Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) 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.
^ abcFonoroff, Paul (1 May 2008). "Besieged City". South China Morning Post.
^Kerr, Elizabeth (2 April 2008). "Besieged City". The Hollywood Reporter.
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