Category: Eastern
Posted on May 12, 2012 |
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Chase Our Love / Zhai Nan Zong Dong Yuan (2011)
Comedy | Romance
This romantic comedy follows three introverted guys, ZaiZai, Nick and Jacky. All three are finding it tough when it comes to the matters of love. Jacky, a homey guy only goes out when he sees the opportunity to be with Mindy, an actress. Elsewhere, when ZaiZai comes to the aid of the pretty Diana, his good intentions gets misunderstood and his girlfriend breaks up with him. Feeling guilty, Diana gets confused with her feelings for ZaiZai, and tries to hook up her friend, Lucy with ZaiZais best friend, Nick. The two hit it off at first, but as their relationship progresses, Lucy starts to question her relationship with Nick. As the 3 guys deal with their heartache, follow their lives in the city, as they long for the love they find hard to reach.
Starring: Kenny Bee, Patrick Tam, Stephy Tang, You-Nam Wong, Jing Ye, Jiong He, Martin Li, William So, Edmond Leung, Alex Fong
Director: Zi Yang
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Posted on May 12, 2012 |
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All's Well, Ends Well / Ji keung hei si (2011)
Comedy
Sammy is one of the most popular beauticians in town, but when a billionaire's girlfriend Dream recruits him to be the CEO of her cosmetic product company, the all-female staff is reluctant to work with him. To promote the company's brand name, Sammy sets up a sales counter at a high-end shopping mall and enlists his friend Keung , rumored to be the most powerful makeup artist in the universe, to help manage it. Keung effortlessly becomes the untouchable top salesman thanks to his thorough understanding of the female mindset, yet he still has a hard time keeping up with his enigmatic on-off lover Moni ). Meanwhile, to protect his professional image, Sammy is forced to play matchmaker for his assistant Kit and rich playboy Slippery despite his secret admiration for her…
Starring: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Cecilia Cheung, Carina Lau, Chapman To, Bak-Ming Wong, Lynn Hung, Ni Yan
Director: Hing-Ka Chan, Janet Chun
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Posted on May 12, 2012 |
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The Fortune Buddies / Ging Cau Fuk Luk Sau / Wu Di Fu Lu Shou (2011)
Comedy
Friends Fook Yuen (Louis Yuen), Luk Wong (Wong Cho Lam) and Sao Lee (Johnson Lee) are three out-of-luck urbanites who spend their days in the unemployment center. To help Luk earn money for his marriage to girlfriend Fiona (Fiona Sit), the three try out street performing. During one of their performances, they defeat an American professional wrestler, and the video becomes a sensational online. Soon, the wrestler's promoter (Maggie Cheung) offers the three a large sum of money to take on three American wrestlers in a televised match. With the help of Fiona's former wrestler father (Eric Tsang), the three losers train to take on the biggest challenge of their lives.
Starring: Cho-lam Wong, Johnson Lee, Louis Yuen, Eric Tsang, Suet Lam, Fala Chen, Pauline Wong, Maggie Cheung, Kai Man Tin, Hoi-Ning Ko, Macy Chan, Fiona Sit
Director: Shu-Kai Chung
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Tags: Cho-lam Wong, Eric Tsang, Fala Chen, Fiona Sit, Hoi-Ning Ko, Johnson Lee, Kai Man Tin, Louis Yuen, Macy Chan, Maggie Cheung, Pauline Wong, Shu-Kai Chung, Suet Lam
Posted on May 12, 2012 |
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Summer Love Love / Summer Love 2011
Comedy | Romance
A group of teenagers set out to fulfill the meaning of their lives. They meet by chance, become friends, and fall in love.
Starring: Lik-Sun Fong, Elanne Kwong, Carol Yeung, J.J. Jia, Viann Zhang, Izumi Liu, Ao Quan, Terence Siufay, Eric Tsang
Director: Wilson Chin
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Tags: Ao Quan, Carol Yeung, Elanne Kwong, Eric Tsang, Izumi Liu, J.J. Jia, Lik-Sun Fong, Terence Siufay, Viann Zhang, Wilson Chin
Posted on May 12, 2012 |
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Love for Life / Mo shu wai zhuan / Zui Ai (2011)
Drama | Romance
The film, adapted from a novel, tells a tragic love story between two AIDS-afflicted lovers. Kwok plays a primary school teacher who is sent from the city to teach in the countryside, but contracts AIDS and develops a crush on Zhang Ziyi's character, also an AIDS patient.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Aaron Kwok, Wenli Jiang, Xuejian Li, Cunxin Pu, Baoqiang Wang
Director: Changwei Gu
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Tags: Aaron Kwok, Baoqiang Wang, Changwei Gu, Cunxin Pu, Wenli Jiang, Xuejian Li, Ziyi Zhang
Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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My Left Eye Sees Ghosts / Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai (2002)
Comedy | Family | Horror
A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.
