Hero 英雄

 Released Year: 2002

Directed by 张艺谋 Zhang Yi Mou

Casted by:

李连杰 Jet Li as 无名 Nameless

陈道明 Chen Dao Ming as 秦王政 King of Qin

梁朝伟 Tony Leung as 残剑 Broken Sword

张曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 飞雪 Flying Snow

章子怡 Zhang Zi Yi as 如月 Moon

甄子丹 Donnie Yen as 长空 Long Sky

 Story: 

In ancient China during the Warring States period, Nameless, a Qin prefect, arrives at the Qin capital city to meet the king of Qin, who had survived an attempt on his life by the assassins Long Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword. As a result, the king has implemented extreme security measures: no visitors are to approach the king within 100 paces. Nameless claims that he has slain the three assassins and he displays their weapons before the king, who allows the former to approach and tell him his story.

Nameless recounts first killing Long Sky, before traveling to meet Flying Snow and Broken Sword, who had taken refuge at a calligraphy school in the Zhao state. He tells Sword that he is there to commission a calligraphy scroll with the character for "Sword" (劍), secretly seeking to learn Sword's skill through his calligraphy. Nameless also learns that Snow and Sword, who are lovers, had gradually grown distant. Once the scroll is complete, Nameless reveals his identity and challenges both Snow and Sword to a duel the next day. Sword, who knows that the scroll has revealed his weaknesses to Nameless, makes love to his pupil Moon, but is seen by Snow. In revenge, Snow kills Sword, followed by Moon when she attempted to seek revenge for her master. The next day, Nameless kills the emotionally unstable Snow before the Qin army, and claims her sword. As the tale concludes, the king expresses disbelief and accuses Nameless of staging the duels with the assassins, as in the previous assassination attempt he had perceived Sword as an honourable man who would not stoop so low as to cheat on Snow. The king then suggests that what really happened was that the assassins volunteered their lives so that Nameless could gain the king's trust, which would allow Nameless to get close enough to the king to kill him. He then narrates his guess at what really happened.

In the king's version of the story Nameless had sought out Snow and Sword after staging the battle with Sky, telling them that he had acquired a special technique that would allow him to kill any target that is within 10 paces. Nameless explains that he can use this technique to kill the king, but to get close enough he must present Snow's and Sword's weapons to the king. He further explains that he only needs to kill one of them in public to "prove" that he has killed both of them. Snow and Sword argue over who should be the one to die, which results in a short fight in which Snow is quicker and manages to injure Sword. Snow then proceeds to meet Nameless before the Qin army while Sword, still recovering from his wound, watches helplessly as Snow is defeated. Moon then gives Nameless her master's sword, telling him that the swords of Snow and Sword should remain together in death as they had in life.

Nameless admits that he does indeed possess the special technique the king alluded to. However he states that the King had underestimated Sword, and tells the true story. Nameless says that the special technique, while deadly, can also be used to deal a seemingly-fatal blow that nonetheless misses all the victim's vital organs. He had used this technique on Sky, and now asked Snow and Sword to cooperate by faking a duel with him as well. He demonstrates the technique by showing that it is highly accurate as well as deadly. Snow agrees to the plan, but Sword refuses. Snow angrily accuses Sword of ruining the opportunity they had three years ago, when they had broken into the Qin palace yet Sword had refused to kill the king. She then attacks Sword, and manages to wound him with Nameless's help. The next day, Nameless "kills" Snow in front of the Qin army. Sword sends Nameless off to the Qin capital, writing the words Tianxia in the sand before leaving. Sword had not killed the king 3 years ago because he desired a unified, peaceful state, and only the king of Qin could achieve that vision.

The king, touched by the tale and by Sword's understanding of his dream to unify China, ceases to fear Nameless. He tosses his sword to Nameless and examines the scroll drawn by Sword. The king understands that it describes the ideal warrior, who, paradoxically, should have no desire to kill. When Nameless realizes the wisdom of these words, he abandons his mission and spares the king.

