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[2023.05.03] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY, APRIL 30 2023

For the week ending Sunday, April 30 2023

TO CATCH A KILLER POSTER

10 TO CATCH A KILLER
    d. Damian Szifron
    Shailene Woodley, Ben Mendelsohn
      Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head

LOST LOVE POSTER

  9 LOST LOVE
  AKA : FOSTER LOVE
  Can : Lau Shui Lok Fa
  Lit : Flowing Water Fallen Flower
    d. Ka Sing Fung
    Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Alan Luk Chun Kwong, Hedwig Tam Sin Yin
      Sean Wong Tsz Lok, Lee Yun Wai, Phoebe Ng Chi Kiu,
      Matt Jiu Kai Lam, Chui Ka Him, Maya Tsang Yui Tung,
      Wong Tsz Hin, Gordon Lau Chiu Kin
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 95 mins.
  Opening November 13 2022 at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
  Opening November 28 2022 (Preview)
  Opening March 2 2023
  fb: https://www.facebook.com/LostLoveMovieOfficial/
  Site : https://www.hkaff.asia/en/film/2022/detail/130

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    Parenting means raising and nurturing children, but oftentimes children enrich and enlighten the lives of parents instead.

    Chan Tin Mei and Ho Bun’s son passed away abruptly at three years old due to a congenital heart disease. Still in pain over the loss, Mei resists having another child.

    One day, Mei finds out that they can become a foster family. Her desolate heart finds sustenance from possibly regaining the feeling of being a mother. But when she discovers the emotional scars on the children caused by their harsh realities, she starts to adjust her expectations.

    Bun's extramarital affair leads to a big fight between the couple, but it also reveals the feelings concealed in Bun's heart. Mei realizes her selfishness; she has neglected Bun's feelings and the true needs of her wards. In the end, the foster children inspire her and help the couple to redeem their relationship. Although Mei is praised for her dedication to her foster children, she knows she has been saved by the children instead.

    When the couple finally settles into a simple and happy life with their foster child, Mei suffers a heart attack. In the final stage of her life, Mei's seven foster children reappear. She seems to see her son grow in these foster children.

[ HONG KONG ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ]
    For his project under the lauded First Feature Film Initiative programme, director Ka Sing- fung tells the heartrending journey of a woman whose life is forever changed by the children she takes in as a temporary foster carer. In a career-best performance, Sammi Cheng stars as Mei, a woman trying to get over the death of her young son through the children she welcomes into her home. Each ward offers Mei a different challenge and a newfound appreciation for the difficulties of motherhood, but when her dedication to the job causes her marriage to turn sour, Mei is forced to make a choice.

A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT POSTER

  8 A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT
  Can : Dun For Lan Shan
    d. Anastasia Tsang Hin Ning
    Sylvia Chang (Cheung Ngai Ga), Simon Yam Tat Wa,
      Cecilia Choi Sze Wan, Henick Chou Han Ning
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 103 mins.
  Opening October 25 2022 at the Tokyo International Film Festival
  Opening November 13 2022 at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
  Opening December 2 2022 (Preview)
  Opening April 13 2023
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/BdjneYwpLgA
  fb: https://www.facebook.com/people/%E7%87%88%E7%81%AB%E9%97%8C%E7%8F%8A-A-Light-Never-Goes-Out/100063961423671/
  Tokyo International Film Festival Site : https://2022.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/film/3502ASF06
  Tokyo International Film Festival Trailer : https://youtu.be/UxHsOEU0xNs
  Site : https://www.hkaff.asia/en/film/2022/detail/131

[ 2022 TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
    Devastated by the loss of her skilled neon sign-making husband, a wife decides to carry on his unfinished dream of making neon signs. Simon Yam and Sylvia Chang star in this remarkable HK film.

[ HONG KONG ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ]
    Radiant neon signs once served as icons of Hong Kong's prosperity and vitality. However, such signs have gradually disappeared over the years, along with the craftsmen who spent decades mastering the craft of blowing neon lights. Director Anastasia Tsang revives this long-time tradition in her poignant directorial debut, telling the touching story of a widow who discovers secrets her late husband Bill buried within his neon lights workshop. While reminiscing about Bill, she sets out to fulfill his final wish of recreating a famous demolished neon sign with the help of Bill's young protege.

