Patrick Tse’s death marks fading of Hong Kong cinema’s golden era: film academic

The death of veteran actor Patrick Tse Yin at 89 has brought Hong Kong closer to the end of a cinematic golden era, when the city’s film industry exerted influence across Southeast Asia, a film academic has said. Charles Cheung Chi-wai, an associate professor at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, said the glittering cohort of stars in the 1960s helped cement the city’s reputation as the “Hollywood of the East”. Tse’s son, Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, and...

By Ambrose Li