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'Secret in the Box' Brings Hong Kong's 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder to Shanghai Film Festival Competition

Naman Ramachandran

3h ago· 2 min readenNews

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A period thriller titled "Secret in the Box," directed by Hong Kong's Frankie Tam Kwong-yuen and starring Zhang Songwen in his Cantonese-language debut, is competing in the Golden Goblet Awards at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival. The film revisits Hong Kong's 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder, the city's first murder case solved entirely through forensic evidence without eyewitness testimony, using the cold case to explore the social atmosphere of 1970s Hong Kong.

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Variety'Secret in the Box' Brings Hong Kong's 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder to Shanghai Film Festival Competitionvariety.com

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"Secret in the Box," a period thriller revisiting Hong Kong's 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder, held its press conference at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival

Directed by Hong Kong's Frankie Tam, the film draws on Hong Kong's first murder case solved entirely through forensic evidence and without eyewitness testimony

The story unfolds against the social atmosphere of 1970s Hong Kong, using the cold case to probe darker

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Zhang Songwen makes his Cantonese-language debut in 'Secret in the Box,' a Golden Goblet contender at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival.

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