When Snow learns that Sword had convinced Nameless to forgo the assassination, she furiously attacks Sword and unintentionally kills him when he chooses not to defend himself so that she would understand his feelings for her. Overwhelmed with sorrow, Snow commits suicide. Urged by his court, the king reluctantly orders Nameless to be executed at the Qin palace. He understands that in order to unify the nation, he must enforce the law and use Nameless as an example. As the film ends, Nameless receives a hero's funeral and a closing text identifies the king as Qin Shi Huang.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Well, if you are looking for some serious martial arts kinda fighting film, please do not proceed to watch this film or you will only get yourself disappointed. Zhang Yi Mou is not the kind of director who will be shooting action film but this movie does involved a little bit of action especially at Donnie Yen's part, coz his acting skill is sucks. Basically this is about the history of "Jing Ke" who try to kill the King of Qin, the movie has been beautified by the way of Zhang Yi Mou's way of directing which I think is kind of different and cool. But of course, its not a kind of film that you will wanna re-watch after a short while, and p/s: watch it after you have enough sleep~

Boys Are Easy 追男仔

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 王晶 Wong Jing

Casted by:

林青霞 Bridget Lin as 程小東 Dong

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 程小南 Nam

邱淑貞 Chingmy Yau as 程小西 Sai

梁家輝 Tony Leung as 謝晒 Cheah

張學友 Jacky Chan as 烏英 Ying

鄭伊健 Ekin Cheng as 李志高 Gou

林志穎 Jimmy Lin as 程小北 Bak

吳耀漢 Richard Ng as 程勝 Sheng

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 痴心 Sum

 Story:

Sheng lost his wife alone to raise three daughters Dong, Nam , Sai and Bak. One day Sheng told his 3 daughters that he has cancer, the only wish is his three daughters to find boyfriends and able to live happily and get married. Dong found Cheah, a gigolo to be her boyfriend; Nam found Ying, a bad guy who's trying to kill Dong; Sai found Gou, a 27 years old virgin rich guy. Just as three of them thought this is just a show to please their father, but things go wrong and they slowly falling in love with each other instead...

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Lol, a funny comedy movie again which is the opposite of "The Romancing Stars"... This time is a female version with 3 famous actresses during that time to be in the lead role whom are Bridget, Maggie & Chingmy. Jimmy Lin is lucky to be the 3 pretty ladies' younger brother instead. Of course there's some part which skip the story a lot, maybe it might be the director's cut, so the whole movie seems like a bit fast forward instead. However, each pair of couples got their main role and stories in here including Richard Ng + Sandra Ng...

Twin Dragons 雙龍會

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 徐克 Tsui Hark & 林嶺東 Ringo Lam

Casted by:

成龍 Jackie Chan as 馬友 & 博命 Ma Yau & Bok Min

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 芭芭娜 Barbara

利智 Nina Li as 唐心 Tong Sum

泰迪·羅賓 Teddy Robbin as 泰山 Tarzan

 Story:

In 1965, a couple are doting on their newborn twin boys. Meanwhile, a dangerous gang leader named Crazy Kung is being transported as a captive in the same hospital. Crazy Kung escapes and attempts to take one of the twins hostage. In the ensuing chaos, the twins are permanently separated. One of them, named Ma Yau, is raised by his parents and grows up to be a concert pianist and conductor. The other, named Wan Ma, is raised by a woman named Tsui, and grows up to be a street racer and martial artist. Neither of them has ever thought that he has a twin brother.

26 years later, the twins' lives intersect in Hong Kong. Wan Ma and his best friend Tarzan get mixed up with a dangerous gang. Meanwhile, Ma Yau prepares to conduct a major concert. The twins accidentally switch places, causing confusion for both of them until they discover each other. The twins also have romantic interests named Barbara and Tong Sum.

Eventually, the twins defeat the gang that has been threatening them, and marry their romantic interests.

L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

This movie is actually a cross-production of one hundred HK directors to create this for raising the donation of the Hong Kong Directors Association. Jackie Chan played the twins role and get himself involved in romance with Maggie Cheung & Nina Li. Who could have miss this movie anyway? Jackie Chan is lucky to be chosen as the lead role from these 100 directors to act in this movie, a legendary classic movie that never to be missed...

