For the week ending April 27 2014
Photos courtesy of Yahoo! Movies Hong Kong
10 BILOCATION
Can : Seung Sun Ling
Lit : Double Life Soul
d. Mari Asato
Asami Mizukawa, Kento Senga, Sho Takada,
Kenichi Takito, Yosuke Asari, Wakana Sakai
Rating : IIB
Length : 119 mins.
Opening April 24 2014
[ ASIAN WIKI ]
Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and takes her to a place. When they get there, a group of people are already gathered. All of the people there are concerned over a doppelganger like existence that looks just like them and acts like them. They call that existence "bilocation".
9 VAMPIRE ACADEMY
d. Mark Waters
Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky
8 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL
d. Randall Wallace
Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church
7 NAKED AMBITION 3D
Can : Ho Ching 3D
Lit : Bold Love 3D
AKA : NAKED AMBITION 2
AKA : HO CHING 2
Lit : Bold Love 2
d. Lee Kung Lok
Chapman To Man Jat, Josie Ho Chiu Yi, Taka Kato,
Anri Okita, Maiko Yuki, Kana Yume
Nozomi Aso, Tsukasa Aoi, Yui Tatsumi,
Derek Tsang Kwok Cheung,
Rating : III
Length : 106 mins.
Opening March 25 2014 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Opening April 3 2014
Site :
http://hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/38239-3d-naked-ambition.html
[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
Vulgaria star Chapman To challenges the boundaries of good taste again, this time alongside a platoon of Japanese AV stars in the raunchy and rudely satirical 3D Naked Ambition. An honors graduate in literature, Wayman (To) is stuck writing cheap erotic fiction, but somehow ends up starring in an AV film. Suddenly a porn superstar in Japan, he discovers a whole new world fraught with pleasure, pain and more twists and turns than he or the audience expects!
[ YAHOO! MOVIES HONG KONG ]
Top literature department graduate Chan Wai Man falls to write sex stories in the newspaper for a living, while his live in girlfriend becomes a popular romantic novel queen whose novels are destined to be bestsellers. The woman on top situation does not just appear at work but also in bed.
Chan Wai Man's disappointing career falls into the abyss with the newspaper ending its sex pages. A group of unemployed and disillusioned sex page writers meet with a friend who delivers new film for adult video film reviews at the adult video store. Chan suddenly gets an idea. Since they grew up on Japanese adult video, why do they not make one of their own and go from viewers to producers even if it is just for fun? Finally they receive overwhelming responses for investment from a group of shut in friends and even plan to form a tour group to visit the set......
6 ICEMAN 3D
AKA : THE ICEMAN COMETH 3D
Can : Bing Fung Hup: Chung Sun ji Moon
Lit : Frozen Hero: Gate of Resurrection
d. Law Wing Cheong
Donnie Yen Chi Tan, Eva Huang Shengyi, Wang Baoqiang,
Simon Yam Tat Wa, Yu Kang
Rating : IIB
Length : 103 mins.
Opening April 24 2014
Opening April 17 2014 in Malaysia
[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
In the Ming Dynasty, four imperial guards, Ying, Sao, Yuanlong and Niehu, are as close as brothers. One Day, Ying is framed by one of them for a murder, and as he fights his way out, an avalanche buries the four during the heat of battle.
Frozen for 400 years arriving to modern day Hong Kong, Ying falls in love with a girl. While adjusting to modern life, he continues to search the way to return to the past and clear his name.
Sao and Niehu also reanimates at the present time. They continue the chase from the past into the present. During the encounter, Ying gets shot and falls into the sea, where his outcome is uncertain...
[ CINEMA ONLINE MALAYSIA ]
An imperial guard from the Ming Dynasty and his rival are both caught in an avalanche and buried for centuries until being discovered. While the bodies are shipped on the way to Hong Kong for further analysis, the two are accidentally defrosted and revived, and they continue their rivalry in the modern era.
5 NAKED AMBITION 3D
Can : Ho Ching 3D
Lit : Bold Love 3D
AKA : NAKED AMBITION 2
AKA : HO CHING 2
Lit : Bold Love 2
d. Lee Kung Lok
Chapman To Man Jat, Josie Ho Chiu Yi, Taka Kato,
Anri Okita, Maiko Yuki, Kana Yume
Nozomi Aso, Tsukasa Aoi, Yui Tatsumi,
Derek Tsang Kwok Cheung,
Rating : III
Length : 106 mins.
Opening March 25 2014 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Opening April 3 2014
Site :
http://hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/38239-3d-naked-ambition.html
[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
Vulgaria star Chapman To challenges the boundaries of good taste again, this time alongside a platoon of Japanese AV stars in the raunchy and rudely satirical 3D Naked Ambition. An honors graduate in literature, Wayman (To) is stuck writing cheap erotic fiction, but somehow ends up starring in an AV film. Suddenly a porn superstar in Japan, he discovers a whole new world fraught with pleasure, pain and more twists and turns than he or the audience expects!
[ YAHOO! MOVIES HONG KONG ]
Top literature department graduate Chan Wai Man falls to write sex stories in the newspaper for a living, while his live in girlfriend becomes a popular romantic novel queen whose novels are destined to be bestsellers. The woman on top situation does not just appear at work but also in bed.
