Story: Several infants have been kidnapped all over the city during the last few weeks, the police are without a clue to finding the criminals responsible. The police increase the security in the hospital but it is not use as the children are being taken away by some mysterious invisible force. Luckily a mysterious hero known only as Wonder Woman saves one of the children while the other is taken away. The father of the missing child is a high placed police officer who hires the services of a woman named Chat, she is a professional bounty hunter. Through a strange twist of events Chat and Wonder Woman end up working together against a far greater treat than just a simple kidnapper.Read More »
Hong Kong
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Johnnie To – Dung fong saam hap AKA The Heroic Trio (1993)
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Long-Cheung Tam – Tou tou ai ni AKA Blind Romance (1996)
1991-2000ComedyHong KongLong-Cheung TamRomanceFamous movie star Chi-sum cheats on her boyfriend, Wing, a saxophone player. But Chi-sum’s shy assistant, Tung-tung, secretly loves him. Wing is blinded in a car accident.Read More »
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Andrew Lau – Bat sei ching mai AKA Bullets of Love (2001)
Andrew Lau2001-2010ActionDramaHong KongSam, a Hong Kong cop, has busted crime lord Night. Ann, Sam’s girlfriend, is the prosecuting witness. Night is jailed for five years. On a trip to Paris, Ann is killed by an assassin. Sam quits the force and two years later, runs a bar on Lamma Island with his uncles. One day, a Japanese tourist who looks exactly like Ann arrives. Sam and the lady soon fall in love. However, that love is shortened when she holds a dark past and after a successful appeal, Night is back and out for revenge.Read More »
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Various – Qi ren yue dui AKA Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020)
2011-2020ArthouseHong KongShort FilmVariousPlot: Seven of Hong Kong’s leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1940s to the 2000s.Read More »
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Sammo Kam-Bo Hung – Mao tou ying yu xiao fei xiang AKA The Owl vs. Bumbo (1984)
1981-1990ActionComedyHong KongSammo Kam-Bo HungQuote:
Two retired thieves are blackmailed into teaching at a local Youth Probation Centre by ex-cop Chung. There, they teach the youngsters the value of self-respect. But their criminal past is never far behind.Read More » -
Johnnie To – Gao hai ba zhi lian II AKA Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
2011-2020DramaHong KongJohnnie ToRomanceIn a rare, but much welcome change of pace, Johnnie To came off the back of 2009’s disappointing multinational crime thriller, VENGEANCE, with two relatively light and fluffy romances. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART successfully navigated a complex and hard-to-predict love triangle through the tumultuous financial tsunami that hit Hong Kong harder than most. While the next film to be released in cinemas bearing To’s directorial moniker was LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE, a similarly finance-obsessed work, it was a project To had in fact been tinkering with for a number of years already. Instead, once DON’T GO BREAKING… had been completed, the Milkyway Image crew headed north into the mountains of Yunnan, where Louis Koo and Sammi Cheng would star in snowbound love story, ROMANCING IN THIN AIR.Read More »
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John Woo – Ying hung boon sik II AKA A Better Tomorrow II AKA A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987)
1981-1990ActionHong KongJohn WooRestaurant owner Ken Gor (Chow Yun-Fat), twin brother of Mark Gor, teams up with police detective Kit (Leslie Cheung) and his struggling ex-con brother Ho (Lung Ti) to avenge his old friend’s (Dean Shek) daughter’s death by a Triad gang.
In this sequel, Ho (Ti Lung) initially refuses to go undercover to bust the gang he used to work for in exchange for his release from prison. He only accepts after his little brother, the policeman Kit (Leslie Cheung) accepts the assignment. Meanwhile in New York Ken Gor (Chow Yun-Fat), the twin brother of Mark Gor from the 1st movie, shelters the boss of the gang, who has had to flee after it is taken over by a more aggressive leadership.Read More » -
Pou-Soi Cheang – Ai Zuo zhan AKA Love Battlefield (2004)
2001-2010ActionDramaHong KongPou-Soi CheangQuote:
“Love Battlefield” is one of those movies, along with Johnnie To’s crime thrillers, that you wish Hong Kong would do more of instead of indulging in 500 moronic slapstick comedies a year starring the same stable of pop “stars”. A blending of genres, “Battlefield” stars Eason Chan (”Heat Team”) as Yui, an ER nurse who finds life and love hard going after a bad breakup with live-in girlfriend Ching (Niki Chow). It’s bad enough that Yui’s love life is falling apart, but he soon stumbles into the nest of vicious drug smugglers from the Mainland who has come to Hong Kong to complete a transaction or die trying.Read More » -
John Woo – Ying hung boon sik AKA A Better Tomorrow (1986)
1981-1990ActionCrimeHong KongJohn WooQuote:
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.Read More »