Year - 2003
1:99. An anthology of eleven short films designed to give Hong Kong people hope during the SARS crisis. But the best all the talent in Hong Kong can produce ends up being about as uplifting as a Claritin commercial, with each... » MORE
Angulimala. A Thai version of the heartwarming Buddhist legend of an outcast driven to murder by his teacher, and by his Dharma, collecting 1,000 fingers as his fate, until the Buddha enlightens him and he gives up finger collecting, even though... » MORE
Anna in Kung Fu Land. Miriam Yeung stars as the daughter of an ex-Shaolin Monk, who comes to Hong Kong to win a martial arts championship and prove her father's righteousness. Ekin Cheng is the organizer of the tournament. It's love at first sight, only... » MORE
Autumn Diary, An. There are a lot of points to recommend this film, if only it didn't just boil down to the same tired, formulaic tripe that we've been served so many times before. Nicola Cheung is a spoiled rich girl who has... » MORE
Beast of Tutor. A tutor (Ng Ting) rapes his students, and Sophie Ngan is the cop that brings him in and forces his confession. The story is told in flashback. He started out just fantasizing, but then his young tutee caught him whacking... » MORE
Big Boss Untouchable. It's 2003 and people are still trying to imitate Bruce Lee. Come on, people, get a hobby. This time Dragon Sek does his best Lee while costar Karen Cheung tries her hand at imitating Angela Mao. Both the leads have... » MORE
Black Mask vs. Gambling Mastermind. I have a very high tolerance for garbage. So it comes as something of a surprise that I quite simply could not finish watching BLACK MASK VS. GAMBLING MASTERMIND: not after shutting it off and returning to it a few... » MORE
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
Boxing King, The. Fan Siu Wong plays a dim witted construction worker who knows how to fight. He gets into boxing, and gets his brains bashed out. This doesn't make him smarter, but neither does it have any other noticable effect, other than... » MORE
Boy Met Girl. Not a bad story, for once, with occassionally complex emotional relationships. But for some reason it was shot as a Category III movie, despite the fact that none of the main characters reveal anything. So you have a movie which... » MORE
Cafe Shop. Tsui Kam Kong is a fun Hong Kong actor who has been around for ages, playing masculine, bald, and mustached types for as long as I can remember. Whether engaged in wild, over-the-top wire fu or wild, over-the-top flying mad... » MORE
Crazy Scum Dicky's Journal. Well, I'm not quite sure who Dicky was, nor am I sure why he is supposed to be crazy scum. The movie concerns an advertising agency headed by a sex crazed boss (Grace Lam), and an undersexed employee (Samuel Leung... » MORE
Cyber Cafe. When an IT professional (Ng Ting) loses his job, he decides to start a cyber cafe, thinking his background would be perfect. Little does he know that the popular cyber cafes are more like cyber brothels, and the computers have... » MORE
D7: Dangerous Duty. For a movie supposedly starring Max Mok Siu-Chung, there is surprisingly little of him in it. In fact, he dies in the opening scene. He does reappear later though: in a flashback repeating the first scene, but this time in... » MORE
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
Danger Zone. The young girls who became cops in BRUSH UP MY SISTERS are back, in a digital video production better than the original, but saddled with a much less evocative title. This time around, the girls (Teresa Mak, Jade Leung, Pinky... » MORE
Deadly Camp 2003. The owner of a small advertising company (Tony Ho) has an affair with his client, a Japanese model (Ohsako Yumi). They head off to a deserted island for a photo shoot, along with the rest of the company, which consists... » MORE
Deadly Melody. Everyone who rents a specific CD from the music store ends up committing suicide. One girl does a neat trick of dripping hot candle wax on her face until it is completely covered and she suffocates. Another starts gnawing on... » MORE
Devil Butcher, The. This DV production has a number of english titles. The disc is advertised as "Kowloon Sky -- Devil Killer," the DVD has "Devil Killer" printed on it, while the movie itself begins with "The Devil Butcher." But no matter what... » MORE
Disguised Superstar. A casual glance at the DVD or the advertising for this film might lead you to believe that Miriam Yeung is the star. WRONG! She shows up for a brief cameo and nothing more. Instead the movie stars Taiwanese TWINS... » MORE
