Yiu-Kwok is a high school teacher, having a perfect family. Good times don’t last long, when a student, Choy-Nam, falls in love with him. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hong Kong
First Love: Litter on the Breeze AKA Choh chin luen hau dik yi yan sai gaai (1998) Eric Kot, Calvin Choi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Vincent Kok
Eric Kot Man Fai’s directorial debut tells two tales of first love, before and after. Read More »
Burning Ambition AKA Long zhi zheng ba (1989) Frankie Chan, Eddy Ko, Kara Wai, Simon Yam
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon AKA Gat seng gung ziu (1990) Johnnie To, Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Nina Li Chi
Remake of Eddie Murphy’s “Coming To America”. Bo is HK’s richest man, and everyone fawns over him, nicknaming him Tycoon. Read More »
Loving You AKA Mou mei san taam (1995) Johnnie To, Ching Wan Lau, Carman Lee, Tsung-Hua To
A tale of a man re-evaluating his life and being given a second chance. Read More »
Butterfly Sword AKA Xin liu xing hu die jian (1993) Michael Mak, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Michelle Yeoh, Joey Wang
Dynamo Michelle Yeoh stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King’s empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Read More »
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt AKA Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin
Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
Where a Good Man Goes AKA Joi gin a long (1999) Johnnie To, Ching Wan Lau, Ruby Wong, Yiu-Cheung Lai
A former triad boss is just released from a Macau prison and ends up in a small inn runs by a simple and honest widow. Read More »
Tough Beauty and the Sloppy Slop AKA No hoi wai lung (1995) Bun Yuen, Biao Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Monsour Del Rosario
Three high-octane cops–an unorthodox one from Hong Kong, a straitlaced one from the Mainland Read More »
The Iceman Cometh AKA Ji dong qi xia (1989) Clarence Yiu-leung Fok, Maggie Cheung, Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen
A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he’s tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong. Read More »
Rain Dogs AKA Tai yang yue (2006) Yuhang Ho, Choon Wai Kuan, Yasmin Ahmad, Jonathan Wing Hong Cheung
At nineteen, raised by his single mother and with a brother working for a bookie in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
Chinese Vampire Story AKA Xin jiang shi xian sheng (1992) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Ricky Hui, Siu-Ho Chin
Master Lam and his two disciples must battle a horde of Chinese vampires Read More »
Comrades: Almost a Love Story AKA Tian mi mi (1996) Peter Ho-sun Chan, Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. Read More »
The Warrior and the Wolf AKA Lang zai ji (2009) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Joe Odagiri, Maggie Q, Tsung-Hua To
The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. Read More »
Just Heroes AKA Yee dam kwan ying (1989) John Woo, Wu Ma, David Chiang, Danny Lee, Kuan Tai Chen
A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. Read More »