Veteran director Yonfan hailed Hong Kongers' deeply engrained democratic spirit as he premiered his new work 'No. 7 Cherry Lane' at the Venice film festival.
Hong Kong's prince of sensual cinema praised the territory's love of freedom Monday but said he hoped unrest there could calm as quickly as it did after an anti-colonial revolt in 1967.
That unrest led to major reforms by the then British colony's rulers which are often credited with helping to transform the territory into one of the so-called Asian Tiger economies. "There was martial law in Taiwan at the time and I did not know what was the meaning of the word 'freedom'. But in Hong Kong I literally smelt the air of freedom. There is freedom in the wind that blows from the ocean," the master added.
"Fifty-two years later there is another unknown coming from somewhere that in the name of human rights and democracy and has turned the whole of Hong Kong upside down. I just hope that this force also disappears as it did in 1967 and Hong Kong can be back to normal."
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