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The most important festival in Chinese society, Chinese New Year is also a time for relaxing entertainment during the long holiday - shopping malls may be closed, but never the cinema. Just as Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street have been the Christmas canons, romantic comedies the chocolates for Valentine's Day, and disposable horror like Scream the Halloween must-sees, there has been a Hong Kong tradition of Chinese New Year films ever since the 1950s.