Sara 雛妓

Released Year: 2015

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yau

Casted by:

蔡卓妍 Charlene Choi as 何玉玲 Sara

任達華 Simon Yam as 甘浩賢 Yin

柳俊江 Ryan Lau as Raymond

Sunadcha Tadrabiab as Dok-My

孫佳君 Pauline Sun as 湯媚 May

何華超 Tony Ho as 郭華 Wah

Story:

Sara was sexually abused by her stepfather, Wah during her teenager time and her mother, May kept silence and did not rescue her. Sara runs away from home, earns her own keep and spends her nights in various location with other young girls, including country parks and fast-food joints that stay open 24 hours. While hanging around the Tsim Sha Tsui East promenade late one evening, she meets the gentlemanly, middle-aged Yin. Sara offered Yin a blowjob in terms that Yin has to get her into a good school and a new life she wanted to have.

Both Sara & Yin started this complicated relationship which was well hidden in the society as Yin is a politician and he is married as well. They were together for many years and the relationship has transformed into some sort of love which Yin started to jealous of Sara communicating with other younger guy in her university; Sara not happy that Yin only visit her just for sex... Sara beg Yin to attend her graduation day, while arriving at the university, Yin saw Sara talking to the younger guy and angrily left without Sara noticing, But actually during that time Sara was rejecting the guy and saying that she has a boyfriend whom she love very much. Sara is not happy that Yin did not attend and confronted with him and argument happens...

Sara started her working adult life as a reporter. Year later, she was attached with Raymond but found out he betrayed her on work. Angrily, Sara flew to Chiangmai by herself and met Dok-My who is a prostitute. Sara pity Dok-My and paid her some money for telling her story so that Sara can write an article on it. Sara was surprised when Yin came to look for her but ends up telling her that he is on the final stage of cancer and ask her not to attend his funeral because others might discover their relationship and hurt her instead. Feeling sad on the news but happy to know that Yin still loves her and care about her, she attends Yin's funeral in the end.

Dok-My went to look for Sara in her hotel and realize she has cut her wrist and soaked inside the bath tub. Dok-My safe Sara by getting her to hospital and both girls bond closer to each other. Sara tried to buy Dok-My from the gangster but ends up running from getting kill.  Raymond came all the way from Hong Kong to get Sara back, Sara bid goodbye to Dok-My and received a kiss from Dok-My. Sara proposed her points to the magazine director in writing an article of prostitution and get full support on it. Wah came looking for Sara and tell her that May will be passed away soon. Sara went hospital to look for May; May apologize for not being a good mother and did not protect her during the rape. Sara forgive her and May finally close her eyes forever...

Sara went back to Chiangmai to look for Dok-My but she was no where to be found. Missing Dok-My, Sara went to Dok-My's hometown in Maesai and realized there's a lot of young girls who will be facing the same destiny like her and Dok-My...

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment: 

A good movie and first time ever, Charlene shows that she can act. Frankly speaking, I ain't saint, main motive of watching this movie in the first place is for the sex scenes of Charlene & Simon, coz i heard that its damn hot. Well, the sex scenes are ok, but just that it might be Charlene's first time, but it is nothing too spicy about; but the storyline is great as the story was written by 李敏 Erica Li, a famous HK novelist. This movie also won both Charlene & Simon as the best actress/actor in Macau International Movie Festival.

Ebola Syndrome 伊波拉病毒

 Released Year: 1996

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yau

Casted by:

黃秋生 Anthony Wong as 阿雞 Kai

陳妙瑛 Marianne Chan as 阿霞 Har

王翠玲 Wong Tsui Ling as 周丽丽 Lily

尹揚明 Wan Yeung Ming as 楊國立 Yeung

羅莽 Lo Mang as 餐館老闆 Boss

張璐 Lulu Zhang as 餐館老板娘 Lady Boss

 Story: 

Ah Kai is a wanted convict from Hong Kong who escapes to South Africa after killing his former boss and his boss's wife. In South Africa, he works at a Chinese restaurant and one day travels with his boss to a South African tribe that is infected with the Ebola virus. Kai sees a dying infected tribe member and rapes and kills her, contracting the virus. Kai, however, is immune to the infection. He becomes a living carrier, spreading the disease to others through body fluids. He ends up killing his new boss and his boss's wife, but not before spreading the virus to them. He then cuts up their corpses and serves them as hamburgers in the restaurant, effectively spreading the virus all over South Africa. He then further spreads the virus when he flees back to Hong Kong, to all the people he has contacts with.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Well, I have to watch something that is more excited in the ghost month, so i decided to go for this psycho slashing movie, which is a bit similar like previous Anthony Wong's The Untold Story. Both storyline is roughly the same except this one is about spreading the scary virus that are quite famous in South Africa during that time. Anthony basically is good in this kind of character, what makes it scarier is, he is too good...yuck!!!

Best of the Best 飛虎精英之人間有情

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yau

Casted by:

张学友 Jacky Cheung as 李文杰 Dee

郑秀文 Sammi Cheng as Heidi

吴孟达 Ng Man-tat as Little Ball

秦沛 Paul Chun as Ngan Kwan

吴家丽 Carrie Ng as Hung

 Story: 

Little Ball is a retired police officer who works as a beverage server in a bar. However, he has not changed his bad habits of being loud-mouth and compulsive drinking and gambling. Fortunately, he is helped and taken care by his confidant Hung. One time, Ball unintentionally got his son Dee, a Special Duties Unit officer, into a dispute with triad leader Ngan Kwan, nearly destroying his son's career.

At the same time, Dee also meets Heidi during a police operation and a romantic relationship ensued between them. However, things do not go well for long when Heidi is discovered to be Ngan's daughter. Ngan forces Dee to resign from his job, but Dee has a strong sense of righteousness and firmly rejects Ngan and proceeds to go on vacation with Heidi on Lantau Island. Seeing how Dee disregards him and also thinking that he is eloping with his daughter, Ngan orders his underlings to find and kill Dee. When Ball hears of this, he goes to plead Ngan, but he gets beaten instead. Later, a group of killers surround Dee in the streets and when he fell into danger, the wounded Ball appears and sacrifices his life to rescue his son. At this time, Dee realizes his father's love for him and vows to seek venegance on Ngan.

 L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

I was dying to watch this movie many years ago but not able to find it, finally i found it :) This is the very first movie of Sammi Cheng~ Sammi is so fresh and pretty, her acting not that good yet but was also nominated as the Best New Actress in 1992, so proud of her.

The whole storyline is not bad, Ng Man Tat is good no matter in comedy or even in this kind of serious film~ Jacky Cheung looks young and cute as well, but of course the acting was kinda not stable during that year too 

Troublesome Night 5 陰陽路5: 一見發財

 Released Year: 1999

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yau

Casted by:

古天樂 Louis Koo as 林中發 Fatt
 雷宇揚 Simon Lui as 发朋友 Fatt's friend
 羅蘭 Helena Law as 老婆婆 Weird old lady
 李蕙敏 Amanda Lee as 發妻 Fatt's wife
 鄧一君 John Tang as 安仔 Onn

 Story:

Fatt is a gambler and cause his family to move to a haunted house during night time. He makes a deal with the devil, if the ghost helps him to become rich, he will give everything that he has in half for the ghost. Fatt started to win lottery and getting richer, hence the ghost rape his wife and wanted his son too. To end this, Fatt burn himself to death.

Onn grew up and work as security for Fatt's friend. The building he incharge is the one Fatt died in. Onn met the old lady who kept warn him about this building. Onn told this to his mother, suspecting this might be cause by Fatt, the wife went back to see Fatt. