Hong Kong-based One Cool Pictures is launching a string of new titles featuring Louis Koo, Jennifer Yu, Kay Tse and Lim Min Chen as it returns to Hong Kong Filmart, the company’s first physical market since 2019.
The Dream, The Bubble, And The Shadow, directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Soi Cheang and starring Koo, reunites the same team behind 2017’s Paradox from the SPL franchise, which won Koo the best actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Asian Film Awards.
The upcoming suspense drama follows a fugitive magician hiding out on an island where he meets a young boy who may unlock his past and bring his magic tricks back to life. Eric Kot and Cecilia Choi co-star. Director Yip is also well known for his Ip Man franchise.
Based on true events, In Broad Daylight follows an investigative journalist who goes undercover to expose the abuse of residents in a nursing home. It is directed by Lawrence Kan whose credits include ViuTV’s 2022 series In Geek We Trust, produced by Derek Yee, with Yu, Bowie Lam and David Chiang in the cast.
Out Of The Shadow by director Ricky Ko (Time) stars Kay Tse, Larine Tang and Ansonbean in a drama about a mother who has to come out of retirement when the secluded life with her daughter in a seaside village is disturbed, unravelling a long-held family secret.
One Cool’s new slate also includes Lonely Eighteen by director Tracy Choi (Sisterhood), tracking two young girls who enter showbusiness during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, with Irene Wan and Renci Yeung in the cast; and Ling Chi Man’s Wish Comes True, a drama about a girl who helps a friend with a rare disease with a machine that can fulfil wishes and starring Lim Min Chen, Ling Man Lung and Coffee Lam.
Following last year’s success of sci-fi blockbuster Warriors Of Future, One Cool also has Cheuk Wan Chi’s paramedic drama Vital Sign as the closing film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and Ho Cheuk Tin’s Over My Dead Body as the opening film of the Osaka Asian Film Festival.
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