HKFA staff visited the ancestral home of the Wu family in San Francisco, owners of the famed World Theatre, which operated from 1909 to the mid-1980s. That was where they found a basement full of old classics from the 1950s and 1960s, including the Mok Hong-si-directed Lady Bond (1966) starring the great Connie Chan Po-chu.

"Treasure-Hunt Stories" opened on April 30 with the 4K digitally restored version of director King Hu's martial arts classic The Valiant Ones (1975) and will continue through to December, closing with a midnight screening of Wong Kar-wai's romance-soaked breakthrough hit, Days of Being Wild (1990), on New Year's Eve.