April 19, 2009 at 3:20 pm · Filed under 2008, china
2008 would be a good year for HK style action films if it was just for “Ip Man” which takes the traditional kung fu film of the early 1980’s and updates it. Here we have an updating of the typical police action film of the late 1980’s. Looks like 2008 has been a banner year.
Combining gangster genre with the sort of police action that Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock would be in, we have a well shot, exciting police drama with great kung fu action (no guns) and some light comedy. What takes this above the average film from the 1980’s are the character touches that usually didn’t happen in the older films. I found a lot of the films from that era to be boring or too stupid but this film held my attention for the full 80 minutes.
Is there a real Shangri-La? American explorers Ted Vaill and Peter Klika researched the 1933 James Hilton book “Lost Horizon” and the 1937 Frank Capra film by the same name, and uncovered clues as to Shangri-La’s actual location deep in the mountains of Eastern Tibet. They located the source material Hilton used in writing the book, and then journeyed to Tibet with a camera crew to present to the world this beautiful, serene place, and its remarkable people, who have lived here, mining gold, since the days of Kublai Khan 800 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child. Now both remarried, Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are forced to test their love and their commitment to one another by putting their current relationships in danger. A story of parenthood, love, married life, betrayal, trust and giving, IN LOVE WE TRUST touches upon changes in contemporary society and family life, as well as the moral and ethical dilemmas brought on by modernity.
April 1, 2009 at 7:52 am · Filed under china, japan
8.1/10www.imdb.com/title/tt0423866/A young drifter enters strangers’ houses – and lives – while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriagehttp://d01.megashares.com/?d01=a98cfb9SUBShttp://d01.megashares.com/?d01=3fea885
Ou-yang Feng (Leslie Cheung) lives in the middle of a desert, where he acts as a middle man to various swordsmen in ancient China. One of those swordsmen is Huang Yao-shi (Tony Leung), who has found some magic wine that causes one to forget the past. At another time, Huang met Mu-rong Yin (Brigette Lin) and under the influence of drink, promised to marry Mu-rong’s sister Mu-rong Yang. Huang jilts her, and Mu-rong Yin hires Ou-yang to kill Huang. But then Mu-rong Yang hires Ou-yang to protect Huang. This is awkward, because Mu-rong Yang and Mu-rong Yin are in reality the same person. Other unrelated plot lines careen about. Among them is Ou-yang’s continuing efforts to destroy a band of horse thieves. Oy-yang recruits another swordsman (Tony Leung, but the other one), a man who is going blind and wants to get home to see his wife before his sight goes completely. The swordsman is killed. Ou-yang then meets another swordsman (Jackie Cheung) who doesn’t like wearing shoes. Oy-yang sends this man after the horse thieves, with better results. We then find out what a man must give up to follow the martial path. http://rapidshare.com/files/34017540/______.Ashes.Of.Time.1994.DVDRip.DivX-DVD-R.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/34021567/______.Ashes.Of.Time.1994.DVDRip.DivX-DVD-R.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/34025919/______.Ashes.Of.Time.1994.DVDRip.DivX-DVD-R.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/34030652/______.Ashes.Of.Time.1994.DVDRip.DivX-DVD-R.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/34035458/______.Ashes.Of.Time.1994.DVDRip.DivX-DVD-R.part5.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/34041043/______.Ashes.Of.Time.1994.DVDRip.DivX-DVD-R.part6.rar Read the rest of this entry »
