The Cheng Chi teahouse is a pivotal place within its community, providing local citizens with a respite from the encroaching criminality that increasingly seems to be all around them. As gang activities become ever more disruptive, teahouse owner Wang Chen decides enough is enough and it’s time to stand up for the ordinary person. The Teahouse is a tough, sinewy, low budget film that has now become recognised as a classic of its era.

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_{CRIME: Hong Kong Style} 

_{With a city of 7.2 million people, you’re bound to get a few bad apples. CRIME: Hong Kong Style is an explosive new season of crime films from Hong Kong on tour throughout the UK in February – April 2016, presented by HOME, Manchester.}

_{From noir-tinged thrillers, to tales of hardnosed gangsters, to entertainingly comic capers, CRIME: Hong Kong Style offers stone cold classics (Infernal Affairs, Election), cult movies (Police Story, As Tears Go By), forgotten gems (Portland Street Blues) and, with premieres of Dante Lam’s That Demon Within and the legendary Ringo Lam’s Wild City, the latest releases from some of the world’s most revered and stylish directors.}

_{Full details of the season and participating venues can be found at ​homemcr.org/hk-crime}

_{Curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME. Produced by Rachel Hayward, Programme Manager: Film with the assistance of Jessie Gibbs, CRIME: Hong Kong Style Project Coordinator for HOME.}

_{CRIME: Hong Kong Style is presented with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. This season is also supported by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London.}