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Days of Being Wild
Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung
Kino Video, 2004
Hot
+ Poetic and Beautiful
+ Loving someone that likes to tell the story of "a kind of bird without legs that can only fly and fly..."
+ yes, we have a review here, we have a review today!
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Lust, Caution (Widescreen, NC-17- Rated Edition)
Focus Features, 2008
Cinematic
+ Lust, Caution movie : predictable outcome
+ Beautiful film. Reminiscent of "The Night Porter"
+ Loyalty overcome by longing -- in this sumptuously filmed tale of occupied China
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In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Criterion, 2002
The seductive quality of restraint
+ Extraordinary Movie
+ Wonderfully Subtle
There are only three romance films I will view time and time again - Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso and In the Mood for Love. To dismiss the third as simply a pointless art house film is, in my opinion, undeserved because I regard it as a prime example of cinematic art at its best and most ...
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Curse of the Golden Flower
Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong
Sony Pictures, 2007
Stunning and subtle
+ A lauriat for the senses
+ Colors are amazing
+ Agree with a few of the criticisms, but still very much liked this movie!
+ It was beautiful to watch, but a bit too over the top with drama
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Happy Together
Chang Chen, Leslie Cheung
Kino Video, 2004
Bittersweet Love Story Applies to Everyone
+ never happy, never together
+ Unpractised, Imaginary Tango
+ Great movie, but it's cut
+ Hints of Treasures to Come
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Chungking Express
Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Miramax, 2002
Best romantic comedy ever
+ Do you like pineapple?
+ One of the best foreign language romantic comedies ever!
+ chungking express
+ 2 for the price of 1
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Ju Dou
Gong Li
Razor, 2006
DVD quality
+ Superb Film--Rotten DVD
+ For the film, zero for the transfer
Very poor quality non-anamorphic version. Don't waste your money and wait for a remastered edition.
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To Live
Gong Li, Niu Ben
MGM (Video & DVD), 2003
Zhang Yimou and Gong Li Creat Another Masterpiece
+ Chinese history comes alive
+ BEST. MOVIE. EVER.
+ Worthy...
+ A Masterpiece!
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Hero
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Miramax, 2004
Visual Poetry and Martial Arts Perfection for fanboys and filmsnobs, alike. . .
+ Gorgeous settings, score, story, but what an ending
+ Very creative film.
+ A rainbow-hued Rashomon
+ Truly beautiful
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Shanghai Triad
Li Gong, Baotian Li
Sony Pictures, 2000
A majuscule film and probably the most relevant of that year!
+ Gangster politics in gorgeous color
+ Thrilling and Edge of Your Seat Gangland Drama
+ An excellent film with a couple of weak spots.
+ Good setting and atmosphere of 1930s Shanghai violence
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2046 [UMD for PSP]
Tony Leung, Faye Wong
Mei Ah Laser Disc Co., Ltd., 2005
2004 film from the talented director Wong Kar Wai (In The Mood For Love, Chunking Express), starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Carina Lau. Optional Mandarin or Cantonese dialogue. Optional English, traditional & simplified Chinese subtitles. 129 minutes. Mei Ah. 2005.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Chang Chen, Chow Yun-Fat
Sony Pictures, 2001
The first of the new wave of martial arts flicks.
+ Exquisite fantasy
+ a must see for sure
How do you sum up Crouching?
Brilliant, touching, amazing!!!
Incredible acrobatics, incredible scenery, an awesome script and great actors and martial artists.
What's not to like about this movie?
Not my favorite, I liked Hero and Curse of the Golden Flower better but for different reasons.
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House of Flying Daggers
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau
Sony Pictures, 2005
Beautiful and Moving
+ great
+ the film is Excellent!!
+ Classic!
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In the Mood for Love
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
The seductive quality of restraint
+ Extraordinary Movie
+ Wonderfully Subtle
There are only three romance films I will view time and time again - Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso and In the Mood for Love. To dismiss the third as simply a pointless art house film is, in my opinion, undeserved because I regard it as a prime example of cinematic art at its best and most ...
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As Tears Go By
Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung
Kino International, 2004
Building Blocks to Greatness
+ "People like us don't have tomorrows"
As Tears Go By is the pure `Ah Fei' offering from Wong Kar-wai. Stephen Teo writes that you take one part Scorcese's "Mean Streets," and you add one part Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise" (Teo 16) and you have one heck of a Triad film. A triad sibling Wah (Andy Lau) has his little brother Fly's ...
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