tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21495501734692946172024-03-12T22:32:10.589+00:00Cantopop & HK MoviesCantopop (Cantonese pop music) and HK Movie reviewsKris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-40453352789722735962013-03-11T11:34:00.001+00:002013-03-11T11:34:07.381+00:00MV : "Differ" by Pop Chocolat (Japan)From Japan a great band, my favourite new discovery this week!<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zRBWaMgKCeM" width="480"></iframe>Kris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-83125721114543574812013-02-08T10:29:00.000+00:002013-02-08T10:29:05.619+00:00I Corrupt All Cops<b>I Corrupt All Cops</b> (HK 2009)<br />
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In HK the ICAC is the feared (by wrong-doers anyway) anti-corruption force and this film purports to document it's creation and how it broke the back of endemic police corruption in HK in the 1970s. Well it is a <b>Wong Jing</b> movie so historical accuracy may not be 100%... However this is Wong Jing in "good work mode" keeping the racism and sexual weirdness to a minimum and the film, whilst not flawless, is a very enjoyable piece of HK movie drama.<br />
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The film centres around Tak, a police man so bent its untrue, and his fellow corrupt cops as they take back handers, bribes and basically run the triads. Tak, played by <b>Tony Leung Ka-Fai</b>, largely does what he likes. Apart from when his British superior demands a crime crackdown so he orders <b>Anthony Wong</b> to catch some criminals and if he can't catch them, frame someone. That is exactly what happens when <b>Alex Fong</b> is framed and tortured and only avoids going to jail for various fitted up crimes by a bit more corruption. <b>Eason Chan</b> plays a younger cop who is Tak's yesman. Eason is a man without any real honour, doing as his dailo orders even to the extent of taking in all of his ex-mistresses.<br />
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Things have to change though when Tak starts to get too carried away and the British order the creation of the ICAC to be headed by <b>Bowie Lam</b> and one of the first recruits in Alex Fong. Anthony Wong, by now fallen out of favour with Tak, is also recruited to turn gamekeeper from poacher. Yet despite the fact he tortured Alex Fong earlier in the film the fact is never mentioned or even hinted at which is quite odd and a bit lazy.<br />
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The war between the corrupt cops and ICAC is vicious and bloody but can only end in one way and in the end characters like Eason have to decide if they have any self-respect or not.<br />
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So is this movie any good? Yes it is. Its a near-modern period piece but unlike some other TV and films set in the 1970s/80s it doesn't try and set the scene lazily with a gratuitous array of product placements. The story is good though also pretty violent (including a couple of torture scenes) and slightly weird (Wong Jing nuff said). Some rather key moments in ICAC history are rather brushed aside or ignored but this is entertainment not a documentary and it is indeed very entertaining with some good performances.<br />
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Kris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-20580111408427521932013-02-08T10:28:00.001+00:002013-02-08T10:28:41.565+00:00Alan & Eric : Between Hello & Goodbye<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan & Eric : Between Hello & Goodbye</span> (HK 1991)</span><br />
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Then <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maggie Cheung</span> enters the scene and Eric falls in love with her. But when she hears Alan sing she falls in love with him instead. Eric steps aside and the love blossoms but then Alan hits the big time and his friends leave him be.<br />
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But then 10 years later they are reunited in SF, Eric is now dying. But as his dying wish he wants Alan and Maggie to stay together.<br />
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A lovely romantic and quirky movie, maybe a little indulgant and often surreal - especially when they add Alan's concert footage in the mix but it gives the movie a brilliant cantopop nostalgia trip. Then there is the whole thing about Treasure Island, whats that all about me hearties?</span></span><br />
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Kris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-61851854237477030632013-02-08T10:28:00.000+00:002013-02-08T10:28:05.326+00:00Troublesome Night 4 (HK 1998)The Troublesome Night series of horror films amazingly went up to 19 or so but lets stick with one of the earlier efforts.<br />
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A group of Hongies go to the Philippines for a tour, and here are 3 stories set around their tour. One guy is transporting an urn containing the ashes of a Filipina who died in HK. As he heads to deliver his pack he keeps seeing a girl in the mirror and even in the shower. She looks exactly like the girl whos ashes hes now carrying too!<br />
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The frights are more the <i>Carry On Screaming</i> type than <i>Ultra Violent Driller Killer Maniac 6 : I Drank His Brains And Then Projectile Vomited Them Back Up</i> (a personal favourite) kind of horror. Plenty of ghosts appearing suddenly and people screaming. And its all very very funny, sometimes intentionally too.<br />
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Basically the film is fairly familiar late 90s silly HK slapstick packed with contemporary pop culture and HK life references. If you like that kind of thing you'll like this film, if not... well you might enjoy it anyway. The honeymoon couple story (starring <b>Louis Koo</b> and <b>Pauline Suen</b>) and the urn story are pretty good ghost stories, the third one about 3 horny guys is a bit of a zombiefest yawn but you can't win them all.<br />
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This was one of the biggest flops in HK cinema in 2006 (apparently only making a few thousand at the box office though admittedly not a huge budget film) though it is maybe a bit unfair as its not that bad a film, indeed it is actually pretty good... in parts anyway.<br />
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It stars <span style="font-weight: bold;">Candy Lo</span> who plays an estranged twin who apparently buries her successful twin sister alive to take over her successful life. Crumbs!<br />
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The rich sister's boyfriend <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eric Kot</span> gets a bit suspicious though when his "girlfriend" wants nothing to do with him and acts totally strange. Bad Candy is assisted by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carl Ng</span> who is the real evil mastermind behind the plot. Of course there is a twist, its not totally unexpected but pretty well done.<br />
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So all in all a decent film and worth seeing. Candy Lo pulls off two good roles for the price of one as the twin sisters have different characters. Indeed it is worth watching alone for the rather impressive athletic form of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michelle Zhang</span> incidentally. She steals the scene fairly often, standing there silently. Hopefully she will get other film roles where she actually speaks.<br />
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The most important story is probably between Stephy and Justin. He tries to woo her with his music (he being a musician) though hits an unexpected snag when he discovers Stephy is deaf! The most annoying story involves the I Love U Boyz pair playing a couple of losers (no sniggering please) who end up with Miki Yeung staying with them (somehow) and we follow their "hilarious" attempts to try and have sex with her. If there ever is a low point in the history of cinema then this may be it.<br />
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<b>Sammy Leung</b> is another comedian who can often be annoying but here he is on top form as a guy trying to juggle multiple simultaneous dates. It is a ridiculous set-up of course but funnily done. All of the stories end in a twist which i won't spoil here. Some of the twists are a bit ridiculous stretching credibility a bit far but few are predictable. Overall the film is worth watching though not without flaws, some big ones at that. The star spotting can be fun though.<br />
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<b>Andy Hui</b> (looking rather young here) plays a cop investigating a series of murders along with his annoying partner <b>Cheung Kwok Keung</b>. The victims seem to all be cheating husbands and linked to a club Table For Two which seems to cater for those who wish to fool around... so the two cops go undercover and both fall for two girls who work there. Andy falls in love with <b>Chan Hui Ying</b>... unfortunately she has a beefy ex-husbund who wants to beat up anyone who touches his ex.<br />
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As guys who have been with Ying have ended up dead and Andy gets threatened with a knife by the ex he becomes the suspect for the murders. But then the ex is gunned down too. So who is it? The jealous barman who is secretly in love with Ying? Though you know <b>Sarah Lee</b> seems very close to her too...<br />
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The film is entertaining low-budget HK fun, the plot is coherant (no weird tangents which is a rarity in HK movies of the period) and keeps you guessing for a time although an experienced HK movie watcher should be able to guess who the murderer is before the unveiling because the other suspects are just too obvious. There is even a showdown with explosions!Kris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-9976801377603334972012-04-10T15:26:00.000+01:002012-04-11T11:17:57.935+01:00Overheard (HK 2009)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Overheard is an enjoyable yet not more much than that cop drama involving three HK police investigating stock market irregularities involving a company. As the police (played by <b>Lau Ching-Wan</b>, <b>Daniel Wu</b>, <b>Louis Koo</b>) listen in on what is happening in the company they overhear some stock market manipulation being planned and can't resist the temptation to make a few (or a lot) HK$ themselves.<br />
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Of course the police all have their individual stories which maybe explain why they are morally conflicted but basically good including Louis Koo who is dying and has a sick son so wants the money for them. Of course once they have entered the wrong side of the law they can't get out but no sooner have they managed to avert the anti-corruption investigation by the police then the bad guy behind the company (played by <b>Michael Wong</b> - and boy is he bad) is after them too.<br />
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Its a nice movie, it has a strong cast and some twists to savour and is generally produced well. Of course being a modern HK movie it has to steer within the boundaries set by the Chinese censors. Thus you know they will not get away with it but the ending and resolution of the film does manage some genuine surprises even if the plot stretches credibility somewhat in doing so. A win but not a knockout, but a win all the same.<br />
