Ann Hui

  • Ann Hui – Tin shui wai dik ye yu mo AKA Night and Fog (2009)

    2001-2010Ann HuiAsianDramaHong Kong

    Russell Edwards at Variety:
    Domestic violence gets a compelling once-over in Hong Kong vet Ann Hui’s “Night and Fog,” which rises above its low-budget limitations on the basis of its hot-button topic and stellar performances. Establishing an air of fatalism at the start, this is a distinctly grim companion piece to Hui’s 2008 pic, “The Way We Are,” which offered a more benign portrait of the same Hong Kong town. Hui’s home fanbase should ensure respectable B.O. upon release in May for a subject many would like swept under the carpet. Further afield, the pic will become a fixture of quality fest programs.Read More »

  • Ann Hui – Jin ye xing guang can lan AKA Starry is the Night (1988)

    1981-1990Ann HuiArthouseDramaHong Kong

    A social worker falls in love with a teenager, and remembers an affair she had with a professor while she was at university.

    Quote:
    Cosmo Bjorkenheim@screenslate
    “I spent a year at the Vidal Sassoon headquarters,” brags Lydia (Brigitte Lin), a sprightly social worker trying to impress Tian-An (David Ng), a stock market whiz kid and aspiring hairstylist. It’s a fitting overture for a movie brimming with striking hair, from Tian-An’s very 1987 mullet to Cai-Wei’s very 1966 bob-with-bangs, from Dr. Zhang’s (George Lam) caterpillar mustache to Lydia’s butch-adjacent boy-cut. It works; Tian-An falls for Lydia, and despite their nearly 20-year age difference, their relationship flourishes in health and happiness—or does it?Read More »

  • Patrick Tam – Ai sha AKA Love Massacre (1981)

    1981-1990DramaHong KongMysteryPatrick Tam

    Quote:
    Set in a surprisingly minimalist San Francisco, Patrick Tam’s stylish slasher movie manages to evoke both Antonioni and Mario Bava in this tale of a ravishing young co-ed (Brigitte Lin) whose studly boyfriend (Chang Kuo-chu) turns into a demented stalker after the suicide of his sister.Read More »

  • Ann Hui – Visible Secret aka Youling renjian (2001)

    2001-2010Ann HuiAsianCultHong Kong

    IMDB:
    An unemployed hairdresser and a strange nurse, meet at a club and start a romance. Since meeting her, the young man encounters unexplained things which she says are spirits she can see. They run into people apparently under attack by ghosts and unexplainable deaths to the point that he wants to call off the relationship. The morbidly quirky mystery unravels as they track down details of the decades old death of a loan shark.Read More »

  • Ann Hui – Ke tu qiu hen AKA Song Of the Exile (1990)

    1981-1990Ann HuiArthouseDramaHong Kong

    Quote:
    Encoded to make it easier for me to watch. Roughly followed the HANDJOB guide, figured I may as well upload here. The source was cn1831’s DVD (originally LaserDisc?) upload, which is better than the other DVD encode on here. The subs are hardcoded, and I’m sure someone could do a better job encoding, so trump away. Hopefully there’ll be a better quality release one day.Read More »

  • Ann Hui – Woo Yuet dik goo si AKA The Story of Woo Viet (1981)

    1981-1990Ann HuiCrimeDramaHong Kong

    Quote:
    Hong Kong, 1980. The Vietnam War has been over for five years and the ethnic cleansing of Chinese has begun. As the “boat people”, refugees of Vietnam, flood out of the country, Hong Kong becomes know as “port of first asylum”. Among these boats is Wu Yiet (Chow Yun-Fat), a former South Vietnamese soldier still recovering from the ravages of war. For him, Hong Kong is the first step for life in the United States, and he soon falls for fellow immigrant Sum Ching (Cherie Chung). Yet the promise of a new beginning doesn’t come easy: the refugee camps have been infiltrated by murderous Viet Cong agents, and an act of violence forces Wu Yiet on the run and deeper into a vortex of crime and brutality. Read More »

  • Ann Hui – Ji dao zhui zong AKA Zodiac Killers (1991)

    1991-2000Ann HuiDramaHong KongThriller

    PLOT SUMMARY
    A group of idealistic Chinese students move into Toyko’s Shinjuku district to attend school in a more relaxed, less competitive setting. However, they soon find themselves inextricably embroiled in the Yakuza underworld with little hope of survival.Read More »

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