The Romancing Star 精裝追女仔

 Releasing Year: 1987

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

 周潤發 Chow Yun Fat as 王日發 Fred

馮淬帆 Stanley Fung as 劉定堅 Ken

陳百祥 Natalis Chan as 交通燈 Tony

曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 吳準少 Silver

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 董曼玉 Maggie

蔣麗萍 Agnes Cheung as 利文芝 / 蚊滋 Agnes

翁世傑 Stuart Ong as 趙定先 Chiu Ting Sin

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 刁敏 Man

鄭裕玲 Dodo Cheng as 蘇絲 Susan

關秀媚 Suki Kwan as 細珠 Chu

 Story: 

Fred who's foul-mouthed, works in garage together with his two close buddies: Tony and Silver. The boss of the garage, Ken puts his friendship with the three in priority, ultimately, despite his harsh, picky and dingy personality. Both Tony and Silver couldn't put up with Fred's girlfriend's snobbish mother, they caused trouble on the occasion of her birthday banquet and make Fred breakup with his girlfriend. In order to recover the heartbreak of Fred, Ken decided cheer up Fred by joining a tour to Penang, where they came across two beautiful girls, Maggie and Agnes, strolling leisurely on the beach as if they were very wealthy. Since then they decided on courtship. They played a poker game to decide who’s to who. And Fred, the winner, chose Maggie to be his sole target. By the rules of the game, Ken, Silver and Tony have to compete to see who in the ends will win the heart of Agnes.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment: 

Another classic series movie - The Romancing Stars casted by many famous celebrities :) Surely everyone love to watch this movie back in the old time or even anytime when it is shows again in the tv... Stanley Fung never failed to makes me laugh so as Eric Tsang... Chow Yun Fat is a bit dull in this movie so as Natalis compare to the 2 others... But i was glad to see so many actresses appeared in this classic movie :) yeah~ 

The Heroic Trio 東方三俠

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 杜琪峰 Johnnie To

Casted by:

梅豔芳 Anita Mui as 東東 Tung

楊紫瓊 Michelle Yeoh as 心靖 / 陳三 / 青青 Ching / San

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 陳七 Chat

劉松仁 Damian Lau as 劉啟文 Inspector Lau

白石千 James Pak as 李之博士 Professor / Inventor

任世官 Yen Shi Kwan as 陳公公 Evil Master

黃秋生 Anthony Wong as 陳九 Kau

 Story:

An invisible woman is kidnapping newborn babies who are destined to be emperors and delivering them to the mysterious subterranean supernatural Evil Master. The police are powerless, and the city must be saved by three very different women who share a terrible past. Anita Mui plays the mild-mannered wife of a police inspector who's also the mask-wearing, sword-slinging and knife-throwing crime fighter, Wonder Woman. Maggie Cheung plays the shotgun-toting, hard-boiled bounty hunter, Thief Catcher. Michelle Yeoh is Invisible Girl, the troubled but determined strong right arm of the Evil Master.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

I miss this kind of old classic HK movie which you will never be found in these few years from hong kong movie production. Its a sad things to mention though but i think everyone knows that this is a fact and which it is still not gets better~

Back to this movie, the storyline is cool and very hit during the 90s. Involving that time the 3 hot ladies to act together is not an easy job but Johnnie To has to power to do so :) Miss Anita~

Flying Dagger 神經刀與飛天貓

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 朱延平 Chu Yen Ping

Casted by:

梁家輝 Tony Leung as 「大飛刀」韓沖 Chung

林志穎 Jimmy Lin as「小飛刀」韓林 Lam

張敏 Sharla Cheung as「大風騷」風二娘 Lady Fung

葉蘊儀 Gloria Yip as「小風騷」風鈴 Ling

張學友 Jacky Cheung as「九尾狐」朱星 Ninetail

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 飛天貓 Flyingcat

 Story: 

The Hon [Dagger] Brothers, Chung and Lam, who are in fact uncle and cousin, are rival bounty hunters to the Fung [Bewitchment] Sisters, and take glee in thwarting each other because Chung refused to marry Lady Fung. Fung Ling and Lam are also in love, but do not acknowledge it.

