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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Jeng Kin-Ping
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Suburb Murder is pretty hard to take seriously. I was sorta willing to overlook the multiple gang rapes (surely one or two would have been enough), the gratuitous visits to massage parlours and so forth, but what really put it over […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/Category III
Director: Danny Lee
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In terms of plot, Doctor Lamb could scarcely be simpler. Early on, Lam Goh-Yue (Simon Yam) is picked up by the cops on suspicion of murder and questioned by a team led by Inspector Lee (Danny Lee) until he relives the events he was […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III
Director: Wang Zhenyang
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
1/3 Lover has a pretty decent premise for a Category III melodrama. When Mona (Murakami Rena) arrives illegally from mainland China, she is scooped up by corrupt cop Wan (Stuart Ong), who pimps out Mona in various scams in exchange for not shipping her […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet / Drama /Category III
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1994
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Coming from a director as strong as Kirk Wong, and a competent action choreographer like Bruce Law, Rock N’ Roll Cop is a major disappointment.
Rock N’ Roll Cop was the third in Kirk Wong’s true crime series, which started with […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama /Category III
Director: Taylor Wong
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I had high hopes for Triads The Inside Story. I mean, look at the cast, for one thing: Chow Yun-Fat, Roy Cheung, Michael Chan, Kenneth Tsang, Shing Fui-On, Kelvin Wong — it’s an embarrassment of riches. The director, Taylor Wong, gave us […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Category III
Director: Johnny To
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Election 2 is one of the strongest movies made yet in the modern Hong Kong style, which director Johnny To virtually invented. In modern Hong Kong movies, the acting style is typically minimalistic, the camera setups are elegant, and graphic violence is […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Category III
Director: Johnny To
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Is Election the best film of 2005, as Quentin Tarantino would have it? Not really, when you consider that Brokeback Mountain, Goodnight And Good Luck, and Sin City came out the same year. But there’s a lot to like about Election.
Let’s start with […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Girls With Guns/ Category III/ Martial Arts
Director: David Lai/Corey Yuen
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you go into Women On The Run with the idea that you’re going to see a lot of naked women kung fu fighting, you’re apt to be disappointed. Oh, there are a few scenes where […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Category III
Director: Tun Fei Mou
Year: 1995
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I don’t know why I thought that Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre might be entertaining. Of course I knew beforehand that the Japanese had massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese and raped thousands of women after the fall of Nanking, so it wasn’t […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Category III
Director: Herman Yau
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When a film is helmed by Herman Yau, I am inclined to hope for the best. Yau is responsible for at least three classic Hong Kong flicks, not coincidentally starring the great Anthony Wong: The Untold Story, The Ebola Syndrome, and Taxi Hunter.
A […]