Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner’s mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more sinister than they originally anticipated.

Seng.fat.dak.ging.AKA.The.Big.Heat.1988.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):Cantonese
Subtitles:English, Chinese

The post Yeung-Wah Kam & Johnnie To & Hark Tsui – Seng fat dak ging AKA The Big Heat (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces. However, he meets a suspicious bald man named Tony, who keeps following him around and disrupting his personal business.

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Language(s):Cantonese
Subtitles:English, French, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

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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

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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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One of the most personal films by the prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art and philosophy of judo. Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong’s nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls—a former judo champion now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner (Louis Koo), a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom—collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa’s debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship.

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The post Johnnie To – Yau doh lung fu bong AKA Throw Down (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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When an obnoxious detective loses his gun to four young thugs, it’s up to the P.T.U. (Police Tactical Unit) and their iron-willed leader to recover the weapon and clean up the mess before daybreak.

PTU.2003.576p.BluRay.x264-Redacted.mkv

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Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To indulges his silly side with this hilariously inventive sequel to his hit romantic comedy, two former lovers find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each is engaged to someone else.

Nowadays the stellar universe of Chinese popular film is filled with romantic comedies full of sap, déjà vu, and worn-out clichés. But the proliferation of these poorly executed star vehicles doesn’t mean that the genre is tired out. In the hands of a master like Johnnie To, the rom-com has plenty of life yet. In Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, To’s sequel to his 2011 hit, he combines cinematic wit, brilliant dialogue, and inventive ideas, taking the genre into fresh new territory.

Perhaps best described as a twisted double love triangle, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 follows the passionate misadventures of the lovely Zixin (Gao Yuanyuan) and the impossibly handsome incurable womanizer Shen Ran (Louis Koo). They were once lovers, but they parted ways over Shen Ran’s many affairs, and Zixin has fallen for Kevin (Daniel Wu), a serious architect ready to do everything in his power to win over the woman of his dreams.

But now, as if bonded by a destiny that cannot be denied, the two meet again in Hong Kong’s financial district. Zixin is about to marry Kevin, while Shen Ran is engaged to stock-market maverick Yang Yang (Miriam Yeung), and this time he’s serious about his relationship — or at least so it seems. When Zixin, who idolizes Yang Yang, is hired to work in her company, this puts her in close and constant proximity to Shen Ran, and a corrosive doubt starts undermining the certainty of Zixin’s carefully planned future. Then Yang Yang starts to fall in love with Zixin’s brother Paul (Vic Chou), setting the stage for a classic comedy of errors, in which a case of mistaken identity triggers a hilarious rollercoaster of events that lead to an unexpected finale.

— Giovanna Fulvi, TiFF.net

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