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| Monday, 3/29/2004 |
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Butterfly Lovers - Leon and Jo [Animation] Director: Tsai Ming Ching Voices: Elva Hsiao, Jacky Wu, Rene Liu Synopsis (Contains spoilers) In order to pursue her studies, Jo dresses as a boy when she meets Leon on the way to school. Jo immediately falls for Leon and they quickly become best friends. Before going back home after 3 years' studies, Jo seizes the chance and unveils her secret and love for Leon. Leon immediately falls in love with her. Unfortunately, Jo's father forces her to marry Ma, a rich and arrogant boy, because of political reasons. After knowing Jo is getting married, Leon dies from desperation. Leon's grave suddenly bursts apart when Jo arrives, Jo follows his lead and walks in the grave. |  |
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Double Trouble (1984) Director: Eric Tsang Cast: John Sham, Sylvia Chang, Bun Bun, Cher Yeung, Eric Tsang Synopsis (Contains spoilers) To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with the help of Bunny, who is a kid running out from an orphanage. John and Bunny, therefore, become good friends. However, Bunny is found by the orphanage and is forced to go back. Missing Bunny so much, John disguises as Bunny's another good friend and visits him in the orphanage and finally gets killed by the police in order to help Bunny. The movie has profoundly portrayed a true friendship of two strangers with delicately illustrated sentiments and heart-touching scenario. |  |
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| Saturday, 3/27/2004 |
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Unborn, The (2003) Director: Bhandit Thongdee Cast: Inthira Charoenpura, Wannakit Siriput Synopsis Beneath the quiet surface of this world, there lies a horror born of grief and disappointment… Por works in a bar. One night, she is given a savage beating and experiences a bizarre moment of realization. Near death, she is saved and wakes up in a hospital. After that, she finds that someone or something keep haunting her. The sound of a baby crying, strange shadows moving in the hospital ward, bizarre reflections in the mirror, all related to an unborn baby… |  |
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Good bye, Lenin! (2003) Director: Wolfgang Becker Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass Synopsis October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany - and this is precisely what happens to Alex's proudly socialist mother. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what could be more shocking than the fall of the Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved East Germany? To save his mother, Alex transforms the family apartment into an island of the past, a kind of socialist museum where his mother is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed… |  |
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| Thursday, 3/25/2004 |
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Never Ending Summer (1992) Director: Lawrence Cheng Cast: Lawrence Cheng, Carol Cheng Synopsis Chan Tai Yuen had planned to migrate to Canada, he found out that his wife was having an affair with a foreigner. Chan had already transferred the ownership of the house and the car to this wife. Suddenly Chan lost everything. Chan met Ng Sam Kwai, Chan had nowhere to go and thus moved into Ng's house. They gradually fell in love with each other. Would Ng change herself for her love? |  |
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| Monday, 3/22/2004 |
| Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, The (1983) | Generation Gap, The (1973) |
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Hex Vs Witchcraft (1980) | Sorrow Of The Gentry (1974) |
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| Wednesday, 3/17/2004 |
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Fantasia (2004) Director: Wai Ka Fai Cast: Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Lau Ching Wan, Jordan Chan, Francis Ng, Christy Chung, Twins Synopsis In 1969, the most prosperous time of Hong Kong, private detectives Michael (Lau Ching Wan), Sam (Louis Koo) and Fugu (Jordan Chan) are investigating a burglary of an antique shop when they find a broken Aladdin lamp. Their fantastic adventures therefore begins with encountering a wizard named Harmy Bobo (Cecilia Cheung), Fugu's mentally-ill cousin Jane Lam (Christy Chung), gang leader Kin (Francis Ng) who steals the Chopsticks-sisters (Twins) and the Litter Bug. This movie is to salute to the full-of-hope and flamboyant era of Hong Kong in the late 60's. |  |
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Adventurers, The (1995) (Remastered) Director: Ringo Lam Cast: Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Wu Chien Lin Synopsis Wah's father, Keung and Leung were members of the CIA. Wah's father was killed when he was nine, he executed the revenge on his father's death after 20 years. During the big revenge action, Wah met Lam who was Leung's lover and Sin who was Leung's daughter. He felt in love with the two ladies making a triangle love relationship, Wah having very much confusion among the loving and revenge. After the gang's slaughter, Leung died and Sin was hurt to be a human-plant with Wah's baby, Wah was so upset and painful when the revenge storm was over. |  |
