Out of the Dark 回魂夜

Released Year: 1995

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

 周星馳 Stephen Chow as Leon

莫文蔚 Karen Mok as 阿群 Kwan

盧雄 Bryan Leung as 盧隊長 Mr Wu

李健仁 Lee Kin Yang as 大孖 Dai Ma

李力持 Lee Lik Chi as 細孖 Sai Ma

黃一飛 Wong Yat Fei as 鐵膽 Dan

黃智賢 Ben Wong as 阿強 Keong

 Story:

A proffesional ghost buster Leon is living with others psycho in the mental illness hospital, Kwan falls for his unique and bravery action. In an event which a son & his wife joint up to murder the poor mother. The spirit of the mother came back during the 7th day she passed away to inform the police who is the real person that kill her. After the truth was being told, the son and his wife suicident... 

Leon went to help a bunch of security who work in the building of the murder case. They manage to help the spirit of the mother who has been killed by her son and daughter in law. But the son and daughter in law has suicide in grudge and swear that they will be back on their 7th day to take reveng. Leon quickly work out a ghost fighting program to train the security and Kwan for the night... 

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This might be the darkest film that Stephen Chow has acted/participated as at today. By hitting the 10th place in the HK blockbuster on the 1995, it is not one of the hits movie of Stephen Chow that everyone will keep repeating to watch. Seriously, this is my first time watching this movie, some part is a bit scary and kinda freak me out but the comedy part is funny as hell... And i love the pot of flower that him carry around, "Lily" is the name and it can detect ghost lol...

The God of Cookery 食神

 Released Year: 1996

Directed by 周星馳 Stephen Chow & 李力持 Lee Lik Chi

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 史提芬周 Stephen

莫文蔚 Karen Mok as 火雞 Turkey

谷德昭 Vincent Kuk as 唐牛 Bull Tong

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 財團老闆 Uncle Rich

李兆基 Lee Siu Kei as 鵝頭 Ngo Tau

劉以達 Lau Yi Tat as 夢遺大師 Mung Wau

薛家燕 Nancy Sit as 薛家燕 Nancy

羅家英 Law Kar Ying as 食神大賽司儀 Host

Story: 

Stephen Chow, is a corrupt celebrity chef who secretly knows very little about cooking, runs a successful business empire, and is willing to hawk any product for a price. Arrogant and cocky, Chow is dubbed the "God of Cookery" and appears as a judge for culinary competitions rigged to make him look good.

Bull Tong, posing as an understudy and conspiring with Chow's business partner to overthrow him, exposes Chow as a fraud during the opening ceremony of Chow's 50th restaurant. Bull is declared the new "God of Cookery" and takes over Chow's corrupt empire. Ruined, Chow lives on the streets in an area known as Temple Street. There, he orders a bowl of "Assorted Noodles" from disfigured and uncouth food cart owner Turkey, and criticizes it for its lack of taste, terrible preparation, and unsanitary ingredients. During a heated exchange, Chow demands respect and reveals himself to be the fallen "God of Cookery", but then begs her for some money. Thugs beat him for his panhandling, but Turkey orders them away, taking pity on Chow and giving him a bowl of barbecue pork on rice. Chow is moved and declares it delicious.

Turkey and her rival street vendor, Goosehead, conduct gang warfare to see which vendor can sell the two best-selling dishes: beef balls and "pissing" shrimp. Chow manages to unite the two rival vendors by combining the two dishes into a new dish, "Pissing Beef Balls", which the three of them could sell together. It becomes a huge success, and the vendors convince Chow to enroll in a culinary school in order to reclaim the title he lost, but not before he discovers that Turkey idolized Chow as the "God of Cookery", and received her scarred appearance after fighting a local gang leader who ruined her poster of Chow.

The success of the "Pissing Beef Balls" alarms Bull, the new "God of Cookery", who arranges for Chow to be assassinated on the way to culinary school. While searching for the school, Chow finds that Turkey has followed him, asking him to complete a drawing of a romantic heart for her as a souvenir for her to remember him by. Knowing she is in love with him, Chow callously rebuffs her. Turkey reminds him of all she did for him, including her injuries, but Chow retorts that he never asked for her to do those things for him. As he tells her he can never love her, Turkey sees the approaching assassin and is shot in the face, taking the bullet for him. Chow, also presumed dead, disappears.