Diva ah Hey. Charlene Choi is the simple daughter of a fishmonger (Lam Suet), who dreams of becoming a star. Her big break comes in the form of being a studio singer for Shadow, a pop star whose voice stinks and who isn't... » MORE
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
Dream and Desire. A shot on video production set in Sai Kung, set at the same waterfront restaurant that has been home to a great many low budget productions already in recent years, including Cop Unbowed, Love is Butterfly, and who knows what... » MORE
Erotic Agent II. Set in Imperial China. Not important, except to know that everyone will be taking off robes, instead of pants and skirts. The plot concerns a woodsman who constantly craves sex and the women who live nearby, who coincidentally also crave... » MORE
Fight to the Finish 2003, A. Here's a low budget action film that actually has something to say about human nature, and specifically what makes someone selfish, what makes someone heroic, and where exactly the line can be drawn between right and wrong. Michael Wong is... » MORE
Foolish 23. When SARS began its terrifying spread across Hong Kong, no one was sure when, or even if, it could be stopped. No one knew precisely what caused it. All they knew is that it was a new, and deadly, disease.... » MORE
Give Them a Chance. Sam (Andy Hui), a stuntman, and his brother Jack (Osman Hung), a dance instructor, are inspired by a group of tough, street dancing kids to open a dance studio. It's just as well, Jack loses his job when seen goofing... » MORE
House of Devil Evil Sledge. Behind the great title lurks a good contender for the worst Hong Kong movie ever. Shot on video without style, and populated by non-actors, HOUSE OF DEVIL EVIL SLEDGE is certainly almost as low as you can go. ... » MORE
Hurt. Johnny Cash sings, on his last album, "I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel; I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real." I can now relate, having subjected myself to HURT. An anthology film based... » MORE
I Want to Get Married. Regular TROUBLESOME NIGHT director Lam Wai-Yin steps up a notch with this romance about a young rich man (Ken Wong) who falls in love with a fishmonger (Kristy Yang) because she looks like his deceased fiance. Sam Lee is the... » MORE
Immortal Enemy. Blood sucking vampires, immortal evil, a Wizard-like shaman, a ring of power, and a host of shuffling zombies -- all rendered with cheesy special effects, and a plot that shambles forward like a half-resuscitated corpse.... » MORE
Internet Disaster. Released in 2003. So why does it look like it was filmed in 1995? No matter. At least it wasn't shot using digital video. A housewife (Vivien Chen) is married to a wealthy, attractive, but older and always busy husband... » MORE
Invincible, The. Fan Siu-Wong is "The Invincible." I guess. Though he talks about entering a martial arts contest and winning the gold medal to prove his strength to his missing father, who left before he was born, we never actually see him... » MORE
Jungle Ki Nagin. The Snake Goddess genre hits rock bottom with this regional production. Anjali is a chubby girl who keeps hearing voices and seeing snakes, while her husband Rahul (Amit Pachori), a beefy guy stuffed into an overly tight shirt, tries consoling... » MORE
Killer 2. Odd to have a sequel to a film that was really quite modest, and not particularly well regarded or even well known. No, this isn't a sequel to the world famous THE KILLER (John Woo, 1989, HK), starring Chow Yun-Fat.... » MORE
Kinnaree. Brothers Pong and Pun are competing in a road rally race somewhere in the forest areas of Thailand, when they accidentally strike a completely naked woman with their car. She isn't human, she's a Kinnaree. Her and her kind enjoy... » MORE
Kung Fu Master is my Grandma!. Isadora Chan is a troubled girl who was sent to a juvenile home after fighting some guy. While incarcerated, her mother died, leaving her in the care of her grandmother (Helena Law Lan), whom she hates. She's mean, and she... » MORE
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 for all Seasons. Box office moneymaker Sammi Cheng is back for her annual New Year romance as a cloistered kung fu master of the Omei clan. Louis Koo is a playboy from Hong Kong who travels to Omei because it hurts when he... » MORE
Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective. The beloved character Master Q returns in a full length animated movie. Like many Hong Kong comedies, it's a creative pastiche of Hollywood ideas, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and the Matrix, complete with a "bullet time" parody. The story... » MORE
Medallion, The. Jackie Chan is an international action hero. But sometimes, his movies look like they were made for someone who desperately wants to be an international action hero, but doesn't know how to go about it. This movie tries so hard... » MORE
Miss Du Shi Niang. Michele Reis is a prostitute looking for love, Daniel Wu the object of her affection. The scenes of the brothel, which includes modern song & dance numbers, are obviously inspired by MOULIN ROUGE, a movie so much more inventive with... » MORE
Mong Tak Cho 2: Snake Goblin. Because there were so many unanswered questions after the first one. A terrible, shot on video Cat-III softcore film featuring the cast that is usually the second string in these things as the stars. Chow Ka Yu is the Goblin... » MORE
My Horny Girlfriend. Grace Lam fans, rejoyce. She disrobes early and often, and, unusual for an erotic Hong Kong film, some of the sex scenes are actually intense and erotic. The plot, on the other hand, is disposable. ... » MORE
My 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 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 Murder, A. When Japan remade the Korean black comedy THE QUIET FAMILY, about a family that opens an ill-fated inn at which all most of their guests end up dead, Takashi Miike directed and the result was the insane THE HAPPINESS OF... » MORE
Night Club on Fire. It only takes about five minutes of watching this garbage that you wish the night club really does catch fire, killing everyone inside. Alas, no, instead it's a drama about the girls of Golden Pond nightclub, with hearts of gold... » MORE
Nightmare from Snake. Where there's a will, there's a way, to get drug smuggling into any plot. Reminiscent of the Taiwanese hopping vampire film KUNG FU VAMPIRE BUSTER, in which a group of men are disguised as hopping vampires as a way to... » MORE
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
Professional, The. An impotent man (Keung Hiu-Man) goes to see a happy, but very professional, prostitute. She gets naked, dances around, but nothing works until eventually, they fall in love. Every scene cuts to a dripping tap at the end to symbolize... » MORE
Public Toilet. Let's face it: Anyone who has seen a sufficient quantity of Hong Kong movies over a period of time will come to notice an almost overeager tendency of those films to display characters in various states and whenever possible discharging... » MORE
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
Seamy Side of Life II: Crying Stars. A country girl moves to Shenzhen to earn big money. She finds out that money is hard to come buy unless you are a bar hostess who also does sexual favors on the side. In a refreshing change of pace... » MORE
Secret Society, The - Boss. Ng Chi Hung is a small time boss who had to leave Hong Kong, and can only wistfully look at it from across the border in Shenzhen. Probably it was a mistake to rape the drugged out young woman at... » MORE
Secret Society, The - The Best Hack. Continuing right where The Secret Society - Boss left off, with gang leader Ng Chi Hung on the lam in Shenzhen, and Lee Siu Kay living it up back in Hong Kong. Or at least, he should be, but his... » MORE
Seven Days in Coffin. Mali was killed, drowned in the river. She flirted with lots of guys, so the cops have lots of suspects. And her girlfriend Pikul, devestated by Mali's death, is determined to get to the bottom of it. Oh, yes, and... » MORE
Sky of Love. A boring remake of the not-very-interesting-to-begin-with Korean film DITTO, which was itself heavily inspired by the better-than-both-of-them-but-still-not-very-good American film FREQUENCY. They all involve talking to someone from a different time via some kind of magical ham radio. This time, Gigi... » MORE
Source of Love, The. Shoddy Christian evangelism at its most desperate. A young man who stutters and is looked down on by his father redeems his family and teaches them the love of Jesus Christ. Others in his family yell hilarious comments like, "Quit... » MORE
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
Teenage Gambler. Sort of a sequal to BLACK MASK v. GAMBLING MASTERMIND, as once again a chubby kid acts like a gambling master. Could be the same kid, thankfully I don't own the earlier film and have erased most of my memories... » MORE