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Green Snake (1993) Director: Tsui Hark Cast: Maggie Cheung, Joey Wang, Shao Wenzhuo, Wu Xingguo Synopsis Under the camera of Hark Tsui, the Chinese famous legend "Green Snake" has been put under the limelight. Without changing the story itself, Tsui's creativeness makes the movie become a counter-traditional production and brings the audience a refreshing respective for the movie. Maggie Cheung (As Siu Ching, Green Snake) and Joey Wang (As Sou-Ching, White Snake) do a magnificent job in playing the righteous goblins. Added with creative special effects, the movie is really a legend which is worth watching. |  |
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Auntie Lan (1966) Director: Yueh Fung Cast: Fang Ying, Chiao Chuang, Jimmy Wang Yu, Paul Chang Chung, Lily Ho Genre: Drama Synopsis Illustrious director Yueh Feng tackles the sensitive issue of single motherhood. A young girl's fiancé dies in a plane crash before they are to be married. Compounding the shock, it turns out she is already pregnant with his child. At a time when a single woman with child is not respectable, the family convinces her to give the baby up for adoption. When a new man enters her life, will she tell him the truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? |   |
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Flying Guillotine, The (1974) Director: Ho Meng-hua Cast: Chen Kuan-tai, Wang Yu, Liu Wu-chi, Ku Feng, Frankie Wei Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis Director Ho Meng-hua attained cult status among Western kung-fu film fans with The Flying Guillotine. One of Shaw's biggest martial arts stars, Chen Kuan-tai, plays the leader of a group of killers, commissioned by the Ching Emperor to use a deadly, beheading weapon to assassination dissidents. Although based on a true story, the film's weapon was a complete fabrication because in real life, no one ever survived to tell what the actual weapon really looked like. |   |
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Hong Kong 73 (1974) Director: Chu Yuan Cast: Yueh Hua, Ching Li, Ling Yun, Ho Shou-hsin, Tan Ping-wen, Li Hsiang-chin, Sum Sum, Liang Tien Genre: Drama Synopsis As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is 'Easy Come, Easy Go' as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macao casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people's bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw's biggest stars. |   |
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Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979) Director: Liu Chia-liang (aka Lau Kar-leung) Cast: Liu Chia Liang, Hsiao Hao, Lo Lieh, Hui Ying-hung Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis Many of legendary director Liu Chia-liang (a.k.a. Lau Kar-leung)'s movies were known to embrace the master/pupil relationship as the film's backbone. Besides directing Mad Monkey Kung-fu, it's also Liu's lead acting debut playing down and out, monkey kung-fu master Chen, crippled by a ruthless villain. Street boy Hsiao Hao (which means "little monkey") convinces Chen to teach him monkey kung-fu to avenge his shame. The training sequences and finale fight are as entertaining as they are wacky. |   |
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Sinful Confession (1974) Director: Li Han-hsiang Cast: Michael Hui Kwun-man, Hu-chin, Pai Hsiao-man, Paul Chang Chung Genre: Erotic Synopsis Arguably the funniest of the four famous Hui brothers, Michael has a tour-de-force vehicle in this naughty little comedy playing four different characters, each one in a compromising situation. And the laughs do come big and hearty as Hui bounces his cheeky humour off a terrific large supporting cast including the sophisticated Hu-chin and the lovely Pai Hsiao-man. Keeping the Benny Hill-style hi-jinks afloat is stalwart Shaw director Lin Han-hsiang who manages to switch flawlessly between these cheeky flings and his period epics. |   |
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Vengeful Beauty, The (1977) Director: Ho Meng-hua Cast: Chen Ping, Yueh Hua, Lo Lieh, Hsu Shao-chiang Genre: Action/Adventure Synopsis Of all the many kinds of films Ho Meng-hua directed for the Shaw Brothers, quite possibly his most popular worldwide was The Flying Guillotine. While he did not direct its like-titled sequel, he did helm this great spinning beheader follow-up, which critics considered among his best. It stars the gorgeous Chen Ping (The Miniskirt Gang, Lady Exterminator) as the fearless title character who takes on an entire flying guillotine gang, despite the fact that she's pregnant! |   |
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Hex After Hex (1982) | Madam Slender Plum (1966) |
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| Sunday, 3/7/2004 |
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| Friday, 3/5/2004 |
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92 Legendary La Rose Noire (1992) Director: Jeff Lau Cast: Tony Leung, Teresa Mo, Maggie Shiu, Wong Wan Si, Bo Bo Fung Synopsis As soon as Tony Leung, hair shiny with brill-cream, starts imitating the stilted dialogue of sixties heartthrob Lui Kei, film lovers know they've entered a charmed circle of movie-in-jokes and self-conscious world. Bobo Fung parodies herself as a female Robin Hood who are still living in the golden a-go-go era. This has taken all the references from the Golden Age of Cantonese cinema and becomes a combination of different genres of Hong Kong movies with a series of period pop songs. The movie becomes an overnight classic cult comedy and one of Lau's masterpieces. |  |
