Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.^[1]

Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, "[Besieged City] is a quasi-realist Hong Kong urban drama",^[2] and film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote that Besieged City was the "21st-century sequel" of Lawrence Ah Mon's 1988 debut feature film Gangs.^[1] The title refers to Tin Shui Wai,^[1] a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.

Cast and roles include:^[3][4][5]

• Tang Tak Po as Ho Ling-kit
• Wong Yat Ho as Ho Chun-kit
• Wong Hau Yan as Panadoll
• Joman Chiang
• Jonathan Cheung as Chu Hin
• Dada Chan Ching as Ceci
• Joman Chiang as Yee-wah
• Sunny Luk

Film critic Paul Fonoroff wrote, "The mixture of the realistic and theatric attains a consistency due in large part to the naturalism of its cast of screen neophytes, a quality that has always been a hallmark of Lau's youth films, most recently in Spacked Out (2000) and Gimme Gimme (2001).^[1]

Besieged City was nominated twice at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008:

• Best New Performer - Wong Hau-Yan
• Best Art Direction - Yank Wong

• The Way We Are, a 2008 film directed by Ann Hui, set in Tin Shui Wai.

• "Interview with Lawrence Lau about Besieged City". Hong Kong Cinemagic. 2008.
• Van Holsteijn, Jasper (2019). "Chapter 4 - The Myth of Brotherhood: Lawrence Ah Mon's Besieged City". Besieged brotherhood and the transformation of triad traditions : the Hong Kong triad genre as an allegorical critique of plutocratic hypocrisy (Thesis). The University of Hong Kong. pp. 149–164.

• Besieged City at IMDb
• HK cinemagic entry
• Love HK Film entry

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