Chan Wai Man's disappointing career falls into the abyss with the newspaper ending its sex pages. A group of unemployed and disillusioned sex page writers meet with a friend who delivers new film for adult video film reviews at the adult video store. Chan suddenly gets an idea. Since they grew up on Japanese adult video, why do they not make one of their own and go from viewers to producers even if it is just for fun? Finally they receive overwhelming responses for investment from a group of shut in friends and even plan to form a tour group to visit the set......
4 THE MIDNIGHT AFTER
Can : Can : Na Yeh Ning Sun, Ngor Jor Seung Liu Wong Gok Hoi Wong Dai Bo Dik Hung Van
AKA : LOST ON A RED MINIBUS TO TAIPO
Wong Yau Nam, Tsui Tin Yau, Janice Man Wing Shan,
Sam Lee Chan Sam, Simon Yam Tat Wa, Wai Ying Hung,
Lam Suet, Jacqueline Chong Si Man
Rating : III
Length : 124 mins.
Opening March 28 2014 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Opening April 10 2014
Site :
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20144221#tab=video25
Site :
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/38187-the-midnight-after.html
[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
Fruit Chan’s very Hong Kong story is based on a local internet sci-fi novel with a title made up of 17 Chinese characters plus a comma. A mini-bus leaves beautiful Mongkok one evening for Tai Po. It exits the Lion Rock Tunnel, drops off three Chinese University students and arrives in a Tai Po totally void of people and traffic. Then the passengers start dying horrible disfiguring deaths, or are raped and murdered by fellow travellers. A streetwise apocalyptic vision with special Fruit Chan characteristics, ingeniously aided by local rocker Jan Curious strumming a broom guitar and lip synching “This is ground control to Major Tom...”
[ BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climbs aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse as the city: there’s a young man on drugs, an arguing couple, a woman with prayer beads and a girl who has just fallen in love. And behind the wheel sits the chatty driver. But as the bus emerges from a tunnel, everything is suddenly quite still: the streets and buildings are all empty and there’s not a soul to be seen; it’s as if everyone has suddenly been swallowed by the earth. Only the millions of neon lights continue to blink, as if nothing has happened. The eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted cafĂ© and discuss what they should do. Then they make an horrific discovery … After his film Dumplings, which premiered in the 2005 Panorama, indie director Fruit Chan adapts the best-selling novel ‘Lost on a Minibus from Mongkok to Taipo’ and once again turns the horror genre upside down for his screen version, The Midnight After. A fast-paced and scary shocker which also happens to feature a David Bowie song.
3 RIO 2
d. Carlos Saldanha
Blue Sky Studio Animaton
English Voices: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement
2 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
d. Anthony Russo, Jose Russo
Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson,
Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie
1 THAT DEMON WITHIN
Can : Mor Gaing
Lit : Demon Cop
d. Dante Lam Chiu Yin
Nick Cheung Ka Fai, Daniel Wu (Ng Yin Cho),
Andy Tien (On Chi Kit), Lam Ka Wa,
Liu Kai Chi, Au Kam Tong,
Lee Kwok Lun, Ken Wong Hap Hei, Deep Ng Ho Hong,
Xie Jieting, Shatina Chen
Rating : IIB
Length : 112 mins.
Opening February 8 2014 at the Berlin International Film Festival
Opening April 7 2014 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Opening April 17 2014
Site :
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20143897#tab=video25
Site :
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/38203-that-demon-within.html
[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
Action maestro Dante Lam strikes again with a psychological thriller packed with ferocious antics. Daniel Wu plays Dan, a taciturn and dutiful cop. Cruel fate leads him to save Nick Cheung’s life, the leader of a gang of violent armed robbers, allowing him to go on to commit more crimes and kill more cops. Guilt-ridden, Dan devises an outlandish scheme to “befriend” the leader and causes the gang to implode. But someone who so single-mindedly pursues anything might just be sick in the head and have a history. His superiors suspect as much, but the snowball of crime committed in the name of justice has started rolling.
[ BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
A shootout on the night-time streets of Hong Kong results in a bleeding man being taken to hospital. Reticent policeman Dave doesn't think twice about donating blood to save him. But the wounded man turns out to be Hon Kong, head honcho of a brutal group of street-thugs known as the ‘Gang from Hell’. The gang commit murderous hold-ups wearing demon masks and show no mercy to either civilians nor the police. Dave is plagued by a guilty conscience and decides to dismantle the gang. He is haunted by increasingly dreadful visions which appear to be connected to his past. When Hon is betrayed by gang-members, Dave decides to throw in his lot with the criminal in order to achieve his goal. But boundaries become blurred: Dave falls under suspicion of murder, colleagues turn out to be corrupt and his visions become ever more threatening ... In That Demon Within multi-award-winning action specialist Dante Lam, who with this new film is now a guest of the Berlinale for the fourth time, tells a virtuoso, psychologically ambiguous cop story imbued with the shady atmosphere and extremes of the megacity.
[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
By a strange twist of fate, dutiful Hong Kong policeman Dan saves the life of the leader of a violent gang of armed robbers. When they commit another crime, Dan is determined to put an end to their activities. He works with the leader, whom the gang had betrayed, to engineer a plan to wreak havoc within the gang and let the gangsters kill one another. But it becomes increasingly obvious to Dan and to his colleagues that Dan is suffering from a severe mental disorder, and Dan finds that instead of upholding the law as a righteous police officer, he has now become a fugitive wanted for murder. Dan changes his plan and executes one final move that is certain to wipe out all traces of the gang and restore his reputation as a good police officer.