Research On Hongkong Immigration Movies Since1980s

Since the80s of last century, there are a large number of immigration movies in Hong Kong. It formed two peaks in that period.One is in the late80s of the last century, another is during the reunification in1997. In these movies, whether immigrants from the mainland to Hong Kong or Hong Kong people immigrate overseas, they are more or less difficult to integrate into the new social environment, their own identity confusion and future destiny is what the Hong Kong film going to concern about.This paper reviews the history of the development of Hong Kong immigration movies since1980s, reviews the film development summit and representative Hong Kong immigration themes of the film, and the performance of the theme, divides Hong Kong immigration movies into two major types--the mainland immigrants pursuing their dreams and drift overseas Hong Kong people in the culture of a foreign land. Whether it is mainland immigrants or drifting overseas Hong Kong people, in a foreign culture, they are "the other", it is difficult to integrate into the local social dilemma. In such a difficult situation, identity problems stand out.The culture of Hong Kong was born in a sophisticated fusion of East and West, experienced Western civilization on the one hand, and maintained traditional Chinese civilization life style and idea on the other hand, bring about mixed this identity is the identity anxiety. In the "64" incident and the "97" return, this anxiety is further enlarged, became the Hong Kong people’s collective consciousness, they began to reflect on their own culture, and ask the future destiny. Under the background of globalization, this expression is related to not only the problem of immigration and identity in Hong Kong, is the cultural complexity of performance in the context of globalization, the two are intertwined, making Hong Kong the identity of this issue is more complex and changeable.The film is the window of social ideology, we can get a glimpse of social emotion and cultural psychology in by immigrants in Hong Kong film. As an important branch of Hong Kong movie and even the history of Chinese film, Hong Kong immigration movies recorded a delay for a long time in the history of Hong Kong, witnessed the century-old floating fate, and also described the era wander the individual survival condition. All of these will be retained in the Hong Kong people’s collective memory, become the precious sample of Hong Kong culture.