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

An Empress and the Warriors. For a little while, there, Chinese movies once again had international audiences, the size of which they hadn't seen since Bruce Lee. For that, they had to thank Ang Lee's Croutching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002).... » 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

Midnight Fly. Anita Mui goes to Paris to get away from her philandering husband, and befriends a young Japanese girl who is in love with a married man. The two decide to extend their vacation and go to Morocco, and while there... » MORE

Midnight Running. Mari, a japanese pickpocket (Maya Rumiko) steals a triad membership list from the Tung Hing group, whose boss insists they recover it that night, Christmas Eve, or lose their lives. Peter (Derek Tsang), the bartender at the gang's hangout speaks... » MORE

Mighty Baby. The official sequel to LA BRASSIERE, the old cast is back (Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo, Gigi Leung, and Carina Lau) are joined by Rosamund Kwan and Cecilia Cheung with a new directive: make the ultimate baby product. A few laughs,... » MORE

Miracle Box, The. Within the first ten minutes, I've learned that a rainbow is actually a full circle, half on earth and half in heaven; and if you write all your troubles on a piece of paper and put it in a box,... » MORE

Miss Du Shi Niang. Michele Reis is a prostitute looking for love, Daniel Wu the object of her affection. The scenes of the brothel, which includes modern song & dance numbers, are obviously inspired by MOULIN ROUGE, a movie so much more inventive with... » MORE

Mist in Judge. The movie follows three plot threads which only barely intersect -- there's a serial killer on the loose. Terence Yin in the obsessed cop trying to track him down. And Ti Lung is the triad boss who gets involved only... » MORE

Money Kills. A group of dimly intelligent provincial types come across a dead body and a big bag of money, and decide to keep the bag of money. There's Ken Wong, the "smart" one, whose business has failed and sort of wants... » MORE

Mong Tak Cho 2: Snake Goblin. Because there were so many unanswered questions after the first one. A terrible, shot on video Cat-III softcore film featuring the cast that is usually the second string in these things as the stars. Chow Ka Yu is the Goblin... » MORE

Mong Tak Cho: Virgin Power. Direct to video sleaze about a monk with special sex power having a sex competition with a woman. Shot on video, artistically barren, and without a moment of eroticism, this is Category III filmmaking at its lowest point. Porn actors... » MORE

Moving Targets. Wong Jing scores big with another cop vs. triad picture with a strong story and sense of local (Hong Kong) identity, similar to 2003's THE COLOUR OF THE TRUTH. Nicholas Tse and Edison Chen star as young, tough cops who... » MORE

Mr. 3 Minutes. Ronald Cheng has the same combo of manic comedy and Bruce Lee worship that made Stephen Chow's career such a smashing success. But if Cheng keeps making middle of the road romances like this, his career will start heading in... » MORE

Mr. Vampire. Lam Ching-Ying stars as the Taoist sifu in the movie that made hopping vampires a staple of Hong Kong cinema and Lam Ching-Ying a household name. The fun begins when Lam and his assistants attempt to rebury a businessman who... » MORE

Mr. Vampire 2. Do you like little cute kids playing vampires? Do you like watching loud, whiny, fat children? Say no more! This is the film for you! ... » MORE

Mummy Aged 19, The. An update of the classic 50's teen angst movie I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, starring the boy band SHINE (Tsui Tin Yau, Wong Yau Nam). 19 year old Bobo (Tsui Tin Yau), hates his name so much he changes it,... » MORE

Musical Singer. The well known composer and actor James Wong stars as, well, James Wong, a manager of new musical talent. When his protege Jeannie Fong (Anita Mui) leaves him for the big time, he angrily resolves to find someone better to... » MORE

My Baby Shot Me Down. Looking for some female vengeance in this movie whose title was obviously inspired by the KILL BILL soundtrack? Not really here. Instead it's the story of an actor turned serial killer -- as we all have long suspected, there's really... » MORE

My Darling Genie. Cherie Cheung is a genie who lives inside a paper umbrella. She is found by a construction worker (Derek Yee) who uses her to do his work for him, bail his Uncle Fan (Stanley Fung) out of debt and keep... » MORE

My Hero. At first, MY HERO parodies A BETTER TOMORROW, later, it imitates it. The story of Sing (Stephen Chow Sing-Chi), a comic book loving waiter who gets caught in gangster crossfire and ends up being hired by kingpin Wai to help... » MORE

My Horny Girlfriend. Grace Lam fans, rejoyce. She disrobes early and often, and, unusual for an erotic Hong Kong film, some of the sex scenes are actually intense and erotic. The plot, on the other hand, is disposable. ... » MORE

My Kung Fu Sweetheart. Phoenix (Cecilia Cheung) finds out at the age of 14 that her parents (Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu) are members of the Secret Society for Martial Arts, her family has a natural talent for it, and she can spend summer... » MORE

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts. Johnnie To puts together another of his formulaic comedies, with some success. This time Sammi Cheng stars as a girl who meets a millionaire on vacation and marries him after three days. Shortly after that, he dies, and she moves... » MORE

My Life as McDull. Here, at last, is an animated film, Hong Kong style. Based on a popular Hong Kong cartoon series, McDull has a firm sense of place unmatched in any animated film I've ever seen before. It is Hong Kong, it's concerns... » MORE

My Lucky Star. Miriam Yeung is the unluckiest girl in the world, Tony Leung is a wealthy Feng Shui expert to the stars. When they meet, disaster follows, and inevitably, love. There's a plot, too, about scheming heiresses and family inheritance, and a... » MORE

My Rebellious Son. Ku Feng and Alexander Fu sheng play a father son team in this kung fu comedy about the well respected traditional Chinese doctor Master Chang (Ku Feng) and his troublesome, bored, rebel-rousing son Siu Tai(Alexander Fu Sheng). Master Chang tries... » MORE