One month later, Bull enters the "God of Cookery" competition as the heavy favorite to retain the title. Chow arrives at the competition at the last minute, and reveals to Tong what had happened: Chow escaped the assassin's second bullet, and found his way to a Shaolin monastery, where head monk Wet Dream (a spoof on the Chinese word for nocturnal spermatorrhea) nursed him back to health. However, Wet Dream would not allow Chow to leave the temple until he was well-versed in the ways of the Shaolin arts, a point made moot when it is revealed the culinary school he was going to attend was, in fact, the temple's kitchen—the same kitchen Bull had trained at for 10 years, but subsequently dropped out of. While training, Chow continually mourned for Turkey, and was overcome with grief and remorse over his careless treatment of her. The depth of his feeling, which caused his hair to grow white, convinced Wet Dream to allow him his departure from the monastery.

The competition between Chow and Tong begins in earnest, with the two attempting to make identical "Buddha Jumping Wall" dishes. Each chef tries to sabotage the other's dish in a comedic wuxia fashion by attacking the other using their ingredients and kitchen implements, but Tong prevails when Chow's ex-business partner makes Chow's container explode with a bomb. With few materials and little time remaining, Chow prepares "Sorrowful Rice", a simple dish of barbecue pork rice, the same dish Turkey first gave to him while he was living on the streets. Although "Sorrowful Rice" is the better dish, Tong had already blackmailed the judge into rigging the contest. As Bull is fraudulently crowned the winner, Chow remarks that there is no one "God of Cookery" and that any person who cooks with heart can be the "God of Cookery". In an act of divine intervention, the Imperial Court of Heaven descends upon the competition and reveal that in another life, Chow was a heavenly assistant to the Kitchen God, before being sent to Earth to live as a human as punishment for revealing culinary secrets to mankind. Moved by his sorrow and his humbleness, they forgive him. They then transform Chow's former business partner into a form befitting his treachery: a bulldog, and leave a gaping hole on Bull Tong's chest, possibly symbolizing his heartlessness (whether he is killed by this is never revealed).

After the competition, Chow celebrates Christmas with his vendor friends in Temple Street, where Goosehead reveals that Turkey survived the assassination. She caught the bullet meant for Chow with her gold-plated teeth and a dentist reconstructed her dental work and even threw in a free plastic surgery on her face, making her pretty again. As she appears before him and asks how she looks, Chow responds by throwing her the completed drawing of two arrow-pierced hearts.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

This legendary comedy movie of Stephen Chow is at Number 2 place of HK blockbuster in 1996. With a lot of Mou Lei Tau scenes but yet very laughable; some of them even make me wanna punch their faces lol~ This should be the first try of Karen Mok of getting herself so ugly; but it has also successfully raise her fame to another level as well~ The rest of the characters were not bad as well, Vincent Kuk is very good in doing this kind of character, hope to see more of him in front of the camera as well lol~ 

Flirting Scholar 唐伯虎點秋香

Released Year: 1993

Directed by 李力持 Lee LikChi & 周星馳 Stephen Chow

Casted by:

 周星馳 Stephen Chow as 唐伯虎 Tong Pak Fu

鞏俐 Gong Li as 秋香 Chow Heung

鄭佩佩 Cheng Pei Pei as 華夫人 Madame Wah

陳百祥 Natalis Chan as 祝枝山 Chuk Chi San

黃霑 Jim Wong as 華太師 Chancellor Wah

宣萱 Jessica Hester Hsuan as 夏香 Ha Heung

苑瓊丹 Kingdom Yuen as 石榴 Sek Lao

梁家仁 Bryan Leung as 武狀元 Mou Zhong Yun 

劉家輝 Gordon Liu as 奪命書生 Evil Scholar

 Story: 

In the Ming Dynasty, there were four scholars, whose literary and artistic skills are unmatched in China. Tong Pak Fu is the most famous, for having eight wives in addition to his expertise as an artist, poet, and calligrapher. However, Tong's wives are all gambling addicts, unappreciative of Tong's artistic skills. This leads to Tong's quest for a woman who truly appreciates his strengths.

The Tong Family have been generations of martial arts masters and has two major enemies: the Evil Scholar, a notorious swordsman known for The Deadly Scholastic Sword, Due to these rivalries, Tong Pak Fu is forbidden by his mother to use any form of martial arts.

One day, Tong stumbles upon the convoy of the House of Wah, and meets Chow Heung, one of the four maids in the House of Wah. This chance encounter convinces Tong that he has finally found his true love. On the advice of a boatman, Tong pretends to be a lowly servant in order to gain employment in the House of Wah.

Tong finds life as a servant very difficult, until Madame Wah discovers that Tong is actually educated. After some persuasion by Chow Heung, Tong is hired as an assistant tutor for Madame Wah's two young sons.

After the sudden death of the main tutor of the House of Wah, Tong is promoted and manages to get closer to Chow Heung. However, the House of Wah is suddenly visited by Chancellor Wah's political rival, Prince Ning, who is planning a coup. Madame Wah is injured, and Tong steps in to finish the battle in the House of Wah's favor. Prince Ning seizes the opportunity to blame the House of Wah for insulting him. Embarrassed at being utterly defeated at the hands of a tutor, Prince Ning leaves hastily, vowing revenge. In reproducing a painting, Tong reveals his real identity to Madame Wah, who is the former love rival of Tong's mother.

