IndieWire talks to the folks at Big World Pictures, Kani Releasing, Arbelos, and more about how Asian classics by Wayne Wang, Tsai Ming-liang, Toshio Matsumoto, and more are making their way to U.S. theaters for the first time.
Following the Hong Kong New Wave 1979–1989 season in 2025, The Garden Cinema broadens its focus to the wider Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema, a remarkable era spanning the late 1970s through to the 1990s when the territory emerged as one of the world’s most prolific, dynamic, and influential filmmaking centres.