Wednesday, March 1, 2023

[2023.03.02] FOR THE WEEK OF SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 2023

For the week of Sunday, February 26 2023

TITANIC POSTER

10 TITANIC
    d. James Cameron
    Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

SHADOWS POSTER

  9 SHADOWS
  Can : Chan Ying Hung Gan
  Lit : Ruined Shadow Space
    d. Glenn Chan Chi Man
    Stephy Tang Lai Yun, Philip Keung Ho Man, Tse Kwan Ho,
      Ben Yuen Fu Wa, Ling Man Lung, Jennifer Yu Heung Ying,
      BabyJohn Choi Hong Yik, Justin Cheung Kin Sing,
      Philip Ng Won Lung, Wong Sze Nga,
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 94 mins
  Opening October 31 2020 at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
  Opening December 18 2020 (POSTPONED)
  Opening December 20 2021
  Opening February 23 2023
  The 44th Hong Kong International Film Festival Site: https://bit.ly/hkiff44fullprog
    Trailer : https://youtu.be/BujyiNw2MAI

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    A social worker commits suicide after killing his family, but he fails and behaves madly in the hospital. Ching, a forensic psychiatrist with special power that can see into people's subconscious space performed an appraisal of him. She finds a voice in his subconscious space inducing him to do all kinds of cruel acts. Ching investigates the social worker's last visited psychiatrist, Doctor Yan. She suspected that he is the voice that taught the patient to kill! Ching asks Crime Unit Sergeant Fat to investigate. Due to patient confidentiality, Ching cannot provide any evidence. When the second murder case happens, Fat investigates Ching's childhood and reveals her traumatized past. Fat begins her question her justice and her motivation......

[ THE 44TH HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
    With the mystical power to delve into people's subconscious, Ching, a psychiatrist, discovers that a social worker is compelled by an inner voice to kill his family and commit suicide. Suspecting his former psychiatrist, Ching collaborates with a cop to investigate, which leads to a revelation from her own traumatized past and casts a doubt over her motivation. In his first big-screen adventure, Glenn Chan delivers an exceptional psychological crime thriller that explores the dichotomy of good and evil urking in our shadows.

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK POSTER

8 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK
    d. Takehiko Inoue, Yasuyuki Ebara
    Japanese Animation
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 124 mins.
  Opening January 12 2023

[ EMPEROR CINEMAS ]
    Slam Dunk is a shonen manga by Takehiko Inoue that was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990, issue No. 42, to 1996, issue No. 27. The series, which depicts the personal growth of several high school basketball players, has sold more than 120 million copies in Japan. It has inspired numerous boys and girls to get into basketball. An anime series (that ran from October 1993 to March 1996), several video games, and other media based on the manga have also been produced. The Slam Dunk Scholarship was established in 2006 to support young basketball players in Japan. In 2018, a new, 20-volume shinsoban edition with all new cover illustrations was published, with volume divisions at each milestone in the story. An artwork compilation, PLUS / SLAM DUNK ILLUSTRATIONS 2, was released in 2020 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series' launch.

MISSING POSTER

  7 MISSING
    d. Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick
    Storm Reid, Nia Long

SOMEDAY OR ONE DAY POSTER

  6 SOMEDAY OR ONE DAY
    d. Huang Tien-Jen
    Greg Hsu, Alice Ko, Patrick Shih, Kim Scar,
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 107 mins.
  Opening February 9 2023

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    After reunion with LI Ziwei, HUANG Yu-Hsuan and LI live a peaceful life in Taiwan. But the calm days are broken when HUANG is informed one day she will be on secondment to Shanghai. Though the couple is parted in discord, HUANG still misses LI deeply, and she even usually dreams of a scene where LI falls from a building. One day when she wakes up again from the nightmare, she finds all trails of LI are simply vanished, and it looks like she has never been together with LI. Worse, her nightmare is soon proved to be true by Mo Jun-Jie, the closest friend of LI, that LI is actually died from falling a building several years ago. On her way to find out the truth, HUANG receives a mysterious cassette player. By pressing the play button of the song Last Dance, is HUANG able to change their fate and save LI by traveling through time and space?

