[2013.04.24] THE WEEK OF APRIL 15-22 2013

For the week of April 15-22 2013

Photos courtesy of Yahoo! Movies Hong Kong

10 TOUCH OF THE LIGHT
  Can : Yik Guong Fei Cheung
  Lit : Against the Light Flight
    d. Chang Rong-ji
    Huang Yi-Siang, Sandrine Pinna (Cheung Yung Yung)
  Rating : I
  Length : 110 mins.
  Opening April 4 2013

[ YAHOO! MOVIES HONG KONG ]
  The blind Yi-Siang leaves home for the first time to study up north. Although he plays piano well, he insists against participating in any contest. Because he does not want any sympathy, he only wants to live the life of an ordinary person.

  At the time, he runs into Siao-Jie, a girl who loves to dance. She is forced to drop out of dance school but has a boyfriend who radiates when he street dances. Warm like sunlight Yu-Sian gradually enters her world and melts Siao-Jie's icy heart. Yu-Sian's courage deeply guides Siao-Jaie; Siao Jei brings Yu-Sian to experience adventures that he has never had before. They make up for strength that the other has lost and together they head toward a dream that is far beyond reach.....

 9 G.I. JOE: RETALIATION
    d. Jon M. Chu
    Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki

 8 I GIVE IT A YEAR
    d. Dan Mazer
    Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Rafe Spall, Simon Baker

 7 THE CROODS
    d. Chris Sanders
    DreamWorks Animation
    English Voices: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone,

 6 SAVING GENERAL YANG
  Can : Jung Lit Yeung Ga Jeung
  Lit : Valiant Yang Clan Generals
    d. Ronny Yu Yun Tai
    Adam Cheng Siu Chau, Xu Fan,
      Raymond Lam Fung, Dior Cheng Yi Kin,
      Wu Chun, Vic Chou Yu Man,,
      Li Chen, Yu Bo, Fu Xinbo, Shao Bing
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 101 mins.
  Opening March 28 2013 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
  Opening Opening April 4 2013
  Site : http://37.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/37142-saving-general-yang.html

[ THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
  The Yang family during the Song Dynasty was the Chinese Empire's greatest military clan. The patriarch is loyal to the emperor. His loving wife has given him seven sons who all love their mother very much. When the patriarch falls prey to the scheme of a villain and is subsequently trapped by the northern barbarians, the six sons set out for the rescue. With battles scenes and single combats galore, and the seven sons played by Chinese-language cinema's hottest males (with their pretty faces and buff bodies), this is almost like The Iliad -- but with special Chinese characteristics.

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  This is an epical tale about the renowned Song Dynasty’s military defense by the clan of Yang’s against the nomadic Northern nation the Liao, sometimes also known as the Khitans in ancient Chinese history account.

  Headed by a charismatic old veteran general named YangYe, the Yang Clan has been the major military force protecting the Song Empire and its people against their ever invasive neighbor. From YangYe and his wife Madame She, we witness the coming of age of their seven sons namely Ping, Ding, Ang, Hui, De, Zhao and Si throughout the various battlefields in the story. The seven young men possess different temperament and characters united under a single banner and a heart of lion.

 5 THE HOST
    d. Andrew Niccol
    Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons

 4 FINDING MR. RIGHT
  Can : But Gaing Yu Seung Sai Nga Toh
  Lit : Beijing Meets Seattle
    d. Xue Xiaolu
    Tang Wei, Wu Xiubo, Elaine Jin (Kam Yin Ling)
  Rating : I
  Length : 121 mins.
  Opening March 28 2013

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  A spoiled city girl travels from Beijing to Seattle to give birth to her rich, married boyfriend’s, only happens to fall for her driver, who’s the opposite of everything she wanted in a man.

 3 DRUG WAR
  Can : Duk Jin
    d. Johnnie To Kei Fung
    Louis Koo Tin Lok, Sun Honglei, Crystal Huang Yi,
      Michelle Ye (Yip Shuen), Lam Suet,
      Wallace Chung Hong Leung, Gao Yunxiang
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 105 mins.
  Opening March 19 2013 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
  Opening April 18 2013

[ THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
  Gangster-style Johnnie goes Mainland, and the result is one hell of an entry. Louis Koo is Timmy, a Hong Kong drug trafficker, while Mainland police captain Zhang, played by Sun Honglei, is out there to get him. Zhang at times succeeds in capturing Timmy, and at times Timmy slips from Zhang's grasp (or does he?). Cop and robber caught in a classical, ghostly dance; their loyalties are different but their psychologies are the same. Single-minded, brutal and almost cold-blooded, the two men will stop at nothing to destroy each other. The final bloodbath at a primary school sets a new standard for violence. Harrowing, chilling stuff from a master craftsman.

 2 CONSPIRATORS
  Can : Tung Mau
  AKA : A+ Jing Tam
  Lit : A+ Detective
    d. Oxide Pang Shun
    Aaron Kwok Fu Sing, Nick Cheung Ka Fai, Jiang Yiyan
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 103 mins.
  Opening April 11 2013

[ CINEMA ONLINE MALAYSIA ]
  Chen Tan, a private detective in Thailand, travelled to Malaysia following the clues in a photo in order to reveal the truth behind the murder of his parents 30 years ago. There he finds a man called Chai, who directs him to Zheng, a Malaysian detective born in China. The two eventually stumble upon Chai's daughter, Zhi Wei and realise that she may hold the key to the mystery...

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  Private detective Tam follows the hints to restart the investigation of a drug trafficking in Malaysia with the help of an undercover agent, hoping to find out the truth behind the murder of his parents thirty years ago...

 1 OBLIVION
    d. Joseph Kosinski
    Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman