DVD: Hong Chen

DVD: Hong Chen

DVD:

Hong Chen

Alessandra de Rossi, Huifang Hong

Tartan Video, 2006

Sure Gave Me A Lot Of Jumps!
I just watched this last night,and I really liked it. Very creepy,and made me jump,a lot!Sometimes I wasn't sure about who was a ghost or a living person,but that just made it better.Very interesting and original story,about an unusual Chinese cultural belief.One of ...

The Promise

Dong-Kun Jang, Hiroyuki Sanada

Warner Home Video, 2006

One of the Three BEST movies I have ever seen!!!
"The Promise" is one of the 3 best movies that I have ever seen, the other two being "Bichunmoo" and "The Restless." It has an excellent story-line and plot structure one of the best that I have seen. Unlike the other two movies that I just mentioned it has a happy ...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Xun Zhou, Kun Chen

First Run Features, 2005

Exquisite and trenchant
This stunning film combines a tender love story with biting political satire in a hauntingly beautiful setting. It conveys with poignancy and understatement two friends' struggle for intellectual freedom in a re-education camp and their love for a beautiful young ...

Bloodsport 3

Daniel Bernhardt, John Rhys-Davies

Lions Gate, 2002

I AM WITH YOU
AFTER MENTOR AND FATHER LIKE FIGURE SUN IS MURDERD, ALEXS TEACHER.ALEX SETS OUT TO FIND THE JUDGE(FROM LAST KUMITE,BLOODSPORT II)THE TRUE JOURNEY OF THE WARRIOR BRINGS HIM TO UNIQUE SURRONDINGS, TO THE JUDGE,WHERE HE BEGINS TO TRAIN .THE FIGHT IS MORE OF A THING WHEN ...

The World

Tao Zhao, Taisheng Chen

Zeitgeist Films, 2006

Where in the world is the world?
I saw Jia Zhangke's newest film "Still Life" before I saw "The World", so I knew what to expect from this director. Real people in real situations used to paint a picture of life in modern, capitalist-leaning China. With touches of the completely unexpected-- In "The ...

Together

Hong Chen, Qiang Chen

MGM (Video & DVD), 2003

Chinese irony?
Not so much a review, as to express my utter delight in the scene where Lilli's faithless lover is claiming credit for buying her a wonderful coat, and saying that he won't stray again. And I suddenly realized that the music playing in the background was, "It ain't ...

The Warrior Within

Hui Cambrelen, Master Poi Chen

Unique Enterprises, 2003

Awesome documentary!!
This documentary is a window into the world of martial arts views, philosophies, and practice. Many of them are no longer with us.

The Blue Kite

Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang

Kino International, 2003

The Blue Kite - The Hope
As most other people have commented, the film is about a tragic story of common Chinese people under Mao's communism rule. I will focus more on my thoughts about why the film is named "The Blue Kite" as it seems have little relationship with the topic of the film, as ...

Sunflower

Joan Chen, Zhang Yu

New Yorker Video, 2008

A Slice of Chinese Culture and History Wrapped in a Wonderfully Engaging Drama
In China, there still are deep wounds from the Cultural Revolution that turned entire families topsy turvy. This was the turbulent era in the final years of Mao's life when family and friends were pushed to denounce each other and many of China's brightest and best ...

Eat Drink Man Woman

Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang

MGM (Video & DVD), 2002

Eat & Drink in Three Languages
This enchanting movie, "Eat Drink Man Woman", is one for which you should break the rule of "No Subtitled Movies" See it first before watching its companion re-make "Tortilla Soup." Both will be ones you'll watch over and over. They have you covered if you like food ...

Get Set for the Adventure of a Lifetime: Snoopers
Rebecca Keeling, Mathias Rothammer

Platinum Disc, 2003

Fearless Fighters

Yuen Yi, Ching Ching Chang

Image Entertainment, 2006

"I killed a few bums for the sake of justice."
Back in the early 1970s independent distributor Richard Ellman and film editor Richard Brummer presented American audiences released this Chinese made nugget titled Fearless Fighters, originally released in 1973 by an entity called Sun Wah Motion Picture Company, with ...

Curse of the Golden Flower [UMD for PSP]

Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li

Sony Pictures, 2007

Bloody massacre, and touching
All I can really say is wow. The battle sequences are fantastic and Gong Li and Jay Chou are really great actors. I really loved Gong Li's Character. She knew she was being poisoned, but she kept taking the medicine. It's quite a bloody film, but I enjoyed every moment ...

Rich and Famous

Yun-Fat Chow, Andy Lau

Tai Seng, 2000

Quite Good!
I've seen the other reviews for this movie here and was quite surprised. I bought this and Tragic Hero together because I simply love Chow Yun-Fat. The movie is obviously not up to the standards of the early John Woo's but non-the-less, it is a quality film! Yun-Fat ...

Invincible Super Chan

Hsiao Lung (II), Cien Tsao

Ground Zero, 2003

the bomb!!!!!
best unintentional comedy of all time. get this if you like your kung-fu cheesy, or if you wanna watch something while you're drunk.