Starring: Sammi Cheng, Ching Wan Lau, Tian-lin Wang, Simon Yam, Kelly Lin
Director: Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai
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Tags: Ching Wan Lau, Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai, Kelly Lin, Sammi Cheng, Simon Yam, Tian-lin Wang
Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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MicroSex Office / Chiu sing ban gung sut (2011)
Comedy
Once upon a time in Hong Kong, there's this traditional medicine oil company that has come seriously close to bankruptcy. However, its bored-stiff staff – the mean manager Ben Chow (Jim Chim), sleazy Tyson (Tyson Chak), love-deficient Hatou (Harriet Yeung), and clueless newbie Rachel (Koni Lui) – has nothing better to do than fantasizing about all kinds of sexual escapades in their cold drab little cubicles. Thankfully, their company is taken over by an adult toy enterprise from China, and their wet dreams come true when four delectable new coworkers (Yedda Chao, Jacqueline Chong, DaDa Chan, and Chen Zhi Ming) come to jazz up their office life!
Starring: Sui-man Chim, Harriet Yang, Koni Lui, Tyson Chak
Director: Sui-man Chim, Kung-Lok Lee
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Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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Punished / Bou ying (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When a tycoon's daughter is found dead of cocaine overdose after being rescued from abduction, he will stop at nothing to avenge her.
Starring: Anthony Wong, Richie Ren, Janice Man, Maggie Cheung, Candy Lo, Charlie Cho, Lei Lam, Jun Kung
Director: Wing-cheong Law
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Tags: Anthony Wong, Candy Lo, Charlie Cho, Janice Man, Jun Kung, Lei Lam, Maggie Cheung, Richie Ren, Wing-cheong Law
Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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A Chinese Ghost Story / A Chinese Fairy Tale / Sien nui yau wan (2011)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
In this remake of the 1987 Tsui Hark film, a young man Yan Chixia decides to become an exorcist and heads for the haunted Nanyak Temple in Black Mountain. He experienced many dangerous battles with demons in Black Mountain. His sword became more fearful, and he gets more powerful and confident. He overcomes all the spirits and monsters until the day he falls in love with the beautiful ghost Nie Xiaoqian and their sad story begins.
Starring: Louis Koo, Yifei Liu, Shao-qun Yu, Kara Hui, Elvis Tsui
Director: Wilson Yip
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Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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Swordsmen / Wu xia (2011)
Action | Drama
It is 1917 Yunnan and Liu Jinxi lives a quiet life with his wife Yu and their two young sons Xiaotian and Fangzheng. Liu runs a paper mill and the village prospers. One day, two fugitives arrive demanding money and after a long fight with Liu, end up dead. The bigger one is identified as an especially powerful fighter. Liu becomes a local hero but detective Xu Baijiu, an expert in physiology and pressure points, is puzzled how a seemingly ordinary man like Liu was able to defeat two hardened fugitives…
Starring: Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Tang, Xiao Ran Li, Yu Wang, Kara Hui, Wu Jiang, Yu Kang, Hua Yan
Director: Peter Chan
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Tags: Donnie Yen, Hua Yan, Kara Hui, Peter Chan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Tang, Wu Jiang, Xiao Ran Li, Yu Kang, Yu Wang
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Sasori / Female Convict Scorpion (2008)
Action
A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl in the most brutal women's prison ever seen. Inside the hellblocks, she decides to stop being a victim at all costs, and ends up becoming stronger and even more vicious than the craziest inmates in the pen. She eventually escapes in a most unusual way, gets valuable fight training from a mysterious mountain man and returns to the streets in order to make the thugs who ruined her life pay.
