Rating - 2 stars
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
Werewolf in Bangkok. Frank (Nong Cha Cha Cha) is a garbage scavenger who lives with his adopted street-urchin daughter Lilly (Natnicha Cherdchoobupakaree). One day, while on the run from the scavenger "digging-up" gang (whose symbol is sort of a smiley face with shades... » 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
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
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
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
Benaam Badsha. Anil Kapoor is the "Boss," a bad ass son of a bitch who terrorizes his neighborhood and doesn't give anything a damn. Juhi Chawla is Jyoti, a beautiful girl that moves into the neighborhood, supposedly to get material for her... » 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
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
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
Boom. Three models get caught up with the underworld and are forced to steal diamonds for them. But they've got plans of their own, which mostly involve showing lots of cleavage. They also drink, smoke opium, and rob a bank. Demonstrating... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
Corruptor, The. Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg are cops in New York's Chinatown. As usual, the air is thick with corruption. Drug deals, coolie smuggling, gang wars, and Chow is in the thick of it all. ... » 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 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
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
Dandelion Sword, The. In their mountain retreat in a suburb of Taipei, the U Theater troupe practices Tai Chi, meditates, takes long walks, and plays the drums. Teetering on the edge between theater troupe and religious cult, the group develops shows and takes... » 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Eight Women Die a Martyr. Bands of Japanese soldiers move through the Chinese countryside during the Sino-Japanese war, through villages already devestated and people on the edge of survival. It is far from clear what the resistance group's aim is, except survival, nor is it... » MORE
Ek Se Badhkar Ek. Two brothers, living on the street, separated as children when they run afoul of a thief's scheme, sending the older brother to jail. The younger brother, Shankar (Raaj Kumar), vows that he will always be a thorn in the side... » MORE
Electrical Girl. Sophie Ngan can't have sex with anyone, poor dear, because she emits electric shocks strong enough to char the skin of any unlucky mate. So she is reduced to just entertaining herself -- with lightbulbs. Until one day, she decides... » 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
Funtoosh. The story of Funtoosh (Dev Anand), a lovable lunatic, released from the asylum a bit too soon. He gets out only to live on the street, and in short order, loses or gives away everything he came out with, his... » 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
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
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
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
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 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
Great Massacre. For some inexplicable reason, I decided today to grab some of my old Ocean Shores VHS tapes and pop them in for some old style Kung-Fu action. First up is Great Massacre, named "SHAOLIN HERO" on the Ocean Shores release,... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
Humayun (1945). According to the back of the DVD case, Cecille B. DeMille called HUMAYUN a "masterpiece of lighting composition." And I must admit, after watching the production, the lighting really is damn impressive. Some of the sets are breathtakingly beautiful, and... » 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
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
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
Insee Tong aka Golden Eagle. An evil communist hypnotist and the "Red Bamboo" gang threaten to overturn the Thai government and start a socialist revolution. The cops can't break the case. Only the legendary "Golden Eagle" (Mitr Chaibuncha) can untangle the complicated plot and save... » 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
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
Jaani Dost. Insane, utterly insane, and bad, very bad. Everything about this film is far more complicated than necessary -- the back story, the relationships, the heroes, the villains. The cast is heavy with the great camp villains of Bollywood, but unfortunately... » 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
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
Khoon Pasina. Ram and Rahim are best friends, just like their fathers, though one family is Hindu and one Muslim, they are inseperable. When the villainous crook Zaalim Singh beats and attempts to kill a man in the middle of their village... » 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
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
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
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
Loafer. When Ajit Singh (Dharmendra) was a young boy, he was a ruffian and accidentally threw an honest student to his death during a scuffle. He ran away, into the arms of a thief who took him in as his own.... » 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
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 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
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
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
Lunch With Charles. Lau Ching-Wan, no, I'm sorry, "Sean Lau," as he is credited here, stars in this Canadian picture about a man whose wife moved to Vancouver for work while he stayed behind in Hong Kong. Finally, she throws down the gauntlet... » 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
Marebito. The ideas that underly MAREBITO are interesting, but the presentation makes us feel like we've all been here before, countless times. Whether its the video-camera point of view shots from BLAIR WITCH PROJECT or the sheer terror felt by victims... » 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
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
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
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 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
Milap. A story of love through multiple reincarnations, gone slightly wrong. Ravi (Shatrughan Sinha) is a roving, unsatisfied, spoiled rich kid who travels to Nandi Hills where he meets Rani (Reena Roy), the daughter of a snake charmer, and falls in... » 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
