04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong blockbuster The Last Dance wins 2 awards at Udine Far East Film Festival
Hong Kong blockbuster The Last Dance has won two awards in Italy's popular Udine Far East Film Festival, the latest in a string of other recent accolades.
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It is the only Hong Kong film to win an award at this year's festival, the organiser announced on Saturday.
The drama earned nearly HK$170 million (US$21.9 million) at the box office as of May 2, the highest-grossing Hong Kong film of all time.
The festival, which focuses on screening films from around Asia, awarded the 'Black Dragon Audience Award' and the 'Audience Award' to the extended version of film.
The extended version of The Last Dance, which included 12 extra minutes of previously unseen footage, was released on April 4, the date of the Ching Ming Festival.
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The film tells the story of a debt-ridden wedding planner, played by Dayo Wong Tze-wah, who tries his hand at being a funeral agent out of desperation, and a Taoist priest, played by Michael Hui Koon-man, who struggles to stay on good terms with his children, played by Chu Pak-hong and Michelle Wai Sze-nga.
