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MY PERSONAL REVIEW ON ASIAN MOVIES
DOUBLE VISION
Rating:      
Country : Taiwan/China
Year: 2002
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Running Time: 1H53
Producer: Chen Kuo Fu
Director: Chen Kuo Fu
Cast: Tony Leung, David Morse, Rene Liu, Dai Li Zen
Story: An American FBI agent is sent in Taipei to help the local police force solve a series of strange murders. Two bodies have been discovered and they both share some strange connections - a mysterious fungus imbedded in the brains of the bodies, and signs that both died in a hallucinatory state. Huang Huo-Tu, a Chinese police inspector who lost the trust and respect of his co-workers for reporting a corrupt colleague, has to team up with Kevin Richter, the American FBI agent who is a specialist in serial killer profiling. They will soon discover that the murders are not just ordinary murders but seem to have connections with old Chinese legend and beliefs. Conflicts soon rise between the two officers as Kevin is a man of science, and doesn�t believe in ghosts and demons. As the body count rises, other victims are found dead with the same strange causes of death. The two men have to try to understand each other's beliefs and work together to find out what is behind these strange and unnatural killings
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon...
THE DUEL
Rating:    
Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1999
Genre: Swordplay / Fantasy
Running Time: 1H45
Producer: Jing Wong, Manfred Suen Wong
Director: Andrew Lau
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Mi Chiu, Kong-Shan King, Andy Lau, Sheung-Man Lei, Yiu-Man Tam, Kam-Kong Tsui, Yat-Fei Wong, Nick Cheung, Ngok Kang, Jerry Lamb, Wai Lau, Chi-Hung Ng, Siu-Nam Tsim, Norman Tsui, Kristy Yeung
Story: The swords master Son-Cool Yeh returns a Jade seal to the emperor in exchange to fight a duel with Simon the Snowball (Ekin Cheng) in the forbidden city. The emperor entrusts Dragon 9 with 8 gold medal that are to be given out to important people so they may attend the duel. The news spread quickly that this is the duel of the century and many people ask Dragon 9 for a medal. With many bets on the outcome of the duel, the people await with great excitement. But before the duel is to begin, Dragon 9 must investigate several mysterious murders that might alter the fairness of the duel.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon...
THE EYE
Rating:        
Country : Hong Kong / Thailand
Year: 2001
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 1H28
Producer: Peter Chan, Lawrence Cheng
Director: Pang Brothers
Cast: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Edmund Chen, Pierre ng,
Candy Lo
Story: At the age of two, Wong Kar Mann lost her vision. Since that time she has lived with that handicap but now, reaching the age of 20, she has the possibility to regain her vision with a risky corneal transplant operation. After the successfully operation, Mann's vision is starting to get better and little by little she can almost see perfectly.
After getting used to her new situation, Mann has started to notice some really strange effects. It seems that she cans see people that no one else can notice. Are they really ghosts? And who are those strange shadows that sometime come around the living people. With the help of her new psychiatric guide, she will try to solve that problem, which will lead her to a small village in Thailand were the original corneal owner lived before she died. Will Mann be able to find out what happened to the previous dead owner and finally get rid of her curse and live a normal life again?
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
FULLTIME KILLER
Rating:        
Country : Hong Kong
Year: 2001
Genre: Action
Running Time: 1H43
Producer: Ka-Fai Wai
Director: Johnny To & Ka-Fai Wai
Cast: Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Kelly Lin, Simon Yam, Cherrie Ying, Teddy Lin, Suet Lam
Story: O (Takashi Sorimachi) is the number 1 assassin in all of Asia. Tok (Andy Lau) wants to dethrone him and become the premier hitman in the world. What these two have in common is that they are in love with the same woman, Chin (Kelly Lin). And Chief Inspector Lee (Simon Yam) wants to catch them both. Thrown into a gauntlet of razor blade shoot-outs and a feeding frenzy of warfare, this film is a story about two men of the most excessive lifestyles competing in a world where men die young and the victor not only walks away with the most money, but with the most valuable reputation. Bursting of style and pimp slapped with full on octane entrenched cinema, Johnny To presents his action masterpiece, "Fulltime Killer."
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
MY WIFE IS A GANGSTER
Rating:       
Country : South Korea
Year: 2001
Genre: Comedy / Gangster
Running Time: 1H45
Producer: Soon-Yeoul Lee
Director: Jo Jin-Gyu
Cast: Eun-Kyung Shin, Sang-Myeon Park, Jae-mo Ahn, In-kwon Kim
Story: Cha, also called Mantis, is a woman living the life of a gangster and an important one at that. She is the second man of one of the biggest local crime organization, who has over 50 men working under her orders. One day, her gangster life changes suddenly when she finds her elder lost sister, which is dying from cancer. Mantis is ready to do anything to make these last days of her dying sister the best she can have and one of her wishes is to see Mantis get married and settle down. Without losing time she asks her men to find her a husband. They come up with Kang Soo-iL, a single 35 year old man who is quite unsure of himself, not really at ease in the presence of women and who's already flunked more than 30 blind dates.
This rushed marriage will not go without any trouble as Cha will try to hide her gangster life from her new husband and sister. As for Kang Soo-iL, this marriage will not be really the relationship he expected to have with his new wife as he will find her behavior a little strange and inappropriate for a normal women. But meanwhile, White Shark, the biggest competitor of Mantis gangster group, will try using this moment to expand their territories while Mantis is busy to fit in her new life.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
HEROIC TRIO
Rating:   
Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1993
Genre: Kung Fu / Fantasy
Running Time: 1H44
Producer: Ching Siu-Tong
Director: Johnny To
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Paul Chun, Damian Lau, Anita Mui, James Pak, Anthony Wong, Michelle Yeoh
Story: Several infants have been kidnapped all over the city during the last few weeks, the police are without a clue to finding the criminals responsible. The police increase the security in the hospital but it is not use as the children are being taken away by some mysterious invisible force. Luckily a mysterious hero known only as Wonder Woman saves one of the children while the other is taken away. The father of the missing child is a high placed police officer who hires the services of a woman named Chat, she is a professional bounty hunter. Through a strange twist of events Chat and Wonder Woman end up working together against a far greater treat than just a simple kidnapper.
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