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Director: Benny Chan
Starring: Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, Gallen Law, Angelica Lee, Jing Ning, Eric Tsang, Courtney Wu, Daniel Wu
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Three men are going beyond what their jobs require them to do... Aaron Kwok is an ill-fated CID agent who runs into a woman looking extremely like his long lost girlfriend during an investigation into a money laundry case. Ekin Cheng plays a lawyer who protects a corrupt businessman from law, and Daniel Wu becomes a killer in the film who violates his code to get involved in the CID's investigation. Adding to the all-star cast are TV idol Gallen Lo and charismatic lady Angelica Lee.

Dog Bite Dog

Director: Cheang Pou-Soi
Starring: Edison Chen, Sam Lee, Suet Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Ka Wah Lam, Weiying Pei
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2006 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: Pang Jr., a young killer from Cambodia, arrived Hong Kong to assassinate the wife of a judge. But once Pang finished his job, he got into a misunderstanding with his agent and was left astray on the city's unnfamiliar streets. At the same time, cop Sam and his team of detectives, Lam, Keo, Cheung and Wai, got their orders and arrived the crime scene to investigate. Wai soon found Pang with his intuition and started pursuit.

Double Tap

Director: Lo Chi Leung
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Alex Fong, Monica Chan
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2000 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: YesAsia

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Summary: Rick (Leslie Cheung) is a gun enthusiast whose sharp-shooting skills are well known among the police. So when someone begins killing one cop every day in cold blood, Inspector Miu (Alex Fong) immediately suspects Rick. Enraged by the arrest of his girlfriend as bait, Rick challenges Miu to a double tap shooting game, where only one man will survive.

Dragon Inn

Director: Raymond Lee
Starring: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Donnie Yen, Xin Xin Xiong, Yee Kwan Yan, Lawrence Ng, Shun Lau, Elvis Tsui, Sai-kun Yam
Genre: Historical Epic
Release Date: 1992 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: During the Ming Dynasty, a powerful cabal of eunuchs called the East Chamber rules the land. Led by the evil Tsao Siu Yan (international martial arts star Donnie Yen), the East Chamber oppresses the Chinese people with fear and violence. When rebels Chow Wai On (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and Yau Mo Yin (Brigitte Lin) cross the East Chamber, they flee and eventually take refuge in a desert shelter known as the Dragon Inn. But the henchman of the East Chamber arrive at the Dragon Inn, and soon the rebels could be discovered. Everything hinges on the mercenary proprietor of the Dragon Inn, a mysterious woman named Jade (Maggie Cheung). Will she smuggle the rebels out? Or will Tsao Siu Yan's arrival spell the end?

Dragon Squad

Director: Daniel Lee
Starring: Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn, Jun-ho Heo, Lawrence Chou, Vanness Wu, Simon Yam, Shawn Yue, Maggie Q, Wah Yuen, Yu Xia, Sheng Yi Huang, Bingbing Li, Andy On, Abraham Boyd, Dan Cade
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: A team of young Interpol agents - Andy Hui (Andy On), Vanness Chang (Vaness Wu) and Cheung - arrive in Hong Kong and meet up with local cops Lok (Shawn Wu) and Suet (Eva Huang) to testify at the trial of local crime lord "Puma" Duen. The heavily armed convoy taking Duen to court is attacked by a ruthless team of North Korean agents, led by the international terrorist Petros Davinci (Michael Biehn), his enforcer Ko (Heo Jun-ho) and lethal sniper Song (Maggie Q). Petros' motivation is revenge, however, rather than rescue; his friend and brother-in-arms was killed by "Puma" and his brother, "Tiger" Duen.

After "Puma" is snatched, police commander Hon Sun (Simon Yam) refuses the Interpol agents' request to track Petros themselves and places them in the care of a veteran police officer Kong Long (Sammo Hung). A burned out cop who has never come to terms with either his personal or professional history, Kong is reluctant to get involved. Finally, inspired by his young charges, he rises to the occasion and leads the Interpol team on their quest for Petros. The mean streets of Hong Kong form a backdrop for a battle of wills, wits, and urban warfare.

Dragon Tiger Gate

Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Kuan Tai Chen, Jie Dong, Xiao Ran Li, Vincent Sze, Sheren Tang, Xiao Li Yuan, Wah Yuen
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2006 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice.

