Young bodyguard Tyler (Nicholas Tse) and former mercenary Jack (Wu Bai) become friends, then enemies, then friends again in order to protect the heavily pregnant women they love – Ah Hui (Candy Lo) and Ah Jo (Cathy Tsui) – from a gang of South American killers known as the Angels. When Jack kills their leader under the noses of Tyler … Read the rest
Category: Hong Kong
The Legendary Black Rose (Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong, 1992)
Two women named Butterfly and Chow (Maggie Shiu and Teresa Mo) are accidentally caught up in a gang murder so try to throw off the cops by blaming the incident on a fictional 1960’s Hong Kong movie heroine known as Black Rose. But the pair are kidnapped by two of Black Rose’s ageing students (Bo Bo Fung and Wong Wan … Read the rest
Buddha’s Palm (Taylor Wong, Hong Kong, 1982)
Long-standing enmities between rival martial arts clans over an ultra-lethal kung-fu move known as Buddha’s Palm, a secret known only to a blind hermit who has sealed himself inside a cave for 20 years with a friendly dragon for company, come to a head when the hermit adopts a young man as his foster son and trains him in the … Read the rest
Too Many Ways To Be No 1 (Wai Ka-Fai, Hong Kong, 1997)
A hilarious, violent and sweetly touching tribute to the solidarity of Hongkies everywhere, this crime comedy from Johnnie To’s production outfit Milky Way is directed by Wai Ka-Fai with such gonzo energy courtesy of Wong Wing-Hang’s virtuoso hand-held camerawork that it leaves you breathless. Watching it one can understand just why Quentin Tarantino rates this film as one of his … Read the rest
Overheard (Felix Chong/Alan Mak, Hong Kong, 2009)
A trio of police surveillance experts are ordered to bug a financial corporation suspected of insider trading. But personal problems lead the three men (Lau Ching-Wan, Daniel Wu and Louis Koo) to use the information they’ve obtained for their own financial benefit. So when events inevitably escalate out of control the three men find themselves hunted both by their own … Read the rest
Lost In Time (Yee Tung-shing, Hong Kong, 2003)
Subtle, engagingly played and shrewdly observed romantic drama in which the death of a mini-bus driver (Louis Koo) in a traffic collision forces his fiancee Sui (Cecilia Cheung) into taking on his job in order to support the child she has from a previous marriage. Spectacularly ill-suited at coping with both driving and life in general Sui is shown the … Read the rest