Mother India. A woman leads an utterly crappy and unrewarding life, toiling under the thumb of a cruel and petty moneylender in a village filled with illiterate peasants. It's like the Indian version of GONE WITH THE WIND, in which the we... » 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 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 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 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
Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, The. Fu Manchu is just minding his own business during the Boxer Rebellion when Major Petrie fires on his house, killing his family. Naturally, he seeks revenge. Warner Oland, soon to be Charlie Chan, plays the angry Fu. ... » MORE
Mysterious Mr. Wong, The. Bela Legosi is the sinister Mr. Wong -- he's sinister, I think, because he is supposed to be Chinese, but speaks with a Hungarian accent -- who will stop at nothing to complete his coin collection.... » 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
Nagin. Two Snake Spirits are about to consummate their love in human form when some idiot shoots the male snake (Jeetendra). The female snake (Reena Roy), deprived of a good shag, vows revenge on the people who killed her lover. It's... » 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 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
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
Ninja Wars. Hiroyuki Sanada is Jotaro, master ninja, on a quest to revenge his ninja girlfriend, whose head was put onto another woman's body by a group of evil demon monks. ... » MORE
One Missed Call. Once again technology spreads a murderous killer virus that ends up being somehow a vessel for the hatred of the dead. With RING (1998) it was the telephone, PULSE (2001) used the internet, and now ONE MISSED CALL uses cellphones... » 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
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
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
Pink Thief. A group of illegal immigrants escape gangsters in China to start a new life in Hong Kong, but are taken advantage of by the locals to such an extent that they cannot make an honest living. They switch to petty... » 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
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 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 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
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
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
Raid. To help the Koreans against the evil imperialist Americans, Feng Yang, a scout for the Chinese army, must take a crack platoon to blow up the Kangping bridge, to cut off the American retreat/reinforcement and make possible a major assault... » 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 of Dr. Fu Manchu, The. Fu Manchu continues his quest for revenge against the Petrie family, though one begins to wonder if they are really worth the bother. ... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shinobi No Mono. The historic drama about the life and love of young Ishikawa Goemon, Ninja, training to assassinate Oda Nobunaga. ... » 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
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
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
Snaker. One of the first films made in Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge, Snaker (the regrettable Hong Kong DVD version english title of the film, far less eloquent than the translated Cambodian title, The Snake King's Child) is a landmark in... » 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
Sparkling Red Star. The story of a young boy, Dongzi, who grows up in the thirties as a sort of unofficial mascot of the Communist Party. The story here is hardly important, it is simply the platter on which a heaping, steaming pile... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Four mutant turtles make the way of the ninja trendy among nine year olds. ... » MORE
Terracotta Warrior, A. Director Ching Siu-Tung's hard to find epic manages to both entertain and annoy, often simultaneously. This action-adventure love story story begins in the Qin Dynasty but ends in the 1930's, and once again, Gong Li is there. ... » 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 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
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
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
Treasure of Mueang Lup Lae. A group of archeologist/explorers go in search of a treasure in Lup Lae, where legend has it that the Khmer Queen held court in ancient times. They are followed by thieves to hope to take it from them, then attacked... » MORE
Trek, The. Apparently the jungle is a lot more dangerous than last time you visited. And it's not the animals, particularly. It's the insects. Basically, they have a tendancy to rip your face off or swarm over your lower half and devour... » 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
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
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
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
Upkar. Manoj Kumar wrote, directed, and starred in a series of films about a character named Bharat, a true Hindustani patriot. The movies don't feature the same character, mind you, just the same name and the same spirit, transplanted in space... » MORE
Varan the Unbelievable. Professor Sukimoto (Koreya Senda) discovers some unusual butterflies in an isolated area known as the "Tibet of Japan". The locals in the area worship a God called "Baradagi", but Kenji (Kôzô Nomura), Sukimoto's assistant, immediately tells the head priest there... » 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
Warrior Lanling. A cross between QUEST FOR FIRE and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, this is a fantasy adventure for those who like 'em sweaty and grunting. Lanling (Lorenzo Callender) is the warrior of the tribe, the son of the high priestess (Yang Liping).... » 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
Woh Kaun Thi?. An Indian ghost story in the Scooby Doo mode. Dr. Anand (Manoj Kumar) is about to get a huge inheritance, if he is sane. Naturally, at about that time, he meets a ghost (Sadhana), his fiance (Helen) is murdered, and... » 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'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
Yaadgar. In his patriotic films, Manoj Kumar has always walked that fine line between righteousness and being a self-righteous prick. He firmly camps in the latter category here, as Bhanu, a representative of the working class who spends his free time... » 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
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 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
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