Drifters

Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Starring: Duan Long, Shu Yan, Tang Yang, Wang Zhi-Liang, Zhao Yiwei
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2003 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At: China

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Drink, Drank, Drunk

Director: Derek Yee
Starring: Daniel Wu, Miriam Yeung Chin Wah, Kar Lok Chin, Renee Dai, Alex Fong, Vincent Kok
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Award-winning director Derek Yee's new film Drink-Drank-Drunk features Miriam Yeung as a cheerful beer girl who never gets drunk. The chemistry between Yeung and Daniel Wu re-ignites after their last collaboration, Love Undercover. Daniel Wu stars as a French-Chinese chef who can't hold his drink - just the opposite of her total alcohol immunity! A light romantic comedy released in the summer of 2005, Drink-Drank-Drunk is as light and refreshing as a cold beer on a hot summer's day!

Driving Miss Wealthy

Director: James Yuen
Starring: Sui-man Chim, Chung Chow, Henry Fong, Shiu Hung Hui, Elena Kong, Ching Wan Lau, Tats Lau, Koon-Lan Law, Gigi Leung, Jamie Luk
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 2004 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Growing up in an extremely well-off family, Jennifer (Gigi Leung) has no proper value over money and nor any concern over the feelings of other people. Her deep pocket father thus hires ex-cop Kit (Sean Lau) to protect Jennifer while she is made go broke and survive on her own in Sham Shui Po, a Hong Kong's old community crushed with shabby housing. Pretending to be the wealthy girl's Filipino driver Mario, Kit assists Jennifer to struggle in the slums to make a living. As Jennifer finds Mario the one to count on in her bad times, Mario also begins to admire her. But after all Mario is Kit's fake identity. Should Kit/ Mario reveal to Jennifer who he really is?

Dumplings

Director: Fruit Chan
Starring: Pauline Lau, Mi Mi Lee, Tony Leung Ka Fai, So-Fun Wong, Miriam Yeung Chin Wah
Genre: Horror
Release Date: Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Served hot, either steamed or simmered in broth, dumpling has conquered the heart of Chinese for more than 1400 years. At your first bite, its juicy meat and vegetable filling offers a gush of excise heat and aroma that would linger on and on. Chinese dumplings is inexpensive and practically available everywhere…unless you’re talking about Mei’s secretive dumpling—with a bizarre pinkish glow permeates through its delicate hand-made dough wrapping. Mei’s dumpling is not meant for ordinary folks – if you dare to try, be prepared for a price beyond your imagination.

Election

Director: Johnny To
Starring: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Siu-Fai Cheung, Suet Lam
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: The time has come, as it does every two years, for the senior members of Hong Kong's oldest Triad, The Wo Shing Society, to elect a new chairman. Fierce rivalries emerge between the two eligible candidates. Lok, respected by the Uncles is the favourite to win. But his rival Big D will stop at nothing to change this, including going against hundreds of years of Triad tradition and influencing the vote with money and violence.

When Wo Shing's ancient symbol of leadership, the Dragon's Head Baton, goes missing, a ruthless struggle for power erupts and the race to retrieve the Baton threatens to tear Wo Shing in two.

Can Wo Shing balance their traditional brotherhood ways with the cut-throat modern world of 21st century business?

Election 2

Director: Johnny To
Starring: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Siu-Fai Cheung, Ka Tung Lam, Suet Lam, Tian-lin Wang, Ping-Man Tam, Mark Cheng, Yong You
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 2006 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Simon Yam) faces competition from his godsons as he looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Elixir of Love

Director: Yip Kam-Hung
Starring: Kenny Bee, Lik-Sun Fong, Eric Kot, Suet Lam, Richie Ren, Miriam Yeung Chin Wah
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 2004 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: The story revolves around an ancient kingdom and an emperor with many princes but no princesses. After receiving the happy note that he finally is the father of a princess, he is overjoyed. However, his pleasure does not last long for he has to discover that his daughter was born with a strange disease which causes her to have an offensive smell. Full of despair, he orders that the right man has to be found that can cure his poor child. Richie Jen plays the guy who believes that he has the right perfume to please the emperor, but first of all he has to test his fragrant creation. As luck would have it, he stumbles into a fish-selling maid (Miriam Yeung), which totally changes all his plans ...

The Emperor and the Assassin

Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lu, Zhiwen Wang, Kaige Chen, Yongfei Gu, Benshan Zhao, Haifeng Ding, Changjiang Pan, Xun Zhou, Xuejian Li
Genre: Historical Epic
Release Date: 1999 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At:

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Summary: Set in the third century B.C., "The Emperor and the Assassin" focuses on the ambitious ruler Ying Zheng, the King of Qin (Li Xuejian), who sets out to become the first ruler of a unified China. The King's concubine, Lady Zhao (Gong Li) and Ying Zheng concoct a plan to have an assassin sent from a rival kingdom as a pretext for war and a step toward achieving the King of Qin's desire for a unified country. Each, however, underestimates the other. Lady Zhao falls in love with the hired assassin, Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), while Ying Zheng becomes drunk on a power which unleashes a fervent bloodlust that makes the tragic denouement seem inevitable.

