Echoes Of The Rainbow screenwriter and director Alex Law Kai-yum has died. The Hong Kong filmmaker passed away in hospital on Saturday; no cause of death was given.
He was 69.The South China Morning Post reports that the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild released a statement confirming Law’s passing.
He was previously the organization’s vice-chairman.Law often worked with longtime partner Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting, whom he met while studying at New York University.
Together, they made the “Migration Trilogy” of films Illegal Immigrant (1985), An Autumn’s Tale (1987) and Eight Tales Of Gold (1989); which he wrote and she directed.He also wrote Cheung’s 1997 hit The Soong Sisters starring Maggie Cheung and and Michelle Yeoh.
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