Hooked on You (Hong Kong) 2007
aka: Mui dong bin wan si
Year: 2007
Directed: Law Wing-Cheong
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 01:37
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Cast: Miriam Yeung, Eason Chan, Huang Bo, Stanley Fung
Imdb: Mui dong bin wan si
Synopsis / Plot
It’s occasionally contrived and cloying, but Hooked on You is entertaining and even touching, and features winning performances from Miriam Yeung and Eason Chan. Considering its competition, Hooked on You may be the class of 2007. As of June 30th, it’s hard to think of a 2007 Hong Kong movie that’s better than this one.
It’s Take Two for Handover Anniversary films. Hooked on You, from director Law Wing-Cheong (2 Become 1) and producer Johnnie To (more great movies than we could fit in this space), arrives on the heels of Mr. Cinema, which celebrated the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China in a cursory, though very satisfying manner. Hooked on You is similarly cursory; it takes place from 1997-2007, and uses famous events in Hong Kong history to provide color and depth to the trials and tribulations of its characters. However, the history is just background here, and doesn’t provide the overt commentary on Hong Kong and its people that Mr. Cinema did. Instead, Hooked on You concentrates on character and situation, and does so in a remarkably entertaining and even touching manner. The actors are good too, and barring a few cheesy flourishes, the situations are exceptionally well-played, and the emotions wonderfully felt. Frankly, given the current quality of Hong Kong Cinema, it’s practically shocking how good this movie is.
Miriam Yeung stars as Miu, a twenty-seven year-old fishmonger working at Fortune Market, a neighborhood wet market that’s home to the usual assortment of fresh food sellers. Miu is stuck running a fish stall thanks to her gambling, whoring father (the great Stanley Fung), who owes a bunch of money to loan shark Uncle Right (David Lo). Unfortunately, her dad continues to gamble and whore, meaning it’s up to Miu to save up all the necessary dough to clear their debt and get out of Fortune Market. She does so through daily work at the fish stall, but she also moonlights by selling fish congee made out of the day’s leftovers. Miu is willing to work overtime every day simply because she wishes for more. She wants a better career, an upwardly mobile life, and actual financial stability. What she wishes to avoid is many more years at Fortune Market, and she absolutely doesn’t want a husband of her similar lower class standing. This rules out Porky (Huang Bo of Crazy Stone), Fortune Market’s butcher, and Fishman (Eason Chan), a rival fishmonger who sometimes acts like a bit of an ass. – -LoveHkFilm
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Edo Porn – Cat III (Japanese) 1981
Country : Japan
AKA : Hokusai manga
Director : Kaneto Shindô
Write : Kaneto Shindô
Genres : Biography, Drama, History
Language : Japanese
Runtime : 01:59:01
Subtitles : Russian (hard), English (.srt)
IMDB link : Edo Porn
Cast : Ken Ogata, Noshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kanako Higuchi, Nobuko Otowa, Yoichi Sase, Frankie Sakai, Kazuko Imai, Hideo Kanze, Taiji Tonoyama, Jo Shishido, Kon Omura, Kinya Aikawa
Plot/Synopsis
This is a biographical film which follows the struggles of Edo-era artist Hokusai from his poorest beginnings to his famed accomplishments, including his notorious libidinous drawings. Though risque in much of what is depicts, this comes across as a straight-forward jidai-geki (historical piece) exploring a well-known historical figure’s life and obsessions…
Love Me, Love My Money (Hong Kong) 2001
aka: Yau ching yam shui baau
Year: 2001
Directed: Wong Jing
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 01:39
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Cast: Tony Leung, Shu Qi, Gordon Lam, Teresa Mak
Imdb: Yau ching yam shui baau
Synopsis / Plot
Wealthy Richard finds himself dead broke and on the streets due to a freak accident. He bumps into Ah Choi, who thinks he is only pretending to be rich. As she teaches Richard the virtues of being poor, however, she also develops a soft spot for him.
Richard Ma (Tony Leung) is a mean and stingy person. He forces his secretary to leave her job, he thus is temporarily restrained from disposing all his assets, and suddenly becomes a poor wretch without a penny. When he is in straigntened circumstances, he bumps into Ah Choi (Shu Qi) and makes a big blunder in front of her. Ah Choi convinces him to make a new life, but in the meanwhile she is forced by her father to marry someone else. She asks Richard to disguise her rich boyfriend. However, without intent, Ah Choi discovers his secrets…
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Vaaranam Aayiram (Indian) 2008
Year : 2008
Country : India
Language : Tamil
Subtitle(s) : English
Film Genre : Thriller
IMDB : Vaaranam Aayiram
Director : Gautham Menon
Cast : Surya Sivakumar, Gautham menon, Sameera Reddy, Simran, Divya Spandana
Plot/Synopsis
The film begins with an elderly person named Krishnan (Surya Sivakumar) returning home after a haircut. Once he reaches home he vomits profuse amounts of blood and is kept to bed rest. After the doctor checks him, he is reported dead after a few moments of grief with his wife Malini (Simran Bagga), daughter, and daughter-in-law Priya (Divya Spandana). This news is informed to his son Surya (Surya Sivakumar) who is on a military mission traveling in a helicopter. He begins to shed tears to himself and starts thinking about his memorable moments with his father and the story of how his parents loved each other during their college days.
Krishnan is a student in the same college where Malini studies. They fall in love with each other and get married. They soon have a son, Surya. He grows up more as a friend to his father. When Surya grows up, he joins an engineering college near Tiruchi and parts from his family. There he takes part in various cultural activities and develops his guitar skills. When he is on a train back home after completion of college, he meets Meghna (Sameera Reddy). He soon proposes to her which she rejects saying that they had only known each other for a very short period and its not possible to fall in love without taking time to understand him. Surya then tells her that wherever she goes, he will meet her.
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Vaaranam Aayiram
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My Wife is 18 (Hong Kong) 2002
Aka: Ngo Liu Poh Lut Gau Ching
Year: 2002
Directed: James Yuen
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 01:44
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Charlene Choi, Bernice Liu
IMDb: Ngo Liu Poh Lut Gau Ching
Synopsis / Plot
In order to appease their mothers, 30-year-old Cheung is getting married to 18-year-old Yoyo in London. Yoyo returns to Hong Kong to study and Cheung continues his work in London. The marriage is kept a complete secret. But things become complicated when Cheung returns to Hong Kong looking for work, and winds up teaching at Yoyo’s School. Although Yoyo is enraged, she keeps their secret. As the one-year mark of their marriage approaches, will the love in their hearts overrule their urge for divorce? – - AsianMediaWiki
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My Wife is 18
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Dance of the Dragon (Singapore) 2008
AKA : Long zhi wu
Year : 2008
Directed : John Radel
Genre : Drama / Music / Romance
Runtime : 1hr 46mins 30secs
Country : Singapore
Language : English / Korean
Subtitles : English
IMDB : Dance of the Dragon
Cast
Hyuk Jang, Fann Wong, Jason Scott Lee
Synopsis / Plot
Tae Kwon (Jang Hyuk) is fascinated by ballroom dancing since he was a child when his mother brought him to the dance theater. He secretly learns dancing but when his dad finds out about it, he forbids Tae from dancing. Tae’s father teaches him that education is the fundamental of life. Tae plans to go to the university but his father gets him a job in the factory as the family needs the money. He works at the factory for ten years before he finally gets the chance for a dance audition in Singapore.
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Dance of the Dragon
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