Everlasting Regret

Director: Stanley Kwan
Starring: Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jun Hu, Daniel Wu, Jue Huang, Hei-Yi Cheng, Yi Huang, Yan Su
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao (Sammi Cheng) has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive. A pretty young girl from an ordinary family, Qiyao is lucky enough to win the 2nd runner-up of the "Miss Shanghai" contest. Mr. Cheng (Tony Leung Ka Fai), her admirer as well as a photographer who assists her to her success, knows the girl is going to live an extraordinary life. It turns out she is going to witness the decades of changes to her city.

Exiled

Director: Johnny To
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Francis Ng, Roy Cheung, Suet Lam, Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Josie Ho, Richie Ren, Ka Tung Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 2006 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: When two gunmen from Hong Kong are sent to execute a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf in Macau, they are thrown in a dilemma when two of their former comrades also show up, intent on thwarting their mission. It turns out the five of them used to be buddies-under-fire in another mission years ago. When the mission appeared to be accomplished, one of them was discovered to have betrayed their boss and the others were asked to eliminate him. They let him escape in the end. While the four former comrades are reminiscing and negotiating what to do with the buddy whose life they have spared once before, a fifth gunmen suddenly appears out of nowhere and takes the renegade out instead. A final showdown ensues amongst the five gunmen.

Fallen Angels

Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok, Fai-hung Chan, Man-Lei Chan, Toru Saito, To-hoi Kong, Lee-na Kwan, Yuk-ho Wu
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1995 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: A contemporary assassin and love story set to the moody blues of the electric underground of modern day Hong Kong, where lost souls search through their surrealistic environments, trying to change their lives and escape both their pasts and the present. A contract hitman (Leon Lai) leaves his murdering occupation behind him while the woman (Michelle Reis) who used to set up his jobs falls madly in love with him. Their story is intertwined with that of a mute (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who makes a living running other people's businesses when they are closed and looks for companionship in the midst of the hazy night.

Farewell My Concubine

Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge, Chun Li, Han Lei, Di Tong, Mingwei Ma, Yang Fei, Zhi Yin, Hailong Zhao, Dan Li, Wenli Jiang
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1993 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At:

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Summary: Chen Kaige's first big international hit, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE is set in the Peking Opera, where his father had made many of his own films. As were most members of the Peking Opera, the film's two protagonists Xiaolou and Dieyi are two homeless outcasts who were trained from childhood in the grueling rigours of the company. The film follows their 52-year friendship, a relationship pockmarked with fiery conflicts and tender reconciliations, even as it casts an epic portrait behind them of a half-century of turbulent Chinese history. Though the delicate Dieyi specializes in female roles and the robust Xiaolou plays noble warriors, theirs is essentially a heterosexual relationship. When Xiaolou takes a prostitute as his bride, however, Dieyi is as petty and jealous as an outcast mistress.

Fatal Contact

Director: Dennis Law
Starring: Wu Jing, Ronald Cheng, Siu-Fai Cheung, Theresa Fu, Yu Gu, Shiu Hung Hui, Timmy Hung, Suet Lam, Tats Lau, Ken Lo, Marco Lok
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2006 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: Jacky Wu Jing makes a triumphant return to the screen after his breathtaking acrobatics in "SPL". Here he plays a seemingly invincible underground boxing champion who is eventually pitted against a dangerous opponent. Action-packed delight ensues. Wu Jing plays naive wushu player who, for the sake of the girl (Miki Yeung) he loves, to make money for her to live comfortably, and for her glory, enters into illegal matches and fights painfully against all odds all the way through. He turns from an honorable wushu player into a mean fighting machine who stops at nothing to win, irregardless of how inhumane and ruthless his blows are, leading eventually to a tragic ending.

Fearless

Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Jon T. Benn, Collin Chou, Anthony De Longis, Masato Harada
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2006 Language (Country): Mandarin (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: Huo Yuanjia (Jet Li) dreams of continuing the legacy his father established as a world-class fighter in China. After reaching his goal, however, a personal tragedy causes him to disappear for several years. He's not heard from until the honor of defending his country in an international tournament surfaces.

Fist of Legend

Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Jet Li, Siu-hou Chin, Ada Choi, Shinobu Nakayama, Yasuaki Kurata, Billy Chow, Paul Chiang, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Toshimichi Takahashi, Jackson Liu, Paul Chu, Shun-Yee Yuen
Genre: Action
Release Date: 1994 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Over twenty years since the first telling of the story, Bruce Lee's "Chinese Connection" returns to the screen. The story is a classic one that has its roots in an actual event in Chinese history -- the defeat of Master Huo at the hands of the Japanese. This time around, popular actor and martial arts champion Jet Li steps into the shoes of folk hero Chen Zhen, who returns to Shanghai in 1937 to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.

