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, Family
Runtime: 2:03:52
Country: China / Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin
Cast: Peisi Chen, Ching Wan Lau, Gigi Leung, Zhu Qilong
IMDB: Bao hu lu de mi mi
Synopsis / Plot
Basic on the classic children’s novel comes a magical story 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!
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 ……
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.
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.
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
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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Red Cliff [C-Movie] (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Zhao Wei, Lin Chi-ling)
Directed by John Woo
Produced by Terence Chang
Written by John Woo, Chen Han, Sheng Heyu
Based on Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms
Cast
- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Zhou Yu
- Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang
- Zhang Fengyi as Cao Cao
- Chang Chen as Sun Quan
- Zhao Wei as Sun Shangxiang
- Hu Jun as Zhao Yun
- Lin Chi-ling as Xiao Qiao
- Nakamura Shido as Gan Xing(甘興) (based on Gan Ning)
- You Yong as Liu Bei
Red Cliff (Chinese: 赤壁; pinyin: Chìbì), alternatively known as The Battle of Red Cliff, is a Chinese epic film based on the Battle of Red Cliffs and events during the End of Han Dynasty and immediately prior to the period of the Three Kingdoms in ancient China. The film is expected to be released in two versions: within Asia, Red Cliff is to be released in two parts totaling over four hours in length, with the first part premiering in July 2008 and the second in January 2009.[1] Outside of Asia, a single 2½ hour film will be released in January 2009.[1]
The film is directed by John Woo and stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling and Zhao Wei. With an estimated budget of US$80 million, Red Cliff is the most expensive Asian-financed film to date.[3]
This film is one of the two 2008 Three Kingdoms related films, the other being Daniel Lee’s Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon which has already been released.
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