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Ryoko Hirosue at the Bulgari Aurora Awards in 2022 in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese actress-singer, who was recently arrested for assault, has had a long career marked by scandal and achievements. Photo: WireImage

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Highs, lows of Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese singer-actress arrested for assault

Ryoko Hirosue, the Japanese actress-singer recently arrested for assault, has had a long career marked by scandal and achievements.

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The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey on what to expect in seasons 2 and 3

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How Taiwanese dramas strike a chord in mainland China, and 5 favourites

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Arts

Review | Beatles book takes deep dive into the Lennon-McCartney relationship

Ian Leslie relies on other Beatles books, gossip and interpreting lyrics to try to define the relationship between band’s writing partners.

The Beatles (from left): Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, circa 1964. Photo: Getty Images
The Beatles (from left): Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, circa 1964. Photo: Getty Images

Entertainment

Wes Anderson, Scarlett Johannson movies in Cannes Film Festival line-up

Anderson’s black comedy vies with Richard Linklater’s ode to French cinema; Johannson’s Eleanor the Great screens in secondary competition.

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K-drama

Review | Hyper Knife: Park Eun-bin, Sul Kyung-gu tango in uneven thriller K-drama

Sul Kyung-gu and Pak Eun-bin are duelling surgeons who share a dark secret. Their final showdown is powerful but not what we were expecting.

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The Amateur’s ‘journeyman’ Laurence Fishburne on 9 key roles

Since Fishburne’s breakout role in Apocalypse Now, aged 14, he has appeared in films from Boyz N the Hood to The Matrix, and TV series.

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Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in a still from The Matrix. Photo: Claudio Carpi
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in a still from The Matrix. Photo: Claudio Carpi

Entertainment

What’s ‘extended’ in new In the Mood for Love 4K special cinema edition?

Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 masterpiece returns to Hong Kong cinemas this week for the film’s 25th anniversary with nine minutes of new footage.

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Arts

One of the greatest American writers set to publish first novel in 12 years

Set in the American city of Milwaukee in 1932, Thomas Pynchon’s new book Shadow Ticket is his first since 2013’s Bleeding Edge.

Entertainment

Review | Drop: date night dilemma in Happy Death Day director’s new thriller

The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy plays a widow on a first date who faces a terrifying quandary in Christopher Landon’s implausible film.

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Meghann Fahy as Violet in a still from Drop. Photo: Universal Pictures

 Artists & celebrities

Korean actress Kim Min-hee gives birth to boy; film director the father

Actress, 43, who has been in relationship with filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, 65, for about a decade, gave birth at hospital in Hanam, South Korea.

Actress Kim Min-hee and film director Hong Sang-soo. Kim is said to have given birth to a baby boy, with Hong the father. Photo: Instagram/hong.sangsoo and Reuters
Actress Kim Min-hee and film director Hong Sang-soo. Kim is said to have given birth to a baby boy, with Hong the father. Photo: Instagram/hong.sangsoo and Reuters

Travel & Leisure

Universal theme park coming to the UK; will rival Disneyland Paris

UK fans of Harry Potter, Shrek and the Minions are in for a treat. Universal’s first European theme park will be built north of London.

Entertainment

Actresses on that dinner scene between friends in The White Lotus season 3

Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan discuss their characters’ friendship and how their off-screen bond enhanced their chemistry.

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Entertainment

Review | The Amateur: Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne in muddled revenge thriller

This story of a CIA analyst looking for vengeance has all the elements necessary for success, but somehow fails to pull them together.

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Rami Malek as Heller in a still from The Amateur. Photo: John Wilson/20th Century Studios

K-drama

Review | The Potato Lab: Netflix romcom K-drama is unconvincing to the end

Lee Sun-bin plays a researcher and Kang Tae-oh an executive who antagonise, yet fall for, each other in this weak romantic comedy.

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Extraordinary Attorney Woo’s Kang Tae-oh (left) as corporate executive So Baek-ho and Lee Sun-bin as headstrong researcher Kim Mi-kyung in a still from The Potato Lab, a Korean drama series on Netflix. Photo: Online
Extraordinary Attorney Woo’s Kang Tae-oh (left) as corporate executive So Baek-ho and Lee Sun-bin as headstrong researcher Kim Mi-kyung in a still from The Potato Lab, a Korean drama series on Netflix. Photo: Online

Entertainment

End of The Handmaid’s Tale ‘hasn’t hit’ its star Elisabeth Moss yet

The TV show’s star reflects on the end of an era as the series about a totalitarian, religious extremist government debuts its final season.

Chinese culture

How Chinese in the US hired a cinema to see Ne Zha 2 on IMAX

Across the US, in big cities and small towns, Chinese communities arrange IMAX screenings of Chinese blockbuster; some watching in costume.

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OPINION
Lisa Lim

Language Matters | Poetry ‘a luxury we cannot afford’? Singapore and world have moved on

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April Zhang

Opinion | Cantonese opera need not be popular to be part of Hong Kong heritage

April Zhang
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Language Matters | Trump tramples human rights with order on use of English language

Lisa Lim
Dennis Lee

Opinion | When will Hong Kong stop building skyscraping boxes with bay windows?

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Gerui Wang

Opinion | From Ne Zha to TikTok, it’s a Chinese story of triumph over adversity

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Cheng Xianyue

Opinion | What Hong Kong can take away from Ne Zha 2’s creative success

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Photo trove offers window on life in China’s wartime capital Chongqing

A man descends one of Chungking’s many stone staircases on a mule. Photo: A Danger Shared/Melville Jacoby
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Behind the scenes of classic 1987 movie The Last Emperor in photos

Wu Tao, a Beijing born student who had never acted before, played Pu Yi at age 14. Peter O’Toole took the role as his tutor quite literally, and started teaching Wu some basic acting techniques beginning with their first scene together. Photo: Basil Pao
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Wonders old and new in China’s Greater Bay Area, land of opportunity

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) links Hong Kong to the western part of the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Huang Kunzhen
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Instantly familiar, strangely foreign: photos of 1970s Hong Kong

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A herbalist at his shop, Hong Kong.

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