Fleeing by Night

Director: Hsu Li-Kong, Yin Chi
Starring: Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin, Leon Dai, Yaoxuan Shu, Ya-lei Kuei, Ah Lei Gua
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2000 Language (Country): Mandarin (Taiwan) Purchased At: China

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Summary: Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Ing'er, the daughter of a theatre-owner, welcomes the return of Shao-dung, her fiancee and a fine cellist from America. Shao-dung soon finds himself captivated by the opera "Fleeing By Night" and its celebrated actor, Lin Chung, whose voice seems to articulate something within himself. While Shao-dung attempts to blend eastern and western music, Ing'er becomes torn between her affection for both men, and an awareness of the growing intimacy between them.

Flirting Scholar

Director: Lee Lik-Chi
Starring: Kit Ying Lam, Fai-hung Chan, Pak-cheung Chan, Pei-pei Cheng, Stephen Chow
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 1993 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: Tong Pak Fu (Stephen Chow) is a famed scholar whose paintings and poetry are the toast of the intellectual set. But Tong Pak Fu is cursed with a harem of shrill wives, who only care for gambling or squeezing money from their successful husband. New love arrives when Tong Pak Fu spies Chou Heung (the radiant Gong Li), a lovely maiden who favors him with three enchanting smiles on three separate occasions. Smitten, Tong Pak Fu pretends to be a lowly servant named Wah On, and enters Chou Heung's household to be close to her. But the head of the house (Shaw Brothers kung-fu princess Cheng Pei Pei) despises Tong Pak Fu, making every day a dangerous one. Can Tong Pak Fu use his sly wit and insane kung-fu skills to win Chou Heung's heart?

Flowers of Shanghai

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Shuan Fang, Michiko Hada, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Jack Kao, Carina Lau
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1998 Language (Country): Shanghainese (Taiwan) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: Flowers of Shangai (1998) is a period piece filmed in a baroque style with some of Hou's most daring camera movements. The whole movie seems to be a psychedelic dream, slow, languid, brightly colored. Opium is an everpresent theme. The film's main characteristic is elegance: costumes are elegant, movements are elegant, words are elegant, and even the camera moves like it is dancing an elegant Viennese waltz.

Fly Me to Polaris

Director: Ma Jingle
Starring: Richie Ren, Cecilia Cheung, William So Wing Hong, Yat Ning Chan
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 1999 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: A young man, Onion (Richie Ren), fell in love with Autumn (Cecilia Cheung), a nurse, before being killed in a car accident. He returns to earth, but with the appearance of a different person. When Onion finds his Autumn again, she doesn't recognize her former lover and rejects him. When she finally realises that Onion is back, he is already due to fly back to Polaris – the place where human beings go after their deaths.

Forbidden City Cop

Director: Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok
Starring: Carina Lau, Carman Lee, Tat-Ming Cheung, Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok, Alvina Kong, Tats Lau, Kar-Ying Law, Indra Leech, Kin-Yan Lee, Manfred Wong, Yut Fei Wong, Cheung-Yan Yuen, King-Tan Yuen, Shun-Yee Yuen
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 1996 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Ling Ling Fat (Stephen Chow) is an Imperial agent whose inventive genius and lack of actual kung-fu skills makes him initially unpopular with the Emperor (Cheung Tat Ming). But Fat's way with inventions gives him an edge on the invaders from the Gum province. The bad guys send numerous deadly assassins after the Emperor, only to be repelled by Fat's engineering know-how! Fat becomes a hero of China, and the Emperor's most trusted spy. But can Fat - and his marriage to wife Carina Lau - withstand the charms of stunning prostitute Gum Tso (Carman Lee)? Directors Vincent Kok and Stephen Chow deliver parodies of the James Bond series, earlier Stephen Chow films, and the classic swordplay heroes of Hong Kong Cinema history, with hilarious and wildly entertaining results!

From Beijing With Love

Director: Stephen Chow, Lee Lik-Chi
Starring: Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen, Pauline Chan, Joe Cheng, Kar-Ying Law, Indra Leech, Kam-Kong Wong, Rongguang Yu
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 1994 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: When a high-ranking PRC official orchestrates the heist of a dinosaur skull for an overseas buyer, he assigns an incompetent secret agent, Ling Ling Chai (Stephen Chow), to investigate. He's a master with knives who runs a seedy pork stand in Beijing. Ling's contact is Siu Kam (Anita Yuen), who's been assigned to kill him, thus terminally thwarting the investigation; but of course, they fall in love.

