Country - Hong Kong

Lethal Ninja. The Iga and Koga ninja are at each other's throats again, this time because Dr. Kikuchi, head of the Iga ninja, has developed a serum that cures everything, and the evil arch-villain "Brian" (Waise Lee) wants it, and has the... » MORE

1:99. An anthology of eleven short films designed to give Hong Kong people hope during the SARS crisis. But the best all the talent in Hong Kong can produce ends up being about as uplifting as a Claritin commercial, with each... » MORE

2 Become 1. A sensitive look at breast cancer. Though, I don't really recall Hong Kong movies ever being particularly insensitive about the topic. This is unusual, as Hong Kong movies typically have a cruel, schoolyard sense of humor about personal illness and... » MORE

2 Young. Two young teens (Jaycee Fong and Fiona Sit) fall in love and fool around one night and -- whoops! Fiona is pregnant. Now they must decide whether to get an abortion or try to raise the child in opposition to... » MORE

2002. Nicolas Tse is the head cop in a special, secret ghostbusting crime unit, and his partner, played by Sam Lee, is a ghost. But when Lee reincarnates, he needs to find someone new -- and ends up with fresh-faced traffic... » MORE

6 AM. The corpse isn't even cold yet but here's a parody/knock off of Jiang Hu. Steven Cheung and Kenny Kwan are Noodle and Bowl respectively, two lazy students who stumble into a triad lottery where the unlucky winner will have to... » MORE

A1. No, it's not about a steak sauce. A-1 I imagine refers to the front page of the newspaper: section A, page 1. Ling (Angelica Lee Sinje) is a fashion reporter, Kevin (Edison Chen) her photographer. She wants to quit her... » MORE

Abnormal Beauty. Jiney (Race) and her girlfriend Jasmine (Rosanne) are art students into photography. But then Jin takes a picture of a dead body and becomes obsessed with death, snapping pictures of dead animals, brooding, contemplating suicide, and having traumatic memories of... » MORE

Accidental Spy, The. Jackie Chan is once again in globetrotting mode, this time hitting all the tourist destinations in Istanbul. Having been there myself just recently, spotting all the locations was half the fun. Which is a good thing, since the movie itself... » MORE

Aces go Places. One of Hong Kong's classic action comedy series began here, written, directed, and produced by the Cinema City collective, who turned making comedies into a science, estimating and ensuring proper gag to reel ratios. A sendup of Hollywood action films... » MORE

Aces Go Places II. The "Best Partners" Sam Hui and Karl Maka return for the first of four sequels to the popular film ACES GO PLACES. This time out our heroes must face the mafia assassin "Filthy Harry," killer robots, and a gang of... » MORE

Aces Go Places V The Terracotta Hit. Aces Go Places V The Terracotta Hit is the last in a series of films which were in many ways a watershed in Hong Kong Cinema. The Aces Go Places series established, once and for all, that chop-socky wasn't all... » MORE

Air Hostess. It was another age, another lifetime ago, but at one point being a stewardess was actually a "glamour" job, one that applicants worked hard to attain. I must admit even today I am blown away by the linguistic skills of... » MORE

All for the Winner. Stephen Chow parodies the God of Gamblers with his own character, the Saint of Gamblers, in a movie that becomes just as big a hit. ... » MORE

All of a Sudden. Two guys are just yelling at each other after a minor fender bender, when all of a sudden, a naked woman crashes onto the top of one of their cars, dead, an apparent suicide. ... » MORE

Angel Cop: Final Crisis. If you asked who you had to sleep with to get a decent part in a Hong Kong film, the answer is most decidedly not Jackie Chan, since Elaine Ng, recent mother of his illegitimate child, ended up in this... » MORE

Anna in Kung Fu Land. Miriam Yeung stars as the daughter of an ex-Shaolin Monk, who comes to Hong Kong to win a martial arts championship and prove her father's righteousness. Ekin Cheng is the organizer of the tournament. It's love at first sight, only... » MORE

Armageddon. Director Gordon Chan pulled out all the stops on this one, creating a big budget, high concept snooze-fest that should have been much better than it is. Perhaps he should have left a few of the stops in. It might... » MORE

Astonishing. This thriller from Herman Yau asks what would happen if you woke up one day and everyone treated you like you were someone else. Someone you knew. And that person that you knew, is now you, and works at your... » MORE

Attack of the Joyful Goddess. Never put baby dolls face up in the trunk, they might kill you. Oh, and its also a bad idea to kill one of the actors and bury them under the stage. But you probably knew that. ... » MORE

Attractive One, The. These cookie cutter romances deserve a cookie cutter response. Perhaps I should review them using a standard template. Writer/Director Matt Chow shovels up more of the same for a tired, bored audience.... » MORE

Autumn Diary, An. There are a lot of points to recommend this film, if only it didn't just boil down to the same tired, formulaic tripe that we've been served so many times before. Nicola Cheung is a spoiled rich girl who has... » MORE

Avenging Fist, The. There are a lot of problems with this science fiction spectacle film, beginning with the fact that it was originally intended to be based on the "Tekken" arcade game, until Namco got wind and got ready to sue. No doubt... » MORE

Bachelors Beware. Ding Xiaoyuan (Linda Lin Dai)is a mainland village girl heading to Hong Kong in the hopes of marrying her childhood sweetheart Zhengguang (Chang Yang), not knowing that he's just into playing the scene these days and thinks of her as... » MORE

Bakery Amour. When Lok To's (Michelle Reis) new neighbors move in, Uncle Jet (Francis Ng) finds the previous tenant has been stealing all of her mail, including 99 letters from her boyfriend in Paris. Her boyfriend has given up, but Uncle Jet... » MORE

Bat Without Wings. Five years ago, 28 of the best boxers of the martial world teamed up to defeat the villainous "Bat Without Wings." In the end, legend has it, he killed 26 of the boxers buy was finally defeated. But it isn't... » MORE

Battle of Wits. A stranger emerges from the desert to defend a city from a maurauding army. He serves the people but gets nothing but contempt in return. The well worn story is transplanted into ancient China and refreshed by a focus on... » MORE

Beast of Tutor. A tutor (Ng Ting) rapes his students, and Sophie Ngan is the cop that brings him in and forces his confession. The story is told in flashback. He started out just fantasizing, but then his young tutee caught him whacking... » MORE

Beasts, The. Siblings Ah Ling (Patricia Chong) and Ah Wah (Eddie Chan) join a fresh-faced group of city teens to take a weekend camping trip in the mountains outside of Hong Kong. Alas, the villagers don't care for visitors, much, and a... » MORE

Beauty and the Breast. Since last year a movie had great success showing two men developing a new type of bra (La Brassiere), I suppose having two men develop breast enhancement cream is the next logical step. And when they actually grow breasts, well,... » MORE

Beijing Rocks. Hey, Beijing really does rock in this movie about a wimpy Hong Kong pop musician (Daniel Wu) whose rich folks send him to Beijing for inspiration. He gets in trouble, instead, and ends up going on the road with some... » MORE

Below the Lion Rock: Road. Grandma checks in to a women's rehab clinic to kick the opium habit, but her daughter Chui Fong (Carol DoDo Cheng) still puffs her life away, mainly because it is so dreary, and because her husband ran off after hearing... » MORE

Between Tears and Laughter. The title neatly sums up the movie -- it is neither particularly funny nor particularly tragic. The story coasts along on the charisma of its stars, which admittedly is quite considerable. Three women who live together for no apparent reason... » MORE

Beyond Our Ken. Ken (Daniel Wu) is a sturdy fireman who has no trouble with the ladies. That is, until his ex girlfriend Ching (Gillian Cheung) shows up one day at the nightclub where his current girlfriend Zhou-lan (Tao Hong) is a waitress,... » MORE

Beyond the Great Wall. He's the worst kind of villain: the small-minded, petty, vindictive, mid-level bureaucrat that ruins people's lives to maintain his status or to revenge for losing status. It's not good for one's blood pressure to watch too many films with this... » MORE

Big Boss Untouchable. It's 2003 and people are still trying to imitate Bruce Lee. Come on, people, get a hobby. This time Dragon Sek does his best Lee while costar Karen Cheung tries her hand at imitating Angela Mao. Both the leads have... » MORE

Black Butterfly. What if, after a disaster struck, you are asked by the Red Cross and other organizations for a generous donation? What if you refuse to donate for your own personal reasons regardless of your wealth? The answer here is simple... » MORE

Black Mask vs. Gambling Mastermind. I have a very high tolerance for garbage. So it comes as something of a surprise that I quite simply could not finish watching BLACK MASK VS. GAMBLING MASTERMIND: not after shutting it off and returning to it a few... » MORE

Black Night. After the success of THREE and THREE: EXTREMES, it was only a matter of time before other studios had a go at the horror "triptych" using the same box office generating conceit of featuring directors and actors from several asian... » MORE

Bloody Cops. Bloody awful, more like. Veteran actor Roy Cheung, who can often turn in memorable and exciting supporting performances, is dull as white toast as the star in this mystery about a murdered teacher stuffed in a box. Roy Cheung is... » MORE

Bomb-Shell, The. In Hong Kong movies, the cross-eyed, buck-toothed moron has only two options -- comedic relief or maniacal remourseless killer. This time its the latter, and ever since his cross-eyed girlfriend died he just watches TV and makes bombs. Admittedly, I... » MORE

Born to be King. In the (so far) final entry in the Young & Dangerous series, Ho Nam (Ekin Cheng) learns that nothing says success more than having your own personal attache.... » MORE

Born Wild. Tide (Daniel Wu) and Tan (Louis Koo) are fraternal twins -- even in the womb, they were always competing, always boxing. All grown up, Tan is found dead and Tide, who hasn't seen his brother since he turned 18, meets... » MORE

Boxing King, The. Fan Siu Wong plays a dim witted construction worker who knows how to fight. He gets into boxing, and gets his brains bashed out. This doesn't make him smarter, but neither does it have any other noticable effect, other than... » MORE

Boy Met Girl. Not a bad story, for once, with occassionally complex emotional relationships. But for some reason it was shot as a Category III movie, despite the fact that none of the main characters reveal anything. So you have a movie which... » MORE

Bullets of Love. A Hong Kong/Japanese co-production starring Leon Lai as a cop and Asaka Sato as his girlfriend lawyer. When he captures and she puts behind bars one half of the dynamic criminal duo "Day and Night," a hitwoman is hired to... » MORE

Butterfly. Flavia (Josie Ho) is a schoolteacher at an all-girls school, married to the nice and low key Mark (Eric Kot), and has a one-year old daughter. The only trouble is, she is gay, and once she meets the free spirited... » MORE

Cafe Shop. Tsui Kam Kong is a fun Hong Kong actor who has been around for ages, playing masculine, bald, and mustached types for as long as I can remember. Whether engaged in wild, over-the-top wire fu or wild, over-the-top flying mad... » MORE

Call-Girls, The. Who knew that 2008 would be the year that Hong Kong learned, in great detail, Edison Chen's sexual proclivities? Oral sex, thankfully off of the front pages of newspapers ever since Bill Clinton left the White House, shot up and... » MORE

Cheaters, The. Overly complicated heist plot about a crack team of professional thieves who decide to ride the coattails of a big time conman (Simon Lui) who has joined a corporation in order to steal HK redevelopment plan dollars. I'm not entirely... » MORE

Cherie. Utterly charming romantic comedy showcasing one of the most popular stars of the early eighties, Cherie Cheung. I've never really gotten the appeal too much, but here she radiantly beautiful and puts in a good performance as well, so consider... » MORE

China's Next Top Princess. The title promised a sort of parody of the "Next Top Model"-type reality TV shows, a thin subject for parody as the reality shows themselves are already parodies of themselves. It doesn't matter, anyway, as the movie itself is totally... » MORE

Chinatown Kid. Alexander Fu-Sheng is a poor kid from the Mainland who pretty much only cares about money and really nice watches. His watch fetish takes him to San Francisco, and soon he's dressing nice and killing people. ... » MORE

Chinese Ghost Story. This is the classic Tsui Hark tale that made ghost stories popular again. Beautiful ghosts, giant tongues, and warrior priests battle it out with scholar Leslie Cheung right in the middle of it all. ... » MORE

Chinese Ghost Story 2. The adventures of scholar Ning continue, when a series of coincidences and chance meetings thrust him into the center of political intrigue that threatens the nation itself. ... » MORE

Chinese Ghost Story III, A. 100 years have passed since the end of A Chinese Ghost Story, and the evil tree demon is back, having licked its wounds and recovered from its battle with the Taoist Master Yan. A Chinese Ghost Story III is in... » MORE

Chinese Orthopedist and the Spice Girls. Another shot on video cheapie from Small Siu and B&S Creative Films Workshop, and not even the presence of mid-level talent like Cecilia Yip, Kenny B, and Shing Fui On can save it. Four girls live it up and get... » MORE

Chiseen. Cut rate quickimart version of JACKASS. As if the world needs such a thing. Apparently these short clips ran on MTV Asia, and have been compiled into a DVD by Taiseng for sale in the U.S. It does not appear... » MORE

Christ of Nanjing, The. A Japanese writer cures his writer's block by going to China and sleeping with a young virgin. At first a pretty good deal, but tragedy results. ... » MORE

City of Desire. Sandra Ng stars as a daughter returning to Macao to take over her father's business. Only trouble is, his business is prostitution, and it isn't pretty. Alex Fong is her childhood friend who wants to settle down with her, Anthony... » MORE

Clueless. Enjoyable supernatural thriller about buddy cops (Hacken Lee and Tsui Kam-Kong) investigating cases involving the supernatural. First they have to stop a serial rapist who can leave his body while sleeping to attack women, then Hell's hitmen show up and... » MORE

Cocktail. Candy (Candy Lo) owns the bar "Half-Mortal" (or Heaven/Hell, depending on whether you believe the subtitles or read the sign out front). Her employees, Stella (Race Wong) and Paul (Endy Chow), serve drinks at the bar to a seemingly... » MORE

Cohabitation. A contemporary social drama about lovers (Lin Chen-Chi and Tsung Hua) who live together before getting married. Scandalous! Or presumably, it was more so at the time. He's a writer of fiction columns in the newspaper, she ran away from... » MORE

Colour of Pain. A hit man from Japan (Kenya Sawada) gets a bullet in his brain while on assignment in Hong Kong and can't go home again (apparently since the airport metal detectors would go off and people would have questions). With nothing... » MORE

Comic King. Eason Chan and Julian Cheung are a comic book artist and writer who work to create their own best selling series of comics. They interact with their own creations, including their dramatic hero, played by Nic Tse. The first part... » MORE

Confession of Pain. The Writing and Directing team of the famous INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, and Felix Chong) reunite for another tale of police treachery and two men at odds with each other, one trying to find the truth, the... » MORE

Conman. Andy Lau is a conman just out of prison. So of course he rushes to the blackjack table, in the first of what eventually becomes a new, loosely defined, "conman" series of films, that are smaller, less flashy, and altogether... » MORE

Conman 2002. Nick Cheung stars as the unluckiest man alive. When he starts dating the sister of a top gambler (Stephen Fung), the gambler decides to use his bad luck to make him his student. Some moments are mildly amusing but gambling... » MORE

Conmen in Vegas. Never has a gambling movie contained so little actual gambling. But there is some poo shaped like Mickey Mouse, if that's any consolation. ... » MORE

Cop on a Mission. Daniel Wu stars as a cop who goes undercover and finds he likes it there more than he should. Eric Tsang does his best Robert DeNiro as Al Capone impersonation as the Triad boss he's trying to bring down. And... » MORE

Cop Shop Babes. Eason Chan is pretty entertaining sometimes as the slob in a buddy picture, where the other buddy is a straight man, or at least more handsome. The mistake here, is pairing him with Jerry Lamb, who is even worse. The... » MORE

Cop Unbowed. Lam (Alex Fong) and Fung (Michael Tse) were best of pals, until Fung accidentally kills the girlfriend of Mr. Dick (Eddy Ko), the mob boss. Fung blames it on Lam, which cuts their friendship short prematurely, and permanently, as Lam... » MORE

