Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life, while Green Snake played around every day. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hong Kong
The Lovers (1994) Hark Tsui, Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Carrie Ng
In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. Read More »
The Adventurers (1995) Ringo Lam, Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chien-Lien Wu
Andy was a child when his parents murdered by a double agent in Vietnam, Ray Liu. Read More »
The Victim (1999) Ringo Lam, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Amy Kwok
A computer engineer is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend senses he’s no longer the same person Read More »
The Untold Story (1993) Danny Lee, Herman Yau, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Danny Lee, Emily Kwan
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. Read More »
Ebola Syndrome (1996) Herman Yau, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Yeung-Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing
Hong Kong 1986: A restaurant employee murders his boss and mutilates his wife, he escapes to South Africa where he rapes a Zulu-girl, who is infected with the ebola virus. Read More »
Legend of the Liquid Sword (1993) Jing Wong, Aaron Kwok, Chingmy Yau, Man Cheung
A martial artist is targeted by a fearsome foe who plans to eliminate the greatest fighters in the world. Read More »
The Big Heat (1988) Yeung-Wah Kam, Johnnie To, Waise Lee, Joey Wang, Matthew Wong
Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner’s mysterious murder. Read More »
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »
The Boxers Omen (1983) Chih-Hung Kuei, Phillip Ko, Shao-Yen Lin, Kar-Man Wai
While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
Executioners from Shaolin (1977) Chia-Liang Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong
A couple unite – she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy’s father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Read More »
Dirty Ho (1976) Chia-Liang Liu, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo
Prince Wang is the 11th prince of Manchuria and an excellent martial artist, but prefers not to draw attention to himself and keeps a low profile Read More »
Magnificent Butcher (1979) Woo-Ping Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Tak-Hing Kwan, Biao Yuen
A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons Read More »
Dreadnaught (1981) Woo-Ping Yuen, Biao Yuen, Ka-Yan Leung, Shun-Yee Yuen
A short-tempered, violent criminal named “White Tiger” is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe for disguise Read More »