Emperor Tsao hires the Hons to capture the Nine-Tails Fox, whom he claims has made a major robbery of his household, including the rape and murder of his daughter and the murder of 41 servants. The Hons are distracted when they find the Fungs captured by Never Die and his brothers, who in spite of decapitation and loss of a hand, proceed to chase them (the severed hand grabbing at one of them) chase the Hons to the lair of Nine-Tails Fox, who has recently caused his wife, the apsara known as Flying Cat to walk out on him. The group discovers that Never Die is allergic to glib talk, and begin speaking to each other glibly, Chung, too embarrassed to speak to Lady Fung in that way, speaking to Nine-Tails Fox, and the two pulling off each other shirts, and trap him. Never Die soon dissolves, and the four bounty hunters and Never Die's hand take him away. Flying Cat returns to find drawn images of what has gone on previously, including what she interprets as her husband's homosexual behavior, and chastises the old man who sends the drawings out through a slot for not intervening, which he says is not his place.

Nine-Tails Fox, who proudly admits to being a thief but insists he never hurts anyone, escapes from the bounty hunters to the inn of Pang Tin-hong, where he becomes involved with numerous courtesans. The bounty hunters follow him, but not before Flying Cat catches up with him. Still other bounty hunters, including the burly Western Ace, a gay man who sings 1980s American pop tunes, and a transsexual who delivers poisoned kisses, arrive at the inn. Because the Hons and Fungs pay well and are supported by the police, Pang sides with them against the new bounty hunters, claiming that he and his wife are Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. The transsexual kisses Chung, causing him to turn green and infect him with poison. After the other bounty hunters are defeated, Pang sends Lam and Ling outside, insisting that they are under eighteen, although both claim to be eighteen, in order to explain that the cure for the poison is to have sex nine times, then eat the strange fetus that will be born three days later. Chung tries to take Lady Fung to bed, but inadvertently passes the disease to Pang, whose wife and he fight a lot and never want it at the same time.

While Ling and Lam are outside, Never Die's hand grabs Ling's shoulder, and she thinks it is Lam's and rests her head on his shoulder. Thus distracted, Tsao captures the two of them, and the thieves and the bounty hunters team up against their common enemy and rescue the young ones.

At the end of the film, Pang's wife gives birth to the strange fetus, and the Hons, Fungs, Fox, and Cat seemingly forgetting about the idea that it is to be eaten and ready and excited to receive it as if a normal birth, are horrified to see that the baby is in fact Never Die.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

 I still feel that the old Hong Kong Martial comedy is funnier than the new Hong Kong comedy movie... At least there is a strong storyline and the fighting part is good also... Love this combination and it has been such a long time i didn't see Jimmy & Gloria in the movie, miss them~

Police Story 警察故事

 Released Year: 1985

Directed by 成龍 Jackie Chan

Casted by:

成龍 Jackie Chan as 陳家駒 Kui

林青霞 Bridget Lin as Selina方

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as May

楚原 Chor Yuen as 朱滔 Tao

董驃 Dong Biu as 驃叔 Bill

 Story:

The Royal Hong Kong Police Force is planning a major undercover sting to arrest crime lord Chu Tao. Inspector Chan Ka-Kui (or Kevin Chan in some versions) is part of the operation, along with undercover officers stationed in a shanty town. However, the criminals spot the police and the ensuing car chase cuts through the hillside shanty town. Ka-Kui persists in his chase, eventually following on foot as the drug lord attempts to escape in a double-decker bus. Ka Kui manages to get in front of the bus and bring it to a halt by threatening to shoot the driver with his service revolver.

Later, Ka-Kui is reprimanded by Superintendent Li for letting the operation get out of hand, but subsequently presented to the media as a model police officer. His next assignment is to protect Chu Tao's secretary, Selina Fong, who plans to testify in court about Chu Tao's illegal activities. At first, Selina insists that she does not require protection, but after Ka Kui has a fellow policeman break into her apartment and pose as a knife-wielding assassin, she becomes more cooperative.