My Schoolmate, the Barbarian. Stephen Fung is a rich, smart kid sent to the worst school in the city, where classroom disputes are settled in a makeshift arena in an abandoned classroom. Nicholas Tse is the reigning fight champion of the school. He takes... » MORE

My Sweetie. Hong Kong DJ Sammy Leung was pretty funny as an idiotic, child-like model in this year's Ronald Cheng megahit Supermodel. But I was little put off by his starring role here, as an idiotic, child-like shampoo company office worker. Since... » MORE

My Troublesome Buddy. Somehow I knew that if I just watched enough of these low-budget, digital video productions, that I would finally uncover the gem in the rough. Well, MY TROUBLESOME BUDDY might not be exactly a gem, but it certainly is a... » MORE

My Wife is 18. When did Hong Kong comedies suddenly start to resemble the Carol Burnett Show? MY WIFE IS 18 is only one of many comedies that think comedy is better if the actors are laughing at themselves, too. Unfortunately, when that happens,... » MORE

Mysterious Murder, A. When Japan remade the Korean black comedy THE QUIET FAMILY, about a family that opens an ill-fated inn at which all most of their guests end up dead, Takashi Miike directed and the result was the insane THE HAPPINESS OF... » MORE

Myth, The. Jackie Chan turns in another globe-trotting adventure helmed by long time collaborator Stanley Tong. This time, Jackie is the living reincarnation of Qin General Meng Tian, now working as an honest and adventurous archeologist. His old friend William (Tony Leung... » MORE

Naked Poison 2. A highlight of Category III sleaze last year was most certainly the darkly nasty NAKED POISON. This is a sequel in name only, but does star the most talented girls from the previous picture, once again taking off all of... » MORE

Naked Weapon. Young girls all over the world are kidnapped, taken to a secluded island, and trained to be assassins by Madame M (Almen Wong). After years of brutal training, which includes murder and rape, the best of the best become professionals.... » MORE

Neon Goddesses. A slice-of-life documentary about three girls who have migrated to Beijing to try their luck and earn some money. We don't get to learn very much about these women, both because of the short running time (46 minutes) and because... » MORE

New Blood. Dark, nasty, and bleak horror film about suicidal lovers. One of the victims has an unusual blood type and three donors are rounded up in the middle of the night to give. They end up saving the man, but the... » MORE

New Mr. Vampire 1992. Lam Ching-Ying, Chin Siu-Ho, and Ricky Hui, the original Sifu and disciples, renuite to fight angry Hell Babies, and, of course, more hopping vampires.... » MORE

New Option. Shawn Yue stars as a police investigator who wants to join the SDU to become a sniper. He also has lots and lots of guns in his apartment. Michael Wong is the head of SDU and has final say who... » MORE

New Police Story. Jackie Chan is a police superintendant who leads his team into a death trap against a group of young amoral ultraviolent thieves who love to kill police. He turns to alcohol until a new partner (Nicholas Tse) gets him out... » MORE

Night Club on Fire. It only takes about five minutes of watching this garbage that you wish the night club really does catch fire, killing everyone inside. Alas, no, instead it's a drama about the girls of Golden Pond nightclub, with hearts of gold... » MORE

Nightmare from Snake. Where there's a will, there's a way, to get drug smuggling into any plot. Reminiscent of the Taiwanese hopping vampire film KUNG FU VAMPIRE BUSTER, in which a group of men are disguised as hopping vampires as a way to... » MORE

Nightmare in Precinct 7. Andy Hui is a cop who, after a near fatal shooting, can see dead people. But this isn't a SIXTH SENSE sort of movie where he has to help them now, rather, it is the ghosts who help him. After... » MORE

Nine Girls and a Ghost. The hot new nine member girl band "Cookies" get their movie debut in this rather mundane story of a ghost (Edison Chen) who helps the girls in school while they help him discover his identity. Some really poor CGI enhanced... » MORE

Ninja in the Deadly Trap. Ti Lung is Qi Jiguang, the famous Ming Dynasty general in this historical drama turned ninja free-for-all. ... » MORE

Ninja in the Dragon's Den. Hiroyuki Sanada disguises himself as a Ninja to defeat his enemies, wading through fight choreography so thick you could dance through it. Shaka-ninja! ... » MORE

Nomad. The story of a group of fun loving young Hong Kong people who fall in love, have sex, dream of better places, wear little clothing, and strive to live their lives their own way. That is, until some crazy Japanese... » MORE

Ode to Gallantry. With a title like this, it can only be a Chang Cheh film. When it comes right down to it, ALL his films are odes to gallantry. But this movie confounds expectations by being very little about gallantry at all,... » MORE

Once Upon a Time in Triad Society. Ugly Kwan shows exactly why he got his nickname, presenting two different versions of his life in the triad, while he lies on an operating table bleeding to death. ... » MORE

Once Upon a Time in Triad Society 2. Mainlanders square off against Hongkies in a gang war while a cop tries to keep his pregnant wife clear of the resulting carnage. ... » MORE

One Night in Mongkok. One gang boss puts out a hit on another gang boss. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), an empovershed mainlander they recruit for the job, arrives in Hong Kong while Officer Milo (Alex Fong) and his team (including Chin Kar-Lok and Ken... » MORE

Osaka Wrestling Restaurant. A low budget Japanese/Hong Kong co-production that makes up for lack of budget with energy and charm. Sammo Hung's son Timmy Hung plays Ricky, who dreams of becoming a famous chef. Wayne Lai is his estranged brother Mike, who is... » MORE

Our Dream Car. A lovesong to capitalism, and the pinnacle of human desire: the car. It will spice up your life! Make you feel rich! Improve your sex life! Make you a movie star! Yes, all this -- and more! -- can be... » MORE