Cops and Robbers. Pretty much what the title says. The cops are really, really good guys, fighting evil and generally finding it tough to get a date with the same sense of social justice. Sarge (Wang Chung) is the best of the bunch... » MORE

Crazy for Pig Bone in Pot. A scruffy loser wanders into a fancy subdivision in Shenzhen and finds a large house that appears to be empty, the owners on vacation. He invites his girldfriend over, but in the meantime, the owner's sex-crazed wife (Emily Kwan) returns... » MORE

Crazy Safari. A hopping vampire falls out of a plane, and lands in South Africa, where a little bushman discovers it, and is not sure what to do. Sure is a hell of a lot more confusing than that Coke bottle was,... » MORE

Crazy Scum Dicky's Journal. Well, I'm not quite sure who Dicky was, nor am I sure why he is supposed to be crazy scum. The movie concerns an advertising agency headed by a sex crazed boss (Grace Lam), and an undersexed employee (Samuel Leung... » MORE

Cream Soda & Milk. It starts out promising enough, with a divorce separating a brother Ding Dong (Yen Chiu-hua) from his sister Ding Ling (Lee Yin Yin). Dad, raising Ding Dong solo, promises to do well, and that they'll be together like Cream Soda... » MORE

Crime of Beast II. Category III sex kittens Grace Lam and Sophia Ngan star, but, no doubt due to costs, only one gets naked. ... » MORE

Cyber Cafe. When an IT professional (Ng Ting) loses his job, he decides to start a cyber cafe, thinking his background would be perfect. Little does he know that the popular cyber cafes are more like cyber brothels, and the computers have... » MORE

D7: Dangerous Duty. For a movie supposedly starring Max Mok Siu-Chung, there is surprisingly little of him in it. In fact, he dies in the opening scene. He does reappear later though: in a flashback repeating the first scene, but this time in... » MORE

Dance of a Dream. Comparisons to the Japanese film SHALL WE DANCE are inevitable in this film about a girl (Sandra Ng) who becomes infatuated with a dance instructor (Andy Lau) and decides to learn to dance. But where SHALL WE DANCE soared as... » MORE

Danger Zone. The young girls who became cops in BRUSH UP MY SISTERS are back, in a digital video production better than the original, but saddled with a much less evocative title. This time around, the girls (Teresa Mak, Jade Leung, Pinky... » MORE

Dare Ya!. A documentary about the Cantonese hip-hop group LMF (LazyMuthaFuckahs, for the uninitiated). Bandmember talking heads tell us why they love getting high and playing video games while the documentary utterly fails to provide any context as to why we should... » MORE

Dark War. A pretty-boy hit man (Peter Ho Yun Tung) gets a job at a hotel in the Philippines run by an old timer played by Yasuaki Kurata, and kills for only ten bucks a hit. Turns out it's because he's the... » MORE

Dating Death. A group of friends go out to a private island villa, where one of them, after confessing his love of one of the girls, is brutally killed. Five years later, they all go back, and natually, get bumped off one... » MORE

Day Off. I feel like I know all the plot elements by heart, now, they are so familiar in Hong Kong cinema: the story of a hitman (Nick Cheung), a loner, who had a terrible childhood. He never sees the man who... » MORE

Dead End. Pinky Cheung, on the run from her past, goes down to the harbor to commit suicide. Jackie Lui is there, too, drinking away his depression with Heineken. He saves her, and ends up taking her in. The two have nowhere... » MORE

Deadly Camp 2003. The owner of a small advertising company (Tony Ho) has an affair with his client, a Japanese model (Ohsako Yumi). They head off to a deserted island for a photo shoot, along with the rest of the company, which consists... » MORE

Deadly Melody. Everyone who rents a specific CD from the music store ends up committing suicide. One girl does a neat trick of dripping hot candle wax on her face until it is completely covered and she suffocates. Another starts gnawing on... » MORE

Deadly Past. Deadly boring. A woman kills her rich husband and sets up her former lover, just out of jail, to take the rap. When someone who saw her kill (Ben Ng) tries to blackmail her, he sets in motion events that... » MORE

Deals with the Dark. Sam Lee and Samuel Leung star, along with Ronny Cheung, a regular in the TROUBLESOME NIGHT films (never a good sign). Shot on DV. The three skinny punks are complete losers and deep in debt with the local loan shark.... » MORE

Demi-Haunted. Eason Chan stars as Buster, an acrobat in a Chinese Opera troupe, never given a starring role and always chastized for his laziness by the troupes star (played by Anthony Wong). When his previous incarnation, a female opera actress (Joey... » MORE

Demoniac Flash. Anthony Wong walks up to a tombstone and starts playing the harmonica, but it turns out to be only a dream (or was it?). And so begins DEMONIAC FLASH, a movie as coherent as its English language title -- it... » MORE

Devil Butcher, The. This DV production has a number of english titles. The disc is advertised as "Kowloon Sky -- Devil Killer," the DVD has "Devil Killer" printed on it, while the movie itself begins with "The Devil Butcher." But no matter what... » MORE

Devil Eye. A group of friends goes to Thailand and witness a murder, but do nothing. Soon after the ghost starts haunting them. Things take a turn for the idiotic when one of the girls videotapes her own murder, but the police... » MORE

Devil Face, Angel Heart. Daniel Wu and Lam Suet are assassins, and they are also brothers. Stephen Fung and Sam Lee are cops on their trail. When the triad boss's wife takes a shine to Wu despite the fact that he is horribly disfigured,... » MORE

Devil Snake Woman. Diana Pang Dan and Sophie Ngan starring together in a Snake Woman film. How can it go wrong? Oh, let me count the ways! Shot on video and unsubtitled. A child medusa leads snakes against a group of tribal, spear-weilding... » MORE

Devil Touch. Tang follows up last year's SHARP GUNS, a movie filled with intricate ploys, clever strategems, and byzantine betrayals, with DEVIL TOUCH, which tries to be just as clever but doesn't quite pull it off. When a department head (Michael Tao)... » MORE

Distinctive. Shot on video. A group goes out to a village in the country to track down legends of a mythical beast, called "The Distinctive." A reward has been offered for photos, even more money for hide. The group goes hunting,... » MORE

Diva ah Hey. Charlene Choi is the simple daughter of a fishmonger (Lam Suet), who dreams of becoming a star. Her big break comes in the form of being a studio singer for Shadow, a pop star whose voice stinks and who isn't... » MORE

Doctor No.... The good doctor Rock (Stephen Ma) can't remember whether he is a killer or not, but he starts out chained to violent prisoner Blackie Ko when he overpowers the guard and drags the helpless doctor to freedom. Blackie helps him... » MORE

Dragon the Master. Bruce Lee has never truly gone away, living on in the hearts and minds of fans. More than that he is thought of by many as a true Chinese hero, his destruction of the sign that reads "No Dogs or... » MORE

Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE

Dream and Desire. A shot on video production set in Sai Kung, set at the same waterfront restaurant that has been home to a great many low budget productions already in recent years, including Cop Unbowed, Love is Butterfly, and who knows what... » MORE

Dream Lovers. Chow Yun-Fat stars with Brigitte Lin in this tale of a timeless love which waits for 2,000 years then goes nowhere fast. ... » MORE

Driving Miss Wealthy. Lau Ching-Wan is an out of work, former police officer lands a job as the security guard/driver for Jennifer (Gigi Leung), the rich, spoiled daughter of a wealthy businessman. He poses as a Filipino named Mario and has to follow... » MORE

Drunken Master 3. Lau Ka-Leung didn't much care for the results of Jackie Chan's Drunken Master 2, so he whipped up his own version of the Wong Fei-Hong story to have the last word. ... » MORE

Dry Wood, Fierce Fire. Miriam Yeung and Louis Koo turn on the charm in this romantic comedy, to no noticable effect. About twenty minutes into the picture, the subtitles drop off of the DVD. Nothing I had seen thus far made it look like... » MORE

Duel to the Death. The ultimate Ninja action film, period. Directed by Ching Siu-Tung. ... » MORE

Dumbly Agent. Kent Cheng heads up the cast in this story of a security agency run by a woman being driven out of business by the man who heads up the competing agency. But the dedication and loyalty of the guards, including... » MORE