Frozen

Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Starring: Hongshen Jia, Xiaoqing Ma, Yu Bai, Geng Li, Yefu Bai, Ye Wei
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1996 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At:

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Summary: A daring young performance artist makes his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice". The story is only partly fictitious according to the filmmaker, who hid behind the pseudonym Wu Ming, or No Name, for fear of incurring he wrath of the Chinese authorities. The film was shot in 1994, based upon a similar performance staged in Beijing, and smuggled out of the country for completion in Europe.

Full Contact

Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Simon Yam, Ann Bridgewater, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Bonnie Fu, Frankie Chin, Victor Hon, Chris Lee, Yin Nam
Genre: Action
Release Date: 1993 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Jeff (Chow Yun Fat) is an honourable thief in a nest of vipers. He is amazingly skilled with a gun and works as a bouncer at a Bangkok nightclub. His buddy Sam (Anthony Wong) owes a large sum of money to a loan shark who threatens his life. Jeff is left with no choice but to rescue his endangered friend, and reluctantly teams up with a gang to steal a truckload of smuggled ammunition. The merciless head of the gang, Judge (Simon Lam), double-crosses Jeff and leaves him for dead. Jeff survives the ordeal and devises the ultimate payback for his betrayer.

Fulltime Killer

Director: Johnny To, Wai Ka-Fai
Starring: Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Cherrie Ying, Suet Lam
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2001 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: YesAsia

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Summary: Tok (Andy Lau) is a low-rent hitman who kills with theatrical flamboyance and acts like a rock star. His goal is to be the "gold medallist of assassins," a self-proclaimed title which he, and everyone else in Asia, believes belongs to the silent assassin O (Takashi Sorimachi). In contrast to Tok, O is quiet and efficient. He exists only to kill and then fade away, as if he doesn't exist. However, Tok won't let O kill quietly. Through a series of escalating encounters, the two find themselves both allies and enemies. The goal of all of this is one fateful showdown where Tok can claim the title - or O can retain it.

Gen-X Cops

Director: Benny Chan
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Stephen Fung, Sam Lee, Grace Yip, Eric Tsang, Daniel Wu, Tôru Nakamura
Genre: Action
Release Date: 1999 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: ADC

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Summary: As the millennium approaches, Hong Kong is increasingly enveloped by a mixed sentiment of eager expectation and inexplicable fear. The territory's top-rank public enemy, Daniel, takes the opportunity to engage vast numbers of thrill-seeking youngsters to run his illegal arms trading syndicate. Smart Chan, in his effort to combat Daniel, recruits three young police academy dropouts, Jack, Match and Alien, to form a special squad code-named 'Gen-X Cops'. The Gen-X cops soon infiltrate Daniel's arms-smuggling circuit and, to their surprise, discover Daniel is no ordinary arms smuggler but a secret agent implementing a much bigger political conspiracy.

Go Home

Director: Li Chensheng
Starring: Liu Pei Qi, Song Chun Li, Zheng Da Wei
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2002 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At: YesAsia

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Summary: Old Peking Opera master Zhang Jin He's (Liu Pei Qi) life changes when a young boy shows up on his doorstep. With blue eyes and vaguely foreign features, the boy is apparently the product of a mixed upbringing, and though the boy doesn't realize it, Zhang Jin He is his grandfather! Zhang Jin He initially tells the boy to go home because the boy brings him a painful reminder of his daughter, who left him to marry a foreigner. Still, others convince the aging Perking Opera master to take in the boy, and though they fight initially, the two eventually form a strong, quiet bond. But when the boy is called home, will either be willing to let go?

God of Cookery

Director: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee
Starring: Stephen Chow, Stephen Au, Christy Chung, Clarence Hui, Vincent Kok, Liz Kong, Suet Lam, Tats Lau, Kar-Ying Law, Kin-Yan Lee, Siu-Kei Lee, Karen Mok, Man Tat Ng, Russ Price, Nancy Sit, Kai Man Tin, Bobby Yip, King-Tan Yuen
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 1996 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: The God of Cookery, a brilliant chef who sits in judgement of those who would challenge his title, loses his title when a jealous chef reveals him to be a con-man and humiliates him publicly. As this new chef takes on the God of Cookery's role, the former God tries to pull himself back on top again, to challenge his rival and find once and for all who is the true God of Cookery.

Going Home

Director: Wang Jia
Starring: Wu Gang, Zheng Weili, Feng Sihe
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At: YesAsia

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Summary: This film is about a story that a rural laborer meets a newly-appointed secretary of the municipal Party committee. Later, they get to know each other and become friends in adversity. One is a rural laborer who cannot return home because the government defaults their wages, the other is a poor secretary of the municipal Party committee who is rather worried about his sick daughter. The several hour's meeting changed their fate - the secretary gives the operation fee to the rural laborers as their wages; the rural laborer with a fatally disease decides to contribute his cornea to the secretary's daughter. It is a moving film which vividly and plainly exhibits the glittery points in the personalities in two Chinese different social classes.

