Lau Kok Rui Explained

Native Name:劉國瑞
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Name:Lau Kok Rui
Birth Date:1990
Birth Place:Muar, Johor, Malaysia
Yearsactive:2017–present

Lau Kok Rui (; born 1990) is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian film director and screenwriter best known for his feature film debut The Sunny Side of the Street (2022), for which he won Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay in the 59th Golden Horse Awards.

Biography

Lau was born in 1990 in Muar, Johor, Malaysia.[1] He is of Chinese descent with ancestral roots from Fujian, China, and has an elder brother and sister who later pursued studies in Taiwan.[2] Lau, describing his hometown as lacking in entertainment, spent most of his childhood immersed in reading and watching movies, including books beyond his age owned by his siblings and Chinese films owned by his classmates.[3] [4] He later attended and graduated from in 2008. Upon graduation, Lau intended to studying abroad. However, since he didn't want to follow his siblings and found Singapore too similar to his home country, he sought for places that are unpopular for Malaysian graduates. He was then informed by his high school teachers about a full scholarship program offered by City University of Hong Kong, and he applied despite not knowing Cantonese and having only a limited knowledge of Hong Kong through films like Infernal Affairs. He subsequently moved to Hong Kong alone at the age of 18 and resided in Kowloon Tong. He studied marketing at CityU and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 2011.[5] After graduation, he became a research assistant at Chinese University of Hong Kong for a year. Initially considering postgraduate studies in political science, he eventually found himself lacking interest in the extensive essay writing involved.[6] During that time, he attended a filmmaking workshop at the University of Hong Kong and became interested in film production. He then applied for a documentary directing course organised by Tammy Cheung and was mentored by Cheang Pou-soi and . In 2013, he entered the film industry and began producing documentaries. He became a permanent resident of Hong Kong in 2015, and began working in advertisement production and as a volunteer at Pathfinder International in 2017.

In 2017, Lau marked his television series debut as a writer for ViuTV drama series .[7] He then produced an RTHK documentary The Sea Gypsies,[8] and made his directorial debut in 2019 with the ViuTV romance series . He started to pen a screenplay which later evolved into The Sunny Side of the Street in the same year, which themes about South Asian ethnic minorities in Hong Kong that was influenced by his own experiences as an outsider residing in Hong Kong.[9] The screenplay was enlisted in the 2019, and went into production with Lau serving as the director and scriptwriter. Lau was originally admitted for a postgraduate program at Columbia University in 2020, but he rejected the offer to focus on the film project. Lau's debut feature film was theatrically released in 2022 and received numerous awards, with Lau himself winning Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay in the 59th Golden Horse Awards and received nominations for Best New Director and Best Screenplay in the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards. Lau is currently working on a second feature film project which is based in Malaysia.

Personal life

Lau is married to a Hong Kongese woman.[10]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleWriterDirectorNotes
2017
2019
[12]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult Ref.
202259th Golden Horse AwardsBest New DirectorThe Sunny Side of the Street[13]
Best Original Screenplay
202341st Hong Kong Film AwardsBest New Director[14]
Best Screenplay

