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This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.
Sing runs into Icy when they are working for a concert. It's not until Sing finds Icy in a phonograph record shop that they know each other's name. Icy, along with Bowie and three other friends formed a band Voices
Two undercover agents must smash a smuggling racket that is terrorizing a small port town. One of the agents, Chin Chang, has an evil grip that can crush a skull in seconds. The thugs are killers but this agent is a killer in kung fu!
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Money Trip is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Kent Cheng.
On a regular day in an office for a music company, a man must make a brave decision to either save himself or his colleague in an intense life-or-death situation.
Fong Ka-Man, has been leading a middle class lifestyle. One day, during a heavy rain in the dusk, bearing the fear of illness, she is unwillingly staying away from the rain inside the tunnel. She first encounters a weird tramp, and then a young farmer who is rushing to deliver his harvest. It’s about how the “normal” passes by the “abnormal”. What makes them “normal” and “abnormal” seems to be realistic, but maybe it is just a void. Fong Ka-Man is anxious to find an exit from the difficult circumstance, but accidentally she finds out that what she yearns for is the disappeared end of this city.
Yukari Oshima plays a detective who is kidnapped and held hostage by a team of Mainland agents led by Waise Lee. Called The Golden Corps, they are chasing a traitor who is attempting to sell stolen gold in HK.
Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. Ending up facing Hsia (Eddie Ko) of the notorious Jade Brotherhood is inevitable. As a result, Hsia forces Chi's martial arts master to expel him. Masterless and working for a fish vendor, Chi meets a crafty kid (Yat Lung Wong), whose uncle Chow Tung (Chin Yuet Sang) is a master of the Insane Mantis style. The Jade Brotherhood aims for control of the small town but Chi is training with a new Master and will not accept bullies in the neighbourhood.
First in a series of made for TV films: Burnt by the seeds of hatred and grudge against Wong Fei Hung, Prince Shing recruited eight magnificent fighters, nicknamed The Eight Demi-god Fighters' to challenge Hung. The ky man, Priest Geing-fax was the ex-disciple of Shaolin Temple. He had learnt the highest level of Shaolin Kung-fu "Bone Marrow Revitalization Mehod" in which made him become invulnerable. Out of his griev-ances towards Shaolin, he sweared to eliminate all its adherents, especially Hung. Never and ever had Hung met such a formidable man before, however, he still accepted this lethal duel in the name of Po Chi Lam despiting the fact that he was really at the death's door.
Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.
Kung-fu ace David Chiang displays a unique take on the narcotics racket in his directorial debut, The Drug Addict. Only 26-year-old and Shaw Brothers' youngest director, David brings a youthful sensibility to this drama about a drug-addicted kung-fu instructor (Ti Lung) who not only kicks the habit but smashes a drug smuggling ring as only a martial-arts superstar can. With legendary action director Chang Cheh onboard as producer, The Drug Addict is a fast-moving exploration of an important social issue.
The film tells the stories of a mother and her three daughters about their own struggles in love. All the women had achieved progress in some way except in love. However, each of them found their own Mr.Right in the end.
Preface In criminal law, law-breakers especially youth who are released on probation are being supervised by Probation Officers. Story If being bad is being evil, hell will have a full house! Tinky, Rainbow, Angie, Kane, Tung and Demon Queen are friends. They are line-steppers. Angie was put into a drug center for taking drugs. Kane and Tung are boys. They love Brother Sam. Tung hates being a boy. Friends of Kane raise money for his trans-gender operation by robbing friend's homes. Tinky saw Brother Dragon give his wife a ring. Tinky stole it. Dragon offers a bounty to get it back. To her surprise, the ring Tinky has is a fake one. Rainbow had it traded for her drug business...
Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.
A renowned boxer and his American wife return to Japan where he must engage in a bloody battle to protect her.
A money laundering scheme was uncovered inside a Hong Kong investment bank. The money vanishes and the international mob boss "Big Bob" demands the bank to return all of the money. First she starts with assistant chief officer Connie. In order to protect Connie, Connie's boyfriend and bank chairman Billy ask for "hired guns" from retired mob boss Uncle Ghost. Uncle Ghost sends his followers Nick, Big Brother, Ah Fei and female bodyguard Lisa to protect Connie. But where did the money go?
Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Chow Sze-Luk.
In the last days of the Ming dynasty, a heroic martial artist battles the evil chief of the palace guard.
In December 1974, a 16-year-old girl was murdered after borrowing a phone at an ice cream shop. The next day, her naked body was found hidden in a TV box on the street. The only suspect in the case was the owner of the ice cream shop, Au-Yeung Wing Cheung.
Crack police officer Damon (aka: #426) is ordered to infiltrate the triad as mounting crime waves hit Hong Kong. Damon his sidekick Doggie and sex proprietress Charmagne band together to smash Satan Hong's triad gang in this high-octane action adventure.
