Trailer Alert: Anthony Wong in Mr. Cinema [a.k.a. Call Me Left]

Here we are, the trailer for Mr. Cinema. It was known previously as Call Me Left and stars Anthony Wong, Karen Mok, Teresa Mo and Ronald Cheng. Thankfully, Monkeypeaches has a very thorough synopsis all laid out for us...

Mr. Left (Anthony Wong) was a projectionist, who lived at a cinema house with his wife (Teresa Mo) and son (Ronald Cheng), who had a girlfriend (Karen Mok), sort of. Everyday Mr. Left was in charge of showing movies from the mainland and local left wing studios. The Hong Kong left wing studios were major players of Hong Kong cinema during the 1950s and 1960s and provided opportunities for many talents, like Jet Li and Johnnie To, to start their career. Having a good faith in Communism, he followed closely on each political movement launched on the mainland side and dreamed about visiting Beijing’s The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tian An Men), the political center point of his beloved country, but his little wish had never been fulfilled. In the 1960s, along with other minority “leftists”, he participated in a series protests against the corrupted British rule and was subsequently alienated by other Hong Kongers. In the 1970s, while Hong Kong economy started booming, Mr. Left still enjoyed his own quasi-Cultural Revolution-like private life in the Union. In the 1980s, the capitalist-reform began in the mainland and Mr. Left’s family had also started to move. Left junior became an entrepreneur and Mrs. Left threw her life saving into the housing market. In the 1990s, Hong Kong was about to be returned to China and Mr. Left’s cinema house started losing business…

Here is the trailer Windows Media