Good Men, Good Women

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao, Jieh-Wen King, Bo-Chow Lan, Li-Chin Lu, Chen-Nan Tsai, Vicky Wei
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1995 Language (Country): Taiwanese (Taiwan) Purchased At:

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Summary: The final chapter of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's historical trilogy (which also includes A City of Sadness and The Puppetmaster) stars Annie Shizuka Inoh in a dual role as real-life historical figure Chiang Bi-Yu (who was an anti-Japanese resistance fighter) and Liang Ching, an actress who is preparing to play her in a film. As Liang gets further involved in the role and the details of Chiang's tumultuous life (parts of which are shown throughout), she must also deal with the problems of her own life. Liang receives anonymous phone calls from someone who faxes her pages of her stolen diaries: pages that remind her of her troubled days as a drug-addicted barmaid, and the death of her lover, Ah Wei, a small-time crook killed by his business rivals. The film's narrative journeys through different time periods, lives, and realities, which serves to compare and contrast the past and present. Hou deftly handles the complicated narrative shifts through the use of bold color schemes, black and white footage, and lack of synchronous sound. A complex film that requires the viewer's active attention, Good Men, Good Women is an invigorating, satisfying cinematic experience that explores the meaning and importance of ideals, character, memory, and love.

Goodbye South, Goodbye

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Hsiang Hsi, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Jack Kao, Ming Kao, Ming Lei, Pi-tung Lien, Giong Lim, Vicky Wei
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1996 Language (Country): Taiwanese (Taiwan) Purchased At:

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Summary: Gao, a small-time criminal in present-day Taiwan, and his pals want to be rich and happy. A succession of get-rich-quick schemes, however, leads them only to the brink of disaster. In the course of the film the unsavory alliance between the underworld and the political elite emerges.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Director: Cai Ming-liang
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Shih Chun, Tien Miao
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2003 Language (Country): Taiwanese (Taiwan) Purchased At:

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Summary: Run by a lonely female ticket clerk (Chen Shiang-Chyi) and a young projectionist (Lee Kang-Sheng), a crumbling movie theater shows King Hu's 1967 martial arts epic "Dragon Inn" before darkening its screen forever. A sparse audience gathers--some attending to watch a film, others attending in search of a connection. When a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) encounters someone with an uncanny resemblance to the swordsman in the film, we discover that comments about the theater's ghostly patrons may be more than rumors.

Green Snake

Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Man Cheuk Chiu, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Anita Mui, Feng Tien, Joey Wong, Hsing-kuo Wu, Tielin Zhang
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1993 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Two snake spirits, ‘White’ (Wong) and ‘Green’ (Cheung) wish to become human and experience human emotions, especially love and sex. In a world where spirits and humans should not mix, White falls in love with a local teacher, but Green becomes deeply jealous of what the couple have, causing a rift between the two.

Meanwhile, a Buddhist monk sworn to keep humans and spirits apart is struggling with a snake of his own. He is trying to make sense of his role as a monk, and his weakness seems to be his sex drive. Obviously envious of the ghostly love triangle, he throws himself into trying to expel the snakes from the human world.

Green Tea

Director: Zhang Yuan
Starring: Jiang Wen, Wei Zhao, Fang Lijun, Wang Haizhen, Zhang Yuan
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2003 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At: China

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Summary: The lady professor Wu attends marriage prospective all the time. Whenever she dates a man, she would ask for a cup of green tea. She believes in the words of a girl Lang Lang: "Predict your live with a cup of tea." Chen thinks this is all absurd. He has no knowledge about green tea, but he claims that he knows everything about women...

Happy Together

Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1997 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung play lovers, whose tumultuous relationship is a never-ending process of breaking up and making up. The pair journeys to Buenos Aires to start over, but the cycle begins anew, each alternately completing and depleting the other, until the relationship can only disintegrate beneath their all-consuming passions.

Hard Boiled

Director: John Woo
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Philip Kwok, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Bowie Lam, Bobbie Au-Yeung, Shui Ting Ng, Hoi-Shan Kwan, Wei Tung, Y. Yonemura, Meng Lo, Kong Lau, Wai-Sun Lam
Genre: Action
Release Date: 1992 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Violence as poetry, rendered by a master—brilliant and passionate, John Woo’s Hard Boiled tells the story of jaded detective “Tequila” Yuen (played with controlled fury by Chow Yun-fat). Woo’s dizzying odyssey through the world of Hong Kong Triads, undercover agents, and frenzied police raids culminates unforgettably in the breathless hospital sequence. More than a cops-and-bad-guys story, Hard Boiled continually startles with its originality and dark humor.