A Vietnam war veteran tries to escape the battlefields by moving to London. But happiness for Nam and his wife are only illusions. As they struggle to live a peaceful existence, they get caught in a crossfire between two battling factions.
A millionaire's son falls in love with a disreputable prostitute, but their romance is forbidden by his father. After the son dies in an accident, his restless spirit still yearns for his forbidden love.
Hong Kong romance.
A peculiar disappearance case leaves Master Shan mourning the loss of his beloved wife. It also results in Zhang Yi Jing growing up without a mother's love. Master Shan was a locksmith, running a shop called 'Cheng Xin'. However, due to an unexpected incident, he developed dementia. He later takes on a devoted apprentice, Cheng Hao Ren. Hao Ren inherits Master Shan's exceptional locksmithing skills, becoming a master at opening locks, even surpassing his mentor. Because of his remarkable abilities, he's frequently called upon by the police, and this leads to a friendship with Officer Liu Ye Chen. To this day, there hasn't been a lock that Hao Ren couldn't open.However, during one locksmithing job, he reunites with an old friend, Lee Quan Kai, whom he hasn't seen in years. From that moment onwards, a series of strange events unfolds.
A female model was openly raped, which involved a gangster engaged in underground pornography. The police sent three female police officers, Pai Ying, Lin and the United States, to investigate undercover. Wearing sexy miniskirts, they often appear in nightclubs, using themselves as bait to wait for the opportunity to get close to the gangsters. Soon, they met the young and handsome artist Dan, who was teased in every way. Ying's boyfriend Liang helped them in time, which was ironicable and unreasonable. Finally, their true identities were exposed, and Dan and Liang became the think tank of the thief group. They were full of strange tricks and played with the gang boss with high IQ. When the sheep enter the tiger's mouth, can they set an excellent wolf and find out the real culprit? This game is dangerous and exciting.
Yukari Oshima plays a traffic cop who gets promoted to the drug task force and faces Yuen Wah's syndicate.
Director / Artists: 黃子華 WONG, DAYO Number of Discs: 1 Audio Format: Stereo Video Format: NTSC DVD Region: 0 Languages: Cantonese Subtitles: none Rating: IIB Running Time: 158 minutes
Old school action takes center stage as two scoundrels get in and out of trouble using kung fu. Yuen's action is not yet stylized but the pacing and intensity are there, setting the stage for his future masterpieces.
The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho (before she became one of Shaw Brothers' great erotica actresses) portrays the feared swordswoman Silver Fox, who as a child saw her father senselessly wounded and her mother raped. It's 18 years later and it's payback time.
An inspirational short film by Johnnie To.
An aging snooker player relives the mistakes of his violent past through a poverty-stricken, streetwise kid.
A corporate tragedy and encounter with Helena Law Lan's taoist master leads Mei Qi to meet three relative ghosts who later support the protagonist and her new boy friend Zhang Zi-jin on their new "haunted" hotel business.
Hung, a struggling middle-class man crushed by work pressure and family responsibilities, faces a breaking point when his vengeful former colleague kidnaps his daughter and pregnant wife. Desperate to save them, Hung’s reckless actions, including stealing a police officer’s gun, spark a city-wide panic as he’s misjudged as a dangerous madman. Caught between his love for his family and the chaos he’s unleashed, Hung races against time to redeem himself and bring his family home.
In the romantic-comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Single," the movie tackles the Chinese social phenomenon of secret marriages for young couples looking for better jobs and higher income. A young man with high mortgage payments to fulfill takes the job of a personal-assistant to a female CEO under the condition that he is still single.
A 50's Chinese film that reflects the post-war society, expresses idealism and pleads to return to the homeland.
This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. The empress mother has the tutor go to Kiang-Nan to bring him back.
It seems to be a simple story taking place at school, but it draws your whole attention to watch till the end of it. School teacher Luk is asked to bail his student Chan out, as Chan tries to climb up a flyover to put up a banner in a demonstration. The next day, some paparazzi rush to school to shoot Chan and ask for quotes. Unfortunately one of them slips and the media reports come out in a negative way. The school is highly alerted and Chan is suspended without investigation. The suspension, indeed, has nothing to do with teaching or guidance, but solely political correctness and administration issue.
A happily married man contracts the AIDS virus and must deal with the mental and physical anguish of this infectious disease. A dramatic look at AIDS and its effect on modern day Hong Kong.
A former Triad member moves into an apartment next to a nice timid girl and her blind grandfather who also is a street performer.
The Wu Tang hire a formidable leg fighter Kao to fight the Saholin Loyalist Hu Hui Chien
The hunt for The Swallow Thief.