Several days later, the Evil Scholar returns to annihilate the entire House of Wah. Madame Wah attempts to defend the family, but is almost killed. Tong appears and after a fierce battle, Tong kills the Evil Scholar and earns Chow Heung's hand in marriage as a reward. Tong then discovers that Chow Heung is just as much a gambling addict as his previous eight wives.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Hehe, one of my fav Stephen Chow's movie back in the 90's. The only time Stephen Chow film with Gong Li... Gong Li always give us the serious type of look, but in this movie, she did tried some effort to be funny, but of course she won't be able to compete with Sandra Ng, Teresa Mo, Sharla Cheung, Karen Mok or other Stephen Chow's movie actress... The biggest surprise would be Jessica Hester Hsuan in this movie, i almost lost my breath because i laugh too hard on some of her scenes~

From Beijing with Love 國產凌凌漆

 Released Year: 1994

Directed by 李力持 Lee Lik Chi & 周星馳 Stephen Chow

Casted by:

 周星驰 Stephen Chow as 凌凌漆 Ling Ling Qi 007

袁詠儀 Anita Yuen as 李香琴 Li Xiang Qin

黃錦江 Wong Kam Kong as 司令／金鎗人 Golden Gun

羅家英 Lo Kar Ying as 達聞西 Da Wen Xi

鄭祖 Joe Cheng as 瀋陽特務（金牙佬）Metal Mouth

陈宝莲 Pauline Chan as 瀋陽特務（愛美神）Ms Beauty

 Story: 

Golden Gun steals the cranium of China's only dinosaur fossil. Chow, starring as a hawker-cum-secret-agent 007, is sent to Hong Kong by a high-ranking government official to recapture the cranium. When he arrives in Hong Kong, he meets Siu Kam, who proposes to help him in his endeavor. However, Siu Kam turns out to be a subordinate of Golden Gun. Golden Gun is in actuality the government official who directs Chow to find the cranium.

Golden Gun instructs Siu Kam to send 007 on a false lead and tells him that the cranium may have been stolen by a smuggler. 007, with the help of Siu Kam, sneaks into a cocktail party held by the smuggler. Before he enters, he tells Siu Kam that he will fetch her some white roses. Siu Kam tells 007 to find evidence that the smuggler stole the cranium; meanwhile, Kam hides in a tree, planning to snipe 007 from afar. The party is interrupted by a mysterious man (modeled after Jaws from James Bond) and a mysterious woman who are out to kill 007. Taking this opportunity, Siu Kam shoots Chow several times, including once in the leg with 007 thinking another assassin has shot him. 007 (who was wearing a bulletproof vest but not bulletproof trousers) escapes, grabbing three white roses on the way out. Siu Kam is touched by this gesture and saves his life. She decides to defect from Golden Gun. Together, the two destroy the organization that is behind the theft of the cranium. Chow wins over Yuen and is rewarded with a meat cleaver emblazoned with the calligraphy of Deng Xiaoping.

 L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment: 

 Usually for Stephen Chow movie, i will rate it in kinda high score, but for this parody comedy, a 6 is more than enough. Though its on the top 2 of HK blockbuster in 1994, but i just feel like the storyline is not funny enough, and Anita Yuen is not funny enough, if compared to her other movies...

The Lucky Guy 行運一條龍

 Released Year: 1998

Directed by 李力持 Lee Lik Chi

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 何金水 Sui

鄭秀文 Sammi Cheng as 葉玉芬 Candy

葛民輝 Eric Kot as 阿福 Fook

楊恭如 Kristy Yeung as Fanny

陳曉東 Daniel Chan as 得男 Nan

舒淇 Shu Qi as 芳芳 Fang

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 李老闆 Mr Li

 Story:

Sui is a pathetic guy who can't forgot his first love Candy from school time, he uses all ways to make other believe he is a playboy. He met Candy back in hospital and Candy decided to take revenge on what Sui did to her before. Later on Candy realize Sui's true heart and forgive him.

Fook is an honest and kind hearted guy, he met Fanny and fell in love with her. Fook ask advice from Sui but Sui tackle Fanny and Fook become a bad person. Later on, Fanny learns that Fook is the one she wants and they are together again.

