Connected [C-Movie] (Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Liu Ye, Nick Cheung)
Connected (traditional Chinese: 保持通話; simplified Chinese: 保持通话; pinyin: Bao chi tong hua; Cantonese Yale: Bo chi tung wah; Literal title: Maintain the telephone conversation) is a 2008 Hong Kong action-crime thriller film directed by Benny Chan. It is the first Chinese-language film to remake an American film, as it is a remake of the 2004 American thriller Cellular. The film stars Louis Koo as a man who receives a distressing phone call on his cellular phone from a young woman (Barbie Hsu) who has been kidnapped. The film was released in Hong Kong on September 25, 2008.
Directed by Benny Chan
Produced by Benny Chan, Albert Lee, Jiang Tao, Kevin Yung
Written by Alan Yuen, Benny Chan, Xu Bing
Original Screenplay: Chris Morgan
Original Story: Larry Cohen
Starring Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Liu Ye, Nick Cheung
Plot
Single mother Grace was sending her daughter to school when she was knocked down by a car. Half-conscious, she witnesses a brutal murder and is then held captive in a warehouse. The murderer threatens to kill Grace’s family unless she hands over the evidence of his crimes. The helpless Grace manages to repair a spoiled phone and miraculously manages to call Bob, a man working in a finance company. He must now race against time to save Grace and her daughter before it is too late.
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Thrown down [C-Movie] (Aaron Kwok, Louis Koo, Cherrie Ying, Tony Leung Ka-Fai)
Throw Down (traditional Chinese: 柔道龍虎榜; simplified Chinese: 柔道龙虎榜) is a 2004 Hong Kong film directed by Johnnie To. One of most his personal films to date, To dedicated the film to the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying and Tony Leung Ka-Fai. The film premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
- Aaron Kwok - Tony
- Louis Koo - Sze-To Bo
- Cherrie Ying - Mona
- Tony Leung Ka-Fai - Lee Kong
- Cheung Siu Fai - Brother Savage
- Lo Hoi-Pang - Master Cheng
- Calvin Choi - Jing
- Jordan Chan - Mona’s Agent
- Jack Kao - Mona’s Dad
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The Song of Spirits [C-Movie]
Aka: Xin ling zhi ge, Sin ling jhih ge
Year: 2006
Directed: Hung-hsiang Wu
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 95m 9s
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Cast: Chun-Ning Chang, Kai-wei Chiu, Chia-jung Hsu, Mei-Hsiu Lin
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0788250/
Synopsis
Audio recordist Li Tong-Je happened to work in a remote mountain area in central Taiwan among the Bunung tribes people. It was Tong-Je’s plan to do a special program on care in the aftermath of the strong earthquake that jolted the central part of Taiwan on Sept. 21st, 1999. However, little by little, he found his ideas changed by the locas. The so-called care, merely based on an outsider’s perspective, could be dispensed as the tribes people lived in their own lives at their own paces.
Tong-Je was hosted by Pastor Chuan, who adopted a ten-year-old boy, Quisuel. With his parents lost in the earthquake, Quisuel had his heart closed and rejected communication. The kid’s mentor, Zu-Hui, a primary school teacher who would add singing of the traditional Bunung songs to the curriculum, tried in vain to open his heart by encouraging him to participate in the singing contest.
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Painted Skin [C-Movie] (Donnie Yen, Qi Yuwu, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Sun Li, Chen Kun)
Painted Skin (Chinese: 画皮; pinyin: Huà Pí) is a 2008 Chinese-Hong Kong film starring Donnie Yen, Qi Yuwu, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Sun Li and Chen Kun. It was directed by Gordon Chan.
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Plot
Though the story is based mainly on a supernatural premise, it is more of a love story rather than a ghost/horror film. It is based on Pu Songling’s classic novel, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun starrs Xiao Wei, a huli jing that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) ‘rescues’ her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general, who is married to Pei Rong (Zhao Wei).
Another (older) love triangle is present, between the general’s brother Pang Yong (Donnie Yen), ‘the general and his wife. Pei Rong asks Pang Yong for help as she suspects Xiao Wei for what she really is. Pang Yong is aided by an inexperienced ‘demon buster’, Xia Bing (Betty Sun). Hints of a developing relationship between Xia Bing and Pang Yong are there, although this is never really explored. Another subplot revolves around Xiao Wei’s lizard demon ally (Qi Yuwu) who has unreciprocated feelings for her and helps her get all the human hearts she needs.
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The secret of the magic gourd [C-Movie] (Peisi Chen, Ching Wan Lau, Gigi Leung, Zhu Qilong)
AKA: Bao hu lu de mi mi
Year: 2007
Directed: John Chu, Frankie Chung
Genre: Drama, FamilyPlease login or register to see the link.
Runtime: 2:03:52
Country: ChinaPlease login or register to see the link. / Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin
Cast: Peisi Chen, Ching Wan Lau, Gigi Leung, Zhu Qilong
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Synopsis / Plot
Please login or register to see the link.Basic on the classicPlease login or register to see the link. children’s novel comes a magical storyPlease login or register to see the link. about the boundless limits of imagination and the power of believing in yourself from the production team of Kung Fu Hustle. When 11-year-old Wang Bao discovers a mythical, magical gourd while fishing, he has no idea of the trouble that lies at the end of his hook. With the ability to grant any and every wish, The Magic Gourd attempts to make all of Wang Bao’s dreams come true, but instead, succeeds in turning the young boy’s world upside down. Will Wang Bao continue to rely on his magical new friend to solve his problems or will he learn that the best things in life are those he earns himself? Experience all the laughs and adventure of The Magic Gourd with all-new, exclusive bonus material. It’s a dream come true!