Lau is a spoiled playboy who’s on fiancée number 8 - and makes sport of getting rid of them. With his entourage (including an amusing Anthony Wong) in tow, he boards the cruise ship Fascination with the intent of ridding himself of his latest set-up. However, he didn’t count on falling for heiress Sandy who is - no surprise here - the only girl who can withstand his “money buys all” attitude. Things aren’t that simple - she’s losing her fortune and won’t let money buy her. Lau must prove that he can be a normal guy so he follows her ashore with a backpack and $10 in his pocket.
A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop inadvertantly eats. Eventually the hero cop finds himself tied to an operating table with the killer preparing to deal with his "posterior ulcers"!
A threesome love story of Sissy the autistic lad, Qing Hua his child bride, and Chun Sheng their orphaned bosom friend. The illicit affair between Qing Hua and Chun Sheng was exposed, and they looted the Virgin Tomb the place where a virgin had been forced by robbers to leap to her death to defend her chastity. Tragically, their lives became haunted by the Virgin's spirit. Qing Hua and Chun Sheng escaped to a city where they were re-united with Sissy, who had befriended Yan-yan the look-alike of the Virgin. Qing Hua vowed to defend herself and her men against the approaching nemesis
Sham Shui Po, there is the most famous red-light district in Hong Kong. Li (Carrie Ng) owns a few of the apartments in the building and she earns a living by renting them out to the prostitutes. To the prostitutes though, she is more a friend than just a landlord. She gets together a group of prostitutes and work as hard as they could, trying to attract business to turn the tide. Still, they do not know they are quietly approaching death. It begins with the missing of a prostitute Ping. Ping is one of the tenants who live with her young daughter. In the process of finding Ping, Li discovered there had been a lot of missing prostitutes in this building, yet none of them were found. The building was somehow isolated from the outside world and a massacre begins. Li and the prostitutes have to find Ping and to fight a battle of wits with the invisible murderer. As more evident of the murderer's identity revealed, a tragic truth hidden for over twenty years starts to unveil.
Clara Law's debut feature deals with her common theme of emigration as two people, man and woman, from separate couples, have to room together while their spouses are in America to finalize the Canadian citizenship process.
Lucky Diamond is a Hong Kong Comedy directed by Yuen Cheung-Yan and starring Alex Man and Anita Mui.
It all started with one of those small fights which happened so frequently between lovers. An angry Michelle walked out of the apartment where she lived with Franco in Hong Kong and threatened never to return. Franco knew Michelle must have gone to Paris, and it just took minutes for the Parisian romantic atmosphere to mellow her temper. Of course, he had to be there with flowers in his hands. But Franco was wrong this time.
During the Sung Dynasty, there is an order of monks enforces their own regulations harshly. Even when the evil Jins attack, and martial arts supremo Zhi Xing helps fight them off, he is punished for practicing fu without permission. The local militia, loyal to the Emperor, is led by a sword fighting beautiful woman, who teams up with some of the monks. One of these monks also has the power to summon animals and birds to help in the fighting.
A special police squad battles a gang of arms traffickers.
In this sexpolitation effort, a British pilot is assaulted by a gang of hoodlums and left on the street. He's eventually taken to a hospital, where he is nursed back to health by Dr. Emy Wong, a beautiful Asian physician. As the pilot is restored to full health, he becomes increasingly infatuated with Emy.
A look at Shaw Brothers Studios in their prime. Includes: interviews with David Chiang; exploring the Shaw Brothers sets; a look at the craftsmen, foley artists and stuntmen of Shaw Bros.; a profile on Run Run Shaw; Italian-meets-Chinese kung-fu films; and a visit from Peter Cushing.
Mike, Jean, Shoot and Q are a professional robbery gang working for Uncle Lam. Q loves his girlfriend Bo who loves decisive men and luxury life. Shoot loves exotic fishes and Jean. Jean loves Mike, but he is married to another woman and has a young son. Uncle Lam loves good meals and big money. After finishing successfully the most recent job for Uncle Lam, Mike and his team want to take a break. Uncle Lam insists that they take one more job, which is to rob a triad boss Chicken Sam who loves diamonds in the very literal sense of the word. The robbery doesn’t go too smooth; moreover, Tom Wai, a police officer who loves his job, is getting closer and closer…
A making of documentary for Happy Together. Includes interviews, on-set footage, cut scenes and footage of crew members revisiting the locations where Happy Together was filmed.
Wah, a hotshot reporter, contracts a terminal disease. With his days numbered, he decides to spend his remaining time chasing a big story. He journeys to Malaysia and tracks down Shun, a rogue trader who brought down the stock market with his illicit activities. Wah becomes Shun's hostage and uses their journey to gain insight into Shun's offbeat criminal methods. But in learning Shun's story, he also begins to learn something about the value of his own life.