Hero

Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen, Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tia Yong, Yan Qin, Chang Xiao Yang, Zhang Ya Kun, Ma Wen Hua, Jin Ming, Xu Kuang Hua, Wang Shou Xin
Genre: Historical Epic
Release Date: 2002 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At:

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Summary: At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han, Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy. As a result, the populace endured decades of death and suffering.

The Kingdom of Qin was the most determined of all. The Qin King was obsessed with conquering all of China and becoming her first Emperor. He had long been the target of assassins throughout the other six states. Of all the would-be killers, none inspired as much fear as the three legendary assassins, Broken Sword, Flying Snow and Sky.

To anyone who defeated the three assassins, the King of Qin promised great power, mountains of gold and a private audience with the King himself. But defeating the killers is a near impossible task. For ten years no one came close to claiming the prize. So when the enigmatic county sheriff, Nameless, comes to the palace bearing the legendary weapons of the slain assassins, the King is impatient to hear his story. Sitting in the palace, only ten paces from the King, Nameless tells his extraordinary tale.

The King hangs on every detail of this curious story. But then the King realizes that the details don't add up, and he presents a different version of how Nameless really came to sit face to face with him. It appears that everything was not so simple. In the centre of the intrigue sits Nameless - a solitary ranger - and the King of Qin, with only ten steps between them. Within those ten steps unfolds an earth-shattering tale of love, honour and duty, a story that moves beyond the reaches of history. A story about what it means to be a HERO.

Heroic Duo

Director: Benny Chan
Starring: Ekin Cheng, Leon Lai, Kar Yan Lam, Anson Leung, Francis Ng, Samuel Pang, Andrew Reilly, Pete Spurrier, Ho-Yin Wong, Courtney Wu
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 2003 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At: China

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Himalaya Singh

Director: Wai Ka-Fai
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Ching Wan Lau, Siu-Kei Lee, Francis Ng, Fui-On Shing, Ting Yau Tsui, Kwong Leung Wong, You-Nam Wong, Cherrie Ying
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Singh (Ronald Cheng) is born and raised in the Himalayas. A naive yoga master, he is ordered by his parents to join the competition hosted by the King of Yoga to fight for the King's daughter. On his way, Singh meets Tally (Cherrie Ying) who falls for him because of his Yoga skills. Failing to win his love, Tally wants to convert Singh into a bad guy – if she cannot get him, no one else will. At the same time, two Hong Kong tourists (Francis Ng and Sean Lau) are suffering from amnesia and are instructed to take part in the competition as well. Laughter starts to explode in this most incredible fight for the Indian beauty...

House of Flying Daggers

Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, and Zhang Ziyi
Genre: Historical Epic
Release Date: 2004 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At:

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Summary: In the ninth century, during the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the House of Flying Daggers is an underground army that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Operating in Feng Tian County, their greatest rivals are the local authorities, especially captains Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Leo (Andy Lau), who are on an urgent mission to shut the House down. When these two discover that a key rebel – the ravishing Mei (Zhang Ziyi) – is a dancer at the decadent Peony Pavilion, they arrest her. Jin then goes undercover, attempting to infiltrate the House by breaking Mei out of jail and escorting her back to the Flying Daggers' secret headquarters. He counts on his charm – Kaneshiro has plenty to spare – to avoid arousing her distrust, but quickly finds himself in over his head when he falls in love with her. However, Jin and Mei find themselves pursued by imperial troops and it soon becomes clear that everyone has something to hide.

House of Fury

Director: Stephen Fung
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Stephen Fung, Michael Wong, Gillian Chung, Daniel Wu, Charlene Choi, Ma Wu, Josie Ho, Jake Strickland, Jon Foo, Philip Ng, Jason J. Tobin, Asuka Higuchi, Kar-Ying Law, Ka Ting Lee, Winnie Leung
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2005 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: On the surface, Teddy Yu (Anthony Wong) is a Chinese chiropractor and a widowed father. His son Nicky (Stephen Fung), a dolphin trainer at Ocean Park, and daughter Natalie (Gillian Chung), a high school student, learn the art of kung fu from him, but are unconvinced and sceptical of their father's claim to having a hidden life as a heroic bodyguard for retired secret agents. One day, Rocco (Michael Wong) arrives in his wheelchair, asking Teddy for information on Dragon, an ex-agent. Knowing that Dragon foiled Rocco's mission 12 years ago and left him in a wheelchair for life, Teddy refuses to comply. Rocco and his four henchmen overcome Teddy and take him away. Tortured and drugged, Teddy reveals that data on the retired agents is hidden in his kids' lucky charms.