Painted Faces. Sammo Hung teaches young Peking Opera students about life, love, and psychotic episodes in this dramatization of the adolescence of Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Sammo himself. ... » MORE

Painted Skin. King Hu directs this tale about a woman who is trying to escape from the king of Yin/Yang with the help of a group of Taoist priests. She has a beautiful face, except when she takes it off and hangs... » MORE

Papa Loves You. A month after releasing Herbal Tea, along comes another warm, fuzzy comedy from director Herman Yau, which even uses an alarmingly similar image -- star on a moped -- to advertise it. Happily, though, this effort is an improvement over... » MORE

Para Para Sakura. A few redeeming qualities surface in this cookie cutter romance about, as they inevitably are, a handsome but flawed man (Aaron Kwok) who falls in love with a cute but eccentric woman (Christy Cheung). He's color blind -- she makes... » MORE

Peeping, The. Packed wall to wall with sex, held together by a plot full of double crosses, THE PEEPING would have made a great porno. But although there is a lot of nudity, and a lot of sex, the camera is set... » MORE

Peking Opera Blues. Tsui Hark's masterpiece, a rollicking adventure yarn about revolution, generals, spies, and women warriors, featuring Brigitte Lin. ... » MORE

Play with Strangers. A pleasant low-budget production featuring a group of my favorite supporting actors. Roy Cheung stars as a "bootlicker," which apparently is a person who goes around gambling with and generally ingratiating themselves to various rich businessmen in the hopes of... » MORE

Point of No Return. There are about a dozen Hong Kong films titled POINT OF NO RETURN. This is the worst. A direct to video production. Jackie Lui is a cop who enlists Grace Lam to work for him as an undercover to avoid... » MORE

Police Case. Boring shot on video production starring Elle Choi as a police secretary who sits around bored at her job all day while beat cop Ken Wong is out all day doing his rounds. Wong appears to be the only cop... » MORE

Possessed. The hosts of a radio call-in program about the supernatural (Julian Cheung and Ozawa Maju) begin investigating possession cases to help boost ratings for fear of being replaced as hosts by a Feng Shui master (Lam Suet). When they investigate... » MORE

Possessed (1983). Buddy cops Hsiao (Gary Siu) and Ming (Lau Siu Ming) go on a drunk and end up shooting to death a homicidal maniac trying to chop up his own wife. It sets in motion a chain of events that unleashes... » MORE

Possessed II. Apparently David Lai (Director) and John Au (Screenwriter) were not quite finished riffing on POLTERGEIST and the ENTITY after making Possessed, so here's a sequel with more, and what the heck, this time with a dash of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF... » MORE

Princess - D. When computer game designer (Daniel Wu) conceptualizes what he hopes to be his breakthrough game, there is only one thing missing: the star. He meets a young, street tough bartender (Angelica Lee), mixing drinks and handing out ecstacy, and sees... » MORE

Princess Chang Ping. In John Woo's Peking Opera film, a scholarly Lao Sheng slides down a banister in slow motion, a gun in each hand, mowing down the Jing in an explosion of blood and doves...well, no, not really. This is a classic... » MORE

Prison on Fire - Plaintive Destiny. Lam Suet takes center stage as a man sent to prison for raping and killing his own daughter. But then, after being subjected to 'penis dragging' and various other abuses by the other inmates, he forces them to listen to... » MORE

Prison on Fire - Preacher. Utilizing the same three prison sets used in TROUBLESOME NIGHT 17 (a cafeteria that doubles as a visiting room, solitary cells, and a group cell), B&S CREATIVE FILM WORKS whips off another shot on video cheapie leaning on the PRISON... » MORE

Prison on Fire: Life Sentence. Of all the B&S Film Workshop franchises, the PRISON ON FIRE films are consistently the best. This one is about a man who gets life in prison because he stood up to the small time hoods who were threatening his... » MORE

Professional, The. An impotent man (Keung Hiu-Man) goes to see a happy, but very professional, prostitute. She gets naked, dances around, but nothing works until eventually, they fall in love. Every scene cuts to a dripping tap at the end to symbolize... » MORE

Protege de la Rose Noire. How can a film star the charismatic, popular, and peppy Twins (Charlene Choi and Gillian Cheung), be directed by action star Donnie Yen, concern costumed crimefighting against a sexy villainess and her hitwomen, combine action and comedy, and yet still... » MORE

Psychedelic Cop. This movie has become legendary for its low box office. After a week in the theater, it screened to exactly 10 people, giving it a worldwide standing as one of the poorest performing films of all time. You can joke... » MORE

Public Toilet. Let's face it: Anyone who has seen a sufficient quantity of Hong Kong movies over a period of time will come to notice an almost overeager tendency of those films to display characters in various states and whenever possible discharging... » MORE

Pure and the Evil, The. The story of two friends: May (Tai Liang-chun), aka "the pure", a good girl with rich parents and all the social advantages; and Rose (Chen Pei-hsi), aka "the evil", a girl with divorced parents who grew up taken care of... » MORE

Rebekah. REBEKAH is the movie that dares to ask: if you aren't very talented, but have a nice body and big busts, can you become a success? The answer, of course, is that talent never had anything much to do with... » MORE

Replacement Suspects, The. Simon Loui pens another genre thriller, this time about three thieves who accidentally kill a policeman while escaping and retreat into a bar, taking hostages. But someone in the bar is another wanted criminal. Or actually, Loui didn't write it... » MORE

Return from the Other World. Another shameless grab for your immortal soul by Media Evangelism, who brought us last year's Ultimate Intelligence. This time around a gambler strikes a deal with the Devil, becomes a billionaire, but then hits bottom, and after attempting suicide, sees... » MORE

Reunion. When triad baddies kill their parents, the oldest brother gets his younger brother and sister out of the house and onto the street. They are eventually taken in by an orphanage, are adopted by different families, and grow up. Now... » MORE