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Dylan Kuo, Emme Wong, Nana Natsume, Sam Lee, Siu-Lung Leung
Director: Joe Ma
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children / Fainaru fantajî VII: Adobento chirudoren (2005)
Action | Animation | Anime | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
This computer animated film picks up where the Playstation Final Fantasy VII video game left off. Cloud, the hero of the game, has retired into seclusion, but when a mysterious and lethal disease known as Geostigma begins to spread across the planet, and three powerful, villainous children appear, he reluctantly emerges to face the new and mysterious threats. Featuring some of the most spectacularly lavish computer graphics ever created, 'Advent Children' continues the complex and compelling tradition that has made the Final Fantasy series one of the most popular games of all time.
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto, Keiji Fujiwara, Taiten Kusunoki, Yûji Kishi, Kenji Nomura
Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
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Tags: Ayumi Ito, Keiji Fujiwara, Kenji Nomura, Maaya Sakamoto, Shotaro Morikubo, Taiten Kusunoki, Takahiro Sakurai, Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura, Yûji Kishi
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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The Contract / Mai shen qi (1979)
Comedy
The contract is a piece of almost blank paper by which MTV binds all its employees to eight years of impecunious service. Chi-Man, an aspiring but frustrated artist, hates the contract since he is given no chance of getting ahead. He constantly thinks of moving to greener pastures. His brother Chi-Ying is a self-made investor who has just come up with a laugh bomb. By chance, Chi-Man becomes the host of a Cat TV program. With the aid of the laugh bomb, he becomes an instant success, yet…
Starring: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Samuel Hui
Director: Michael Hui
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Treasure Inn / Cai Shen Ke Zhan (2011)
Action | Comedy
Master Kung and Lo Pa are two police officers of White Horse City, who have high skills but are underused. A robbery happened at he city's richest man Ho Pak Man's home where his whole family was killed and their family treasure the "White Jade Goddess of Mercy" was stolen and the "Police God" Tit Mo Ching investigates the case. Kung and Lo Pa cannot participate because of their low status.
Coincidentally, Master Kung and Lo Pa arrest a pair of twin sisters, Water Dragon Girl and Fire Dragon Girl, who always pretend to catch wanted criminals to get monetary rewards. The twin sisters know that the "White Jade Goddess of Mercy" would be brought to the "Treasure Inn" for an auction. Wanting to hit big, Master Kung and Lo Pa go to the "Treasure Inn" with the twin sisters to investigate the truth. During that time, Master Kung and Water Dragon Girl become lovers from a kiss.
Starring: Nick Cheung, Charlene Choi, Kenny Ho, Yi Huang, Philip Ng, Nicholas Tse, Yang Liu, Dawei Tong, Hei-Yi Cheng
Director: Jing Wong
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Tags: Charlene Choi, Dawei Tong, Hei-Yi Cheng, Jing Wong, Kenny Ho, Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Philip Ng, Yang Liu, Yi Huang
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake / Bai she chuan shuo (2011)
Action | Fantasy
Previously titled "It's Love" and "Madame White Snake", this is yet another movie adaptation of the popular old Chinese tale about a scholar who falls in love with a woman, not knowing she is a 1000-year-old serpent who has taken on human form. White Snake (Eva Huang), in the reincarnation of a beautiful lady, falls in love with a young herbalist Xu Xian (Raymond Lam). With help of Green Snake (Charlene Choi), she enters the human world to marry him. However, Fa Hai (Jet Li), a sorcerer from Jin Shan Temple, chances upon her and a fiery battle ensues.
Starring: Jet Li, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Zhang Wen, Vivian Hsu, Miriam Yeung, Kar-Ying Law, Suet Lam, Chapman To, Sonija Kwok, Alfred Hsing, Wu Jiang
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
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Tags: Alfred Hsing, Chapman To, Charlene Choi, Jet Li, Kar-Ying Law, Miriam Yeung, Raymond Lam, Shengyi Huang, Siu-Tung Ching, Sonija Kwok, Suet Lam, Vivian Hsu, Wu Jiang, Zhang Wen
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Love is the Only Answer / Ren Yue Li Hun Hou (2011)
Romance
At BO and CHEONG wedding reception, the projected was initially showing their journey of love, but suddenly a flash of a clip of CHEONG and a sexy girl being intimate came up. BO calmly ran up to the stage and announced that the wedding is cancelled. The incident rapidly became a hot topic on the internet.
