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My Kung Fu Sweetheart (2006) Chinese Movie Information

Title in Chinese –  野蛮秘笈
Title in Pinyin – Ye Man Mi Ji

Genre – Kung Fu & Comedy

Subject/theme –A family of Kung Fu masters must unite to fight a super powerful enemy

Language – Cantonese

Region – Hong Kong, China

Release date
Singapore – 26 January 2006
China – 29 January 2006
Hong Kong – 9 February 2006

Running Time – 90 minutes

Director – Wong Jing

Cast & Role Played
Cecilia Cheung – Phoenix
Leo Ku – Dragon, company boss
Yuen Wah – Kung Fu master and Phoenix’s father
Yuen Qiu – Kung Fu master and Phoenix’s mother
Wong Jing – Kung Fu master and friend of the family
Wong Yat-Fei – Abbot of the Kung Fu school
Benz Hui – CEO of Phoenix’s company
Lam Suet – Handsome Willy

Story
A young Phoenix discovers that she is from a family of Kung Fu masters and begins her training in a mountain temple at the age of 14. Later when she has grown up, her parents are divorced, father is unemployed, her mother works in business and she uses her kung fu to avoid being late to work.  One day a new manager joins her company and she discovers he is the man she is prophesied to be the love of her love.

At the same time, an evil traitor is using unbeatable wicked Kung Fu from the temple is killing business men in the pursuit of building a business empire and is planning to kill Phoenix’s love. To defeat the traitor, Phoenix must reunite her family, save her loves life and battle the traitor.

Editor’s Review of My Kung Fu Sweetheart – Score 5/10
My Kung Fu sweet heart has a brilliant cast with the lovely Cecilia Cheung, Yuen Wah, Wong Yet Fei and Lam Suet. The problem is the dialogue is hopeless, the characters shallow, the humour cheap and idiotic and the Kung Fu sloppy and low quality. The actors are constrained by one dimensional characters and have no chance of rescuing the movie. The use of a Condor suit just adds insult to injury and further detracts from the quality of the movie. You’d need to be a rabid fan or extremely bored to find watching this movie worth while.

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May 252012
 

 

Farewell My Concubine (1993) Chinese Movie Information

Title in Chinese – 霸王别姬
Title in Pinyin – Ba Wang Bie Ji

Genre – Drama

Subject/theme – The lives of two Beijing Opera performers and a courtesan from the 1920's to the 1970's

Language – Mandarin

Region – China

Release date
Hong Kong – 1st January 1993
France – 20th May 1993
USA – October 1993
Australia – 3rd February 1994

Movie runtime – 171 minutes

Director – Chen Kaige

Cast & Role Played
Gong Li – Juxian,
Leslie Cheung – Douzi/Cheng Dieyi, Beijing Opera performer
Fengyi Zhang – Shitou/Duan Xiaolou, Beijing Opera performer
Qi Lu – Master Guan

Story
Farewell My Concubine chronicles the lives of two Beijing opera performers and a courtesan that comes into their lives through China’s social and political upheaval during the Japanese invasion, the civil war, the great leap forward and the cultural revolution. Using the lives of the three main characters, this movie tells the story of China and Chinese people from the 1920’s all the way through to the 1970’s.

Douzi and Shitou trained to be opera performers from when they were boys and after many years of struggle, they finally became opera stars in Beijing. Shitou falls in love with a courtesan Juxian from the exclusive House of flowers who tricks him into marrying her. Douzi initially does not approve of Juxian but eventually accepts her and a complex but enduring relationship develops between the three of them.

The movie climaxes tragically on the eve of the cultural revolution and the last scene takes places in 1977 and is the last performance between Shitou and Douzi.

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Mar 172012
 

Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Chinese Movie Information

Title in Chinese – 单身那女
Title in Pinyin – Dan Shen Nan Nu

Genre – Romantic comedy

Subject/theme – Two men from a woman’s past enter her life again and she must choose between them

Language – Cantonese

Region – Hong Kong

Release date – Hong Kong 31st March 2011

Movie runtime – 115 minutes

Director – Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai

Cast & Role Played
Gao Yuanyuan – Chi Yan, an analyst and the female member of the love triangle
Louis Koo – Sean, CEO and potential husband of Chi
Daniel Wu – Kevin, reformed drunk, architect and other potential husband of Chi
Lam Suet – John, a colleague of Chi
Larisa Bakurova – Angelina, Ex lover of Sean
JJ-Jia – Joyce, Kevin’s secretary

Story

Chi breaks up with her boyfriend after he has a baby with another women only to meet Sean and Kevin.  Kevin is a drunk who she encourages to go sober and Sean becomes her new boyfriend. Sean and Chi separate after Sean has a one night stand. The film picks up three years later where Sean and Kevin enter Chi’s life again and she must choose between them.

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