Ten Years
Five unsettling visions of future Hong Kong turn political anxiety, cultural erasure, and everyday survival into a mournful speculative anthology.
Overview
A thought-provoking anthology that imagines the future of Hong Kong through diverse narratives.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- bleak
- foreboding
- harrowing
- political film night
- hong kong cinema night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as a powerful, brave, and thought-provoking vehicle for political and social critique, while emphasizing its deliberately nightmarish view of Hong Kong's possible future.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
All five segments project fears about Hong Kong's future, including state violence, language suppression, surveillance, and militarized youth.
The film consists of five shorts—Extras, Season of the End, Dialect, Self-Immolator, and Local Egg—that approach the same future from distinct viewpoints.
Dialect centers on Cantonese displacement, while Season of the End preserves demolished homes and objects as specimens.
Taxi driving, grocery shopping, low-level criminal work, and family conflict become pressure points for larger political changes.
Films like Ten Years, and why
The Lobster
political dystopia, anthology structure, and oppressive state anxiety
Children of Men
near-future social control, speculative unease, and institutional paranoia
The Platform
political horror, speculative social breakdown, and intimate human stakes
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
anthology storytelling, dystopian satire, and technology-shaped social critique
Movie Details
- Directors
- Zune Kwok, Wong Fei-Pang, Jevons Au Man-Kit, Kiwi Chow Kwun-Wai, Ng Ka-Leung
- Release Date
- 2015-11-15
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 (60)
Cast
- Catherine Chau
- Wang Hongwei
- Sam Leung Kin-Ping
- Courtney Wu
- Liu Kai-Chi
- Ng Siu-Hin
- Neo Yau
- Kenneth Cheung Moon-Yuen
- Ben Yuen Foo-Wah
- Peter Chan Bei-Dak
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Google Play Movies, YouTube
- Buy
- Google Play Movies, YouTube
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Ten Years about?
- Five unsettling visions of future Hong Kong turn political anxiety, cultural erasure, and everyday survival into a mournful speculative anthology.
- What is Ten Years like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Ten Years as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Ten Years violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Ten Years as moderate.
- What did critics think of Ten Years?
- Critics broadly praised the film as a powerful, brave, and thought-provoking vehicle for political and social critique, while emphasizing its deliberately nightmarish view of Hong Kong's possible future.
- Which films are like Ten Years?
- Films with a similar feel include The Lobster, Children of Men, The Platform, and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
- How long is Ten Years?
- Ten Years runs 104 minutes.
- Where can I watch Ten Years?
- In United States, Ten Years is available to rent or buy from Google Play Movies, YouTube.
