Lung Kong’s Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The 1967 Riots and the Politics of Cultural Production in the Hong Kong Film Industry

Lung Kong’s film Yesterday, Today Tomorrow (1970) was one of the rare instances where a creative and artistic response to the rupture of the 1967 riots soon after they ended was attempted in Hong Kong cinema. Utilising archival research, this article examines the censorship case that erupted over the film due to its incisive political allegory, and also at how the film and the censorship case surrounding it raises many questions about Hong Kong’s cultural-political milieu that are still incredibly relevant, and largely unanswered, today.