Dummy Mommy without a Baby. It's not that I hated this light situation comedy about a woman who pretends to be pregnant in order to keep her job, it's just that there isn't anything special about it. I remember a time when Hong Kong comedies... » MORE

Dumplings: Three...Extremes. Miriam Yeung eats abortions in the hope of regaining her youth and becoming attractive once again to her rich but wayward husband (Tony Leung Kar-Fai). Bai Ling is the chef, making lovely little dumplings filled with the little bits of... » MORE

Elixir of Love. Richie Jen is a one man Bath & Body shop in imperial China, developing perfumes, soaps, and the like and testing them on a family of fishmongers (Eric Kot, Lam Suet, and Miriam Yeung) for the ultimate prize: being the... » MORE

Enchanting Shadow. The famous Pu Songling-inspired supernatural horror film that Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung later adapted for their seminal ghost film, A Chinese Ghost Story. Long recognized as a refernce point of the later film, but rarely seen, until now, as... » MORE

Encounter of the Spooky Kind (aka Spooky Encounters). In one of the earliest examples of the horror-comedy genre, we can see the concepts of the genre taking shape: the Taoist priest, the undead, and the slapstick comedy are all there. But unlike later horror-comedy movies, Enounter of the... » MORE

Encounter of the Spooky Kind 2. It has been ten years since the original Encounter of the Spooky Kind, and the horror-comedy landscape has changed. Whereas the original movie was really giving the genre it's start, the sequel sits on the other end of the spectrum,... » MORE

End of the Stumer, The. What the hell is a Stumer? Did they mean the End of the Summer? The Stunner? The Stoner? The Stammerer? No, turns out they really sort of mean "The Stumer," defined as a forgery or I suppose a forger. This... » MORE

Enemy, The. The only enemy this cop has is his own sorry-ass pathetic self. After busting a Triad kid, he discovers the kid is dating his former girlfriend (Josie Ho) who dumped him right before they were to marry. She falls into... » MORE

Enter the Phoenix. Stephen Fung turns from acting to directing and for his first full length feature has delivered an entertaining action-comedy gay triad movie. When the old triad boss (Yuen Biao in an inspired cameo) dies, his son Georgie (Daniel Wu) is... » MORE

Erotic Agent II. Set in Imperial China. Not important, except to know that everyone will be taking off robes, instead of pants and skirts. The plot concerns a woodsman who constantly craves sex and the women who live nearby, who coincidentally also crave... » MORE

Erotic Ghost Story: Perfect Match. "My wife is a human! How come she's a rabbit?" pleads hapless Tsui Kam-Kong, who becomes a monk after realizing his wife (Diana Pang Dan) is in fact a Rabbit from heaven, slowly becoming corrupted by her involvement with humans.... » MORE

Escape from Hong Kong Island. Mr. Raymond Mak (Jordan Chan) is a miillionaire stock broker that everyone else licks the boots of -- until suddenly, he is fired. That in itself is not bad, he's got another offer that has to be signed at the... » MORE

Espirit D'amour. From the pen of veteran TROUBLESOME NIGHT actor Simon Loui comes an anthology film in much the same style as early entries in the TN series. Three stories about love between ghosts and humans, the first in an office, the... » MORE

Every Dog has its Date. There's something inherently sick in this film about a girl (Michele Reis) who can't find a good man, until a fluke accident changes her beloved dog into one (Nick Cheung). He has to learn how to walk, talk, and use... » MORE

Exiled. The bodyguards/hitmen of 1999's classic THE MISSION are back again, and once again are helping a friend against the wishes of their crime boss Fay (Simon Yam). Wo (Nick Cheung) shot him, once, and fled. Now Wo is back in... » MORE

Exorcist Master. Sifu extraordinaire Lam Ching-Ying faces his most challenging opponent ever: the Catholic Church. Ghosts, hopping vampires, and communion all threaten to unbalance the feng-shui of an entire village. Sifu to the rescue! ... » MORE

Explosive City. There's so many things wrong with EXPLOSIVE CITY it's hard to know where to begin. Perhaps with the tired idea of the kidnapping ring that raises kids to be assassins, for one. Then there's the international cast that occasionally drifts... » MORE

Extras, The. Written, directed, produced, and starring Alfred Cheung, trying to be the Hong Kong Woody Allen but not succeeding, in this story about Koo, a quiet loser who just wants to have a career as an extra. ... » MORE

Extreme Challenge. The Power Net Show is sponsoring a tournament to determine their next big spokesman. The fights are all set up like a video game, on platforms over water or mountains. Only difference is, no one seems to have any particularly... » MORE

Eye 10, The. A group of friends in Thailand start sharing ghost stories when their Thai friend Chongkwai (Ray MacDonald) whips out a book called "10 Encounters", which specifically describes all the ways a receptive person can see ghosts. The first two ways,... » MORE

Eye 2, The. This sequel to The Eye (2002) manages to pick up a new idea and keeps the "I see dead people" genre fresh seemingly far past its expiration date. This time it's Shu Qi who gets the ability, in one of... » MORE

Eye, The. Angelica Lee plays a young blind woman who gets corneal implants to restore her vision. Unfortunately for her, it also gives her the ability to see ghosts, and even more chilling, the strange visitors who come to take the dead... » MORE

Fall for You. Francis Ng is a down and out painter living the bohemian lifestyle in Paris among his artsy friends. Kristy Yang is a woman who has devoted her entire life to marrying a millionaire who also loves her, and does anything... » MORE

Fall In Love Too Easily. Why is it there are so many masturbation scenes in independent productions? Perhaps because the masturbatory nature of the entire enterprise is so much more readily apparent. In mainstream cinema, masturbation is played strictly for comedy. In the indys, it... » MORE

Fantasia. A loving tribute to the classic Hui Brothers comedies of the seventies, starring Lau Ching-Wan in the Michael Hui role (and doing a shockingly perfect impersonation of the man), as the head of a detective company. His impovershed and poorly... » MORE

Farewell My Concubine. A fabulous, sweeping drama about two men in the Peking Opera, one a Hua Dan, the other a Jing, and the annoying prostitute that keeps on screwing up their lives. ... » MORE

Fashionoholic. Shot on video. A candidate for the worst Hong Kong video I have ever seen. A woman gets a job at a clothing store, and has an affair with the owners husband. But who cares about the plot? It's a... » MORE

Fat Choi Spirit. Andy Lau is the Mahjong Master, Gigi Leung is his crazy but determined girlfriend, Louis Koo is his geeky brother, and Lau Ching-Wan is a hip-hop Mahjong con man. This movie is a love poem to Mahjong. Fans of the... » MORE

Fatal Contact. Kong (Wu Jing) is an all around nice guy/kung fu champion gets a little work in Chinese Opera. Underground Fighting reps try to recruit him to fight for them, but he won't, until Tin (Miki Yeung), the girl he is... » MORE

Feel 100% 2. I wasn't expecting to like this film but it turns out its quite funny. Concerning two best friends who fall in love, one with a beautiful bartender whose old boyfriend (Eric Kot) comes back and threatens to ruin the whole... » MORE

Feel it...Say it. The unfortunately named Dick Luk (Eric Kot) does exactly that for a living - he is a doctor of Genito-Urinary medicine, spending his days curing various sexually transmitted diseases. It's a job that's part doctor, part psychologist, as everyone is... » MORE

Feng Shui and Gambling. A boy whose father loses the house in a gambling game then commits suicide, and whose mother shortly thereafter dies after coughing up blood, has special power to be able to win at games of chance. He grows up and... » MORE

Fight to the Finish 2003, A. Here's a low budget action film that actually has something to say about human nature, and specifically what makes someone selfish, what makes someone heroic, and where exactly the line can be drawn between right and wrong. Michael Wong is... » MORE

Fighting for Love. Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Sammi Cheng star as two cranky people who get into a car accident with each other, and then are drawn together and fall in love. Plods along at the usual pace for yuppie romances, then becomes... » MORE

Fighting to Survive. There was a time when mere mention of comedian Dayo Wong was enough to make me break out into hives. But not anymore -- I take back everything bad I ever said about him -- this movie is a gem.... » MORE

