Hong Kong Re-cycle is a Hong Kong–Thailand co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.
Synopsis
鬼域
Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.
Hong Kong × Thailand Co-Production
Other Hong Kong×Thailand titles
Fantasy + Horror in Hong Kong
19 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Fantasy and Horror genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Re-cycle itself).
The 2005–2007 Hong Kong Window
Re-cycle holds position #16 of 41 Hong Kong films in the 2005–2007 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Re-cycle premiered alongside 12 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other Hong Kong films in 2006.
The 593rd Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Audience Engagement
155 audience reviews — more than 87% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Review volume (87th percentile) outruns trending popularity (52th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Re-cycle, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- confusion · 4
- spirituality · 2
- hallucination · 11
- alternate reality · 6
- parent child relationship · 46
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #318 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (62nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.2 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Fantasy productions specifically: #25 of 75 (top 33%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, Thailand |
| Original Language | Cantonese |
| Spoken Languages | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Production Companies | Magic Head Film Production, Universe Entertainment |
| Runtime | 1h 48m |
| Release Date | May 26, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0498311 |