The Hong Kong Film Awards Association recently voted obscure 1948’s movie Spring in a Small Town as the best Chinese-language movie in 100 years. ALLAN KOAY and MICHAEL CHEANG dig up some information on the movie and talk to several local filmmakers about the HKFA’s list. 

Spring in a Small Town is widely considered the best Chinese movie ever made; yet for all its brilliance and critical acclaim, the black-and-white film made way back in 1948 remains largely unseen and unheard of outside of China.