A young woman searches for information about her father who starred in the classic movie ‘Days of Tomorrow’, which she is helping to remake. She finds out about his restless youth, career in the 1970s Hong Kong film industry, and tragic love affair.

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Subtitles:English, Chinese

The post Jeffrey Lau – Tian chang di jiu AKA Days of Tomorrow (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A graying black-clad swordsman slays palace guards, as he flies through the air to an uncertain purpose. Centuries (or is it days?) later, gun-toting, Armani-clad super policemen — Hong Kong’s Saviours — are devastated by a cloaked assassin. Kinetic medieval fantasy; overstructured, outgunned urban nightmare. And that’s only the first ten minutes! A highly entertaining, eye-popping genre bender in every way.

Saviour.of.the.Soul.1991.DVDRip.x264-rdk.mkv

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“Big” (Andy Lau of Infernal Affairs, wearing a gargantuan prosthetic muscle suit) is a competition weight lifter and part-time male stripper. One night while dancing at a strip club, Big responds to the frantic exhortations of a comely patron (Cecilia Cheung) and strips completely naked. Unfortunately for Big, she turns out to be Detective Li, and she promptly busts him for indecent exposure. Worse yet, a murder has just taken place in the office above the club, and when Big tries to escape his minor charge, he’s caught by the cops and questioned in connection with the murder. Detective Li helps him get out of the jam, and he, in turn, helps her track down the elusive killer. Li develops a romantic interest in Big, but he seems to want to avoid her. Pressed to explain himself, he eventually reveals his bizarre and tragic past. Big was a kung fu monk until a woman friend of his was murdered years ago, sending him into an uncontrollable rage, during which he inadvertently killed a sparrow. After meditating over the bird’s corpse for a long time, Big developed the ability to “see karma.” He can look at any animal (including people) and see what they did in their past lives. When he looks at Detective Li, he sees that in a former life she was a brutal Japanese soldier who murdered many. Even though she’s a good person, she still carries that soldier’s karma, and Big believes she’ll eventually have to die for his crimes. Despite his misgivings, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the persistent young cop.
by Josh Ralske

Running.on.Karma.2003.BDRip.720p.mkv

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Language(s):Cantonese
Subtitles:English

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Blind Detective, the latest film from Johnnie To, could also be described as a movie about movies, specifically movie-making—not that you would know it from its set-up, however. As the title suggests, the film centers around the exploits of Chong (Andy Lau), a former detective forced into early retirement as a result of retinal damage that left him permanently blind. He’s approached by Ho (Sammi Cheng), a cop who displays brilliant physical prowess in combat situations but lacks Chong’s astonishing intuitive abilities, which she hopes to learn from him directly through hiring him to solve the case of a disappearance of a dear friend of hers back in 1997.

Obviously, Chong’s disability has a profound effect on his sleuthing methods—but the nature of his methods, especially as To presents them in the film, are fascinating in their thematic implications. Certainly, his lack of sight has forced him to rely on his other senses to pick up the slack, as the film’s opening sequence attests. But then, at a morgue, Chong gives Ho her first lesson in his investigative tactics, methods reliant less on simply utilizing his other senses and more on using one’s “imagination”—which, in this case, is akin to the kind of leaps of empathy that actors regularly make in approaching a character. But the filmmaking comparisons don’t stop there: Many other episodes of the film involve what are essentially role-playing scenarios, as Chong directs Ho to put herself in the mental spaces of various victims and killers. Such scenarios become increasingly violent and perverse; at one point, Ho assumes the roles of various heartbroken women, opening herself up to getting slapped multiple times in the throes of angry passion. For To, the creation of great art requires its artists to be open to walking along the precipice of madness without falling over the edge.

Unlike, say, Darren Aronofsky’s feverish horror antics in his own art-making allegory Black Swan, To’s tone remains lighthearted throughout, though rarely to the point of diminishing the serious emotions underneath the surface frivolity. And if nothing else, Blind Detective is distinguished by its freewheeling playfulness and To’s ability to skillfully sustain the tone of a broad (maybe too broad for some tastes) live-action cartoon, right down to Andy Lau’s Bugs Bunny-like consumption of a carrot in one especially life-threatening situation. Blind Detective, though, is also something of a love story, in which Ho finds herself falling for Chong, even though Chong initially has his mind dead-set on the last woman he remembers seeing before he became blind. It turns out, though, that, as brilliant an investigator as he claims to be, he has his, well, blind spots when it comes to matters of the heart.

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The post Johnnie To – Man Tam AKA Blind Detective (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.

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https://nitro.download/view/D6983CED7CFA341/Dance.Of.A.Dream.2001.DVDrip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Chinese, English
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The post Andrew Lau – Oi gwan yue mung AKA Dance of a Dream (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Wesley, is responsible for handling all the incidents that relate to extraterrestrial life on Earth. One day, Wesley meets Fong (Rosamund Kwan) when he is looking at a blue human bone in an antique shop. Fong is an alien from the Blue Blood Planet, she left her home 600 years ago to look for the Blue Blood Bible. Wesley tries to stop Fong going away, the Double X Unit lead by Wai and So is ordered to handle the case. At the same time, Kill and Rape arrive Earth from Blue Blood Planet. They come here to take Fong back to the Blue Blood Planet.

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The post Wai-keung Lau – Wai See Lee ji lam huet yan aka The Wesleys Mysterious File (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A landmark of the nascent Hong Kong New Wave of the early ’80s, this melodrama — directed by Ann Hui — concerns the plight of Vietnamese peasants shortly after the fall of Saigon. The film centers on a Japanese photojournalist named Shiomi Akutagawa (George Lam Chi-cheung) who ventures to Danang to document Vietnam’s attempts at rebuilding after the war. At first he’s bussed around by government officials showing off quaint villages and happy, healthy children. Later, he manages to get permission to wander about the countryside without a government chaperon. Soon he happens upon a young lass named Cam Nuong (Season Ma Si-san) who is from a desperately poor family. At first she is suspicious and even hostile towards the foreigner but quickly they develop a bond of sorts. As Akutagawa starts seeing Vietnam through Cam Nuong’s eyes, he starts to realize that everyday life is far different from the state propaganda. Villagers live in constant terror of marauding soldiers, and children scavenge the bodies of executed prisoners for valuables. This film, which was shot in Mainland China, garnered armloads of Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. This film also launched the career of future pop icon and movie star Andy Lau.

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Language(s):Cantonese,Japanese,Vietnamese,English
Subtitles:English

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