Revenge of Angel. Anyone seeing the title and expecting girls-with-guns action may be suprised to find that our heroine gives up the ghost before the opening credits. But she doesn't give it up entirely. ... » MORE

River of Fury. Zhou Yezhuang (Danny Lee) is a small town farm boy whose father passed away. He didn't want to end up an impovershed landowner like his father, and set his sights instead of traveling, leading a wandering life. He idolizes the... » MORE

Runaway Pistol. The premise of RUNAWAY PISTOL -- an entire movie from the point of view of a gun, as it moves from owner to owner -- is high concept and one might think almost doomed to stupidity. Several American movies have... » MORE

Running Out of Time 2. Director To follows up his classic film with a sequel starring Lau Ching-wan and Ekin Cheng. A lighter, more whimsical film which has split early viewers of the film pretty evenly between like and hate. I liked it, though the... » MORE

Sai Kung Story. Three vignettes set in Sai Kung about love and remembrance. A young girl in Po Toi O fishing village dreams of being a model, while antagonizing a customer who, unbeknownst to her, is a fashion designer. A young and sloppy... » MORE

Saint of Gamblers. Ng Man-Tat searches for a new gambling king in this sequel to All for the Winners. It should have been a wonderfully fun action-gambling Wong Jing extravaganza. ... » MORE

Satan Returns. Francis Ng is Satan's emissary on earth. His purpose: rip out women's hearts and see if any of them live. ... » MORE

Scaremonger. Sam Lee and Jerry Lamb star in this pathetic horror comedy about a couple writers looking for new stories, who encounter a woman who lures men to her home where they are eaten by her husband. The appearance of Jude... » MORE

Seamy Side of Life -- A Black Chick. As our cheap, shot-on-video exploitation film opens, a young girl is out dancing, and is kidnapped, raped, and locked up until she agrees to become a prostitute. The gang begins giving her drugs until she's an addict. Her grandmother, Helena... » MORE

Seamy Side of Life II: Crying Stars. A country girl moves to Shenzhen to earn big money. She finds out that money is hard to come buy unless you are a bar hostess who also does sexual favors on the side. In a refreshing change of pace... » MORE

Second Time Around. Leave it to Hong Kong filmmakers to take BACK TO THE FUTURE and make it a gambling movie. Ekin Cheng is the gambler, and he has his eyes on taking the high rollers in Vegas. But things go wrong, and... » MORE

Secret Pursuit, The. Qiandao Lake. Xiuxiu's brother is killed by gangsters, his last words, "Yellow Ribbon." Meanwhile Mailong (Peter Ho Yun-tung) is a photographer working for Jimi (Tiffany Lee)'s Bridal Shop. He feels an ominous conspiracy creeping all around him. A sense of... » MORE

Secret Society, The - Boss. Ng Chi Hung is a small time boss who had to leave Hong Kong, and can only wistfully look at it from across the border in Shenzhen. Probably it was a mistake to rape the drugged out young woman at... » MORE

Secret Society, The - The Best Hack. Continuing right where The Secret Society - Boss left off, with gang leader Ng Chi Hung on the lam in Shenzhen, and Lee Siu Kay living it up back in Hong Kong. Or at least, he should be, but his... » MORE

Set to Kill. A thriller with more twists and turns than your own intestines. But its set up that way pretty much from the beginning, which creates a certain emotional detachment in the viewer: we already suspect nothing we are told will end... » MORE

Set Up. One can only assume that the title of this disappointing film refers to the glaringly obvious, contrived, and totally illogical set up to the story. It's too bad, too, as director Billy Chung can usually deliver a satisfying genre film.... » MORE

Sex and the Beauties. Wong Jing's comedy about women falling in love starts strong but loses steam and gets pretty dull in its last half-hour. But nevertheless he manages to tell a story of twenty, thirty, and fourty-something women in a way that is... » MORE

Sex Medusa. A snake woman (Nomoto Miho) is flushed out of the sewer system by a commando force that uses flame throwers to torch the snakes in the pipes. Why they are doing this is never explained, but she appears topside, as... » MORE

Sexy Playgirls. "My sister is dying of leukemia" is an odd way to start a film about sexy playgirls. In fact one might be forgiven for thinking that there has been some mixup at the plant; the wrong title pressed on to... » MORE

Shadow. Stephen Fung and his pals hang out on the beach picking up women, until one day he runs into a girl he hasn't seen since High School. They look her up and visit only to find she has committed suicide... » MORE

Shadow Mask. I was fully expecting to enjoy this low budget action fest. Cheng Pei-Pei is the villainous Red Goddess, sprung from jail by her gang, and intent on revenge for the man who put her there, Shadow Mask. Only thing is,... » MORE

Shaolin Soccer. Stephen Chiau is a Shaolin monk who wants to popularize martial arts. Ng Man-Tat is a former soccer champ who took a bribe to throw a game twenty years ago and is trying to regain his honor by putting together... » MORE

Shaolin vs. Evil Dead. A new hopping vampire film primarily for the U.S. market, expressly designed to piggy-back on the appearance of Gordon Liu in KILL BILL. Presumably producers hoped that viewers of KILL BILL would be curious about Liu, and wonder about how... » MORE

Shark Busters. If there's one thing you will leave this movie thinking, it's, "Who the heck is that white guy who speaks fluent Cantonese?" The answer would be Brian Ireland, a Hong Kong businessman and friend of Danny Lee, making his acting... » MORE

Sharp Guns. Alex Fong is Tricky On, an expert hitman hired by an old friend to rescue his daughter from kidnappers. He recruits a crack team, including a sharpshooter, a race car driver, and a hand-to-hand combat and torture expert, played by... » MORE

Shopaholics, The. Wai Ka Fai's latest Lunar New Year comedy is neither very funny, nor very good. Yet, several layers below the suffocating artiface of the production, some basic truths struggle for air. There is a story to tell here, about our... » MORE

