Synopsis:
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.Read More »
Hong Kong
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Patrick Tam – Xue zai shao AKA Burning Snow (1988)
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Wing-Kin Yip – Gong fu chu shen AKA Kung Fu Chefs (2009)
2001-2010ActionComedyHong KongWing-Kin YipOusted chef Wong Bing-Yi is determined to help Shen Qing at her restaurant “Four Seas”. He trains a young chef, Lung Kin-Yat to compete against Chef Tin, the head chef at “Imperial Palace”, for the title of “Top Chef”.Read More »
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Andrew Lau – Oi gwan yue mung AKA Dance of a Dream (2001)
Andrew Lau2001-2010ComedyHong KongRomanceNamson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.Read More »
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Yonfan – Shao nu ri ji AKA A Certain Romance (1984)
1981-1990DramaHong KongYonfanMagy falls in love with a man she meets at the beach, while best friend Lily struggles with the fact that her single father has begun to show interest in another woman.Read More »
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Johnnie To – Shi wan huo ji AKA Lifeline (1997)
Johnnie To1991-2000ActionDramaHong KongFollows the lives of firefighters as they deal with joys and hardships, both on the job and with their own personal lives.Read More »
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Joe Ma – Gwong yat cham… Tin Hau AKA Diva: Ah Hey (2003)
Joe May2001-2010ComedyDramaHong KongAn aspiring songbird (Charlene Choi) gets a chance to prove her worth when she is asked to ghost-sing on a pop star’s (Niki Chow) album.Read More »
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Angela Chan – Kwai ching AKA Maybe It’s Love (1984)
1981-1990Angela ChanDramaHong KongMysteryA thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »
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Ann Hui – Ke tu qiu hen AKA Song Of the Exile (1990)
Ann Hui1981-1990ArthouseDramaHong KongSet in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.Read More »
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Johnnie To – Sam Sei Goon AKA Justice, My Foot! (1992)
Johnnie To1991-2000ComedyHong KongMartial ArtsSung Shih Chieh, a brilliant, but somewhat shifty lawyer who uses his verbal dexterity in the pursuit of cash, not justice. His kung-fu kicking wife frowns on his success as it has had a terrible karmic price: all twelve of their infant sons have died prematurely. Sung agrees to leave his legal chicanery behind, but a murder case involving Madame Chou arrives on his doorstep. Sung is pulled out of self-imposed retirement by this sensational case, and the Qing Dynasty legal world had better watch out!Read More »