TWELVE DAYS POSTER

  7 TWELVE DAYS
    Can : 12 Yut
    d. Aubrey Lam Oi Wa
    Stephy Tang Lai Yan, Edward Ma Chi Wai
    Rating : IIB
    Length : 89 mins.
    Opening October 27 2021 at the 18th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
    Opening April 23 2022 at the Udine Far East Film Festival
    Opening April 27 2023
    fb : https://www.facebook.com/film.Twelvedays
    Site : https://www.hkaff.asia/en/film/2021/detail/57

[ GOLDEN HARVEST CINEMAS ]
    The 1st day when Jeannie and Simon decided to get married, they couldn’t find a place to get intimate. That’s Hong Kong for you – getting married so that a couple can have a place to be intimate. The traditional marriage ceremony is considered old fashioned and cringeworthy in the 21st century, but it’s only supposed to happen once in your life, so people savor in it anyway. And so, the marriage begins out of love, but this is the beginning of many challenges to come. One day, Jeannie realized that the person closest to her has become a stranger. She feels that her ideologies no longer align with those of Simon, and starts to feel ashamed about herself. She feels that her whole life revolved around Simon, and without him, she lacked purpose. And so, she decides to leave him, but she didn't realize that this parting would be more painful than death. At the end, she signs the divorce papers nonetheless. Three years later, Simon comes back to her, he's run into a dead end, with his business...

[ HONG KONG ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ]
    In 2000, screenwriter Aubrey Lam made her directorial debut with Twelve Nights, a heartrending romantic drama that unravels a doomed relationship over a dozen episodes. Two decades later, Lam offers up another searing dissection of modern romance with this long-awaited thematic continuation. Like Twelve Nights, Twelve Days depicts 12 scenes of a tumultuous marriage, from its blissful beginning through its bitter collapse. On day one, Jeannie and Simon seem to have the makings of a perfect marriage, but the following 11 vignettes reveal the various conflicts, both big and small, that slowly eat away at their bond. Love may build a marriage, but Twelve Days shows that reality can just as easily shatter it.

JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4 POSTER

  6 JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4
    d. Chad Stahelski
    Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Clancy Brown,
      Ian McShane, Bill Skarsgard, Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Sanada,
      Shamier Anderson, Rina Sawayama,

THE POPE'S EXORCIST POSTER

  5 THE POPE'S EXORCIST
    d. Julius Avery
    Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, Franco Nero,

OVER MY DEAD BODY POSTER

  4 OVER MY DEAD BODY
  Can : Sei Si Sei Si Sei Sup Sei
  Lit : Corpse Died At Forty Four
    d. Ho Cheuk Tin
    Teresa Mo Shun Kwan, Ronald Cheng Chung Kei, Wong Yau Nam,
      Jennifer Yu Heung Ying, Edan Lui Cheuk On, Alan Yeung Wai Lun,
      Lau Kong, Bonnie Wong Man Wai, Wu Lai Ying, Jer Lau Ying Ting,
      Hanna Chan, Jiro Leung Sheung Ching, Kenneth Cheung Moon Ting,
      Josie Ho Chiu Yi,
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 119 mins.
  Opening March 10 2023 at the Osaka Asian Film Festival
  Opening April 4 2023
  Teaser : https://youtu.be/57EFTCutFek
  Site : https://www.oaff.jp/2023/en/program/op.html

[ OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 ]
    Welcome to Seaside Heights, a fancy residential building where a group of residents experience a night of chaos and comedy after the nude body of a man appears and threatens to cause scandal and plunging property values!

    It all begins when Ming, together with his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law, finds an anonymous naked body lying at their doorstep. Fearing that the presence of a corpse will turn their unit into a "murder home" and its property value will nosedive and impoverish them, their bickering family unite to pass the buck to their neighbours by moving the corpse to other units on the same floor. Their fiendish plot ropes in a motley bunch of people, including retired elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. CHAN; a single lady and her maid; the CHEUNG's, an irascible father and his cantankerous son; and an overzealous security guard. Last but not least, is a mysterious chain smoking woman named Sue who might hold the key to helping get the body out of the building...

    A dark comedy of manners and Hong Kong home-ownership woes ensues in "Over My Dead Body" as each of these vividly portrayed characters turns on each other in an effort to avoid taking responsibility for both the body and their own personal problems.

MAD FATE POSTER

  3 MAD FATE
  AKA : FATAL FATE
    Can : Ming Ong
    d. Soi Cheang Pou Soi
    Gordon Lam Ka Tung, Lokman Yeung,
      Berg Ng Yin Yip, Peter Chan Cham Man, Ng Wing Sze,
      Bonnie Wong Man Wai, Ko Tin Lung
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 109 mins.
  Opening February 19 2023 at the Berlin Film Festival
  Opening March 30 2023 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
  Opening April 20 2023
  Opening April 27 2023 at the Udine Far East Film Festival
  Site : https://www.berlinale.de/en/2023/programme/202307420.html
  Site : https://www.hkiff.org.hk/film/getdetail?fid=2358

[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
    When a fortune teller predicts that a psychopath is destined to commit murder, he uses the powers of feng shui and metaphysics to change the course of events. A thematic continuation of his classic films about the neverending struggle between fate and free will, Soi Cheang delivers a gripping thriller with intensity and panache, powered by producer Johnnie To and screenwriter Yau Nai-hoi. Gordon Lam and Lokman Yeung are extraordinary as two men standing at the edge of sanity, as they fight an invisible enemy. Berlinale Special.

[ BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
    The sky above Hong Kong is not just heavy with clouds and rain, it also contains astral signs and dark omens in this esoteric neo-noir. In a radical and counter-intuitive move, rather than having the characters' trajectories converge towards the end, the plot instead knits their fates together from the start. Crossing paths at the scene of a heinous crime in a brothel are the serial killer perpetrator and the upstanding detective chasing him, but also a delivery boy obsessed with blood and knives and an occultist feng shui master who had predicted the victim's gory fate without being able to prevent it. The last two quickly form an unlikely pair, and this transforms the film into a surreal, hyperkinetic, expressionist buddy thriller. The horoscopes confirm that the boy will soon succumb to his bloodthirsty temptations, but to redeem past failures and save him from his fate, the fortune teller is willing to do anything. As the investigations gather pace, the pair sinks into delirium in a whirlwind of superstitions, rituals and distortions, against a backdrop of an alchemical metropolis.

MARRY MY DEAD BODY POSTER

  2 MARRY MY DEAD BODY
    Can : Guan Yu Ngor Wor Gwai Bin Sing Ga Yun Dik Na Gein Si
    d. Cheng Wei-hao
    Greg Hsu Kuang-Han, Austin Lin, Gingle Wang,
    Tsai Chen-nan, Tuo Tsung-hua, Ma Nieh-hsien
    Rating : IIB
    Length : 129 mins.
    Opening April 1 2023 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
    Opening April 27 2023

[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
    During a pursuit, homophobic police officer Ming-Han inadvertently picks a red envelope off the ground and becomes roped into a ghost marriage with a dead man named Mao-Mao. To get rid of his ghostly groom, Ming-Han agrees to help Mao-Mao find the culprit behind his death. Previously best known for scaring audiences with The Tag-Along series, director Cheng Wei-Hao proves himself to be one of the best genre directors in Taiwan cinema with a rambunctious high-concept comedy that has the comic energy of an old-school Hollywood farce.

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    Ming-Han is a passionate policeman in a muscular shape. One day, in the process of arresting a criminal with his beautiful colleague - Zi-Qing, Ming-Han accidentally picks up a red envelope, and a group of people suddenly jumps out to call him "son in law". They ask him to get married with their dead child, who is a dead guy! It is impossible for Ming-Han to accept this decision. However, he doesn't expect to be in misfortune since then. What is even more terrifying is that he begins to see his ghost husband Mao-Mao that scares Ming-Han to death. Therefore, Ming-Han visits a great master to get rid of Mao-Mao. The master tells him that he must get married to Mao-Mao and check Mao-Mao's wish lists; otherwise, Mao-Mao will follow him forever. To get rid of Mao-Mao, Ming-Han has no choice but to help him fulfill all his wishes; at the same time, Mao-Mao also acts like Ming-Han’s partner to help him with the investigation of drug smuggling. A fantasy journey full of laughter and tears between a straight man and a gay ghost has begun.


THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE POSTER

  1 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE
    d. Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
    Illumination Animation
    English Voices: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day,
      Jack Black, Seth Rogen

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