To Seduce An Enemy. Michael Tong plays an evil advertising company boss hypnotizes beautiful women into being his sex slaves, then has them kill people for him, and kill themselves as well, when he gets tired of them. He also has a country house... » MORE
Tragic Room, A. OK, so you murdered your husband in cold blood. Stabbed him repeatedly. So what? You did what you had to to protect your sister. He was no good. But after being in jail for three years, you could probably start... » MORE
Trouble Makers, The. Terence Yin moves into a room owned by landlord Lam Suet who conspires with tenant Maggie Q to make him believe there are ghosts in the house, and make him run away, leaving them to keep his rather large safety... » MORE
Troublesome Night 18. The series that won't lie down and die is now officially old enough to vote, or enlist in the army, but not yet responsible enough to drink alcohol (at least, such are the laws in the United States. If anyone... » MORE
Troublesome Night 19. By now the most interesting part about the series is wondering if they are going to get to 20. Now, they've got only one more to go. This time around, the cast takes a beach vacation and films it. Anita... » MORE
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
Two Individual Package Women. I miss Sharla Cheung Man, heroine of early nineties Stephen Chow films and one of my (admittedly many) international cinema crushes. She still works, though regular Hong Kong moviegoers would hardly know it. So it is with some pleasure that... » MORE
Unarm 72 Hours. Shot on video production in which a veteran police officer (Danny Lee, as always) tries to capture some jewelry thieves right as he nears retirement. Only trouble is, they sock away the jewels, and one of the bastards (Lam Wai)... » MORE
Undercover Madams, The. Grace Lam is the police chief, and she sends three of her female officers deep under cover -- or "under the covers" as a salacious ad campaign might have sold the film. One follows a gangster, another a pimp/drug dealer,... » MORE
Why Me, Sweetie?. Louis Koo continues on his mission to be the worst actor in Hong Kong, with startling success. In this film, later remade/ripped off by Hollywood in 50 FIRST DATES, Koo tries to woo a Beijing theater student (Cherry Ying), but... » MORE
1:99. An anthology of eleven short films designed to give Hong Kong people hope during the SARS crisis. But the best all the talent in Hong Kong can produce ends up being about as uplifting as a Claritin commercial, with each... » MORE
Angulimala. A Thai version of the heartwarming Buddhist legend of an outcast driven to murder by his teacher, and by his Dharma, collecting 1,000 fingers as his fate, until the Buddha enlightens him and he gives up finger collecting, even though... » MORE
Anna in Kung Fu Land. Miriam Yeung stars as the daughter of an ex-Shaolin Monk, who comes to Hong Kong to win a martial arts championship and prove her father's righteousness. Ekin Cheng is the organizer of the tournament. It's love at first sight, only... » MORE
Autumn Diary, An. There are a lot of points to recommend this film, if only it didn't just boil down to the same tired, formulaic tripe that we've been served so many times before. Nicola Cheung is a spoiled rich girl who has... » MORE
Beast of Tutor. A tutor (Ng Ting) rapes his students, and Sophie Ngan is the cop that brings him in and forces his confession. The story is told in flashback. He started out just fantasizing, but then his young tutee caught him whacking... » MORE
Big Boss Untouchable. It's 2003 and people are still trying to imitate Bruce Lee. Come on, people, get a hobby. This time Dragon Sek does his best Lee while costar Karen Cheung tries her hand at imitating Angela Mao. Both the leads have... » MORE
Black Mask vs. Gambling Mastermind. I have a very high tolerance for garbage. So it comes as something of a surprise that I quite simply could not finish watching BLACK MASK VS. GAMBLING MASTERMIND: not after shutting it off and returning to it a few... » MORE
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
Boxing King, The. Fan Siu Wong plays a dim witted construction worker who knows how to fight. He gets into boxing, and gets his brains bashed out. This doesn't make him smarter, but neither does it have any other noticable effect, other than... » MORE
Boy Met Girl. Not a bad story, for once, with occassionally complex emotional relationships. But for some reason it was shot as a Category III movie, despite the fact that none of the main characters reveal anything. So you have a movie which... » MORE
