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Chinese director Chen Kaige's 1993 tragic love movie 'Farewell my
Concubine' has won the heart of the Hong Kong public and been voted as the
most popular Chinese film of the century.
The poll was co-organised by the Henderson ArtReach
to celebrate a centenary
of Chinese Cinema.
Over 25,000 votes were cast by the Hong Kong public
through a ballot and the Internet from a shortlist of 103 Chinese films
drawn up
by
industry experts and film makers in March this year.
'Farewell my Concubine', starring prominent
mainland actress Gong Li and late Hong Kong heart-throb
Leslie Cheung, won top honour of the Palme
d'Or prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1993.
It was followed by artistic director Wong Kar-wai's passionate love
story 'Days of Being Wild' with John Woo's gangster flick 'A Better
Tomorrow' winning third place.
The fourth spot was taken by cop thriller 'Infernal Affairs'. Another
Wong film 'Happy Together', a drama about a gay couple, won fifth place.
'Shaolin Soccer', a comedy by 'Kung Fu Hustle' director and actor
Stephen Chow, came eighth.
Woo, whose credits include 'Face Off' and 'Mission: Impossible II', was
voted people's favourite director, followed by Wong Kar-wai.
Leslie Leung, the late singer and actor, was voted their most favourite
actor with action star Jackie Chan coming second, Francis Ng was third
with Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee fourth and Jet Li fifth.
Maggie Cheung, who won Best Actress in 2004 at the Cannes Film Festival
for her role as a drug addict in the French movie 'Clean', was voted the
most popular actress of the century.
(Agencies) | 
Updated: 2005-05-27 10:48