Nan meeting up with his net friend but got scared, in the meantime he met Fang who is a rich girl and trying to run away from home. Fang hide her identity and get together with Nan and his father Mr Li. Later on Fang discover Nan is a reporter and trying to get her news, she get angry and left. But Nan's true heart finally makes Fang return back to him. Mr Li in another hand is facing the crisis of his restaurant being closed down but luckily Fang's rich dad came and settled the problem.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment: 

The 3rd place in 1998 HK blockbuster, this is the first time Stephen Chow worked with the beautiful and talented Sammi Cheng. Sammi used her good acting and created this good comedy together with other co stars. Hopefully both of them will have the chance to work with each other again...

The Magnificent Scoundrels 情聖

Released Year: 1991
Directed by 李力持 Lik Chi-Lee

Casted by:
周星馳 Stephen Chow as 程勝 Shen / Jackie
毛舜筠 Teresa Mo as 葉圓 Yuan
午馬 Wu Ma as 周潤發 Fatt
葉子楣 Amy Yip as Apple
恬妞 Tanny Tian Niu as 阿萍 Ping
元華 Yuan Hua as 貴利王之兄 Gui Li's brother
張耀揚 Roy Cheong as 貴利王 Gui Li
麥嘉 Karl Maka as 程勝之師 Shen's master
Story:

Shen is a mediocre con artist and learn all his trick from his master. He met Yuan and was drag into a deal with Gui Li to pay back Yuan's debt. In another hand, Fatt have plastic surgery but still get caught by Gui Li for owning his debt. Therefore Fatt decided to cheat all the valuable antique for Gui Li.

During Fatt stealing events, he overheard a phone call mentioning that a rich heir Jackie is coming back and Fatt decided to change his plan. In a coincidence Shen claimed himself as Jackie and together with Yuan, they decided to trick Fatt for money. Fatt hire Apple as his daughter and Ping as his wife for the whole con. When both of their trick failed, only they realize they have the same debtor and wanted to con Gui Li instead.

With the help of Shen's master, they get to trick Gui Li in giving them money and Gui Li was beaten up by his own brother. Finally, everyone managed to clear their debts.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

This movie rank on number 17 in Hong Kong blockbuster in 1991. I love this movie the most in Stephen Chow's series, the best movie ever for me~ i laugh and laugh until i can't breath, no matter how many times i watch~ Really hope to see all of them work together and get us some good comedy again~ :)

Killing Me Tenderly 愛你愛到殺死你

Released Year: 1997
Directed by 李力持 LikChi-Lee

Casted by:
黎明 Leon Lai as 黎树根 George
郑秀文 Sammi Cheng as 朱金梅 Cindy
黄伟文 Wyman Wong as 干妈 Godmother
谷德昭 Vincent Kok as 奶妈 Nanny　
郑祖 Joe Cheng as 姨妈 Aunty 　　
黎耀祥 Wayne Lai as Jelly
吴君如 Sandra Ng as 阿笑 Siu
夏萍 Ping Ha as George's mother
Story:

George is working as a policeman in village and he always wanted to work in the city, by tricking his mother and his cousin, Siu that he has join the gangster. The mother forced him out to city. When George reach city, his first mission is to protect a second line singer, Cindy.

Cindy has been accepting a lots of threatened letter that she will be in danger. With her team, Godmother, Aunty & Nanny to work for her. George has to pretend as gay to get close to Cindy. But Cindy doesn't believe, and George need to kiss Godmother to prevent Cindy from suspect. During these moments, George has get himself familiar with Cindy and gangs, they experience all the happiness and sadness together.

One night when Cindy was having an interview at the radio station, she received a threaten call. To protect Cindy, George's real identity was exposed, Cindy get pissed off because fell betrayed. Leaving Cindy, George was replaced by other policeman to take care of Cindy. All these threaten was actually came from a crazy fans Jelly. Jelly keep on tracking and stalking Cindy from everywhere. When everything gone crazy in the city, Cindy decided to go for a visit to George's village. Both of them quickly fall in love with each other.

Back to the city, Cindy prepare for her mini concert. Before the mini concert, Cindy received a letter from George. Siu told Cindy that George cannot attend the concert due to work, this has disapointed Cindy. But finally George come to the concert as well. A sudden attack, everyone thought the crazy fans was caught. But Jelly decided to kill Cindy and then suicide. Jelly started to attack.

On Cindy last song, Jelly drag as a woman and go on stage to attack. Jelly got a knife and try to stab Cindy but was protected by George. George shot and killed Jelly on the spot. Lastly, God mother fall in love with Siu and they get married. Cindy and George are happily together too.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Yay, Sammi :) Love her, she's the best. That time Mi already use her talents in acting, but most of the people must be noticing Leon Lai at that moment because of the character. Of course with Wayne Lai and Sandra Ng, a total comedy romance film.

Have to mention that Wyman is good in this movie, haha~ a DJ/song writer who can act as well~ And this movie also contain a lot of Sammi's songs in that year, all the hit songs ever :)