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Elixir Of Love [C-Movie] (Miriam Yeung , Richie Yen)
Title: Elixir Of Love
Starring: Miriam Yeung , Richie Yen , Eric Kot
Director: Riley Yip Kam-Hung
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Studio: Mega Star Video Distribution (HK) Ltd
Production: 2004
Dialogue: Cantonese, Mandarin
Subtitles: English , Traditional Chinese
Once upon a time lives a princess in the 11th Century China. Blessed with wealth and beauty, she could have been the happiest creature in the world had she not been plagued by a most unfortunate disease: since birth, her body exudes an odor so noisome that everybody in the palace shuns her. To rescue her from the island of isolation that she has become, the Emperor decrees that whoever can rid her of this loathsome disease can become her royal consort.
Kai is an amateur aromatherapist eking out his living as a gardener in a brothel. Earning little respect from the courtesans around him, he decides to try his luck and answer the Emperor’s quest for cure. To everyone’s surprise, he manages to beat all the traditional docotors and scientists to become one of the two finalists.
Given three months to find the ultimateelixir for the princess, Kai roams about a fish market and bumps into the perfect lab rat for his experiment: a fishmonger called Heung whose body odor can only be matched by the princess. For her it is love at first sight and she is determined to help him all the way. For him she is just a means to his ultimate end: proving his worth and marrying the princess.
Together the odd couple trek around the country, culling the rarest flowers and ingredients for the elixir. As they draw closer to the untimate cure, they also grow closer in affections ……
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Rule no. 1 [C-Movie] (Shawn Yue, Ekin Cheng, Stephanie, Fiona Xie)
Chinese: 第一誡
Year: 2008
Director: Kelvin Tong
Cast: Shawn Yue, Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Stephanie Che Yuen-Yuen, Fiona Xie
Synopsis: An overweight Ekin Cheng and an intense Shawn Yue team up to bust some ghosts. A good concept, able direction, and a fun performance from Ekin Cheng make Rule No. 1 an entertaining ride. Overall, however, the film can’t support its own far-out premise, and its nihilism feels unearned. Still worth a look, despite the flaws.
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Sparrow [C-Movie] (Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Lam Ka-tung, Lam Suet, Kate Tsui)
Directed by: Johnnie To (this is all you need to know before watching)
Starring: Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Lam Ka-tung, Lam Suet, Kate Tsui
Johnnie To woke up in love one morning. It’s the only explanation for SPARROW: three years in the making it’s as lighthearted as a birdsong. Pickpocketing is the ultimate high art in this flick, as precise as pointilism and as graceful as ballet (and, in fact, a dance choreographer was on hand to give rhythm and dash to the pickpocketing scenes). Simon Yam plays the dapper leader of a band of fingersmiths working out of Hong Kong, and when a mysterious femme fatale starts playing games with them, the delicate balance of their lives suddenly falls out of synch.
More of a musical than anything else, SPARROW is full of grand entrances, intricately choreographed scenes that unfurl like dance numbers and a 60’s Euro-cool soundtrack full of marimba glissandos, crooned whispers and sparkling jazz pianos. Oddly enough, while American reviewers have grumped that the film wasn’t a typical Johnnie To action picture and therefore wasn’t satisfying, the European press have been hailing it as his greatest achievement yet. The Berliner Morgenpost says that SPARROW resembles the innocence of the Nouvelle Vague, and even argues that Johnnie To has been unfairly criticized for aspects Wong Kar-wai is frequently lauded for. Popular German film website Film Starts argues that SPARROW is OCEAN’S ELEVEN done better and Kino-Zeit calls it a lovely homage to French gangster comedies of the 50s. Both Kino-Zeit and Film Starts claim that SPARROW deserved the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, but that it was too easy-going and apolitical for the jury to give it their highest honor.
SPARROW is a love letter to Hong Kong, which is finding its arteries increasingly clogged with Starbucks and bank branches, while its charm is bulldozed to make way for more steel and glass luxury condominiums. Celebrating the city’s cha chaan tengs, its trams, its ladder streets and even its uniquely noisy “Walk/Don’t Walk” signs, SPARROW will resonate with every New Yorker who’s seen a favorite local business replaced by a Chase Manhattan ATM. In the tough summer months when the sun is frying your brain, SPARROW is like a gentle spring breeze that’ll leave you refreshed and feeling like your soul has just been dipped into a giant, sparkling glass of cool, bubbly champagne.
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Drop me a cat [C-Movie] (Shinji Takeda, Terri Kwan, Yu-chen Chang)
Director: Mi-sen Wu
Writer: Mi-sen Wu (writer)
Release Date: 14 June 2003 (Taiwan)
Genre: Adventure
Plot Keywords: Roof | Television Show | Urban | Stewardess | Underpass
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination
Cast
Shinji Takeda
Terri Kwan
Yu-chen Chang
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Che-ying Liu
Sue Wang
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In 1999, the year before the millennium, Hei-shu, who has been unemployed for a long time, manages to get a job in a local brass band playing for funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu’s cat disappears. Roughly at the same time, a new neighbour moves in. Hei-shu keeps putting food out for the cat because he is convinced that it will come back one day. Later he suspects that the cat turned into a young woman, Yokulut.
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