Silver Hawk. Michelle Yeoh's career has always been of great potential badly spent. She just seems so great -- she's got the moves, the acting ability, the looks -- but when it comes right down to it, her movies are often atrociously... » MORE

Six Strong Guys. Less than two years after Leslie Cheung jumped to his death from a balcony of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, I thought initially it may be in bad taste to begin a comedy with four stars contemplating a similar suicide. But... » MORE

Sky of Love. A boring remake of the not-very-interesting-to-begin-with Korean film DITTO, which was itself heavily inspired by the better-than-both-of-them-but-still-not-very-good American film FREQUENCY. They all involve talking to someone from a different time via some kind of magical ham radio. This time, Gigi... » MORE

Sleeping with the Dead. Jordan Chan shacks up with the dead whenever he gets the chance in this dark ghost story about a woman who was raped and killed on her birthday and comes back to do in her assailants one by one. Simon... » MORE

Slim Til Dead. A serial killer abducts models and forces them to slim down to 70lbs before letting them go, the process naturally killing them. Tak (Anthony Wong) and Bull (Raymond Wong) are the cops on the case, aided by mainland photographer Tin... » MORE

Snake Charmer. You've got to love the pitch for this film: COYOTE UGLY meets PHANTOM OF SNAKE. Yes, lets get lots of ladies, running a bar, dancing on it even, then have one of them (Marsha Yuan) turn into a snake woman... » MORE

So Close. A pair of sister assassins (Shu Qi and Vicki Zhao) are hired by a businessman to kill a few of his associates, putting him in charge of the corporation. Meanwhile, an exceptional forensics detective (Karen Mok) will stop at nothing... » MORE

Source of Love, The. Shoddy Christian evangelism at its most desperate. A young man who stutters and is looked down on by his father redeems his family and teaches them the love of Jesus Christ. Others in his family yell hilarious comments like, "Quit... » MORE

Split of the Spirit. At last, a horror movie about interpretive dance. It's such a natural fit I'm surprised the combination isn't used more often. ... » MORE

Spooky Bunch, The. A Cantonese Opera troupe gets mixed up with a platoon of ghost soldiers seeking revenge. Lots of atmosphere, little action. ... » MORE

Spring Song. Li Qingping (Grace Chang) is a poor girl, the first in the family to be heading off to college. Of course, her family might not be so poor if it wasn't so darn big, but never mind. She marches heroically... » MORE

Star Runner. Vanness Wu is training to challenge the top all around fighter, Tank (Andy On), and in the meantime is falling for his Korean university teacher, played by Kim Yun-Joo. He studies Thai kickboxing under veterans Chin Kar-Lok and Gordon Liu,... » MORE

Stewardess, The. Director Samuel Leung continues his dialog on Japan - Hong Kong relations, carried through many of his previous pictures (COLOUR OF PAIN, MANIACAL NIGHT) Here, Sam Lee is a young man who meets a beautiful Japanese stewardess (Kasugai Seina) and... » MORE

Stolen Love. A young architect (Raymond Lam) gets hit by a car and cannot draw anymore unless he is near a mysterious girl (Rain Li) that he believes he has seen before, somehow. She finds him familiar as well, and both of... » MORE

Story of Freemen, The. A war photojournalist takes a picture of a beautiful hitwoman (Joey Man Yee-Man) as she assassinates someone from a rival gang, and they immediately fall in love. A tough cop tries to find the murderer and bring down her "dragon... » MORE

Stowaway. A group of illegal immigrants try to make the journey from China to England and go through sheer hell to do it. I can only imagine it isn't always this hard to smuggle people into the west, otherwise there'd be... » MORE

Summer Breeze of Love. Sometimes these movies make me feel old. This time around we watch the end of summer, with friends Gillian Cheung and Charlene Choi of the canto pop band TWINS falling in love and maturing a tad. Gillian falls for a... » MORE

Summer I Love You. Love means never having to say you're sorry I injected you with an experimental hormone that makes you age prematurely. Candy Lo and Richie Yen star in this twist on the ultimate love affair, meeting on ICQ then suddenly trying... » MORE

Sun, Moon, and Star I. It's every man's nightmare. You date a couple girls, they find out about each other, get mad at you, and become best friends. Jianbai (Chang Yang), not afraid to play favorites, compares them to the sun, moon, and stars. The... » MORE

Sun, Moon, and Star II. The tearjerking, melodramatic conclusion to the epic saga of three strong women and one idiot man-child that can't choose between them, until it's far too late. Jianbai (Chang Yang) joins the army to be with his beloved Yanan (Julie Yeh),... » MORE

Supermodel. Though Hong Kong has long imitated Hollywood and ripped off movie ideas one after another, it used to be the case that the Hong Kong version was always more outrageous and more entertaining. But in the post-THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY... » MORE

Swift Sword. An adaptation of Jin Yong's Sword Stained with Royal Blood, crammed into a scant 85 minute running time. Bai Yiping (Ling Yun) is on a mission to kill as many of the Leng family as he can, in revenge for... » MORE

Sword of Emei. The first of Josephine Siao's many swordswoman films that has actually been released with English subtitles! VCD only, a beat up, unrestored print, Black and White for a quite possibly color film, but still, here it is, and fans of... » MORE

Sword of Swords. Everyone wants to get their hands on the Sword of Swords, except honest and hardworking disciple Jimmy Wang Yu, so naturally it falls to him. He hopes to pass it on to the unfortunately named hero, Wang Puke, but the... » MORE

Sword, The. Li Mak-Yin (Adam Cheng) thinks he's the best and has spent the past 10 years looking for Wah (Tin Fung), the most famous swordsman in the world. He encounters three women along the way. There is Ying Chi, a young... » MORE

Tale from the East, A. The First Emperor's quest for immortality leads directly to the comedy relief getting bit on the ass by a decapitated head. ... » MORE

Taste of Killing and Romance, A. Andy Lau and Anita Yuen are killers for hire who meet and fall in love while the cops, led by Waise Lee, try to hunt them down, and the people who hire and pay for their hits (Christine Ng and... » MORE

Tattooed She Killer. When Lin comes home to find her mom having wild sex with a gangster in the bedroom while her wheelchair bound father sits dejectedly in the living room, she runs away from home, gets raped and tattooed head to toe... » MORE

Teenage Gambler. Sort of a sequal to BLACK MASK v. GAMBLING MASTERMIND, as once again a chubby kid acts like a gambling master. Could be the same kid, thankfully I don't own the earlier film and have erased most of my memories... » MORE

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Four mutant turtles make the way of the ninja trendy among nine year olds. ... » MORE

There Is a Secret In My Soup. Based on a true story -- a bunch of punks kidnap a girl, torture her, rape her, kill her accidentally, then stuff her remains in a Hello Kitty doll. The Hello Kitty copyright owners were none to amused by all... » MORE

Thou Shall Not Commit. A cheap and nasty little film about a jealous man (Anthony Wong) who suspects his wife (Maggie Cheung) is sleeping with a younger man, and is willing to go to great lengths to prove it. A pawn in his game... » MORE

Three of a Kind. Michael Hui and Lau Ching-wan played opposite each other briefly earlier in the year in the Hui Brothers tribute film FANTASIA. Here Hui plays Dragon Lone, a famous kung fu novelist, who has suffered from writing block for 13 years,... » MORE

Throwdown. Gripping. And throwing. THROWDOWN presents a whole new way of seeing bodies in motion -- quick twists followed by loud thuds. Aaron Kwok is an enthusiastic Judo practitioner, who loves nothing more than finding other Judo wrestlers to fight. He... » MORE

Thundering Sword, The. All the Clans are after the Thundering Sword, the evil clans for power, the good clans so that they can destroy it. On the quest for good are two brothers Yu(Chang I) and Chiang (Lo Lieh). The evil team, poison... » MORE

Time 4 Hope. The next time I see an autobiographical movie of someone's life, I sincerely hope they are either more interesting or just lie a lot. As it stands, this is the story of Yuen Kai-Chi, (played by Nick Cheung) an unlikable... » MORE

Tiramisu. Karena Lam is a dancer, Nic Tse a mailman. They have a chance encounter, and she is thinking of him when she suddenly gets flattened by a passing bus. Now her ghost is back, inhabiting his body so she can... » MORE

To Hell with the Devil. John Woo mines his Methodist childhood and rips off Bedazzled to make this sometimes funny but mostly really weird film of flying heads, pop music, and space invaders. ... » MORE

To Seduce An Enemy. Michael Tong plays an evil advertising company boss hypnotizes beautiful women into being his sex slaves, then has them kill people for him, and kill themselves as well, when he gets tired of them. He also has a country house... » MORE

Touch of Zen, A. The legendary King Hu begins his movie as if it is a Pu Songling tale, then turns it into a political intrigue and, still later, a religious meditation. ... » MORE

Touch, The. After TOMORROW NEVER DIES Michelle Yeoh was on top of the world. But instead of continuing her Hollywood career (which knowing Hollywood would have been restricted to very stereotypical asian woman roles anyway), she began her own new production company... » MORE

Tragic Room, A. OK, so you murdered your husband in cold blood. Stabbed him repeatedly. So what? You did what you had to to protect your sister. He was no good. But after being in jail for three years, you could probably start... » MORE

Tri-Star. Leslie Cheung stars as a priest who shouldn't be doing weddings since all the brides fall for him. But he's so darn cute, he can't help it! ... » MORE

Trouble Makers, The. Terence Yin moves into a room owned by landlord Lam Suet who conspires with tenant Maggie Q to make him believe there are ghosts in the house, and make him run away, leaving them to keep his rather large safety... » MORE

Troublesome Night 10. In TN 8, we briefly see Bud Gay in his office at a trading company. This time around, the story concerns Gay and his co-workers as their boss (Wayne Lai) takes them on a holiday to Cheung Chau, a common... » MORE

Troublesome Night 11. Bud Gay and his co-workers are at it again. This time they volunteer to help clean garbage off the beach to meet girls. And while there, one of the girls gets possessed by a woman who was slain by her... » MORE

Troublesome Night 12. Bud Gay and Bud Yan are back again, this time in Shenzhen, helping a couple girls with their new beauty parlor. To increase business, their friends (the landlord and his pal, Mr. Nine and Onitsuke, who have been in TN... » MORE

Troublesome Night 13. Thirteen was never so unlucky as now, when it has the misfortune of being attached to the end of a Troublesome Night title. This time around, the filmmakers apparently decided to take a nice vacation to Thailand to film themselves... » MORE

Troublesome Night 14. Here's a novel experience -- I was actually entertained by some of this entry in the neverending series. The Bud family grows by one when Helena Law's ex-husband, "Budcasso," sends her a wedding invitation and offers her shares in his... » MORE

Troublesome Night 15. Eric Tsang lends his star power to this fifteenth installment, but does little to improve it. In his past life, he betrayed his village to the invading Japanese, and after killing a man's wife and child in front of him,... » MORE

Troublesome Night 16. It had to happen -- here's a meta-TROUBLESOME NIGHT episode, which begins with the cast discussing with the director ideas for the next TN movie. When the boys try to escape the brainstorming session by climbing out the bathroom window,... » MORE

Troublesome Night 17. The Troublesome Night series goes to prison in this episode, about a wrongly accused man (Sam Lee) who hangs himself in prison to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, his girlfriend (Theresa Mak), in despair, kills herself in her apartment. Now the... » MORE

Troublesome Night 18. The series that won't lie down and die is now officially old enough to vote, or enlist in the army, but not yet responsible enough to drink alcohol (at least, such are the laws in the United States. If anyone... » MORE

Troublesome Night 19. By now the most interesting part about the series is wondering if they are going to get to 20. Now, they've got only one more to go. This time around, the cast takes a beach vacation and films it. Anita... » MORE

Troublesome Night 8. Simon Loui is Bud Pit, an out of work movie maker. He moves his family to the New Territories to save on the rent. So we put up dramatic non-scares like a crummy landlord, a barking dog, taoist prayer slips... » MORE

Troublesome Night 9. Picking up right where TN 8 left off, Bud Pit (Simon Loui) has finally found a job, working nights on a casino boat. Maggie Cheung Ho-Yi is a gambling addict who is trying to get rich for love (not quite... » MORE

Troublesome Romance. A doctor (Alex To) operates on his wife and accidentally kills her. Under investigation because of her large insurance policy, he decides to jump off the roof, where he meets a girl (Grace Ip) planning to do the same thing... » MORE

Turn Left Turn Right. Two people meet, fall in love, then spend the rest of the movie trying to find each other again, despite the fact that they are next door neighbors. She goes left, he goes right, as the title says, and they... » MORE

Twilight Siren, The. Another "man loves ghost" story following in the wake of A Chinese Ghost Story. Wendy and Jay hunt for relics in the woods and find a skull and mystic tablet. Discovering these somehow releases the ghost Joan from the clutches... » MORE

Twilight Zone Cops: My Spirited Wife. Michael Chow is on the trail of a serial murderer who rapes and kills his victims in gardens around Hong Kong. He obsesses endlessly over the case and even gets a vengeful ghost to help him solve it, but the... » MORE

Twins Effect II. Pure entertainment. Light, kids stuff to be sure, but lots of fun anyway. Not even remotely related to the original TWINS EFFECT, the second movie drops the Vampire theme entirely and delivers basically the Hong Kong equivalent of an Italian... » MORE

Twins Mission. I can't help it -- I like the Twins (Charlene Choi and Gillian Cheung), and have often found their performances enjoyable in the many Hong Kong films they have appeared in over the past half-dozen years. But alas, all good... » MORE

Two Individual Package Women. I miss Sharla Cheung Man, heroine of early nineties Stephen Chow films and one of my (admittedly many) international cinema crushes. She still works, though regular Hong Kong moviegoers would hardly know it. So it is with some pleasure that... » MORE

U-Man. 2002 is the year of fantastic Anthony Wong performances. With one notable exception. U-MAN stars Wong and Sam Lee as undercover cops who have to infiltrate a catholic girls school to find some stolen money. Wong disguises as a priest,... » MORE

Ultimate Fight. Directed by Tony Leung Siu Hung, Chairman of the HK Stuntmen's Association. Starring Lau Kar Wing, the old Shaw Brothers action master, as a retired Jujitsu expert. I'm telling you all this so that you can be as profoundly disappointed... » MORE

Ultimate Intelligence. Good lord. Or should I say Lord, since this evangelical film is all about God's love. I wouldn't be surprised if they had priests at the exits during its theatrical run to baptize new converts. When a young man gets... » MORE

Ultimate Vampire. Just when you thought the series was going to lay down and die, it jumps right back up and starts hopping around! Ultimate Vampire is really more of a series of vignettes than a film, following the adventures of the... » MORE

Ultimatum. This one starts promising with a nice CGI shot following a bullet across a restaurant, through an open flame, into a man's neck, out the back, and into the glass door behind him, which shatters. But it's a trick --... » MORE

Unarm 72 Hours. Shot on video production in which a veteran police officer (Danny Lee, as always) tries to capture some jewelry thieves right as he nears retirement. Only trouble is, they sock away the jewels, and one of the bastards (Lam Wai)... » MORE

Undercover Madams, The. Grace Lam is the police chief, and she sends three of her female officers deep under cover -- or "under the covers" as a salacious ad campaign might have sold the film. One follows a gangster, another a pimp/drug dealer,... » MORE

Unplugging Nightmare. This is what the TROUBLESOME NIGHT series would look like with a little more money and more serious storylines. The story concerns a reporter (Yoyo Mung) who has the same dream over and over again for ten years, about a... » MORE

Untold Story: Sudden Vanished. Wayne Lai gets his own little digital video franchise, 'UNTOLD STORY.' It has nothing to do with the famous Herman Yau UNTOLD STORY films. Instead, it's basically the X-FILES. Wayne Lai and Fannie Yuan are cops who resign from the... » MORE

Unusual Youth, The. A group of young adults growing up on Cheung Chau find their friendship somewhat slightly tested as each person has pretty average things happen to them. Race Wong and Yan Ng are the girls, and Marco Lok, Raymond Wong, and... » MORE

Vampire Buster. It's right in the middle of the Cultural Revolution and Cheung Il (Kent Cheng) is being denounced by his son, waving Mao's little red book and shouting that he now 'has no family except the state.' It's out with the... » MORE

Vampire Combat. Every hundred years or so the planets align and this evil demon guy can pop up and take over the world, provided he has the right sacrifice. A few hundred years ago, his plans were foiled by former disciples, and... » MORE

Vampire Controller. Here's a throwback to the old hopping vampire comedies of the eighties, which even tries to add a little hopping-vampire lore. Two sifus, two disciples, driving two different groups of corpses through the woods, stop at the same temple for... » MORE

Vampire's Breakfast. A vampire of the strictly Western variety (not even a single hop) is sucking the blood from countless victims and the cops don't have a clue. Along comes a reporter (Kent Cheng) who uncovers the mystery, with the help of... » MORE

Visible Secret. Shu Qi sees dead people in this mystery/romance which also stars Eason Chan as a somewhat dopey, lovestruck guy intent on wooing her. Things get stranger and stranger for Eason as his romance blossoms, until he can no longer tell... » MORE

Visible Secret 2. Eason Chan and Jo Koo star as newlyweds who don't have much time together before Chan has an accident and goes into a coma. When he awakes, he meets his old friend (Cherrie Ying) who helps him investigate his wife,... » MORE

Walk In. Tommy (Dayo Wong), a charming cop with a loving girlfriend (Yu Li), runs into a fight between two gangs and it hit by a car and paralyzed from the waist down. Meanwhile, a stuttering idiot named Chicken (Danny Lee) was... » MORE

Wall, The. Two young gangbanger buddies trying to prove themselves kill their target, but only one gets caught. More than a decade later, Jordan Chan gets out of prison and looks to start a new life, while his old friend, played by... » MORE

Wedding or a Funeral, A. Sam Lee is about to get married, but that night, his beautiful fiance (Paulyn Sun) is abducted and he is forced to capture a series of ever more hardened criminals for the abductor or she will be killed. The movie,... » MORE

Wesley's Mysterious File, The. Now, although I recognize bad SF, that doesn't mean I don't still enjoy it. Typically, I'm pretty forgiving of SF films, though gaping logical flaws get on my nerves. MEN IN BLACK was bad SF. No explanation, gaping plot logic,... » MORE

White Dragon. It's rare that I see a Hong Kong movie in the theater. But this one ran at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago, and I popped over after work this evening to catch it. The movie was shown... » MORE

Why Me, Sweetie?. Louis Koo continues on his mission to be the worst actor in Hong Kong, with startling success. In this film, later remade/ripped off by Hollywood in 50 FIRST DATES, Koo tries to woo a Beijing theater student (Cherry Ying), but... » MORE

Wife from Hell. Andrew Lin was going to be the best doctor around, but instead missed a lot of opportunities because his wife's (Candy Lo) asthma held him back. She is completely devoted to him, however, and even after she dies she comes... » MORE

Wild Ones, The. After getting mocked in Toronto for being a Chinese social worker trying to help Canadian youth, of whom she is told she knows nothing about, Sandy (Olivia Cheng) returns to Hong Kong and gets a job at a girls' home... » MORE

Wise Guys Never Die. Wong Jing's never-ending obsession with gambling films bubbles up out of his id once again, making its annual appearance in Hong Kong's theaters and DVD shops. This time around he puts the usual elements together (gambling training, male rape, and... » MORE

Wo Hu. Wong Jing movies are like a wild dog biting at the crotch of a millionaire: he clamps down on the key bits of hit films and doesn't let go. So after KUNG FU HUSTLE, he spins Yuen Wah and Yuen... » MORE

Woman of the Night. Another anthology film, of the kind that Shaw Brothers made regularly when they couldn't come up with any story actually worth telling, but still needed to fill their theater chain. The three stories contained in this film all concern themselves... » MORE

Women from Mars. Michael Wong, Ekin Cheng, and Cheung Tat-Ming treat women poorly and have their penises removed as punishment from Hell. They have a limited time to find women to tell them they love them or lose their penises forever. Everyone worked... » MORE

Women on the Run. Let's face it, this is a movie based on a single premise: that a woman can do kungfu completely in the nude. It's such a compelling premise that it completely overshadows the film constructed around it. Not that it's a... » MORE

Women's Private Parts. At first I was pretty bored by this documentary about women's sexuality. The first thirty minutes play like a particularly risque episode of the daytime talk show THE VIEW. But it gets better from there, beginning with an interview with... » MORE

Wu Yen. Emperor Qi (Anita Mui, cross dressing as a man) is fated to marry the beautiful chief Wu Yen (Sammi Cheng). But a fox fairy (Cecilia Cheung) comes between them, causing an ugly facial blemish to appear on Wu Yen's face,... » MORE

Yesterday Once More. Johnnie To once again pairs Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng together for a romantic comedy. They've got great chemistry, as usual. This time they are a married couple of wealthy kleptomaniacs who love to steal things together. They divorce one... » MORE

You Shoot, I Shoot. Eric Kot is a hitman out of work due to the recession, who ends up reinvigorating his business by adding a cameraman (Cheung Tat-Ming) to film his hits. A very funny satire which takes aim at the movie industry in... » MORE

Young and Dangerous. This is the one that started it all. Ekin Cheng lets down his hair and flics his bic in the urban underworld. Just entertainment or a Triad recruitment film? Lean a little closer and I'll tell you.... » MORE

Young and Dangerous -- The Prequel. Nicolas Tse plays Ekin Cheng, only much more lifelike, in this prequel in which we learn how the boys got so righteous. ... » MORE

Young and Dangerous 2. Jordan Chan takes the lead in the second installment, in which the Hung Hing boys become the center of a triad war between rival gangs from Hong Kong and Taiwan. ... » MORE

Young and Dangerous 3. The triad traditions collapse around our heroes in this third, and bleakest, outing. Lots of people are brutally murdered, lots of references are made to the 1997 handover. ... » MORE

Young and Dangerous 4. Another chapter in the life of the Hung Hing boys. Lots of big groups of people face off against each other without much purpose. ... » MORE

Young and Dangerous 5. An old friend of Ho Nam's gets out of jail and together they defeat another chap who by some weird coincedence is also named Ho Nam. ... » MORE

Young Ones, The aka Half Past 15 Years Old. Definitely not the hilarious British comedy series of the same name, this film follows the lives of four near sixteen year old girls as they cause trouble in school and have troubles at home. One is molested by her uncle,... » MORE

Young People. David Chiang, Ti Lung, and Chen Kuan-tai are at it again, male bonding up a storm, this time as students in modern Hong Kong. They are the best at what they do, whether its playing basketball or a round on... » MORE