline of the Hong Kong movie industry. Furthermore, Korea, whose industry has pumped out several very popular series is going through a revitalization that includes a series on....horrors...something that Chinese people should have been able to do much better!

many Hong Kong citizens have been mesmerized by the popular Korean TV serial drama Da Qiangjin, which depicts the professional development of a woman practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the background of the Korean imperial court. Given that all the elements in the screenplay are present in Chinese history, perhaps even richer and more colourful, and that Hong Kong is supposed to be the de facto leader of movie making in this region, many of us just wonder why it has to be a Korean production,

So, of course China Daily's solution to the problem? Government subsidies. So that would ensure that wildly lame media output is the result.

But the real problem with the Hong Kong film industry is that there is no way to to meld filmmaking with the only thing that Hong Kong can do well, and that is property development! A flat in the Jackie Chan Gardens, the Bruce Lee Mansions or the John Woo Towers should trade at HK$15,000 a square foot.