Cafe Shop. Tsui Kam Kong is a fun Hong Kong actor who has been around for ages, playing masculine, bald, and mustached types for as long as I can remember. Whether engaged in wild, over-the-top wire fu or wild, over-the-top flying mad... » MORE
Crazy Scum Dicky's Journal. Well, I'm not quite sure who Dicky was, nor am I sure why he is supposed to be crazy scum. The movie concerns an advertising agency headed by a sex crazed boss (Grace Lam), and an undersexed employee (Samuel Leung... » MORE
Cyber Cafe. When an IT professional (Ng Ting) loses his job, he decides to start a cyber cafe, thinking his background would be perfect. Little does he know that the popular cyber cafes are more like cyber brothels, and the computers have... » MORE
D7: Dangerous Duty. For a movie supposedly starring Max Mok Siu-Chung, there is surprisingly little of him in it. In fact, he dies in the opening scene. He does reappear later though: in a flashback repeating the first scene, but this time in... » MORE
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
Danger Zone. The young girls who became cops in BRUSH UP MY SISTERS are back, in a digital video production better than the original, but saddled with a much less evocative title. This time around, the girls (Teresa Mak, Jade Leung, Pinky... » MORE
Deadly Camp 2003. The owner of a small advertising company (Tony Ho) has an affair with his client, a Japanese model (Ohsako Yumi). They head off to a deserted island for a photo shoot, along with the rest of the company, which consists... » MORE
Deadly Melody. Everyone who rents a specific CD from the music store ends up committing suicide. One girl does a neat trick of dripping hot candle wax on her face until it is completely covered and she suffocates. Another starts gnawing on... » MORE
Devil Butcher, The. This DV production has a number of english titles. The disc is advertised as "Kowloon Sky -- Devil Killer," the DVD has "Devil Killer" printed on it, while the movie itself begins with "The Devil Butcher." But no matter what... » MORE
Disguised Superstar. A casual glance at the DVD or the advertising for this film might lead you to believe that Miriam Yeung is the star. WRONG! She shows up for a brief cameo and nothing more. Instead the movie stars Taiwanese TWINS... » MORE
Diva ah Hey. Charlene Choi is the simple daughter of a fishmonger (Lam Suet), who dreams of becoming a star. Her big break comes in the form of being a studio singer for Shadow, a pop star whose voice stinks and who isn't... » MORE
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
Dream and Desire. A shot on video production set in Sai Kung, set at the same waterfront restaurant that has been home to a great many low budget productions already in recent years, including Cop Unbowed, Love is Butterfly, and who knows what... » MORE
Erotic Agent II. Set in Imperial China. Not important, except to know that everyone will be taking off robes, instead of pants and skirts. The plot concerns a woodsman who constantly craves sex and the women who live nearby, who coincidentally also crave... » MORE
Fight to the Finish 2003, A. Here's a low budget action film that actually has something to say about human nature, and specifically what makes someone selfish, what makes someone heroic, and where exactly the line can be drawn between right and wrong. Michael Wong is... » MORE
Foolish 23. When SARS began its terrifying spread across Hong Kong, no one was sure when, or even if, it could be stopped. No one knew precisely what caused it. All they knew is that it was a new, and deadly, disease.... » MORE
Give Them a Chance. Sam (Andy Hui), a stuntman, and his brother Jack (Osman Hung), a dance instructor, are inspired by a group of tough, street dancing kids to open a dance studio. It's just as well, Jack loses his job when seen goofing... » MORE
House of Devil Evil Sledge. Behind the great title lurks a good contender for the worst Hong Kong movie ever. Shot on video without style, and populated by non-actors, HOUSE OF DEVIL EVIL SLEDGE is certainly almost as low as you can go. ... » MORE
Hurt. Johnny Cash sings, on his last album, "I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel; I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real." I can now relate, having subjected myself to HURT. An anthology film based... » MORE
I Want to Get Married. Regular TROUBLESOME NIGHT director Lam Wai-Yin steps up a notch with this romance about a young rich man (Ken Wong) who falls in love with a fishmonger (Kristy Yang) because she looks like his deceased fiance. Sam Lee is the... » MORE
Immortal Enemy. Blood sucking vampires, immortal evil, a Wizard-like shaman, a ring of power, and a host of shuffling zombies -- all rendered with cheesy special effects, and a plot that shambles forward like a half-resuscitated corpse.... » MORE
Internet Disaster. Released in 2003. So why does it look like it was filmed in 1995? No matter. At least it wasn't shot using digital video. A housewife (Vivien Chen) is married to a wealthy, attractive, but older and always busy husband... » MORE
Invincible, The. Fan Siu-Wong is "The Invincible." I guess. Though he talks about entering a martial arts contest and winning the gold medal to prove his strength to his missing father, who left before he was born, we never actually see him... » MORE
Jungle Ki Nagin. The Snake Goddess genre hits rock bottom with this regional production. Anjali is a chubby girl who keeps hearing voices and seeing snakes, while her husband Rahul (Amit Pachori), a beefy guy stuffed into an overly tight shirt, tries consoling... » MORE
Killer 2. Odd to have a sequel to a film that was really quite modest, and not particularly well regarded or even well known. No, this isn't a sequel to the world famous THE KILLER (John Woo, 1989, HK), starring Chow Yun-Fat.... » MORE
Kinnaree. Brothers Pong and Pun are competing in a road rally race somewhere in the forest areas of Thailand, when they accidentally strike a completely naked woman with their car. She isn't human, she's a Kinnaree. Her and her kind enjoy... » MORE
Kung Fu Master is my Grandma!. Isadora Chan is a troubled girl who was sent to a juvenile home after fighting some guy. While incarcerated, her mother died, leaving her in the care of her grandmother (Helena Law Lan), whom she hates. She's mean, and she... » MORE
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 for all Seasons. Box office moneymaker Sammi Cheng is back for her annual New Year romance as a cloistered kung fu master of the Omei clan. Louis Koo is a playboy from Hong Kong who travels to Omei because it hurts when he... » MORE
Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective. The beloved character Master Q returns in a full length animated movie. Like many Hong Kong comedies, it's a creative pastiche of Hollywood ideas, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and the Matrix, complete with a "bullet time" parody. The story... » MORE
Medallion, The. Jackie Chan is an international action hero. But sometimes, his movies look like they were made for someone who desperately wants to be an international action hero, but doesn't know how to go about it. This movie tries so hard... » MORE
Miss Du Shi Niang. Michele Reis is a prostitute looking for love, Daniel Wu the object of her affection. The scenes of the brothel, which includes modern song & dance numbers, are obviously inspired by MOULIN ROUGE, a movie so much more inventive with... » MORE
Mong Tak Cho 2: Snake Goblin. Because there were so many unanswered questions after the first one. A terrible, shot on video Cat-III softcore film featuring the cast that is usually the second string in these things as the stars. Chow Ka Yu is the Goblin... » MORE
My Horny Girlfriend. Grace Lam fans, rejoyce. She disrobes early and often, and, unusual for an erotic Hong Kong film, some of the sex scenes are actually intense and erotic. The plot, on the other hand, is disposable. ... » MORE
My 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 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 Murder, A. When Japan remade the Korean black comedy THE QUIET FAMILY, about a family that opens an ill-fated inn at which all most of their guests end up dead, Takashi Miike directed and the result was the insane THE HAPPINESS OF... » MORE
Night Club on Fire. It only takes about five minutes of watching this garbage that you wish the night club really does catch fire, killing everyone inside. Alas, no, instead it's a drama about the girls of Golden Pond nightclub, with hearts of gold... » MORE
Nightmare from Snake. Where there's a will, there's a way, to get drug smuggling into any plot. Reminiscent of the Taiwanese hopping vampire film KUNG FU VAMPIRE BUSTER, in which a group of men are disguised as hopping vampires as a way to... » MORE
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
Professional, The. An impotent man (Keung Hiu-Man) goes to see a happy, but very professional, prostitute. She gets naked, dances around, but nothing works until eventually, they fall in love. Every scene cuts to a dripping tap at the end to symbolize... » MORE
Public Toilet. Let's face it: Anyone who has seen a sufficient quantity of Hong Kong movies over a period of time will come to notice an almost overeager tendency of those films to display characters in various states and whenever possible discharging... » MORE
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
Seamy Side of Life II: Crying Stars. A country girl moves to Shenzhen to earn big money. She finds out that money is hard to come buy unless you are a bar hostess who also does sexual favors on the side. In a refreshing change of pace... » MORE
Secret Society, The - Boss. Ng Chi Hung is a small time boss who had to leave Hong Kong, and can only wistfully look at it from across the border in Shenzhen. Probably it was a mistake to rape the drugged out young woman at... » MORE
Secret Society, The - The Best Hack. Continuing right where The Secret Society - Boss left off, with gang leader Ng Chi Hung on the lam in Shenzhen, and Lee Siu Kay living it up back in Hong Kong. Or at least, he should be, but his... » MORE
Seven Days in Coffin. Mali was killed, drowned in the river. She flirted with lots of guys, so the cops have lots of suspects. And her girlfriend Pikul, devestated by Mali's death, is determined to get to the bottom of it. Oh, yes, and... » MORE
Sky of Love. A boring remake of the not-very-interesting-to-begin-with Korean film DITTO, which was itself heavily inspired by the better-than-both-of-them-but-still-not-very-good American film FREQUENCY. They all involve talking to someone from a different time via some kind of magical ham radio. This time, Gigi... » MORE
Source of Love, The. Shoddy Christian evangelism at its most desperate. A young man who stutters and is looked down on by his father redeems his family and teaches them the love of Jesus Christ. Others in his family yell hilarious comments like, "Quit... » MORE
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
Teenage Gambler. Sort of a sequal to BLACK MASK v. GAMBLING MASTERMIND, as once again a chubby kid acts like a gambling master. Could be the same kid, thankfully I don't own the earlier film and have erased most of my memories... » MORE
To Seduce An Enemy. Michael Tong plays an evil advertising company boss hypnotizes beautiful women into being his sex slaves, then has them kill people for him, and kill themselves as well, when he gets tired of them. He also has a country house... » MORE
Tragic Room, A. OK, so you murdered your husband in cold blood. Stabbed him repeatedly. So what? You did what you had to to protect your sister. He was no good. But after being in jail for three years, you could probably start... » MORE
Trouble Makers, The. Terence Yin moves into a room owned by landlord Lam Suet who conspires with tenant Maggie Q to make him believe there are ghosts in the house, and make him run away, leaving them to keep his rather large safety... » MORE
Troublesome Night 18. The series that won't lie down and die is now officially old enough to vote, or enlist in the army, but not yet responsible enough to drink alcohol (at least, such are the laws in the United States. If anyone... » MORE
Troublesome Night 19. By now the most interesting part about the series is wondering if they are going to get to 20. Now, they've got only one more to go. This time around, the cast takes a beach vacation and films it. Anita... » MORE
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
Two Individual Package Women. I miss Sharla Cheung Man, heroine of early nineties Stephen Chow films and one of my (admittedly many) international cinema crushes. She still works, though regular Hong Kong moviegoers would hardly know it. So it is with some pleasure that... » MORE
Unarm 72 Hours. Shot on video production in which a veteran police officer (Danny Lee, as always) tries to capture some jewelry thieves right as he nears retirement. Only trouble is, they sock away the jewels, and one of the bastards (Lam Wai)... » MORE
Undercover Madams, The. Grace Lam is the police chief, and she sends three of her female officers deep under cover -- or "under the covers" as a salacious ad campaign might have sold the film. One follows a gangster, another a pimp/drug dealer,... » MORE
Why Me, Sweetie?. Louis Koo continues on his mission to be the worst actor in Hong Kong, with startling success. In this film, later remade/ripped off by Hollywood in 50 FIRST DATES, Koo tries to woo a Beijing theater student (Cherry Ying), but... » MORE