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Dating back to the early 1970s when Bruce Lee was still fresh in people's minds and kung fu and martial arts was big business worldwide (or at least the current in-thing) comes Stoner, starring <b>George Lazenby</b> oddly enough. <b>Bruce Lee</b> was apparently originally set to star in this fairly standard but slightly odd film but after his untimely death it was decided to make the film anyway. <b>Angela Mao</b> was bought in as George's co-star. Let the hard kung-fu action begin!<br />
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There is a kind of plot, something involving an evil gangster mastermind (who has a rotating desk, excellent!) creating explosives and drug smuggling in his (evil) underground lair but the plot is just a bare frame on which to hang a sequence of excellent fighting set pieces.<br />
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The result is undeniably cheesy, fairly confusing but also highly entertaining. It is a 70s period piece and perhaps nothing that original from the time but worth seeing all the same. How many HK kung-fu movies had an ex-James Bond in them after all?<br />
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A movie in that very HK specific genre : slapstick comedy ultraviolence. This time starring <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aaron Kwok</span> as a pretty boy / pretty useless young cop who gets caught up in a case involving violent armed robbers and thus gets assigned to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lau Ching Wan</span>'s team. Then he falls in love with a KTV singer (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fennie Yuen</span>) but of course she turns out to be the criminal boss' (unenthusiastic) girl... et cetera.<br />
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That makes it easy to find the criminals, which is just as well as the cops don't really seem to do any police work, their idea of investigating seems to be following a suspect into a brothel and then singing badly in a karoke lounge.<br />
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The final showdown takes place in a police training area, why and how the bad guys got there isn't explained but it makes for a good action setpiece to end the film. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jackie Chan</span> produced and his hallmarks are here : fast, imaginative action.<br />
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Its not a film for plot but a film for big guns and bigger explosions.<br />
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Killing End is nothing that new, its a HK gangster film involving gangsters and police wrapped up in a brutal story that can only end in tragedy. However this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Herman Yau</span> film starring <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Hui</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Loletta Lee</span> is very well done and well worth watching. One reason for this is the characterisation. The main characters in this film are more than your usual "troubled cop", "vicious gangster" stereotypes.<br />
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Take Andy's character for example, a cop in an impossible situation. He knows his police precinct is corrupt thus making his fight against the local gangsters hopeless but he continues onwards despite everything collapsing around him. Loletta Lee also plays a great role as a young woman with mental health issues who gets wrapped up with the story, and with Andy.<br />
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Things come to a head when Andy kills the Triad boss' son. Then Andy is marked for death. Can he avoid it?<br />
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A film well worth your time.<br />
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<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uCIoAwJ_5Ao&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uCIoAwJ_5Ao&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>Kris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-27481072565321212542009-12-19T20:14:00.001+00:002009-12-19T20:14:33.649+00:00Why me? (HK 1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t3ekSNwJb8M/Sy0z65kO-8I/AAAAAAAAIiE/rP3GXg7Yqsk/s1600-h/Screen+shot+2009-12-19+at+20.12.26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t3ekSNwJb8M/Sy0z65kO-8I/AAAAAAAAIiE/rP3GXg7Yqsk/s320/Screen+shot+2009-12-19+at+20.12.26.jpg" /></a><br />
</div>This is quite an unusual HK film, especially for it's time, being rare in that it deals with the issue of mental illness. Its typical of HK cinema however to make a film about the tragic story of a mentally ill man and his dying mother (and boy, this is epic in it's tragedy!) but wrap it up with silly goofy humour and some half-baked romance. Thats not to say this film is bad but there are times when your finger does hover over the STOP button on the remote. You should refrain though because this is a good film... overall.<br />
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<b>Olivia Cheng</b> and <b>Chow Yun Fat</b> play 2 social workers who are also a couple. Olivia happens upon the mentally ill man (played by <b>Kent Cheng</b> who won an award for his role) and his poor mother who refuses to accept charity. Olivia tries to get them better housing and a place at a special school but the queue is wrong. Olivia tries to get the queue jumped but as Chow says, the queue is full of people who are just as deserving.<br />
