Following a recipe pretty close to the one in “All About Ah Long”, Johnnie To adapts the Italian film “Incompresso” (1966) by Luigi Comencini, and focuses again on the struggles of a single father, upping, though, the (melo) drama, the tension and the violence, in a way that can easily be described as shocking.
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Lee Chi-leung returns to Hong Kong with the ashes of his wife and his two young boys, older Kin and younger Hong, which he now has to take care of by himself, along with a maid who does not seem particularly patient neither with the changes the death brought nor with the children's shenanigans. Furthermore, it is soon revealed that Lee is also plagued by debts, which become worse when a friend convinces him to bet what little he has left on horses, a decision that...
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Lee Chi-leung returns to Hong Kong with the ashes of his wife and his two young boys, older Kin and younger Hong, which he now has to take care of by himself, along with a maid who does not seem particularly patient neither with the changes the death brought nor with the children's shenanigans. Furthermore, it is soon revealed that Lee is also plagued by debts, which become worse when a friend convinces him to bet what little he has left on horses, a decision that...
- 1/14/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
I'm slightly ashamed to say I only saw “A Moment of Romance” for the first time recently, but sometimes, one viewing will show you that classics are classics for a reason. Gratefully, I was able to watch Benny Chan's Hong Kong masterpiece on the big screen at the Far East Film Festival, where my mentors insisted it would blow me away. Rarely does this phrase find a footing in me as someone who tends to dwell on slow-moving, melancholic queer cinema, but I'm happy to admit that they were correct.
The story itself is simple: a wealthy young Hong Kong heiress, Jo-Jo (Jacklyn Wu) falls in love with a toughened-by-the-streets triad member, Wah Dee (Andy Lau). Drawn to each other but unwilling to get too close for fear of endangering the other, they become the epitome of star-crossed lovers. Wah Dee and Jo-Jo quickly learn that the world doesn't tolerate their romance,...
The story itself is simple: a wealthy young Hong Kong heiress, Jo-Jo (Jacklyn Wu) falls in love with a toughened-by-the-streets triad member, Wah Dee (Andy Lau). Drawn to each other but unwilling to get too close for fear of endangering the other, they become the epitome of star-crossed lovers. Wah Dee and Jo-Jo quickly learn that the world doesn't tolerate their romance,...
- 6/4/2023
- by Olivia Popp
- AsianMoviePulse
Actually the third installment in the series, since “No Risk, No Gain” followed the initial one, “Casino Raiders II” essentially uses gambling in order to present a melodramatic actioner, in a distinct Hk style.
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Chicken Feet, Kit and James were Uncle Fan’s apprentices in the past. When Uncle Fan brought them to Osaka to compete with Taro Yamamoto, James colluded with Yamamoto and betrayed Fan, but still lost to Kit. James killed Yamamoto after the latter berated him, in a series of events that led to Chicken Feet rescuing Fan, who is crippled after leaping off a high platform to escape from James, and Kit being beaten by James’s henchmen and framed for murdering Yamamoto, leading him to prison. Now, Chicken Feet assists, along with his girlfriend Mui, in running a gambling den with Uncle Fan, while training for the upcoming Asia Gambling Tournament.
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Chicken Feet, Kit and James were Uncle Fan’s apprentices in the past. When Uncle Fan brought them to Osaka to compete with Taro Yamamoto, James colluded with Yamamoto and betrayed Fan, but still lost to Kit. James killed Yamamoto after the latter berated him, in a series of events that led to Chicken Feet rescuing Fan, who is crippled after leaping off a high platform to escape from James, and Kit being beaten by James’s henchmen and framed for murdering Yamamoto, leading him to prison. Now, Chicken Feet assists, along with his girlfriend Mui, in running a gambling den with Uncle Fan, while training for the upcoming Asia Gambling Tournament.
- 6/28/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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