Cantonese

  • Hark Tsui – Hua yue jia qi aka Love in the time of twilight (1995)

    Hark Tsui1991-2000ComedyFantasyHong Kong

    The plot is hard to summarize because there’s so much going on and it happens so fast. A young man who works in a bank and a young woman who works at the Peking Opera in a bustling Chinese town at the turn of the century are looking for mates (along with dozens of other young singles) during an annual festival and continually cross paths, but instead of connecting, they keep antagonizing each other. When the man, Kong, is killed in a bank robbery, he appears as a ghost to the young woman, Yan Yan, two weeks later and manages to get her to go back in time with him to the day of the murder to try and change history. Things take a frenetic turn as the two keep running into their earlier selves and the now-dead robber’s ghost shows up to conspire with his living self to thwart the couple. A horrible fate awaits the couple in an eerie afterlife if they fail…Read More »

  • Tony Au – Mung chung yan AKA Dream Lovers (1986)

    1981-1990FantasyHong KongRomanceTony Au

    Without having met, a famous orchestra conductor and a beautiful woman seem destined to be together. They see one another’s faces in their dreams, reflected in mirrors, and in crowded streets before finally meeting in person.Read More »

  • Fruit Chan – Sam foo AKA Three Husbands (2018)

    Fruit Chan2011-2020ChinaDramaFantasy

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    A wondrous prostitute plies her trade while living on a boat in Hong Kong. With a superhuman libido and three loving husbands, she doggedly devotes herself to her work. Using sex to satirize the era, this film brims with intense desire.Read More »

  • Man Kei Chin – Yu pu tuan er zhi Yu nu xin jing AKA Sex and Zen II (1996)

    Man Kei Chin1991-2000EroticaFantasyHong Kong

    Sai Moon-Kin (Tsui) is a rich man who lives with his concubines and his son and a daughter named Yiau (Loletta Lee), who is raised like a boy and is ignorant of the ways of love. Because her brother is mentally retarded, Yiau wants to be her father’s heir but feels that she needs to go to school for the required education. Her desire to attend school leads her to a love affair with a lustful young scholar (Ken Lok). Only after she is equipped by a protective chastity belt, does her father let Yiau go to school, guised in drag.Read More »

  • Ringo Lam – Hok Haau Fung Wan AKA School on Fire (1988)

    1981-1990ActionCrimeHong KongRingo Lam

    A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong (Fennie Yuen) becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart (Roy Cheung), Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escalate.Read More »

  • Ka-Fai Wai – He ping fan dian AKA Peace Hotel (1995)

    Ka-Fai Wai1991-2000ActionAsianHong Kong

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    Chow Yun Fat’s last film in the pre-Handover Hong Kong film industry before he went on to try his luck in Hollywood, Peace Hotel was directed by regular Johnnie To collaborator Wai Ka Fai, produced by John Woo, and has the feel of a swan song. Indeed Chow Yun Fat’s next Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking film would come almost 20 years later. So it is quite suitable that his character in the film is known only as “the Killer”, echoing arguably the apex of his Hong Kong career and his legendary collaboration with John Woo. The Killer, as a gorgeous black-and-white prologue tells us, once wiped out an entire gang of horse thieves responsible for the death of his wife (Wu Chien Lien). His killing spree led him to an abandoned hotel, where after an experiencing an epiphany he spared the life of the last gang member. 10 years later, the hotel is not abandoned anymore : it has become a safe haven for fugitives and outlaws, run by the Killer himself. Read More »

  • Corey Yuen – Huang jia shi jie AKA Yes, Madam (1985) (HD)

    1981-1990ActionCorey YuenCrimeHong Kong

    Yes, Madam! was the first starring role for Malaysian-born actress and action superstar Michelle Yeoh, and the feature film debut of American martial arts expert Cynthia Rothrock. It was also the 2nd movie as director and action coordinator Corey Yuen, most well known internationally for The Transporter and DOA: Dead or Alive. But if you’re a Hong Kong action fan you may have seen his work in any number of films such as Jackie Chan’s Drunken MasterRead More »

  • Kaz Cai & Wang Jing & Anocha Suwichakornpong – Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2010)

    Kaz Cai2001-2010Anocha SuwichakornpongDramaThe Female GazeWang Jing

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    Helmed by three female directors, this omnibus features three films set in China, Thailand and Singapore. Each story occurs at a specific meal-time, and seeks to interpret the frailties and complexities of love through different East Asian perspectives. All three stories are tethered with the question, “Will you marry me?” Mirroring the repasts themselves, Breakfast and Dinner are heavier in tone, while Lunch is light with a sprinkle of humor.Read More »

  • Patrick Tam – Sat sau woo dip mung AKA My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)

    Patrick Tam1981-1990ActionHong KongRomance

    A young couple separates under pressure from vicious Triad gangsters–she becomes a mobster’s unwilling moll, and he travels abroad to work as an assassin. But their love stays strong, and when the two are reunited, their rekindled emotions lead them into extreme danger.Read More »

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