Cantonese

  • Yee-Hung Lam – Pang foo AKA My Better Half (1993)

    1991-2000CrimeEroticaHong KongYee-Hung Lam

    A set of three stories, each concerning a woman’s difficulty with her husband. Story 1 is set in 1940, in a brothel fallen on hard times. Their star attraction is Flora, but she marries a local fishseller, only to kill him with too much sex on their wedding night, then he comes back as a jealous ghost. Story 2 is possibly in the 1960s, regarding a poor family where the husband is very ill with TB and the wife has to work overtime. A chicken seller lusts after her, and helps pay for the husband’s operation. But when he finds out…… Story 3 concerns a paranoid former nightclub hostess, “Beautiful Ho”, who marries Robert (a client) on a whim, then drives herself mad (or madder) suspecting him of wooing girls. She is seen telling her story in a police station, where she is being held for chopping up and cooking her husband.Read More »

  • Billy Chan – Long feng zei zhuo zei AKA License to Steal (1990)

    1981-1990ActionBilly ChanComedyHong Kong

    Godenzi plays an acrobatic thief who, after taking part in an elaborate burglary, is double-crossed by her partner (Aurelio) and is captured by the police. On her release from prison, Godenzi discovers that her betrayer is now a highly influential criminal in the area and commands a posse of hired thugs. With a new partner by her side, Godenzi looks to avenge her imprisonment and steal the valuables her former partner had double-crossed her for.Read More »

  • Chia-Liang Liu – Chang men jen aka The Lady is the Boss (1983)

    Chia-Liang Liu1981-1990AsianHong KongMartial Arts

    Liu Chia-Liang plays Wang Hsieh Yun, a teacher of a martial arts school teacher who has just reopened the school after having to move due to the government building a road where the school once stood. The school’s original master was to come and help open the school, but sends his Americanized daughter Mei Ling (Kara Hui) in his place, hence making her the senior and boss. Mei Ling feels Master Wang’s techniques are old fashioned and take to long to learn, boasting that her father has changed the way he teaches and that she is the authority on how it should be done. Read More »

  • Yonfan – Mei shao nian zhi lian AKA Bishonen (1998)

    1991-2000DramaHong KongQueer Cinema(s)RomanceYonfan

    Quote:
    Jet is the star gigolo in Hong Kong. Arrogant, sexy, everyone falls in love with him, but he falls in love with no one… until one day he meets Sam, the hunkiest policeman to ever pound a beat on Hollywood Road. From then on, Jet changes himself into somebody he is not: innocent, sweet, clean, pure. It’s way of setting a trap to catch Sam. But unknowingly Jet falls into the trap himself. Things begin to get out of control when it turns out that Sam’s past is part of Jet’s present.Read More »

  • Ann Hui – My Way (2012)

    2011-2020Ann HuiArthouseHong KongShort Film

    Ann Hui’s My Way—starring Francis Ng and Jade Leung—is about a pre-op transsexual man nervously waiting for his operation. It is a stylishly melancholic film, and defined by the moment when he goes to the hospital for the operation, goes to sleep in the male ward (next to a newspaper reading old man) and wakes as a woman in the female ward…and finally indulging in a smile of relief and happiness.Read More »

  • Ricky Lau – Gui yao gui AKA Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind 2 (1989)

    1981-1990ComedyHong KongHorrorRicky Lau

    SYNOPSIS
    Sammo Hung and Lam Ching Ying star in this misadventure into the world of the undead. This is one on the many films that Sammo and Lam did in Lams Horror/Comedy series of films, They also worked on some other HK classics together both serious and comedy/horror.The film starts with Sifu and Sammo and the girl running and hiding. Sammo and the girl hide in an old building to be almost immediately haunted by a hopping vampire that’s not very friendly, there Sammo smokes opium with the ghoul and the stage is set for monster mayhem HK style with comedy and horror galore. I really liked the sets in this film as well as the special effects, I cant tell much on the story so as not to ruin the plot for you. Read More »

  • Billy Hin-Shing Tang – Woo dung saai yan si gin AKA Interactive Murders (2002)

    2001-2010Billy Hin-Shing TangCrimeHong KongMystery

    Pop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.Read More »

  • Michael Hui – Tian cai yu bai chi AKA The Last Message (1975)

    Michael Hui1971-1980ComedyHong Kong

    Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man and Li (Samuel Hui) is a nurse in the Hang Seng Sanitarium. Together thez engage in dubious plots and exploits.Read More »

  • Shu-Kai Chung – Daai cheung foo 2 AKA Men Suddenly in Black 2 (2006)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaHong KongShu-Kai Chung

    The war between men and women never ends… Last time, Tin, Dr. Lee and Chao failed in the “mission”, but they didn’t take this as a lesson. They are more cautions these years and success to fool around behind their wives. This time, the team grows by a new comer – a university student Sai. At the same time, Mary, Ching, Chao’s wife and Ling (Sai’s girlfriend) get a DVD from Auntie Ninth. It is a very popular DVD among women recently, which is a documentary to teach women how to fooling around. Four women go to Macau to break the bond of morality. It is too late when the men discover this. They rush to Macau to ruin the women’s plan. A battle between women and men begins…Read More »

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