"Tony Leung plays Lin, a P.I. on the trail of mob lawyer Takahashi. When Takahashi jilts Macy (Chan)at the altar and disappears, she joins the manhunt for him - as does interior designer Yung, who's due a large sum of cash from the missing lawyer. The trio soon crosses paths with the tough Yakuza who are after Takahashi because he possesses an incriminating computer disc."
"How do you explain the unexplainable? A wealthy Taiwanese businessman is discovered frozen to death at the desk of his penthouse office. A government official's beautiful mistress has been burned beyond recognition though there are no signs of fire anywhere in her home. A foreign priest is found disemboweled in bed with no visible traces of struggle. To help solve these grisly supernatural crimes the Taiwanese government is forced to en ..."
"From the novel of the same namewhich has sold over one million copies in 43 languagesthis "sophisticated adaptation of Marguerite Duras' best-selling memoirs" (Variety) smolders on the screen. "Masterfully acted and beautifully photographed" (Critics' Choice), The Lover brilliantly captures the essence of sexual awakening and forbidden desire like no other film has donebeforeor since. Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor Fre ..."
" In Wong Kar Wai's quasi-sequel to In the Mood for Love, 2046 is a hotel room, a futuristic story, and a state of mind. Tony Leung returns as Chow, but perhaps not the same Chow who appeared in the first film. Starting three years later in 1966, we see Chow on various Christmases as he lives, loves, and writes in a hotel and nearby restaurants. Although he is less sensitive and more of a ladies man now, Chow's love life always seems to ..."
"With Flowers of Shanghai, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien delivers the opulent world of late-19th-century Chinese courtesans and their suitors miraculously intact. Hou's films are perhaps the most beguiling yet restrained in all of contemporary cinema, and this is no exception. Told as a series of panel-like portraits, the camera discreetly withdraws from raucous dinner parties and drinking games into the muted, jewel-like chambers o ..."
"Hero is a 2002 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou. Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the film is based on the story of Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin in 227 BC.
Hero was first released in China on October 24, 2002. At that time, it was the most expensive project and the highest-grossing motion picture in Chinese film history. Miramax Films owned the American market distribution rights, but delayed the rel ..."
"Dieser unglaublich schöne, im Hongkong von 1962 angesiedelte Film von Wong Kar-wai, dessen Happy Together, Fallen Angels und Chungking Express schon überaus erfolgreich den internationalen Festivalzirkus durchliefen und nicht nur dort etliche Cineasten begeisterten, beschreibt eher eine Stimmung, als dass er eine Liebesgeschichte erzählt. Die Stimmung ist pure Melancholie, wenn die Nachbarn eines Wohnhauses auf dem Weg zur Nudelküche au ..."
Cyclo [VHS] by Le Van Loc, TonyLeung, directed by Tran Anh Hung Vhs Tape, Published by New Yorker Films Ntsc ISBN-13: 978-5-554-82024-3, ISBN: 5-554-82024-7
"The city was once named Saigon; it is now called Ho Chi Minh City, and in this powerful second feature by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) it looks like a lost circle of hell. Cyclo is a survey of a society in decay, in which conventional plotting gives way to a series of enigmatic episodes and haunting observations. There are two main characters: Cyclo (Le Van Loc) is a poor urban teenager who scratches o ..."
"The new movie from uber director Tsui Hark. Based on the real-life Tang Dynasy official, Di Renjie... When the mysterious deaths of a series of loyal subjects threaten to delay the 690 A.D. inauguration of Empress Wu Zetian, she summons the former dissident/brilliant detective Dee (Andy Lau) back from an exile into which she cast him eight years earlier. However almost immediately, the investigation gets off to a rocky start with assass ..."
"A action-dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. It revolves around Bruce Lee's tumultuous early life as he deals with street fights, love, an early acting career and kung fu tournaments. A rebellious adolescent, the film focuses on Bruce's somewhat wayward youth prior to being "exiled" by his dad to the USA for his own protection, and the rest, as they say, is history.
This spe ..."