Final Justice. This courtroom drama about a fallen priest boils down to one word. And I'm sorry to say, that word is 'smegma.' ... » MORE

Final Romance. Two lovers promise to meet on Valentine's Day at a wishing tree in the snowy mountains of Japan, but instead its their brother (Edison Chen) and sister (Amanda Strang) who meet, carting their siblings remains as per their last requests.... » MORE

Final Winner. Jackie Lui is a mean, tough, unscrupulous triad baddie, Michael Tse is a nice righteous one. He and his brothers form the smallest, wimpiest triad gang I've ever seen, their elder brother teaches them forbearance instead of action, and the... » MORE

Finale in Blood. A radio announcer (Lawrence Cheng) finds an umbrella that contains the spirit of a dead girl (Ruth Winona Tao). Not quite what I expected from the title. He gets the spirit on the air where she tells her love story,... » MORE

Fing's Raver. A drug scare flick about the terrible effects of 'fing' drugs on a persons family, on their character, and also on the inside of their skull ("My God...it's pock-marked and scarred!"). Sam Lee plays a young tough whose brother gets... » MORE

Foolish 23. When SARS began its terrifying spread across Hong Kong, no one was sure when, or even if, it could be stopped. No one knew precisely what caused it. All they knew is that it was a new, and deadly, disease.... » MORE

Forbidden Wet Tales. This has to be the rauchiest digital video Category III production I've ever seen. Emily Kwan is a cop looking for a missing girl, who suspects that a writer of erotic films (Eddie Lam) is involved. They swap tales about... » MORE

Forest of Death. Another Pang Brothers misfire, this one is hardly a movie at all but feels like a couple episodes of a bad TV series strung together. Ekin Cheng plays a biologist, angry at his girlfriend May(Rain Li) for hosting a paranormal... » MORE

Forever and Ever. What the ---? A Hong Kong movie which approaches the topic of AIDS with sensitivity and sincerity? Well I never thought I'd see the day. Chris Lee plays Fu, a young man with hemophilia who gets a transfusion of AIDS-infected... » MORE

Forever Yours. The star crossed romance of Yu LiYing (Grace Chang), an office worker at the local bottling plant, and Weiming (Kelly Lai Chen), an independently wealthy young man who likes Bonsai, has TB, and is likely to die in a few... » MORE

Four Darling Daughters. Four daughters live with their dad in miniskirted splendor. They wait on him hand and foot, he manages a piano company, and the girls play together as a band. Yueh-Hua (Josephine Siao) is the oldest daughter, and the least liked... » MORE

Foxy Ladies. It's Shaw Brothers version of Charlie's Angels! Sort of. Only, they aren't nearly as competent, and most of their best moves seem to center around the use of their own urine.... » MORE

Foxy Spirits. Wu Ma, a true master of supernatural cinema both as an actor and director, here does both as he presents his own version of the traditional boy meets fox tale, updated with a little kung-fu, a little black magic, and... » MORE

Freaky Story. Three airline hostesses have a several day layover in the Philippines. They stay at a nice hotel, and are eager to hit the town to pick up some guys. But the only ones they manage to attract is a guy... » MORE

Friends. Hua Heng (David Chiang) is a poor but sensitive artist who paints billboards by day and canvas by night. He hangs out with his youthful friends, generally wrestling, drinking, bouncing on the trampoline with each other, and wrestling some more.... » MORE

From the Queen to the Chief Executive. Under British rule, minorities convicted of committing crimes punishable by the death penalty if they were older were sometimes detained "by the Queen's pleasure," without ever actually being sentenced. Now, on the eve of the handover, a dedicated lawyer and... » MORE

Frugal Game. Two unemployed families, one consisting of Eric Tsang, Miriam Yeung, and Dodo Cheng, the other led by Wayne Lai, compete in a television game show, 'Frugal Game,' to spend the least amount of money possible in one week's time. Eason... » MORE

Fulltime Killer. A killer who can't stand flickering flourescents hunts down a killer who gets off his game when he hears country western music, both problems I can readily identify with. Tok (Andy Lau) wants to be the number one killer, O... » MORE

Funeral March. Yee (Charlene Choi) has cancer and is going to die. She visits Duan, a funeral director (Eason Chan) to plan her funeral beforehand. As these "terminal illness romances" go, they naturally fall in love. This one mixes up the genre... » MORE

Gambler's Story, A. Francis Ng is a compulsive gambler, Shooky Kwan a down on her luck nightclub madam in debt. Their paths cross several times, and they fall in love as they try their fortunes in Macao. The film is very clever in... » MORE

Gameboy Kids. Made back during the hectic high-rolling days of Hong Kong cinema, when scripts were a luxury and no joke, no matter how bizarre or extreme, was left out. GAMEBOY KIDS has got to be Gordon Chan's most obscure directorial effort,... » MORE

Gangs 2001. This is a surprisingly entertaining film about the horrors of Rave scene drugs such as ecstasy, reminiscent of those old American drug scare films of the fifties. The young bunch (the 'gang' of the title, I suppose) go to Shenzhen... » MORE

Gates of Hell. When Hong Kong filmmakers want to show Hong Kong people lost in the wilderness, is a sea of inhumanity, beset by brutal criminals, their first choice is the Mainland. Southeast Asia is also a good choice. Finally, though, there is... » MORE

Generation Gap. David Chiang, Agnes Chan, and Ti Lung get together for some serious angst in this film about the "generation gap" -- a title which I suppose must pertain to the empty space between the ears of almost every character in... » MORE

Ghost Eyes. I've always thought contact lenses were evil. Manicurist Bao Ling(Chen Szu Chia) accepts some new contacts from a spooky optometrist client (Szu Wei). Unfortunately, he is an undead vampire, and whoever wears his lenses becomes enthralled by his will (Weak... » MORE

Gimme Gimme. Maybe I need to be younger to enjoy this but I found this adolescent drama about two friends who both fall for the same girl to be rather slow moving and lacking in any really dramatic scenes. The friends are... » MORE

Give Them a Chance. Sam (Andy Hui), a stuntman, and his brother Jack (Osman Hung), a dance instructor, are inspired by a group of tough, street dancing kids to open a dance studio. It's just as well, Jack loses his job when seen goofing... » MORE

Glass Tears. A remarkable film about the grandfather of a runaway girl, enlisted by the girl's parents to help track her down. He falls in with the girl's friend, named P, who is a brash, stubborn, independent herself. Together they try to... » MORE

God of Gamblers. Chow Yun-Fat redefines cool and consumes copious amounts of chocolate in the undisputed champion of gambling films. ... » MORE

God of Gamblers 2. Now it gets weird. Stephen Chow reprises his character from All for the Winners, as he meets up with Andy Lau, reprising his character from God of Gamblers, in a sequel to both films. How economical! ... » MORE

God of Gamblers 3 - The Early Years. Apparently the people in charge of English titles can only count to three. So here's another God of Gamblers 3, this time going back to his youth, with none of the original actors involved. ... » MORE

God of Gamblers III - Back to Shanghai. Stephen Chow and Ng Man-Tat are swept back to Shanghai 1937 by a vengeful group of superpowered villains. He meets his grandfather and sings about Pork Buns. Oh, and there's some gambling thrown in as well. ... » MORE

God of Gamblers Returns. Chow Yun-Fat returns to the role that made him famous (one of the roles, at any rate), with mixed results. ... » MORE

Goddess of Mercy. Yang Rui (Liu Yunlong) is a Beijing businessman and womanizing pig who tries to nail the plain-looking but attractive An Xin (Vicki Zhao) on a bet from a friend. Instead, he falls in love with her. She keeps her distance,... » MORE

Gold Fingers. There are no gold fingers whatsoever to be found in this story of an undercover cop infiltrating the triads. Once there, he befriends another undercover, generally laments about being undercover, and gets rippingly drunk and confesses to his girlfriend about... » MORE

Golden Chicken. Sandra Ng is a not particularly good-looking prostitute who makes a living by working twice as hard as anyone else. Trapped in an ATM booth overnight with a would-be thief (Eric Tsang), she tells the story of her life in... » MORE