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Dragon Inn (1992) Director: Raymond Lee Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Brigitte Lin, Donnie Yen Synopsis During the Ming Dynasty, a eunuch Yin wants to crave his own kingdom with his secret organization East Chamber. Chow, who used to be the commander of the palace guards, opposes to Yin's corrupted ambition. Yin intends on destroying the rebelling clans by kidnapping Chow's friend Yeung's children as the bait. Chow, with his own fellows, finally rescues them at the border and they stay in the Dragon Inn. Chow asks Jade, the beautiful host of the inn, for helping them escape, but Jade takes this advantage and seize the opportunity to make Chow her lover. Disappointed, Chow decides to take the children away alone. Having keeping an eye on them, Yin dispatches his army and a war between good and evil finally begins. |  |
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| Thursday, 3/4/2004 |
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Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, The (1983) Director: Liu Chia-liang (aka Lau Kar-leung) Cast: Alexander Fu Sheng, Gordon Liu Chia-hui, Lily Li, Wang Yu, Hui Ying-hung, Mai Tak-lo (aka Mai Te-lo), Hsiao Hou Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis What started as the masterful kung-fu filmmaker's homage to the heroic Sung Dynasty Yang family becomes a furious rumination on heroic sacrifice when international idol Alexander Fu Sheng died in a car accident midway through production. Wanting to immortalize Sheng's final, unfinished performance, Liu carried on. The result is unique in the director's extraordinary filmography in its emotional intensity and kung-fu power. There are heartbreaking references to the tragedy throughout, but the stunning climax is truly unforgettable. It must be seen to be believed... |   |
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Generation Gap, The (1973) Director: Chang Cheh Cast: David Chiang, Ti Lung, Agnes Chen, Chiang Ling Genre: Drama Synopsis Acclaimed film director Chang Cheh gives Shaw Brothers a contemporary facelift with his gangster/generation gap melodrama The Generation Gap that stars the dynamic acting duo of David Chiang and Ti Lung. While the action created by Shaw's most successful fight directing pair of Liu Chia-liang (aka Lau Kar-leung) and Tang Chia will bowl you over, it's Chiang's award winning and dynamic presence that steals the show, revealing how youthful growing pains created by square adults can end in gangsterism and death. |   |
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Hex Vs Witchcraft (1980) Director: Kuei Chih-hung Cast: Yi Lei, Pei Ju-hua, Jenny Liang Genre: Horror Synopsis Here director Kuei Chih-hung gets to combine his love of hilarious comedies (Mr. Funny - Bone) with bone-chilling horror (Ghost Eyes) in a tale of a marriage made in hell! A compulsive gambler's botched suicide attempt, results in his wedding to a ghost who haunts him in weird, wonderful, horrid, and hilarious ways. She even comes to the rescue after he's robbed, leading to a fitting and funny conclusion to a singular comedic horror film of fate and phantoms. |   |
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Sorrow Of The Gentry (1974) Director: Chu Yuan Cast: Li Ching, Ching Li, Ling Yun, Wang Ping, Tsung Hua, Yueh Hua Genre: Drama Synopsis There's nothing like a good old epic family drama. Sorrow Of The Gentry follows the ups and (mostly) downs of the Yang clan, led by a patriarch who has four sons. Set in the early 1920's, the household with the four distinctly different brothers go through loves and heartaches taking the audience along on a rich emotional ride. A classic tale of tradition versus individualism, the heart versus the mind, and an allegory of the changes happening in contemporary Hong Kong during the 70s. Bring your tissues! |   |
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Young Rebel, The (1973) Director: Ti Lung Cast: David Chiang, Ti Lung Genre: Drama Synopsis When Ti Lung and David Chiang left Shaws, they returned a year later after learning directing and defied their former studio heroics doing films with social leanings. Directed by Ti, The Young Rebel is one such film. Fatherless as a child, Hsiang (Chiang) supports his mother, gangsters kill his mother and he kills in revenge. Unlike his swordplay heroes, Hsiang admits guilt, expresses sorrow and is imprisoned. Great fights by Yuan Hsio-tieng (The Matrix's fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping's father). |   |
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Anna In Kungfu-land (2003) Director: Li Tso Nan Cast: Miriam Yeung, Ekin Cheng, Wong You Nam, Denise Ho Synopsis Kin, a senior executive of a PR company, organizes a martial art competition for his major client. It not only attracted the kung fu factions, Hollywood film producers come all the way from US to find new martial artist Anna, a martial art disciple also joins the competition to become a movie star. When she meets Kin, she deeply falls for him. When Anna finds out the producer picks another girl for filming, Anna is extremely disappointed and decides to give up. But finally she is touched by Shaolin master and devotes to fight for the championship... |  |
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