“I wish my films would bring hopes to the spectators”

Michael Hui received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 40th Hong Kong FilmAwards and the Award for Outstanding Contribution in Arts at the 15th Hong Kong ArtsDevelopment Awards. Hui was also featured as the “Filmmaker in Focus” at the 44thHong Kong International Film Festival. Although the South China Morning Post (2022),Art and Piece (2022), Michael Hui, Filmmaker in Focus (2020), Karen Fang (2018), and TimYoungs (2011) have also published interviews with Hui, they were more interested inthe biographical and the industrial aspects of Hui’s career. This interview focuses onHui’s insights into comedy’s versatility and how it consoles people in a time of gloom.