≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Director: Sherman Wong
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Enigma Of Love is that rarest of beasts, an excellent Hong Kong flick that doesn’t rely on action to make it’s point.
When Jackie’s (Jacky Cheung) gigolo bar is busted by tough cop Tammy (Maggie Cheung), he decides to humiliate her […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The opening images of Chatter Street Killer are of modern skyscrapers in Hong Kong: gleaming, cold, impersonal. Then the camera pans down. At street level, the working class is still living in old Hong Kong neighborhoods that feel more like small towns. Everyone knows […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Yuen Biao
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Kid From Tibet starts off with several advantages. First, there aren’t many movies made in which one of the main protagonists is a Tibetan monk. That’s pretty novel to start with. And director/star Yuen Biao managed to get amazing access to Lhasa, the […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kenny Bee
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One year before Danny Devito’s Throw Momma From The Train, screenwriter Alex Law came up with this comic version of the classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller Strangers On A Train.
In this version of the story, Football Fa (Chow Yun-Fat) and Roberto (Kenny Bee) are friends […]
≡ Category: Category III, Comedy, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Horror, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Andy Ng
Year: 1998
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I confess that I didn’t really expect much of The Untold Story 2. After all, the events of The Untold Story didn’t lend themselves to a sequel. I figured some triad film producers decided that popping out a quick sequel […]
≡ Category: Category III, Comedy, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One day, horny scholar Yan Ching (Lawrence Ng) seeks out the renowned Buddhist known as Sack Monk (Lo Tun), anxious to plumb his wisdom regarding sexual affairs. Sack Monk maintains basically that what goes around comes around. Yan Ching is incredulous. […]
≡ Category: Ghost, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Ghost
Director: David Lai
Year: 1983
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Siu Yuk Lung (Siu Yuk Lung) and Lau Siu Ming (Lau Siu Ming) are having a rough evening. After a night out on the town, Lau Siu Ming gets drunk as usual and manages to get his wallet pickpocketed. Then he’s almost run down […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Girls With Guns/ Comedy/ Satire/ Action
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1988
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The main subject of Operation Pink Squad is the absolute terror than Hong Kong men had in the 80s of career women. It was the humiliation of women taking their jobs, the diminution of their sense of manhood, an assault on […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Year: 1985
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Just because a movie was extremely popular with the Hong Kong audience doesn’t mean it’s any good. Think of all the early Stephen Chow nonsense comedies or Jackie Chan’s Lucky Star flicks. On the other side of the ocean, Porky’s […]
≡ Category: Category III, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Category III
Director: Go Sin-Ming
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Kidnap of Wong Chak Fai gets straight to business, dropping us into the middle of the kidnapping of the title character, played by Paul Chun. Officer Ching (Kent Cheng, fabulous as usual) has followed the ransom money from the drop to […]