Twentysomething Japanese tourist, Tokio, comes to Hong Kong looking for good cuisine. Read More »
Tag Archives: Clara Law
Floating Life AKA Fu sheng (1996) Clara Law, Annette Shun Wah, Annie Yip, Anthony Brandon Wong
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. Read More »
Letters to Ali (2004) Clara Law, Malcolm Fraser
A woman and her family find themselves trying to get a young refugee boy out of a harsh Australian detention centre. Read More »
Temptation of a Monk AKA You Seng (1993) Clara Law, Joan Chen, Hsing-Kuo Wu, Fengyi Zhang
Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked Read More »
The Goddess of 1967 (2000) Clara Law, Rose Byrne, Rikiya Kurokawa, Nicholas Hope, Comedy, Drama, Romance
“Goddess” stands for French “Déesse”, the nickname of Citroën DS, the name of a famous car designed in the fifties. A young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day he finds an offering on the net. He calls the seller (a man living in Australia), they agree upon the price and so he travels to Australia in order to buy the car. But when he reaches his destination, there’s chaos all around: The seller as well as his wife lay dead in their house and a 17 year old girl lets him in and offers him something to eat. He walks out with horror but then comes back because he forgot to ask about the car… The girl lets him see the car, and then they start a 5 day trip through the outback, and, at the same time, a trip back in time into the early youth of the girl and into her family’s chronicle.
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