| Besieged City | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Lawrence Ah Mon |
| Producer: | Dennis Chan |
| Cinematography: | Gavin Liew |
| Editing: | Li Ka-Wing |
| Distributor: | Mei Ah Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 96 minutes |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Language: | Cantonese |
Besieged City is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.[1]
Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama",[2] and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs.[1] The title refers to Tin Shui Wai,[1] a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.
Cast and roles include:[3] [4]
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 (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).[1]
Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008: