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MY PERSONAL REVIEW ON ASIAN MOVIES
INFERNAL AFFAIRS
Rating:         
Country : Hong Kong
Year: 2002
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 97min
Producer: Andrew Lau
Director: Alan Mak, Andrew Lau
Cast: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng, Kelly Chen, Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Elva Hsiao
Story: Two men. Two moles. Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is your typical undercover cop, tough, smart, and extremely hard-boiled. Before graduating the police academy, Yan is sent by his official to infiltrate the triads. Ming (Andy Lau) is one of Hong Kong�s most decorated cops. However, his awards and promotions are only illusions. Sam, his triad boss, sent him to join the academy to become an officer. With tips from Sam against their triad rivals, Ming steadily becomes one of Hong Kong�s elite. But all things, no matter good or evil, must come to an end. So begins the face-off. Only one man, one mole will survive.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon...
IRON MONKEY
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Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1993
Genre: Kung Fu
Running Time: 1H26
Producer: Tsui Hark
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Cast: Cheung Fung-Nei, Lee Fai, Leung Ka-Yan, Siu Hou, Tsang Sze-Man, Wong Jean Ching-Ying, Wong James Jim, Yam Yee-Kwan, Yen Donnie Ji-Dan, Yu Rong-Guang, Yuen, Sun-Yi
Story: In a small village of China the local governor is corrupt and exploits the population. In response to the cruel governor there is a bandit called the Iron Monkey who goes around stealing from the rich and the corrupt so that he may give to the poor. The governor receives word that an official from the emperor is coming for a visit, to avoid loosing face he orders his soldiers to capture the Iron Monkey at all costs. The soldiers round up anyone suspicious or anyone who knows Kung Fu, one of those who is arrested is Master Wong Kay-Ying and his son Wong Fei-Hung. During the trial the Iron Monkey makes an appearance and Wong Kay-Ying decides to fight him. After a powerful display of Kung Fu the governor orders Wong Kay-Ying to hunt down this Iron Monkey, to insure the job is done right Wong Fei-Hung is taken prisoner. Wong Kay-Ying has seven days to find the Iron Monkey or he will never see his son again.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon...
KING OF COMEDY
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Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1999
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Running Time: 1H32
Producer: Yeung Kwok Fai
Director: Lee Lik Cheen Stephen Chow
Cast: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Cecilia Cheung, Ng Man Tat
Story: Stephen Chow plays a struggling extra that only wants to rise to the top and become the leading man in the brutal world of film-making. Of course, everyone else seems to be in his way, and his sometimes clumsy actions keep him on their bad side, preventing his rise to fame. He meets a young nightclub worker (Cheung) that needs help acting so she can please her unsavory customers. A romance blossoms, but is interrupted when Chow meets the famous actressKuen-Yee, who sees his potential. Nothing seems to go right for Chow in this hilarious and charming comedy.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
THE LEGEND OF ZU
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Country : Hong Kong
Year: 2001
Genre: Swordplay / Fantasy
Running Time: 1H44
Producer: Tsui Hark
Director: Tsui Hark
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Louis Koo, Cecilia Cheung, Kelly Lin, Zhang Ziyi, Jacky Wu, Sammo Hung
Story: The Zu mountain ranges carry in itself another world. Poetic and beautiful in creation, Zu carries the burden of having a never ending war rage along her steeps and hills and among her clouds. On the darker end of this conflict, the evil Insomnia slowly moves along in an infectious state, destroying all and everything that stands in his way. The last clan that has the power to stop this tortuous lord is Omei. With the support of Zu's mightiest warriors, the Omei Clan will risk their lives to bring back the peaceful and serene nature of the Zu Mountains.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
PRINCESS BLADE
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Country : Japan
Year: 2001
Genre: Swordplay / Fantasy
Running Time: 1H33
Producer: Taka Ichise
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Cast: Hideaki Ito, Yumiko Shaku, Shiro Sano, Yoichi Numata, Kyusaku Shimada
Story: Somewhere in the near future of cold Japan, the House of Takemikazuchi, a group of matchless assassins lie in wait within their amoral world. Once royal guards to rulers of a neighboring kingdom, they became expatriates due to modernization. Now, they are assassins for hire, willing to kill anyone with a price on their head, attempting to stay afloat in a world where the art of the sword is slowly dying, and even when honor and loyalty amongst the ranks of the Takemikazuchi drift away in the bitter air of Japan.
A true heir of the Takemikazuchi bloodline, Yuki (newcomer Yumiko Shaku), discovers the secret behind the death of her mother, Princess Azora, thus turning her against her fellow tribe in order to find the truth and kill those who dishonored her family. Along the way, she finds comfort in an activist and governmental terrorist who is also riding along the sharp, stinging moral edge of life.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
RETURNER
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Country : Japan
Year: 2003
Genre: Action
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Producer: Toru Horibe
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ann Suzuki, Goro Kishitani, Dean Harrington, Mitsuru Murata, Yukiko Okamoto, Masaya Takashi
Story: Miyomoto searches for the man responsible for the death of his childhood friend. As a lone mercenary for hire, he finds Mizoguchi, an infamous yakuza notorious for his black market dealings in human organs. When Millie literally falls out of the sky from the future and disrupts Miyomoto just seconds away from fulfilling his vengeance, his world is sent into upheaval as he attempts to find his friend�s murderer once again and take in the fact that Millie is an envoy 80 years ahead of his time sent back to the past to prevent the initial beginnings of a war between Earth and an invading alien race known as the Daggra.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
A MAN CALLED HERO
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Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1999
Genre: Swordplay / Fantasy
Running Time: 1H57 / 1H45
Producer: Wan-Sze Tung, Manfred Wong
Director: Andrew Lau
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Mark Cheng, Chi Hsu, Tik-Song Lam, Jerry Lamb, Sam Lee, Ken Lo, Francis Ng, Chi-Lun Sit, Nicholas Tse, Kam-Kong Tsui, Anthony Wong, Kristy Yeung, Grace Yip, Biao Yuen
Story: Hero Hua must flee to America after he kills a foreigner who was responsible for the death of his parents, he leaves behind his wife and friends. During the voyage to America he becomes friends with a monk, after leaving the ship they are brought to a mine where they must payoff the cost of the voyage. Hero ends up killing one of the cruel guards and must go into hiding. Meanwhile his wife, who is pregnant, and his friend come to America to find him. After a few weeks they meet and decide to live in America. Shadow a fellow student of Hero comes to warn him a danger as there are several ninja's after them seeking information about their master. After several terrible incidents a prophet informs Hero that he is cursed and all around him will have bad luck and misfortune. He choose to leave everyone around him because he fears for their safety but how long can he hide from his destiny.
MY PERSONAL OPINION: Coming soon....
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