Golden Swallow. A scholar comes across a small bird which turns out to be a demon. They fall in love, and the movie comes to a screeching halt, only to start back up again at the desperately awaited end. ... » MORE

Golden Sword, The. The chief of the Golden Sword lodge gets hauled off by masked riders, and is never seen again. His son, Bai Yu Lung (Kao Yuen) resolves to find him, and travels to the frontier in his search. While there, he... » MORE

Gong Tau. Before seeing this film, weigh this one consideration carefully: Do you want to see an infant be horribly murdered? Complete with CGI blood, crying, and lots of grisly post-mortem and autopsy shots? Actually this leads directly to another question --... » MORE

Goodbye Mr. Cool. This update of STORY OF A DISCHARGED PRISONER follows a former triad leader (Ekin Cheng) after his release from prison. He tries to start a new life, working at the cafe of an old friend (Lam Suet), but his old... » MORE

Great Conqueror's Concubine, The. This movie is so long it was released as two seperate movies in some markets. It is the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han are rising ascendant, and Gong Li is there. ... » MORE

Greatest Civil War on Earth, The. It's North vs. South, Mandarin vs. Cantonese. The local, Cantonese tailor Leung Sing-po suddenly finds himself in competition with a new tailor who has opened up next door and is a northerner, Liu Enjia. They immediately get off on the... » MORE

Green Snake. Green Snake is a retelling of the classic story The Legend of Lady White Snake, albeit from a different point of view, pumped up with lush visuals, special effects, over the top characterizations, beautiful women, and hyperkinetic action. In short,... » MORE

Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers?. A group of singing youths get ditched on an island when a typhoon is approaching, though never for a moment are the seas rough or the sky overcast. They overhear a radio broadcast alert of a woman who killed twelve... » MORE

Half Twin. Mr. Ko (Karl Ng) needs to embezzle more money from the company he works for to pay off his debts, so he concocts an elaborate scheme to kill the head of the company, Lok Yan (Candy Lo), and replace her... » MORE

Happenings, The. Viewers of Hong Kong Cinema in 1980 could be forgiven for thinking the world was coming to an end. The old societal customs no longer held, and the new was open to endless possibility in the imagination, but narrowed by... » MORE

Happy Family. Hot off a string of energetic and exciting films (FROM THE QUEEN..., NIGHTMARE IN PRECINCT 7, KILLING END), Herman Yau switches over to romantic comedy with less than admirable results. Nick Cheung stars as a successful businessman who is unlucky... » MORE

Haunted Office. Three intertwining horror tales revolving around a single office high rise. In the first one, Karen Mok takes a job at a company where every year, ghosts force a handful of workers to kill themselves. The second story involves Jordan... » MORE

Haunted School. The story begins with a 'Cryptkeeper' type narrator (a hopping vampire), introducing the tale. Lots of paper flutters everywhere, there's lightning and thunder, and the camera zooms and floats and turns all over the place. Spooky music plays. And then... » MORE

He Lives by Night. Po-Chih Leong's film JUMPING ASH (1976, HK) is often mentioned as the first, the earliest example of Hong Kong's "New Wave." It is spoken of reverently, and it's a film I've long wanted to see. I still want to see... » MORE

Headlines. The story of three reporters at one newspaper and the stories that they break. The new guy (Daniel Wu) writes a successful story about poor orphans, the top reporter (Maggie Cheung Ho-Yi) gets close with a young triad punk to... » MORE

Heartbreak Motel. I wish this VCD had subtitles because what I saw of it looks quite nice. An anthology of stories that take place around guests of the Heartbreak Motel. Simon Loui stars as one of the guests, and it looks like... » MORE

Heat Team. Completely ludicrous buddy cop picture that tries to combine serious action with completely unrealistic police procedures and behavior. Eason Chan is the slovenly cop who gets all the chicks, while Aaron Kwok is the uptight cop who is slightly dim,... » MORE

Heavenly Kings. The semi-real, semi-imaginary chronicles the "boy band" ALIVE NOT DEAD (Conroy Chan, Andrew Lin, Terence Yin, and Daniel Wu) and their rise to moderate success in Hong Kong, on the strength of their star combined star power and contacts in... » MORE

Her Name is Cat 2: Journey to Death. This film bears no relation whatsoever to HER NAME IS CAT. Some pre-credits action has Almen Wong copping a TOMB RAIDER vibe as she steals a gold Buddha from a Thai temple. This is never mentioned again, and has nothing... » MORE

Her Tender Heart. Peiying (Lucilla You Min) was brought up by her father Li Boming (Wang Yin) in a modest household. She is excited that her auntie, Mrs. Zeng (Wang Lai) is coming to visit for two weeks, from Italy where she lives.... » MORE

Her Tender Love. What looks to be another lighthearted family drama of the common type ends up pushed way up to the boundaries, the sort of family you might see on the Jerry Springer show. First, there's dad -- he's rich. His son... » MORE

Herbal Tea. Herman Yau directs this uninspired oddball romance about a girl (Candy Lo) who runs an herbal tea cafe, and has ever since her elderly parents passed away when she was very young. She never leaves the neighborhood, and helps everyone... » MORE

Heroes in Love. Three short stories by new directors, all dealing in some way about love. The first by Wing Shya tells the story of a lesbian who kidnaps a girl and holds her in her bedroom above a shoestore in the hopes... » MORE

Hex. Cross, double-cross, and revenge from beyond the grave is the name of the game in this Chinese adaptation of the standard TALES FROM THE CRYPT storyline. Although you may not guess the secret of HEX until the end, you will... » MORE

Hidden Heroes. Ronald Cheung is a cowardly cop, faithless to his Japanese girlfriend, and an all around loser. Then a robot from the future shows up (Charlene Choi), tasked with making sure the future happens as planned. She has to keep him... » MORE

Himalaya Singh. Before seeing HIMALAYA SINGH, all I heard about was how awful Lau Ching-Wan was. After seeing the movie myself, I discover there is a lot more to the movie, but all of it, ALL OF IT, is overshadowed by the... » MORE

Hit Team. Not since THE KILLER saved his corneas for Jenny have we seen heroes so concerned about saving up for a major medical procedure. This time, it's undercover cop Chin Kar-Lok who needs some extravagant multimillion dollar back surgery. And it's... » MORE

Hocus Pocus. Peking Opera actors try to scare each other by pretending to be ghosts until real ghosts show up and join in the hi-jinx. Hilarity fails to ensue. ... » MORE

Hollywood Hong Kong. A young prostitute who dreams of Hollywood visits a soon to be demolished shanty town and teaches its inhabitants about love, happiness, and especially, amputation. Ensnared by her charm are an enterprising young pimp (Wong Yau Nam) and the obscenely... » MORE

Hong Kong History Y. Last year, two of the most amusing Hong Kong movie titles were HONG KONG HISTORY X, named after the U.S. film AMERICAN HISTORY X, and HONG KONG PIE, named after AMERICAN PIE. Not that either of the films had anything... » MORE

Hong Kong Night Guide. Hilariously crude pseudo documentary about brothels, massage parlours, and naked women. It's a trashy movie version of a trashy, but very successful, magazine which rates all the sex shops in Hong Kong. The founders of the magazine would later be... » MORE

Hong Kong Show Girls. Joe can't get money to fund his latest play, "Geometric Life", until he learns from his former mentor that selling out can actually help you still stay in business. So he promotes a new play, "Show Girls", which immediately finds... » MORE

Hooker's World. Here's a twist on the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold cliche: the PIMP with heart of gold! Ronny Cheung is the kind hearted pimp who sends a girl to vice cop Simon Loui for a little action. When she ends up dead, Loui becomes... » MORE

Horror Hotline...Big Head Monster. Francis Ng is a producer of a radio call-in show about supernatural phenomenon. When a reporter (Josie Ho) and film crew from the U.S. show up to get an in-depth story, they follow the lead of a particularly strange caller,... » MORE

House of Devil Evil Sledge. Behind the great title lurks a good contender for the worst Hong Kong movie ever. Shot on video without style, and populated by non-actors, HOUSE OF DEVIL EVIL SLEDGE is certainly almost as low as you can go. ... » MORE