Rocco's men are immediately dispatched to Natalie's school but they are no match for the team of battling siblings. Unable to get what he wants by force, Rocco threatens to kill Teddy unless the kids can find Dragon for him.

With the help of boy friend Jason (Daniel Wu) and goofy schoolmate May (Charlene Choi), Natalie finally finds the clue to her father's disappearance and unearths the secret data files hidden in the lucky charms. It is then that she and Nicky realise Dragon is none other than their father's long-time friend Tide (Wu Ma). The people in those thrilling spy stories they grew up hearing from their father finally have recognizable faces. Their father has been telling the truth after all! Just when they are planning to pay Tide a visit to enlist his help, Jason locks them up and confronts Tide on his own. Jason's motive becomes the new mystery that Nicky and Natalie have to solve before they can save their father. But time is rapidly running out!

I Love You

Director: Zhang Yuan
Starring: Peng Du, Juan Pan, Dawei Tong, Xuebing Wang, Jinglei Xu
Genre: Romance
Release Date: 2003 Language (Country): Mandarin (China) Purchased At:

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Summary: Inspired by a novel by famous Beijing writer Wang Shuo, Zhang Yuan explores the claustrophobic relationship between a young nurse with a troubled family history and the young man she drives into a hasty marriage. After the first few weeks of honeymoon, their obsession with each other gradually turns to irritation, jealousy and violent fights.

The Iceman Cometh

Director: Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
Starring: Biao Yuen, Maggie Cheung, Wah Yuen, Sarah Lee, Alvina Kong, Jing Chen, Elvis Tsui, Po Tai, Shui-Fan Fung, Wai Hung Liu, Lap-Man Sin, Jing Wong, Corey Yuen
Genre: Action
Release Date: 1989 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: In 16th Century China, Ming guard Fong Sau-Ching (Yuen Biao) relentlessly tracks the ruthless villain Fung San (martial arts legend Yuen Wah). After Fung San steals the priceless and magical Black Jade Buddha, a titanic martial arts encounter atop a cliff ensues and is only ended when the two men tumble into a glacier where they are instantly frozen.

Mistakenly thawed out four hundred years later, Fong Sau-Chin must continue his pursuit of his quarry although to survive in 1980s Kowloon with the confounding discovery of electricity, TV and toilets, he's going to need a little help from femme fatale Polla (Maggie Cheung)!

In the Mood For Love

Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2001 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: Hong Kong 1962, Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung), a journalist, rents a room from Mr. Koo. He will live there with his wife, a hotel receptionist. It's sheer oincidence that he moves in the same day that Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung) moves in next door, at Mrs Suen's place. Lizhen works as a secretary to Mr. Ho (Lai Chin), the boss of a shipping company. It's also a coincidence that both of them are moving in without help from their spouses. Chow's wife is working her shift at the hotel at the time of the move. Lizhen's husband, Mr Chan, is away on a business trip; he works for a Japanese company, and is often abroad. Despite having convivial and neighbourly landlords, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan often find themselves alone and lonely in their respective rooms.

Neither of them ever finds out how it began, but Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. The discovery shocks both of them. Chow, feeling hurt and wishing to understand how the affair happened, begins finding excuses to spend time with Mrs. Chan. They begin rehearsing what they will say to their spouses when they confront them with what they know. Then Mr. Chow invites Mrs. Chan to help him with a martial-arts series that he is writing for the newspaper. Their meetings are discreet, but people begin to notice. There seems no possibility that they, too, will drift into an affair. But Mrs. Chan's emotional reticence begins to haunt Mr. Chow and he finds his feelings changing. It's almost like being in love.

Infernal Affairs

Director: Andrew Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Starring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen, Sammi Cheng, Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Elva Hsiao, Chapman To, Ka Tung Lam, Ting Yip Ng, Dion Lam, Chi Keung Wan, Hui Kam Fung
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 2002 Language (Country): Cantonese (Hong Kong) Purchased At:

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Summary: The setting is the never-ending war between the police and the traids of Hong Kong. Chen Ying Yan is a cop who's been assigned to undercover work inside the traids for so long that he's been able to rise through the ranks to a position of some authority. Lau Kin Ming, meanwhile, is a secret member of the triads who has infiltrated the police force with equal success. As they feed their bosses information on the plans and counter-plans of the organizations they pretend to serve, they both begin to feel the stresses of their double lives as they become torn between the oppressive obligations they owe to their superiors and the growing camaraderie they share with the foot soldiers around them. As the two organizations become increasingly aware of the moles in their midsts, the race is on for Yan and Ming to try and get out of the game alive.

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