In the Face of Demolition

Year: 1953

Runtime: 130 mins

Language: Cantonese

Director: Lee Tit

Drama

This early leftist Hong Kong drama portrays a crumbling apartment block and its down‑and‑out residents—a taxi driver, an unemployed teacher, a professional forced to sell his blood, and a corrupt landlord. It underscores the cinema theme of the urban poor’s plight and exemplifies the period’s melodramas starring displaced Mainland actors.

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