Besieged City


Besieged City is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.
Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, " is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama", and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs. The title refers to Tin Shui Wai, a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.

Cast

Cast and roles include:
Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out and Gimme Gimme.

Awards and nominations

Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008: