A modern day Rashomon-esque thriller centered on a convenience store robbery gone wrong - told through the perspectives of seven seemingly unrelated individuals. Even the smallest choices in life have dire consequences.
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A modern day Rashomon-esque thriller centered on a convenience store robbery gone wrong - told through the perspectives of seven seemingly unrelated individuals. Even the smallest choices in life have dire consequences.
A monk is expelled from a monastery because he was found with a dirty magazine under his pillow. He falls in with a gang of villains, who hire him because of his martial arts skills. He later returns to the monastery where (for reasons unexplained), he fights his former buddy-monk.
A romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.
Family Doctrine is a drama film directed by Chu Kei and stars Wu Fung, Man Lan, Pearl Au Ka-Wai, Ma Siu-Ying, and Kitty Ting Hao.
Someone's on a pituitary gland binge. Pituitary glands first go missing from corpses and the criminal theft escalates to living people..
The second story of “Two Stories” from Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” series (1978)
A 1986 film directed by Li Han-Hsiang. Nominated for Best Film in the 6th annual Hong Kong Film Awards.
Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and his dedicated son tries his best to save not just the family business, but his father's reputation.
In this sequel to Yesterday You, Yesterday Me, Bobby looks back on his youthful dreams -- the joys of love and the pain of separation. He also remembers the summer of 1985 when he was smitten with a woman named Sharon.
When insurance agent Yip Wing Shun is called to visit Tak and Ling’s home to follow up on a life insurance policy, he discovers their son’s corpse hanging in the bathroom. Principled and kind-hearted, Yip suspects that the child may have been murdered. As Yip digs for the truth, the real perpetrator turns the tables and forces Yip into a psychological battle of wills.
Chinese Opera comedy from Hong Kong directed by Fung Chi-Kong.
Taiwan movie
Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go back to the immortal world.
In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas.
Concert held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center as a tribute to the late legend Leslie Cheung who had left us for nine years. A group of Universal Music artists took turns to make their own renditions of Leslie's classics during the concert.
A pair of brothers befriend an old drunk, who turns out to be an expert in the esoteric form of Kung Fu.
A Hong Kong diva dies of a heart attack during a rehearsal with her faithful servant. Unaware of her death, the servant goes about her life as usual, until she is visited by the diva's spirit. The diva coaxes her servant into believing that the only way to bring her back to life is to find her long lost love, Prince Charming. Ironically, he is both the diva and the servant's love interest.
In 1992, a heavy rainstorm caused massive power outage in Hong Kong. At that night, two young astrology enthusiasts, Moon and Sun, met under the starry night by the seaside. When their affection to each other grew, Sun was admitted into a boarding school and would move to another country in a few months under his father's plan. Like the sun and moon, the couple could hardly see each other despite that they were living in the same city, but their love endured amidst the separation and opposition from Moon’s mother. Overcoming the challenges from teachers, friends and family, time has come for Sun to depart…
Lam Chun-Kit (Ray Lui), a lieutenant in the triad, should be plenty content following his victory against a rival gang and the favor it has won him with his bosses. Though all is not well, as he has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and with only a few months left to live, he decides to abandon life on the wild side and return to his family in Thailand to see his parents before he dies. Unfortunately, Kit receives a less than warm welcome from his brother Yan (Anthony Wong) who has...
Li's The Mad Monk consists of four stories that see the roaming monk save a mother and daughter from the brink of death and a young man from the hands of unscrupulous debtors. Ji Gong also deals mischievous justice on robbers and corrupt officials.
Hong Kong movie
Ghost in Me is a Hong Kong Horror-Comedy directed by and starring Stanley Fung.
A film by Nanyang Film Company
Ghost story (originally released in parts 1 & 2) based on a Chinese opera.
The widow of an executive tries to find her husband's murderer before she becomes the next victim.
Sandy Lam's concert in 2011.
Min, Lung, Fun and Keung are business partners of an online game design company, which is on the verge of winding up due to the lack of clients. Just as things start to get worse, a mysterious lady, Mrs. Wong offers them a sizable sum of money if they could complete the final stages of her deceased son's online game - Ouija Board and launch it thereafter. They readily accept the business. Soon mysterious things happen and they experience ghost sightings.
During the Ming dynasty in China, the coastal areas were rampant. A Wokou who refers himself as the Nippon Ronin (Chan Hung-lit), colludes with the coastal local tyrants of Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces, along with cult religious groups. They occupy Baiyunzhuang and plundered everywhere. Young warrior Fan Chen-tung (Kong Ban) leads a resistance group to retaliate which prompts the Chinese martial world to share the same hatred against the Japanese and tyrants.
Horses is a Hong Kong Drama starring Bill Tung
Explores youthful angst and restlessness through the complex, intertwined relationships of two men and a woman.
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fiancee. Experienced as an actor in many such romances, director Yen Chuan keeps the tone perfect. Plus, with period specialist Li Li-hua in the lead and the attractive and acclaimed Li Ching playing the ghost girl, he really can do no wrong.
The city is overwhelmed by consumerism and information. The constant barrage of information starts to glide past all of us. We are neither here nor there. We try to distinguish fact from fabrication—but we do not always succeed. We ponder on our existence and whether we are in control of our lives. Some people dedicate their lives to the Creator although the presence of a higher power is debatable. We wander from emptiness to emptiness, and realise that life is emptiness in itself. A societal revolution is in order but how should it be carried out? With no success in sight, would the revolution be rendered meaningless? The melancholic musings and rants of the young gloomy leftists are rarely answerable.
Hong Kong movie
Action gambling
A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub.
Shaw Brothers comedy.
Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, including riots and other indicators of social change.
The Great Plot is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie
Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.
In his attempt to be the most powerful man in the world, Justin Taylor, leader of a sinister Ninja army, has become the largest narcotics smuggler in the orient. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Hong Kong Police have joined forces with the CIA and a brilliant policewoman, the awesome Amazonia, to bring down Taylor by any means, at any cost. The CIA operative chosen for the task ultimately realizes that the man he must kill was his closest friend in the war. Torn between justice and loyalty he's got to make the most crucial decision of his life.
Stagnation in the body cannot keep up with the changes in real life. When memory of the trembling hand constantly haunting, when the cavity is filled by artificial materials – if body remembers, how should it response with the years of traumatic past? Three of us, describe the indescribable body changes try picking up the hints and signs.
Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critical on the subject and not too well informed, it nevertheless offers some interesting insights into the Hong Kong film industry of that days.
Based on the mysterious explosions that happened in ancient China, with ingenious ideas to unblock the secret truth that has puzzled the world for the audience. The mysterious organization "Night Walk Division" follows the bizarre mystery and bravely rushes into the "No Phase City", and a game about the lives of the people unfolds.
David's lover has died and his Lovers Sister is coming back from America to tie up loose ends. David who is gay soon finds he is in love with his exes sister. Marie (Peta-maree) and Selina share a room and it soon becomes obvious they have a drug problem.
Let It Be is a Hong Kong Drama starring Anthony Wong
Murder Most Foul is a Hong Kong Thriller directed by and starring Richard Ng.
Erol is a successful cop, who lives with his sister Yasemin. Wang, the most troublesome gang leader of Hong Kong comes to Istanbul. The Security Department of Istanbul, appoint Erol to catch Wang. The Hong Kong Security Department sends their spy Wang Ti to Istanbul. Wang threatens a Chinese girl called Helen. With Helen's help, Erol starts a fight with Wang, nobody knows how it will end.
After watching a heartbroken woman throw herself into the sea because of her lover, a rock spirit (Wilson Lam) attempts to defy the Sun God (Lau Shun). While escaping from the God's wrath, the rock spirit meets and eventually falls in love with a damsel with a spirit-slaying sword (Chow).
A Shaw Brothers production directed by Kuei Chih-hung.
Wang, a womanising businessman miles away from home, makes it a sport to seduce young women. After one of his conquests got pregnant with his child and died after the abortion, one after another of his lovers are found murdered. It is only when he is arrested and convicted for these crimes that he finds himself embroiled in a plot of revenge. Based on the work of Japanese novelist Togawa Masako which was previously adapted by director Nakahira Kō into The Hunter’s Diary (1964 in Japan) and the Hong Kong version Diary of a Lady-killer (1969), Ho Fan’s remake, his third film for Shaw Brothers as director, is a stylistic tour de force and a more authentic rendering than the 1969 version, grippingly suspenseful and provocative with clever shots, dark humour, and sophisticated treatment of contemporary attitudes about sexual liberation, exploring the conflicts over human nature and desire. (By Reel to Reel Institute)
Buddhist Spiritual Palm
Hong Kong movie
This flick is about this gung fu dancing, alcoholic beverage guzzler named Andy Ho (Cheng Tien Chi). The title of this flick sounds like this bad warrior who kills with ease, but its not. Actually, Andy is a nice guy who has a hard time keeping a job. He runs into some rich guy who convinces him to come to the United States to work for him. Andy agrees to come to the U.S. of A. but is in for a surprise, as Mr. Big Bucks wants Andy to participate in his slugfest tournaments that he uses to make money via gambling. Andy declines and the next you know, Mr. Big Bucks is devising a plan to get rid of him! (mpongpun, HKMDB)
Hong Kong movie
Ray is a Manila cop who travels to Hong Kong on assignment. He searches for his girl friend Lina, and finds her - addicted to drugs. Heung Lan, his ex-partner, is an undercover Hong Kong cop investigating weapons smuggling. She provokes the smugglers by intercepting several shipments in Hong Kong, leading to several good, although brief fights. The drug smuggler kills Lina, and Ray swears vengeance. The head of the gang then returns to the Philippines, and with him, the action shifts back to the Philippines. The lady cop gets more than what she hoped for.