Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon.
[1] Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama",[2] and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs.
[1] The title refers to Tin Shui Wai,[1] a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.
Cast and roles include:[3][4][5] Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).
[1] Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008: