Genre - Romance
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
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
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
Bandhan. Rajesh Khanna -- the name is like a thunderclap in Bollywood cinema. He rose to superstardom in 1969, but had all but faded by 1972 -- a blink of an eye compared to the decades long reign of many other... » 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
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
Citizen Dog. Whimsical and surreal, candy-coated movie that overdoes it on the whimsy and leaves you feeling that you've been held down by a group of purple-clad elves and force-fed pixie sticks. ... » MORE
Crazy Marriage. A romance about a Literature teacher (Kam Woo-seong) who, based on the evidence of his friends, refuses to even consider marriage. Especially now, when he still lives with his mother and makes very little income. But he meets a girl... » MORE
Devdas (1955). "She chose the path of matrimony, and I, of destruction! And a never-ending drama began!" This, in the words of our somber, melancholy, moping, alcoholic protagonist, Devdas, neatly sums up the movie which bears his name. Devdas (Dilip Kumar) is... » MORE
Dil Se. Amar (Shahrukh Khan), a reporter for All India radio, goes on assignment to Kashmir, and on the way falls in love with Meghna (Manisha Koirala), a girl who refuses to open up and rebuffs all his efforts, and may be... » MORE
Disguised Superstar. A casual glance at the DVD or the advertising for this film might lead you to believe that Miriam Yeung is the star. WRONG! She shows up for a brief cameo and nothing more. Instead the movie stars Taiwanese TWINS... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Janwar aka Jaanwar. Everyone's favorite romantic goofball is back for more clever disguises and romantic frolics in Kashmir. Sunder (Shammi Kapoor) is the happy go lucky son of a rich, brutal, autocrat (Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi's real-life dad). He gets away from home to... » 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
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 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 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 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
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
Lucky: No Time for Love. Lucky (newcomer Sneha Ullal, who bears more than a passing resemblance to former Miss World Aishwara Rai) is a seventeen year old student and the daughter of an employee of the Indian Embassy in Russia. She's about to fail her... » 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
Periya Idathu Penn. A question: Let's say that you are a villager, living with your sister, who takes care of you because she is now a widower. You fancy one of the village girls, but so does the landlord's son. You propose marriage,... » 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
Pyaar Mein Twist. Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia made one of the great romantic movies together, all the way back in 1973, in Rishi's dad's (the famous Raj Kapoor) movie BOBBY. It was a smash debut for both of them. Dimple was a... » MORE
Saagar. A small fishing village. Mona (Dimple Kapadia) helps her father run the local pub. Her childhood friend Raja (Kamal Hassan) is the best fisherman in the village. He loves her, but to her they're just friends. Enter Ravi (Rishi Kapoor),... » 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
Sajan. SAJAN spends its first hour as a fairly typical Bollywood romance, then ends up a whodunnit in which a police inspector tries to untangle a murder that somehow manages to incriminate the entire cast. Rajni (Asha Perekh) is a young,... » 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
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
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
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 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
Tajmahal. Indian DVDs are always full of surprises. This one delivered a subtitle-drop smackdown, after two hours of watching the grainy, washed out, scratched, occasionally green picture in desperate need of restoration, and following poorly timed subtitles that drifted as far... » 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
Time to Love, A. Two weepy, over-melodramatic lovers, Qu Ran (Vicki Zhao Wei) and Hou Jia (Lu Yi) grow up in angst because their fanatically embittered parents hate each other, just like Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, which becomes what they consider to be "their... » 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Bandhan. Rajesh Khanna -- the name is like a thunderclap in Bollywood cinema. He rose to superstardom in 1969, but had all but faded by 1972 -- a blink of an eye compared to the decades long reign of many other... » 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
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
Citizen Dog. Whimsical and surreal, candy-coated movie that overdoes it on the whimsy and leaves you feeling that you've been held down by a group of purple-clad elves and force-fed pixie sticks. ... » MORE
Crazy Marriage. A romance about a Literature teacher (Kam Woo-seong) who, based on the evidence of his friends, refuses to even consider marriage. Especially now, when he still lives with his mother and makes very little income. But he meets a girl... » MORE
Devdas (1955). "She chose the path of matrimony, and I, of destruction! And a never-ending drama began!" This, in the words of our somber, melancholy, moping, alcoholic protagonist, Devdas, neatly sums up the movie which bears his name. Devdas (Dilip Kumar) is... » MORE
Dil Se. Amar (Shahrukh Khan), a reporter for All India radio, goes on assignment to Kashmir, and on the way falls in love with Meghna (Manisha Koirala), a girl who refuses to open up and rebuffs all his efforts, and may be... » MORE
Disguised Superstar. A casual glance at the DVD or the advertising for this film might lead you to believe that Miriam Yeung is the star. WRONG! She shows up for a brief cameo and nothing more. Instead the movie stars Taiwanese TWINS... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Janwar aka Jaanwar. Everyone's favorite romantic goofball is back for more clever disguises and romantic frolics in Kashmir. Sunder (Shammi Kapoor) is the happy go lucky son of a rich, brutal, autocrat (Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi's real-life dad). He gets away from home to... » 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
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 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 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 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
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
Lucky: No Time for Love. Lucky (newcomer Sneha Ullal, who bears more than a passing resemblance to former Miss World Aishwara Rai) is a seventeen year old student and the daughter of an employee of the Indian Embassy in Russia. She's about to fail her... » 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
Periya Idathu Penn. A question: Let's say that you are a villager, living with your sister, who takes care of you because she is now a widower. You fancy one of the village girls, but so does the landlord's son. You propose marriage,... » 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
Pyaar Mein Twist. Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia made one of the great romantic movies together, all the way back in 1973, in Rishi's dad's (the famous Raj Kapoor) movie BOBBY. It was a smash debut for both of them. Dimple was a... » MORE
Saagar. A small fishing village. Mona (Dimple Kapadia) helps her father run the local pub. Her childhood friend Raja (Kamal Hassan) is the best fisherman in the village. He loves her, but to her they're just friends. Enter Ravi (Rishi Kapoor),... » 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
Sajan. SAJAN spends its first hour as a fairly typical Bollywood romance, then ends up a whodunnit in which a police inspector tries to untangle a murder that somehow manages to incriminate the entire cast. Rajni (Asha Perekh) is a young,... » 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
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
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
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 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
Tajmahal. Indian DVDs are always full of surprises. This one delivered a subtitle-drop smackdown, after two hours of watching the grainy, washed out, scratched, occasionally green picture in desperate need of restoration, and following poorly timed subtitles that drifted as far... » 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
Time to Love, A. Two weepy, over-melodramatic lovers, Qu Ran (Vicki Zhao Wei) and Hou Jia (Lu Yi) grow up in angst because their fanatically embittered parents hate each other, just like Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, which becomes what they consider to be "their... » 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
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 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
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
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