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 專訪《白日青春》導演劉國瑞：留下與否不是最重要，最重要是生命如何找到出路 . 18 March 2023 . . 梁皓兒 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 17 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230617235848/https://www.inmediahk.net/node/%E6%96%87%E8%97%9D/%E5%B0%88%E8%A8%AA%E3%80%8A%E7%99%BD%E6%97%A5%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A5%E3%80%8B%E5%B0%8E%E6%BC%94%E5%8A%89%E5%9C%8B%E7%91%9E%EF%BC%9A%E7%95%99%E4%B8%8B%E8%88%87%E5%90%A6%E4%B8%8D%E6%98%AF%E6%9C%80%E9%87%8D%E8%A6%81%EF%BC%8C%E6%9C%80%E9%87%8D%E8%A6%81%E6%98%AF%E7%94%9F%E5%91%BD%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E6%89%BE%E5%88%B0%E5%87%BA%E8%B7%AF . live .
  2. Web site: 專訪｜《白日青春》導演劉國瑞，怎樣拍出最真實的香港難民故事？ . 2 April 2023 . Wavezine . 張子月 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 3 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231203232517/https://wavezinehk.com/2023/04/02/thesunnysideofthestreet/ . live .
  3. Web site: 【《白日青春》導演劉國瑞專訪】勇奪金馬獎最佳新導演及原著劇本獎 居港大馬導演劉國瑞用電影說異鄉人的故事：想呈現流動、飄浮的香港 . 20 December 2022 . . 丘瑞欣 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 1 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240301205957/https://www.mpweekly.com/culture/%e8%97%9d%e6%96%87/%e7%99%bd%e6%97%a5%e9%9d%92%e6%98%a5-%e5%8a%89%e5%9c%8b%e7%91%9e-%e9%87%91%e9%a6%ac%e7%8d%8e-%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e6%96%b0%e5%b0%8e%e6%bc%94 . live .
  4. Web site: 香港電影《白日青春》入圍金馬六項大獎，專訪來自馬來西亞的導演劉國瑞 . 27 October 2022 . . 杜晉軒 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 20 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221120132712/https://www.thenewslens.com/feature/aseanpodcast/175490 . live .
  5. Web site: 劉國瑞 . . 28 March 2024 . zh . 25 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240225085342/https://www.cityu.edu.hk/cpro/eportal/CityU_Heroes/tc/kok_rui.htm . live .
  6. Web site: 專訪《白日青春》導演劉國瑞——在沒有父親的彼岸，展開異鄉人的逃亡 . 30 March 2023 . Verse.com . 郭振宇 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 3 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230403214128/https://www.verse.com.tw/article/kok-rui-lau . live .
  7. Web site: 【開箱】《白日青春》 黃秋生深刻演繹父子情 香港難民哀詩 . 3 April 2023 . . 28 March 2024 . zh . 2 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230602074219/https://ol.mingpao.com/ldy/showbiz/news/20230403/1680459182787/%E3%80%90%E9%96%8B%E7%AE%B1%E3%80%91%E3%80%8A%E7%99%BD%E6%97%A5%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A5%E3%80%8B-%E9%BB%83%E7%A7%8B%E7%94%9F%E6%B7%B1%E5%88%BB%E6%BC%94%E7%B9%B9%E7%88%B6%E5%AD%90%E6%83%85-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%9B%A3%E6%B0%91%E5%93%80%E8%A9%A9 . live .
  8. Web site: 《白日青春》劉國瑞專訪：為什麼有的人能被當成「香港人」，有的人不行？ . 21 April 2023 . . 賈選凝 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 28 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231128155252/https://theinitium.com/article/20230421-culture-film-sunnyside-director-ray-lau . live .
  9. Web site: 專訪｜《白日青春》導演劉國瑞：香港人血液裡一直帶著飄泊的基因 . 9 April 2023 . . 金寶 . 28 March 2024 . zh . 23 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230423222903/https://www.hk01.com/%E8%97%9D%E6%96%87/885863/%E5%B0%88%E8%A8%AA-%E7%99%BD%E6%97%A5%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A5-%E5%B0%8E%E6%BC%94%E5%8A%89%E5%9C%8B%E7%91%9E-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E4%BA%BA%E8%A1%80%E6%B6%B2%E8%A3%A1%E4%B8%80%E7%9B%B4%E5%B8%B6%E8%91%97%E9%A3%84%E6%B3%8A%E7%9A%84%E5%9F%BA%E5%9B%A0 . live .
  10. Web site: 專訪《白日青春》導演劉國瑞：無論如何艱難，我們都可以走在有陽光的那一邊 . 23 March 2023 . Spill HK . 28 March 2024 . zh . 2 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231202224304/https://www.spill.hk/filmburns/the-sunny-side-of-the-street-lau-kok-rui-interview/ . live .
  11. Web site: The Sunny Side of the Street movie review: Anthony Wong, Sahal Zaman represent refugees from different eras in intriguing Hong Kong drama . 29 March 2023 . . Lee . Edmund . 28 March 2024 . 13 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240213024926/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3215102/sunny-side-street-movie-review-anthony-wong-sahal-zaman-represent-refugees-different-eras-intriguing . live .
  12. Web site: 第59屆金馬獎 香港電影橫掃9獎 黃秋生張艾嘉封影帝影后 . 19 November 2022 . . 28 March 2024 . zh . 6 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230606040017/https://www.inmediahk.net/node/%E6%96%87%E8%97%9D/%E7%AC%AC59%E5%B1%86%E9%87%91%E9%A6%AC%E7%8D%8E-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1%E6%A9%AB%E6%8E%839%E7%8D%8E-%E9%BB%83%E7%A7%8B%E7%94%9F%E5%BC%B5%E8%89%BE%E5%98%89%E5%B0%81%E5%BD%B1%E5%B8%9D%E5%BD%B1%E5%90%8E . live .
  13. Web site: Malaysian filmmaker wins Best New Director award at Golden Horse Awards for ‘The Sunny Side Of The Street’ . 23 November 2022 . . Ng . Scott . 28 March 2024 . 8 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221208004833/https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/film/malaysian-filmmaker-win-golden-horse-awards-hong-kong-debut-3354110 . live .
  14. Web site: See All The Winners At The 2023 Hong Kong Film Awards . 16 April 2023 . . Lai . Kaitlyn . 28 March 2024 . 8 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240208155509/https://www.voguehk.com/en/article/art-lifestyle/hong-kong-film-awards-2023-winners/ . live .

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