When Ka-Kui arrives at his apartment with Selina, he is surprised by his girlfriend, May and her friends, who are throwing a birthday party for him, but May becomes angry with Ka-Kui after seeing Selina only wearing lingerie and Ka-Kui's jacket. Ka-Kui later explains to May that Selina is a witness, but after much bumbling and embarrassment, causing her to leave the scene, though she does go to Chu Tao's trial the next day.

Meanwhile, Selina discovers that the attack at her apartment was a sham, and decides to slyly record over her confession about working for Chu Tao that took place in the car ride there. She sneaks away while Ka-Kui is sleeping and is not present at the trial the next day, which ends with failure for the prosecution because of Selina's absence and tampering with the recording.

Though Chu Tao is released on bail, he wants revenge against Ka-Kui. He captures Selina and threatens to kill her to ensure her silence. Ka-Kui finds and frees her, but is attacked by several of Chu Tao's men. When fellow Police Inspector Man arrives, he reveals that he had been working with Chu Tao and thus Selina's capture was merely a ruse to trap Ka-Kui. To Man's grim surprise, the plan is also to include Tao's men killing him with Kui's gun to frame him for murder. Now a fugitive cop killer, Ka-Kui must try to catch Chu Tao and clear his name, taking his superindendent as hostage in order to escape custody, though he soon lets his co-operative superior go free.

Selina goes to Chu Tao's office at a shopping mall to download incriminating data from Chu Tao's computer system. Chu Tao notices this and he and his men rush to the shopping mall to intervene. Ka-Kui and May, who are monitoring Chu Tao's activities, follow. In the ensuing carnage, Ka-Kui defeats all of Chu Tao's henchmen (and destroys a good portion of the mall). The briefcase containing the computer data falls to the ground floor of the mall, but Chu Tao retrieves it after attacking May. Ka-Kui, at the top floor, slides down a pole wrapped in lightbulbs to the ground floor and catches Chu, but the rest of the police force quickly arrives and prevent him from further taking matters into his own hands. Selina attests to them that Chu Tao's nephew killed Inspector Man and evidence of his crimes is in the briefcase. Chu's defence attorney shows up and accuses the police of misconduct, prompting a beating from an at-wit's-end Ka-Kui, who goes on to extend the beating to Chu Tao before being stopped by his friends.

L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

A classic Jackie Chan's movie that nobody in this world should miss. Love the action, love the storyline and love how dangerous the way they performed. Even Bridget and Maggie has to be threw a few times and suffer a lot of pains. 

The Eagle Shooting Heroes 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就

Released Year: 1993

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

 

Casted by:

張國榮 Leslie Cheung as 東邪黃藥師 Dong
 林青霞 Bridget Lin as 三公主 Princess
 梁朝偉 Tony Leung as 西毒歐陽鋒 Feng
 梁家輝 Tony Leung as 南帝段智興(一燈) Nan

 張學友 Jacky Cheung as 北丐洪七公 Hong

 王祖賢 Joey Wang as 小師妹 Shi

劉嘉玲 Carina Lau as 周伯通 Tong
 葉玉卿 Veronica Yip as 金輪國王妃 Empress
 張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 金輪國國師 Fortune Teller

鍾鎮濤 Kenny B as 王重陽 Yang

Story:

In Jin Lun city, the empress and her cousin Feng try to grab the empire from the emperor, but the important chop is with the princess. The princess ran to seek help from her master, the master send Dong to accompany her to get the Jiu Yin Zhen Jin (the great martial arts book).

 

Along the way, they met Yang who was killed by Feng's flying shoe; Shi who followed them because she's in love with Dong; Tong who is a gay man that wanna seek revenge for Yang; Nan who wanna become a God and must reject his marriage with the princess while seek for his true love who has 666 at the chest; Hong who get rejected by Shi and forced Feng to kill him.

 

In the end, Feng get the Jiu Yin Zhen Jin and princess while the rest went to save the princess with the help of the fortune teller. Nobody can defeat Feng until the God Nan came and help them.

L² Scored: 10/10

 

L² Comment:

This movie has always always been my top 1 favorite comedy ever since i was a kid. Having all these fabulous actors/actresses in one movie is not easy. Especially after watching the serious version a moment ago, i love this movie even more~