House of Mahjong. Tenants of a run-down old mall play mahjong with the owner for their rent, but the owner's son (Raymond Wong) hates the tenants and thinks they take advantage of his father. He plans to run them all out and remodel... » MORE

Human Pork Chop. Based on the "Hello Kitty" murder, just like THERE IS A SECRET IN MY SOUP, and in fact in addition to sharing details about the crime in question, even share the same plot device of opening the film with the... » MORE

Hurt. Johnny Cash sings, on his last album, "I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel; I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real." I can now relate, having subjected myself to HURT. An anthology film based... » MORE

I Want to Get Married. Regular TROUBLESOME NIGHT director Lam Wai-Yin steps up a notch with this romance about a young rich man (Ken Wong) who falls in love with a fishmonger (Kristy Yang) because she looks like his deceased fiance. Sam Lee is the... » MORE

I'll Call You. Will Andy Lau save Hong Kong Cinema? Again? Hard to say, but he is going about it in the right way, by funding new directors and cultivating new talent, and launching the pan-asian "FIRST CUTS" project through his production company... » MORE

If U Care. Eason Chan is a complete dick who gets into a car accident, which gives him magical powers to empathize with whomever he touches with his hand. All this empathy, along with the sudden appearance of his childhood sweetheart Gillian Cheung,... » MORE

Imp, The. Ah Keung (Charles Chin) is looking for a fulltime job to support his wife and child-to-be, and understandably wants to stand on his own and not accept a job from his father in-law (as if taking a job from your... » MORE

In Laws, Out Laws. Eric Tsang and his son Shawn Yue, two out of work hucksters in Hong Kong looking to make a buck any way possible, find out that Tsang's old flame, played by Lydia Shum (who appears to have hardly aged a... » MORE

In Love with a Ghost in Lushan. An atomospheric piece that features a scholar with bad teeth, two ghosts, and the requisite drunken Taoist priest. ... » MORE

Infernal Mission. The setup is a shameless ripoff of INFERNAL AFFAIRS, no background story required, since we all know the story. But here's twist -- this time, the stars are girls! Yay! Theresa Mak is the undercover cop, tapping out morse code... » MORE

Inner Senses. A great concept, poorly executed. Leslie Cheung is a psychiatrist who does not believe ghosts exist, and explains them away as a construct of our overactive brains. Karena Lam, on the other hand, is a girl who sees dead people.... » MORE

Interactive Murders. Andy Hui is a retired police officer called in to help a frustrated police team headed by Alex Fong crack a kidnapping case in which the criminal uses the Internet and streaming video to broadcast his demands. He also uses... » MORE

Internet Disaster. Released in 2003. So why does it look like it was filmed in 1995? No matter. At least it wasn't shot using digital video. A housewife (Vivien Chen) is married to a wealthy, attractive, but older and always busy husband... » MORE

Invincible, The. Fan Siu-Wong is "The Invincible." I guess. Though he talks about entering a martial arts contest and winning the gold medal to prove his strength to his missing father, who left before he was born, we never actually see him... » MORE

Irresistible Piggies. While part of the appeal of HK movies is their often insensitive nature, being politically incorrect is not enough to make a successful picture. Written and produced by Wong Jing, the avatar of adolescence, Irresistible Piggies concerns four homely women... » MORE

Itchy Heart. Lau Ching-Wan is a married man, but seven years on he's got the itch and when his wife leaves town he hooks up with his old girlfriend (Carina Lau) and a sweet little young number (Cherrie Ying). His wife is... » MORE

Jiang Hu. Director Wong Ching-Po's first mainstream work is also his best to date. The short running time (under 90 minutes) aggresively compacts the story of Yik (Shawn Yue), a young hood who wins the chance to kill a triad kingpin in... » MORE

July Rhapsody. Jackie Cheung is a dissatisfied poetry teacher, Anita Mui his tired wife, and Karena Lam the student that he feels pulled towards despite the fact that she would unravel the life he has lived so far. A life mostly of... » MORE

Just Like Weather. Drama with occasional documentary-style interjections about a young married couple, Christine Lee and Chan Hung-Nin. She earns more money than he does, and as a result, basically despises him and feels miserable about her own life, thinking she deserves more.... » MORE

Just One Look. A nostalgic coming of age film set on the small island of Cheung Chau in the 60s and 70s starring a gaggle of young cantopop stars (Charlene Choi, Gillian Cheung, Shawn Yue, and Wong Yau Nam). It should be painfully... » MORE

Kid, The. A 10-year-old Bruce Lee stars as Kid Cheung, an orphan boy who sells comics in a little stall in the slums to survive. He takes care of two still younger kids, and the three are looked after in turn by... » MORE

Killer 2. Odd to have a sequel to a film that was really quite modest, and not particularly well regarded or even well known. No, this isn't a sequel to the world famous THE KILLER (John Woo, 1989, HK), starring Chow Yun-Fat.... » MORE

Killing End. Dick (Andy Hui) and Junk (Simon Loui) are CID agents who cross some of the top triad bosses in Hong Kong and soon find themselves out of options and with nowhere to hide. In most movies it seems the cops... » MORE

Killing Skill. Mark Cheng, Lily Chung, Law Ka Ying These days, low budget filmmakers who still use film apparently have to shoot in the Phillippines to cover costs. Lily Chung is a "guitar killer", determined to kill all the drug traffikers in... » MORE

Kingdom and the Beauty, The. The Ming Emperor Taicheng ruled for one month in 1620, then dropped dead. Rumor has it he passed away from sexual exhaustion after being "served" by eight women at the same time. While this sounds like great fodder for a... » MORE

Koma. The old urban legend about waking up in a tub of ice with a note to call the police, only to find your kidney has been removed, is revived again for this suspense thriller. Ching (Angelica Lee) stumbles across a... » MORE

Kung Fu Hustle. The place is 1930's Shanghai, caught in the grip of the murderous Axe Gang. Sing (Stephen Chiau) and his sidekick (Lam Tze-Chung) are small time cons who try to pass as members of the all-powerful Gang in order to shake... » MORE

Kung Fu Mahjong. Is Wong Jing the last filmmaker in Hong Kong regularly churning out entertaining films? It sure seems that way. Here he is with another production that is far more entertaining than it has any right to be, another in his... » MORE

Kung Fu Master is my Grandma!. Isadora Chan is a troubled girl who was sent to a juvenile home after fighting some guy. While incarcerated, her mother died, leaving her in the care of her grandmother (Helena Law Lan), whom she hates. She's mean, and she... » MORE

La Brassiere. It's the Hong Kong WHAT WOMEN WANT, with Lau Ching-Wan and Louis Koo as men hired to design the ultimate bra. Most of the women in the office are fawning over them, except Gigi Leung, who will never respect a... » MORE

Lady General Hua Mu Lan. Ivy Ling Po, famous for playing male roles in Huangmei Opera films, this time plays a young woman disguising herself as a man, in the famous story of Hua Mulan, who went to war because her father was drafted but... » MORE

Lan Yu. A gay couple meet, separate, then meet again in this slice of life drama from director Stanley Kwan. Chen Handong (Hu Jun), a successful Beijing businessman, meets the not yet in college Lan Yu (Liu Ye) and they build a... » MORE

Leave Me Alone. Much maligned Ekin Cheng shows his stuff here is a slick, light hearted action movie about twin brothers Yiu (Ekin Cheng and Ekin Cheng), who switch identities and get mixed up in each other's troubles. Yiu Chun-Man is a gay... » MORE

Leaving in Sorrow. I enjoy watching independent Hong Kong productions, but admittedly, they are rarely good. Because of low budgets, their technical accomplishments are necessarily limited. Their only strength then lies in selecting interesting subject matter and scripting appropriately. LEAVING IN SORROW has... » MORE

Leaving Me, Loving You. I imagine when making the film there was a sleeping baby in the next room and no one was allowed to speak above a whisper. The director, Wilson Yip, must have been on so much Vicodin that he didn't realize... » MORE

Legend of a Professional. Anthony Wong is a ruthless killer, though as he says, "I only kill those who deserve killing," so I guess that makes it alright. He meets a tough street girl, Josie Ho, and pays her to pretend to be his... » MORE

