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Emily Chu by Vivi Suthathip for Grazia Singapore August 2025

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胭脂扣 // ROUGE (1987) dir. STANLEY KWAN

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A Better Tomorrow (1986)

This one of the aforementioned films that I prefer to The Killer. At 95 minutes, it is a focused film with purposeful decisions. Get in, give us enough to understand the two types of fraternity that Ho has (by sharing blood with Kit, by shedding blood with Mark), set up the villain who breaks the bonds of brotherhood, and then cap it off with a well orchestrated gun battle. The protagonists are gods imbued with amazing recuperative powers and pain tolerances, infallible aim, and bottomless magazines. The villains are sleazy and driven solely by money, willing to throw everyone in the paths of bullets with their names on them. The police are always a moment too late and only able to get in our heroes’ way or to offer the possibility of escape from righteous justice. It’s cynical and lovely and one of Woo’s great triumphs.

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Vampire's Breakfast (1987)

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My cover and interior illustration for The Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray and DVD releases. The was a dream job for me because The Criterion Collection is on every illustrator’s bucket list because of the great illustrations art directed by the best AD around, Eric Skillman and I was so stoked to work with him on an Anita Mui film. The last image was a happy accident of layers turning on and off and i’m not sure if it was used or not 

-Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man and Emily Chu) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.

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Witch From Nepal (1987) The movie that asks “Wouldn’t supernatural romances be better if there were zombie attacks?” Lord knows that would have made Twilight more tolerable.

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John Woo, “A Better Tomorrow”. 1986.