Werewolf in Bangkok. Frank (Nong Cha Cha Cha) is a garbage scavenger who lives with his adopted street-urchin daughter Lilly (Natnicha Cherdchoobupakaree). One day, while on the run from the scavenger "digging-up" gang (whose symbol is sort of a smiley face with shades... » 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
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
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
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
Benaam Badsha. Anil Kapoor is the "Boss," a bad ass son of a bitch who terrorizes his neighborhood and doesn't give anything a damn. Juhi Chawla is Jyoti, a beautiful girl that moves into the neighborhood, supposedly to get material for her... » 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
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
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
Boom. Three models get caught up with the underworld and are forced to steal diamonds for them. But they've got plans of their own, which mostly involve showing lots of cleavage. They also drink, smoke opium, and rob a bank. Demonstrating... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
Corruptor, The. Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg are cops in New York's Chinatown. As usual, the air is thick with corruption. Drug deals, coolie smuggling, gang wars, and Chow is in the thick of it all. ... » 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 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
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
Dandelion Sword, The. In their mountain retreat in a suburb of Taipei, the U Theater troupe practices Tai Chi, meditates, takes long walks, and plays the drums. Teetering on the edge between theater troupe and religious cult, the group develops shows and takes... » 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Eight Women Die a Martyr. Bands of Japanese soldiers move through the Chinese countryside during the Sino-Japanese war, through villages already devestated and people on the edge of survival. It is far from clear what the resistance group's aim is, except survival, nor is it... » MORE
Ek Se Badhkar Ek. Two brothers, living on the street, separated as children when they run afoul of a thief's scheme, sending the older brother to jail. The younger brother, Shankar (Raaj Kumar), vows that he will always be a thorn in the side... » MORE
Electrical Girl. Sophie Ngan can't have sex with anyone, poor dear, because she emits electric shocks strong enough to char the skin of any unlucky mate. So she is reduced to just entertaining herself -- with lightbulbs. Until one day, she decides... » 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
Funtoosh. The story of Funtoosh (Dev Anand), a lovable lunatic, released from the asylum a bit too soon. He gets out only to live on the street, and in short order, loses or gives away everything he came out with, his... » 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
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
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
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
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 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
Great Massacre. For some inexplicable reason, I decided today to grab some of my old Ocean Shores VHS tapes and pop them in for some old style Kung-Fu action. First up is Great Massacre, named "SHAOLIN HERO" on the Ocean Shores release,... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
Humayun (1945). According to the back of the DVD case, Cecille B. DeMille called HUMAYUN a "masterpiece of lighting composition." And I must admit, after watching the production, the lighting really is damn impressive. Some of the sets are breathtakingly beautiful, and... » 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
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
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
Insee Tong aka Golden Eagle. An evil communist hypnotist and the "Red Bamboo" gang threaten to overturn the Thai government and start a socialist revolution. The cops can't break the case. Only the legendary "Golden Eagle" (Mitr Chaibuncha) can untangle the complicated plot and save... » 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
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
Jaani Dost. Insane, utterly insane, and bad, very bad. Everything about this film is far more complicated than necessary -- the back story, the relationships, the heroes, the villains. The cast is heavy with the great camp villains of Bollywood, but unfortunately... » 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
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
Khoon Pasina. Ram and Rahim are best friends, just like their fathers, though one family is Hindu and one Muslim, they are inseperable. When the villainous crook Zaalim Singh beats and attempts to kill a man in the middle of their village... » 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
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
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
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
Loafer. When Ajit Singh (Dharmendra) was a young boy, he was a ruffian and accidentally threw an honest student to his death during a scuffle. He ran away, into the arms of a thief who took him in as his own.... » 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
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 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
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
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
Lunch With Charles. Lau Ching-Wan, no, I'm sorry, "Sean Lau," as he is credited here, stars in this Canadian picture about a man whose wife moved to Vancouver for work while he stayed behind in Hong Kong. Finally, she throws down the gauntlet... » 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
Marebito. The ideas that underly MAREBITO are interesting, but the presentation makes us feel like we've all been here before, countless times. Whether its the video-camera point of view shots from BLAIR WITCH PROJECT or the sheer terror felt by victims... » 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
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
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
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 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
Milap. A story of love through multiple reincarnations, gone slightly wrong. Ravi (Shatrughan Sinha) is a roving, unsatisfied, spoiled rich kid who travels to Nandi Hills where he meets Rani (Reena Roy), the daughter of a snake charmer, and falls in... » 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
Mother India. A woman leads an utterly crappy and unrewarding life, toiling under the thumb of a cruel and petty moneylender in a village filled with illiterate peasants. It's like the Indian version of GONE WITH THE WIND, in which the we... » 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 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 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 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
Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, The. Fu Manchu is just minding his own business during the Boxer Rebellion when Major Petrie fires on his house, killing his family. Naturally, he seeks revenge. Warner Oland, soon to be Charlie Chan, plays the angry Fu. ... » MORE
Mysterious Mr. Wong, The. Bela Legosi is the sinister Mr. Wong -- he's sinister, I think, because he is supposed to be Chinese, but speaks with a Hungarian accent -- who will stop at nothing to complete his coin collection.... » 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
Nagin. Two Snake Spirits are about to consummate their love in human form when some idiot shoots the male snake (Jeetendra). The female snake (Reena Roy), deprived of a good shag, vows revenge on the people who killed her lover. It's... » 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 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
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
Ninja Wars. Hiroyuki Sanada is Jotaro, master ninja, on a quest to revenge his ninja girlfriend, whose head was put onto another woman's body by a group of evil demon monks. ... » MORE
One Missed Call. Once again technology spreads a murderous killer virus that ends up being somehow a vessel for the hatred of the dead. With RING (1998) it was the telephone, PULSE (2001) used the internet, and now ONE MISSED CALL uses cellphones... » 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
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
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
Pink Thief. A group of illegal immigrants escape gangsters in China to start a new life in Hong Kong, but are taken advantage of by the locals to such an extent that they cannot make an honest living. They switch to petty... » 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
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 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 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
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
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
Raid. To help the Koreans against the evil imperialist Americans, Feng Yang, a scout for the Chinese army, must take a crack platoon to blow up the Kangping bridge, to cut off the American retreat/reinforcement and make possible a major assault... » 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 of Dr. Fu Manchu, The. Fu Manchu continues his quest for revenge against the Petrie family, though one begins to wonder if they are really worth the bother. ... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shinobi No Mono. The historic drama about the life and love of young Ishikawa Goemon, Ninja, training to assassinate Oda Nobunaga. ... » 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
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
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
Snaker. One of the first films made in Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge, Snaker (the regrettable Hong Kong DVD version english title of the film, far less eloquent than the translated Cambodian title, The Snake King's Child) is a landmark in... » 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
Sparkling Red Star. The story of a young boy, Dongzi, who grows up in the thirties as a sort of unofficial mascot of the Communist Party. The story here is hardly important, it is simply the platter on which a heaping, steaming pile... » 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
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
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
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
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
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
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Four mutant turtles make the way of the ninja trendy among nine year olds. ... » MORE
Terracotta Warrior, A. Director Ching Siu-Tung's hard to find epic manages to both entertain and annoy, often simultaneously. This action-adventure love story story begins in the Qin Dynasty but ends in the 1930's, and once again, Gong Li is there. ... » 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 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
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
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
Treasure of Mueang Lup Lae. A group of archeologist/explorers go in search of a treasure in Lup Lae, where legend has it that the Khmer Queen held court in ancient times. They are followed by thieves to hope to take it from them, then attacked... » MORE
Trek, The. Apparently the jungle is a lot more dangerous than last time you visited. And it's not the animals, particularly. It's the insects. Basically, they have a tendancy to rip your face off or swarm over your lower half and devour... » 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
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
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
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
Upkar. Manoj Kumar wrote, directed, and starred in a series of films about a character named Bharat, a true Hindustani patriot. The movies don't feature the same character, mind you, just the same name and the same spirit, transplanted in space... » MORE
Varan the Unbelievable. Professor Sukimoto (Koreya Senda) discovers some unusual butterflies in an isolated area known as the "Tibet of Japan". The locals in the area worship a God called "Baradagi", but Kenji (Kôzô Nomura), Sukimoto's assistant, immediately tells the head priest there... » 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
Warrior Lanling. A cross between QUEST FOR FIRE and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, this is a fantasy adventure for those who like 'em sweaty and grunting. Lanling (Lorenzo Callender) is the warrior of the tribe, the son of the high priestess (Yang Liping).... » 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
Woh Kaun Thi?. An Indian ghost story in the Scooby Doo mode. Dr. Anand (Manoj Kumar) is about to get a huge inheritance, if he is sane. Naturally, at about that time, he meets a ghost (Sadhana), his fiance (Helen) is murdered, and... » 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'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
Yaadgar. In his patriotic films, Manoj Kumar has always walked that fine line between righteousness and being a self-righteous prick. He firmly camps in the latter category here, as Bhanu, a representative of the working class who spends his free time... » 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
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 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