Cherie Chung

Celebrated director Chu Yuan helms “Descendant Of The Sun”, a Superman meets Hercules a la old style martial art film. Derek Yee is a magic solar baby sent Earthbound by a benevolent god, raised by an old carpenter, has martial art superpowers and “green kryptonite” loses them during solar eclipses. That’s when the evil baby counterpart shows up. Demon-paced martial arts action by Jackie Chan’s kung-fu classmates Yuan Pin and Yuen Hua compliments Toho Studio style special optical effects.Read More »

Set in chaotic 1920s China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen’s underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic, the movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when one warlord takes Peking. A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Here we meet the daughter of the head of the troupe, who dreams of being an actress. But even female roles are played by men in the opera. Soon, the daughter of the currently ruling warlord and a male agent of the democratic underground are involved.Read More »

A thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »

A story of the illegal immigrant experience of people from the mainland of China who have made it to Hong Kong for a better life.Read More »

A thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »

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In this homage to Alfred Hitchcock, a femme fatale and a photographer embark on a romantic adventure surrounding a mysterious marble.Read More »

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Two of Hong Kong’s most adored screen goddesses lend their girlish charm to Last Romance, re-released 29 years after it became a rare commercial hit in the career of art-house director Yonfan.

While its fashion and social setting are somewhat dated, the 1988 film still packs a punch with its deeply poignant tale of friendship and love that is repeatedly derailed by materialistic greed and lamentable life decisions.Read More »

Hong Kong native Jennifer (Cherie Chung) moves to New York City to study for her Master’s Degree and to reunite with her boyfriend Vincent (Danny Chan Bak-Keung). There, she meets her very distant relative Samuel Pang (Yun-Fat Chow), a street smart and wise-talking waiter-by-day and gambler-by-night, who helps Jennifer settle in her apartment building in the outskirts of Brooklyn. When Jennifer discovers that Vincent is being unfaithful, she nearly puts all her plans to a halt. But, Pang talks sense into her and helps her adjust to her new life in the Big Apple and without Vincent, resulting in an unlikely relationship.Read More »

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Hong Kong, 1980. The Vietnam War has been over for five years and the ethnic cleansing of Chinese has begun. As the “boat people”, refugees of Vietnam, flood out of the country, Hong Kong becomes know as “port of first asylum”. Among these boats is Wu Yiet (Chow Yun-Fat), a former South Vietnamese soldier still recovering from the ravages of war. For him, Hong Kong is the first step for life in the United States, and he soon falls for fellow immigrant Sum Ching (Cherie Chung). Yet the promise of a new beginning doesn’t come easy: the refugee camps have been infiltrated by murderous Viet Cong agents, and an act of violence forces Wu Yiet on the run and deeper into a vortex of crime and brutality. Read More »