Who'd have thought that Hong Kong's evil genius of bad taste, Wong Jing, was secretly the uncredited producer on a number of high class projects? The man behind Hong Kong's first Viagra comedy, MR. WAI GO, the man behind the RAPED BY AN ANGEL series, the man behind movies like SLIM TIL DEAD, RAPED BY AN ANGEL 3: SEXUAL FANTASY OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE and LOVE AND SEX OF THE EASTERN HOLLYWOOD is also the producer of Ringo Lam's FULL ALERT and Stanley Kwan's HOLD YOU TIGHT, two of the best movies from those directors. Wong has kept his name off these projects because he's aware that it might do more harm than good for them to be associated with him.

But now, even more surprising, he's produced Ann Hui's latest film, THE WAY WE ARE. His name isn't in the credits, but Ann Hui has admitted that he's the producer in a recent interview. This is completely strange because Ann Hui and Wong Jing have some bad blood in the past, with Ann Hui repeating in several interviews that Wong Jing once said of her acclaimed Maggie Cheung movie, SONG OF THE EXILE, "Who wants to see the autobiography of a fat woman?"

 

Even more notable is that Hui's new movie is a portrait of the Hong Kong New Territories town of Tin Shui Wai which was recently portrayed as a dead zone, one area code over from hell itself, in Lawrence Lau's BESIEGED CITY. Hui's movie, on the other hand, is a much more humane and gentle exploration of the township and it's been receiving glowing reviews, like over on LoveHKFilm where they say it' "A respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap." Wong Jing produces a movie described as "respectful?" Surely we are living in the end times.

(Thanks to the sharp-eyed reader who sent this in)

(Read the LoveHKFilm review of THE WAY WE ARE)

(Ann Hui gives an interview revealing Wong Jing is her producer - in Chinese)