Starring: Lik-Sun Fong, Charmaine Sheh, Kay Tse, Chung Him Law
Director: Patrick Kong
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Beginning of the Great Revival / The Founding of a Party / Jian Dang Wei Ye (2011)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Starring: John Woo, Yun-Fat Chow, Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Bingbing Fan, Leehom Wang, Ye Liu, Xun Zhou, Nick Cheung, Jie Dong, Xueqi Wang, Kun Chen, Daoming Chen, Alex Fong, Chao Deng, Miriam Yeung, Xiaodong Guo, Lei Huang, Benshan Zhao, Wei Fan, Tao Guo, Xuebing Wang, Guoli Zhang
Director: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
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Tags: Alex Fong, Andy Lau, Benshan Zhao, Bingbing Fan, Chao Deng, Daniel Wu, Daoming Chen, Guoli Zhang, Jianxin Huang, Jie Dong, John Woo, Kun Chen, Leehom Wang, Lei Huang, Miriam Yeung, Nick Cheung, Sanping Han, Tao Guo, Wei Fan, Xiaodong Guo, Xuebing Wang, Xueqi Wang, Xun Zhou, Ye Liu, Yun-Fat Chow
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Slice / Cheun (2010)
Thriller
A serial killer is preying on the rich and influential, exposing their sexual proclivities, dismembering them and dumping them and their severed body parts in various locations around Thailand. The police officer on the case is not even close to finding the killer, but given an ultimatum to solve it in 15 days, Papa Chin (Chatchai Plenpanich) turns to the one man he doesn't want to use — an imprisoned hitman named Tai (Arak Amornsupasiri), who thinks the killer is a friend of his from childhood. Tai let out of prison while his girlfriend Noi is kept under close watch by Chin.
Starring: Arak Amornsupasiri, Sonthaya Chitmanee, Jessica Pasaphan, Chatchai Plengpanich, Sikarin Polyong, Artthapan Poolsawad
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri
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Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Lan Kwai Fong / Xi ai ye pu (2011)
Drama | Romance
Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), a well-known party location in Hong Kong with loads of nightclubs and bars. Everyone likes to go to LKF for fun, one night stands or even true love. LKF has captured the joys and sorrows of many… One night, Steven – a regular of LKF met the flight attendant – Jennifer. They had sex on the first night they met but both could feel love come along. They had another date on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, misunderstanding tore them apart and Jennifer decided to disappear from LKF. After eight months, Steven meets with Jennifer again and hopes to restart a relationship with her. However, Jennifer is no longer single, she's now his boss, Leslie's girlfriend. At the same time, Steven receives a call that his close friend collapsed and had to be sent to hospital. His friend encouraged him to follow his heart. When he finally decides to tell Jennifer about his feelings, Jennifer is already engaged to Leslie. Steven is heart-broken. He accepts the job promotion to stay at an overseas' branch office. His friends throw him a farewell party. He reunites with Jennifer again at the party. Will the two be together again after everything they've been through in this place with tons of one night stands happening every night?
Starring: Pak-yu Chan, Yung Cheng, Steven Dasz, Jun Kung, Seth Leslie, Shiga Lin, Emme Wong, Seli Xian, Miki Yeung
Director: Wilson Chin
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Tags: Emme Wong, Jun Kung, Miki Yeung, Pak-yu Chan, Seli Xian, Seth Leslie, Shiga Lin, Steven Dasz, Wilson Chin, Yung Cheng
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Appleseed / Appurushîdo (2004)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
Set in a post-apocalyptic 2131 A.D.A.D., girl mercenary Deunen Knute finds herself spirited away from the badlands to the gleaming utopian city of Olympus. There she's reunited with her ex-b.f. Briareos, now half-man, half-cyborg. Deunen learns from new handler Hitomi that Olympus' serenity is founded on the use of bioroids, genetically engineered clones who hold key positions in the city's government. Hitomi herself is one. Superpowerful computer Gaia monitors all, through the mediation of seven Yoda-esque elders. When a shadowy faction opposed to the bioroids' civic control start blowing stuff up, Deunen and Briareos team up to protect the city.
Starring: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Asumi Miwa, Akimoto Tsubasa
Director: Shinji Aramaki
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Tags: Ai Kobayashi, Akimoto Tsubasa, Asumi Miwa, Jûrôta Kosugi, Shinji Aramaki, Yuki Matsuoka