Legend of Zu. Great fantasy films are few and far between. And those that are great, are almost always deeply flawed. The original vision in such enchanting pictures such as THE DARK CRYSTAL and LEGEND continue to amaze, despite the fact that the... » MORE

Life after Life. George Lam is a well-to-do technology and astrology whiz who gets hired by businessman Patrick Tse to design a Fashion Show like no other. He picks Flora Cheung as the lead model, and decides on some creepy old wooden puppets... » MORE

Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian, The. An adaptation of a stage play by Mok Chiu Yu, who also stars. Basically, this is a taped performance of the play, a one-man show, and not so much a show as a lecture. Mok Chiu Yu is sort of... » MORE

Life Express. A poor kid named Luk Fei (Liu Ci-Hang) is admitted to hospital with hemophilia while doctors (Richie Jen and Ruby Lin) scramble to find a bone marrow transplant, but the donor match that shows up is from a hardened criminal... » MORE

Lifeline Express. A fun comic romp about death. "Your willpower decides whether you live or die," the alarmingly intense hospital psychiatrist (Eddie Ko) proclaims. Meanwhile, Fatty (Kent Cheng) is praying for the life of his brother Tigerino (Teddy Robin), who was run... » MORE

Ling's Story. Well, it's like this. Ling is an administrative assistant in an office, but the economy isn't doing too well, her boyfriend withdrew all their savings and gambled it away to try and pay of his debts, failed and disappeared, and... » MORE

Lion Roars, The. Louis Koo plays an ineffectual scholar poet, the classic Chinese male hero archetype. Cecilia Cheung is a super-strong woman. Neither can find a suitable mate until fate throws them together and they marry. A nice premise completely underminded by a... » MORE

Looking for Mr. Perfect. John Woo wasn't the only director to leave Hong Kong for the greener pastures of Hollywood. But whereas Woo picked up a Jean Claude Van-Damme picture (HARD TARGET) and used it as a jumping off point to bigger and better... » MORE

Lost and Found. Kelly Chen is the daughter of a rich shipping magnate, who finds out she has leukemia. She tries getting a job at the shipyards, where she meets a handsome and kind scotsman, improbably played by Michael Wong, of all people.... » MORE

Love au Zen. A young stock broker drops out of life and moves to Lantau Island to study under a Zen Master, leaving his girlfriend of five years. His best friend is dumped at the altar by his girlfriend and joins him on... » MORE

Love Battlefield. Director Soi Cheang has made a name for himself in Hong Kong of late by delivering quality horror films that feel at least a somewhat original and that are well crafted. He has taken his craft to the next level... » MORE

Love for all Seasons. Box office moneymaker Sammi Cheng is back for her annual New Year romance as a cloistered kung fu master of the Omei clan. Louis Koo is a playboy from Hong Kong who travels to Omei because it hurts when he... » MORE

Love is a Many Stupid Thing. Under the generic and misleading title lies a very funny send-up of INFERNAL AFFAIRS, courtesy of schlockmeister Wong Jing. In his typical fashion, the title (and trailer) basically try to mislead audiences into thinking the movie is a remake of... » MORE

Love is Butterfly. Four stories about love and soft drinks. Starring Loletta Lee, Charmaine Sheh, Rachel Lee, and a soda vending machine. Each of the four parts is named after a beverage, like "Escaping Sprite" or "Forever Coke." One of the girls is... » MORE

Love on a Diet. When Eddie Murphy put on a fat suit for THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, he was striking a chord with American audiences everywhere, for whom extreme obesity is a well understood part of society. The scenes he did playing all the roles... » MORE

Love on the Rocks. A sweet romantic comedy featuring the cutest Hong Kong stars they could find. Louis Koo and Gigi Leung break up on Valentine's Day because he is not sufficiently romantic, and have until Easter to get back together. He gets in... » MORE

Love Trilogy. Three couples travel to Kunming in Yunnan province for various reasons; each representing a different stage in love. Each also represents a different market for the film, thus maximizing profitability. The old timers, married for seven years, are represented by... » MORE

Love Undercover. I like Daniel Wu, and even here, when he's completely on autopilot, he retains some charm. Miriam Yeung, however, continues to confuse me by starring in movies without having any charm or ability. She mugs for the camera for nearly... » MORE

Love Undercover 3. Miriam Yeung and Daniel Wu didn't come back for the third entry of the LOVE UNDERCOVER franchise, so why should we? Fiona Sit is the Miriam Yeung stand-in, which is basically all she does, unable to bring anything different to... » MORE

Loving Him. Terminal diseases are all the rage in HK Cinema lately, but few of the films are any good, or in the case of this year's SUMMER I LOVE YOU, even coherent. But this one is an exception -- a good... » MORE

Magic Cop. Lam Ching-Ying is back with another supernatural adventure, only this time, he isn't a Taoist priest, he's a cop! Well, not really. Actually he's a cop AND a Taoist priest. This film had me hooked before the opening credits even... » MORE

Magic Kitchen. Sammi Cheng is the inheritor of her mother's restaurant and her reciepe books, both of which she clings to and doesn't want to change. Her young employee, played by Jerry Yan, has a different idea and wants her to cook... » MORE

Maid from Heaven, A. The back of the DVD states that it "took two directors, three assistant directors, and four cinematographers to capture the remarkable epic..." which seems hard to believe considering that all together about all they did was set up a camera... » MORE

Man Called Hero, A. It's the 1930's and Ekin Cheng stars as a swordsman fleeing the law who finds refuge in a famous hotel in New York's Chinatown. ... » MORE

Maniacal Night. A movie in the tradition of Jonathan Demme's AFTER HOURS and Sabu's POSTMAN BLUES, though much lighter in spirit. A Japanese man (Taguchi Hiromasa) in Hong Kong on the eve of the handover hires a prostitute at incredible cost because... » MORE

Mantis Combat. I feel like I've seen hundreds of nondescript, low budget kung fu movies like this one. Usually, I don't review them -- I have nothing to say, really. I am not a practicioner of martial arts, so commenting on the... » MORE

Marriage with a Fool. A new record for romantic comedies, the loving piggyback ride occurs within only the first ten minutes. I swear, Robert Crumb would love watching Hong Kong movies. Wah (Alex Fong Lik-Sun) and Bobo (Stephy Tang, from the girl band Cookies)... » MORE

Marry a Rich Man. Sammi Cheung has just one dream -- to marry a rich man. Richie Jen is her rich man of choice. Will it work? Or can there be love without money? Can she love a poor man? Like last year's LOVE... » MORE

Martial Angels. Hsu Chi and Sandra Ng head up a cast of superthieving, computer-hacking babes who have to steal a new computer super virus from a high tech vault in order to save Hsu's lover from the Russian Mafia. Fun, campy action... » MORE

Master Q 2001. It seemed like such a great idea. Take some of Hong Kong's old and beloved comic characters, then do the WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT treatment on them and have them interact with stars like Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung. Only... » MORE

Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective. The beloved character Master Q returns in a full length animated movie. Like many Hong Kong comedies, it's a creative pastiche of Hollywood ideas, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and the Matrix, complete with a "bullet time" parody. The story... » MORE

May & August. The Rape of Nanking as seen through the eyes of two orphans, named May and August. The movie tries to do a lot on a small budget and comes off looking like a fairly decent Hallmark made for TV special.... » MORE

Maybe It's Love. Maybe it's love, but it looks a whole lot more like deceptive marketing. The sexy, sweaty, Cherie Chung in a nightgown on the front cover and bed scenes on the back give way in the movie itself to a quiet... » MORE

McDull, Prince de la Bun. Like the first McDull movie, this picture is a remarkable animated interpretation of Hong Kong. This time McDull and his kindergarten is smack in the middle of an urban renewal project and slated for the wrecking ball. His mother, meanwhile,... » MORE

Medallion, The. Jackie Chan is an international action hero. But sometimes, his movies look like they were made for someone who desperately wants to be an international action hero, but doesn't know how to go about it. This movie tries so hard... » MORE

Merry-Go-Round. Eric Tsang and his two kids, one a teenage boy, the other a little girl, open up a noodle shop for a few short months. During that time the two kids learn alot about themselves, make friends, fall in love.... » MORE