A hilarious comedy starring HUI brothers, Michael and Ricky. Michael plays an aspiring actor looking for his big break and brother Ricky is a wacky inventor who has just created Hong Kong’s first “laugh” bomb. Chi Man (Michael Hui) signs an eight-year contract, which is a piece of almost blank paper, with MTV. His career is hindered. He is going to steal the contract with the help of Chi Ying (Ricky Hui) and Sai Kit (Sam Hui), a young magician.Read More »
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Michael Hui – Mai sun kai AKA The Contract (1978)
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Wei Lo – Hai yuan chi hao AKA Wang Yu’s 7 Magnificent Fights (1973)
1971-1980ActionHong KongMartial ArtsWei LoAfter accidentally killing another sailor, seaman Wang Hai-lung stows away on a ship bound for Japan. While Wang discovers the ship is involved in smuggling and witnesses the murder of a detective, Wang is discovered by the smugglers.Read More »
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Wei Lo – Long hu jin hu AKA The Tattooed Dragon (1973)
Wei Lo1971-1980ActionHong KongMartial ArtsWang Yu stars as the Tattooed Dragon, who comes to the rescue after Mafia- types take over a small village. They set up gambling halls and soon thereafter the men in the village lose everything to the mob. Dragon uses his skills to beat the mobsters at their own game. He can actually hear the dice as they tumble and can pick the correct number to bet on. He breaks the bank and wins back all the money that the villagers lost. Dragon makes them promise never to gamble again. The mobsters go after Dragon, but as always Good triumphs over Evil.Read More »
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Xiaolu Guo – She, a Chinese (2009)
Drama2001-2010ArthouseUnited KingdomXiaolu GuoThis is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her entrapment begins anew.Read More »
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Kang Cheng & Han Hsiang Li – Niu gui she shen AKA Tales of Larceny (1973)
1971-1980ComedyHan Hsiang LiHong KongKang ChengIn “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen’s cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw’s exceptional character actors.Read More »
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Yimou Zhang – Wo de fu qin mu qin AKA The Road Home (1999)
1991-2000ChinaDramaFifth Generation Chinese CinemaRomanceYimou ZhangPlot: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.Read More »
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Ziniu Wu – Wan zhong AKA Evening Bell (1989)
1981-1990ChinaFifth Generation Chinese CinemaWarZiniu WuFive Eighth-Route army soldiers induce a isolated Japanese squad to capitulate.
Set on the end of WWII, Evening Bell follows a battle-hardened band of five Chinese soldiers struggling across a remote landscape wracked by post-armistice horrors. Stumbling from one grim aftermath to the next, they bury piles of the dead, help terrified peasants disarm landmines and save a Japanese officer from dying of exposure. When the officer leads them to a detachment of thirty-three starving Japanese soldiers, the film becomes a tension-filled standoff. In his films Wu Ziniu attempts to lead audiences below the surface of war to focus on human relationships instead of ideology. Needless to day, his approach to this genre has brought him criticism within China. (His third feature Dove Tree, about the Chinese-Vietnamese Border war, is still banned for its sympathetic treatment of the enemy.) Read More »
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Han Hsiang Li – Chou wen AKA Scandal (1974)
1971-1980ComedyHan Hsiang LiHong KongDirector Li Han-hsiang teams up again with the irreverent comedic talents of Michael Hui Kwun-man in this tongue-in-cheek drama. Corruption is rife in Wan Ping County in Hopei Province. Two good-for-nothing loafers Chen Ming (Michael Hui Kwun-man) and Chia Liang (Wang Sheng) arrive and turn the officials on their head. After a bout of blackmailing, they end up in positions of power themselves. It’s all done with the best intentions, or so they believe.Read More »
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Han Hsiang Li – Hou men AKA Rear Entrance (1960)
Han Hsiang Li1951-1960DramaHong KongThe Tsui’s live a happily married middle-class life on a quiet residential street in Hong Kong. He is a writer, she works at a kindergarten. There is only one thing missing from their life – children. Across the street lives a young girl who spends all day playing on the street, alone…Read More »