THE WANDERING EARTH II POSTER

  5 THE WANDERING EARTH II
  AKA : THE WANDERING EARTII
    d. Frant Gwo
    Andy Lau Tak Wa, Wu JUing, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li,
     Wang Zhi, Zhu Yanmanzi
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 173 mins.
  Opening February 9 2023

[ CINEMA CITY ]
    The sun is about to destroyed, and humans have built huge engines on the Earth's surface to help them find a new home. However, the road out into the universe is perilous. In order to save the Earth, a group of young people once again stepped forward to begin a life and death battle.

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA -TO THE SWORDSMITH VILLAGE- POSTER

  4 DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA -TO THE SWORDSMITH VILLAGE-
    d. Haruo Sotozaki
    Japanese Animation
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 110 mins
  Opening February 23 2023

[ CINEMA CITY ]
    Uzui, Sound Hashira, Tanjiro and his comrades face off against Upper Six demons, Daki and Gyutaro during the new mission. Despite the hard battle they were forced into, they defeat the demons. While Tanjiro and his comrades rest and heal their battle wounds at the Butterfly Mansion, the first death of an Upper Rank demon in 100 years causes wide repercussions among the rest of the Upper Ranks...

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS POSTER

  3 WHERE THE WIND BLOWS
    AKA : WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
    AKA : THEORY OF AMBITIONS
    Can : Fung Joi Hei Si
    Lit : When Storm Rises Again
    AKA : Chuen Kau Tung Chup Ling
    Lit : Global Wanted List
    d. Philip Yung Tsz Kwong
    Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Aaron Kwok Fu Sing, Patrick Tam Yiu Man,
      Michael Chow Man Kin, Michael Hui Koon Man, Jessie Li (Chun Xia),
      Du Juan, Lawrence Ko Yu Lun, Eddie Cheung Siu Fai, Zeng Yixuan,
      Louis Cheung Kai Chung, Michael Ning (Bak Ji), Lam Yiu Sing,
      Ron Ng Cheuk Hei, Tse Kwan Ho,
      Maggie Cheung Ho Yi, Elaine Jin (Kam Yin Ling),
      Tsui Tin Yau, Belinda Yan, Jeana Ho Pui Yu, Rose Chan Ka Wun,
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 143 mins.
  Opening April 1 2021 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (CANCELLED)
  Opening August 15 2022 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
  Opening November 21 2022 (Preview)
  Opening February 10 2022 (Preview)
  Opening February 17 2023
  Site: https://www.hkiff.org.hk/film/getdetail?fid=935
  fb: https://www.facebook.com/wherethewindblows2021

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
    Young Lui Lok became a policeman to uphold justice. But the rampant corruption within the police force made it impossible for him to remain independent. He decides to make a name for himself within the police force by controlling organized crime.

    Nam Kong looks gentleman, but operates with a dagger under his cloak. He is socially active among the police force as well as the social circles, in fact laying the groundwork for the empire of corruption he builds with Lui Lok.

    Nam Kong and Lui Lok, the brains and the brawn working in perfect unison, respectively become Chief Detective Chinese of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon / New Territories in 1962. They lord over organized crime, and lead tens of thousands of policemen.

    Nam Kong has long seen through Lui Lok's cynicism and naivete, and has been plotting a hostile takeover of power. Lui Lok discovers that everything is not as he had imagined, he vows to forcibly regain controlling leadership from Nam Kong.

    As the two forces begin their epic power struggle, who will rise and who will fall?

A GUILTY CONSCIENCE POSTER

  2 A GUILTY CONSCIENCE
  Can : Duk Sit Dai Jong
  Lit : Poison Tongued Lawyer
    d. Jack Ng Wai Lun
    Dayo Wong Tze Wa, Tse Kwan Ho,
      Louise Wong Dan Nei, Fish Liew Chi Yu,
      Michael Wong Man Tak, Dee Ho Kai Wa, Renci Yeung Sze Wing,
      Adam Pak Tin Nam, Bowie Lam Bo Yi,
      Vincent Kok Tak Siu, Sheldon Lo (Law Hau Yung)
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 135 mins.
  Opening January 7, 14 2023 (Preview)
  Opening January 21 2023
  Teaser : https://youtu.be/JRUKWIv59Uw
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/DYJ828h8k4M

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    A simple supermodel's child abuse case becomes the battleground of justice, power, and fame. When the apex society exercises every network and resource to save itself, how will the barristers pursue justice?


ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA POSTER

  1 ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA
    d. Peyton Reed
    Paul Rudd, Evangline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton,
      Bill Murray, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas

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