A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found.

Jonathan Rosenbaum:
A wild, lively effort by Chinese American filmmaker Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Dim Sum, Slamdance) that might have been called Two or Three Things I Know About Hong Kong. Like Godard’s films in the late 60s, this beautifully shot essayistic poem—putatively a thriller and full of scatological gags and conceits as well as macabre violence and humor—evokes a contemporary city in all its contradictions and paradoxes with a great deal of eclecticism. (The film’s full title perfectly captures its jaundiced socioeconomic view and its stylistic irreverence.) The Hong Kong presented here is not only the city we know from films made there (with plenty of in-jokes and guest-star appearances, including Allen Fong as a cabdriver), but also the city that looks forward to joining the Chinese mainland in 1997. A satiric semidocumentary in which the locals periodically address the camera, Wang’s shocker also includes one of the longest (and surely the most dizzying) chase sequences ever filmed. Originally saddled with an X rating, this is a grown-up movie without the power of the Hollywood industry behind it, which suggests a freedom that Wang takes full advantage of.

Life.Is.Cheap.But.Toilet.Paper.Is.Expensive.1989.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):English, Cantonese
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Wayne Wang’s follow-up movie to Smoke (1995) presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn’s diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren’s Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke (1995) return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York City, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.

Blue.in.the.Face.1995.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English SDH

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A Korean American man takes care of his sick mother as she teaches him her traditional recipes.

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A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.

Snow.Flower.and.the.Secret.Fan.2011.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):Mandarin, English
Subtitles:Mandarin, English

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Two cabbies search San Francisco’s Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.

1.82GB | 1h 15m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E9534F278362258/Chan.Is.Missing.1982.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264.mkv

Language(s):English, Cantonese
Subtitles:English

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John is an English photojournalist who has spent over a decade in Hong Kong; his friend Jim often crashes in his cramped apartment. John’s unrequited love is Vivian whom he aches for but has not the nerve to possess. Concurrent with England’s transfer of Hong Kong back to the Chinese, John discovers that he has a rare form of leukemia and has only months to live. So John, Jim, and the disfigured proto-hippy Jean grab a digital video camera and prowl the streets, seeking to document the “real” Hong Kong one last time.

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Subtitles:English

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