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Olivia also has family problems of her own including a dead beat dad and <b>Eric Tsang</b> as a step-father, however its not one of his best roles. His usual jokey clown act seems rather jarring and forced here. These sub-plots are all rather incidental to the main plot of the film which comes to a rather predictable but powerful all the same climax.<br />
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<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XvgGcJAGxoQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XvgGcJAGxoQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>Kris Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345410564749716765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2149550173469294617.post-68372890271236196362009-12-02T09:36:00.003+00:002009-12-02T09:40:27.310+00:00Colour Of The Truth (HK 2003)Colour Of The Truth was directed by <b>Wong Jing</b> and was undoubtably inspired by the then-current Infernal Affairs trilogy however don't let that put you off. Colour Of The Truth is an excellent crime drama with a solid plot, good acting, solid action and even includes <b>Gillian Chung</b> from Twins wielding a gun. Now for some guys that is a kind of fantasy, i'm sure i'm not alone with that.<br />
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</div><b>Anthony Wong</b> stars as a senior police officer who, in the early 1990s, was involved in a double shooting where a hoodlum and a fellow police officer were both shot. Now ten years later the sons of the two people Wong shot are fully grown up adults and have followed their father's trades : one a gangster boss (<b>Jordan Chan</b>) and the other a cop (<b>Raymond Wong</b>) and they both want revenge.<br />
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Mixed up in this is a crime sub-plot involving <b>Patrick Tse</b> which at the start seems unconnected to the main revenge plot but as the film progresses the plots become more and more intertwined. What marks this film above "competant" and into the "good" category is the subtleness. Raymond hates Anthony Wong but when he gets to know him he finds the man is not quite the monster he was bought up to believe he was.<br />
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The final showdown is exciting and has plenty of twists though is probably overshadowed by some of the action set-pieces that take place earlier on. The film isn't perfect but happily includes none of Wong Jing's usual silliness or racism. Gillian seems just in place to provide some eye candy (not that there is anything wrong with that) and <b>Chapman To</b> seems just in place to provide some annoyance.<br />
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</div>Crazy N' The City is an entertaining HK cop movie, though a movie that focusses more on the lives of the police than any big crime drama (though there is a notable serial killer-rapist case later on in the movie). It is really about <b>Eason Chan</b>'s worn-out cop who has the passed the eager innocent early stage of his career (which he is reminded about by rookie <b>Joey Yung</b>) and is now settled into a rut and awaiting his long-off retirement. Joey of course wants to save the world and even climbs buildings to rescue cats.<br />
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At first glance you might think this is going to turn out to be a generic HK cop movie full of cliches. However if we were following cliches to the letter then Eason would be snapped out of his lethagy by Joey and rediscover his earlier zeal actually it doesn't quite work out that way. A couple of teenage girls become his fans when they see him take down a criminal but then one of the girls becomes the victim of a serial killer and Eason resolves to catch him. In catching the criminal Eason rediscovers why he became a cop in the first place of course.<br />
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<b>Francis Ng</b> also plays a good role of a man who has lost his mind and of course he also becomes wrapped up in the serial killer case. This subplot fits in well with the overall feel and direction of the movie and again is not resolved the obvious way. The moviemakers do tease us a bit though, we see him get hit on the head many times but its the love of a good woman not blows to the heads which tempers his insanity somewhat.<br />
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The movie is entertaining, sometimes a bit obvious and overblown, but it doesn't detract from the overall level of quality and the good performances by some of the major actors. Don't let the presence of "idols" in some of the major roles put you off.<br />
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</div>But then she finds her hubby hopelessly drunk with a female client and follows them to a love hotel. While her man and the client indulge in the beast with two backs in one room Olivia and Mr Chow chat and laugh in another room in quite an amusing parallel. Yet, of course, both couples leave the hotel at the same time and meet up in an awkward moment.<br />
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The marriage is over but the hubby hopes to woo her again yet spends his time smoking at his desk wondering what to do. He is too late anyway, his wife has sailed off with Chow... literally.<br />
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A really good 80s HK film that is accompanied by a couple of killer cantopop tunes by Andy Lau and Priscilla Chan. Cantopop was designed for such dramatic romantic times.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.scmp.com/video/">SCMP</a>.<br />
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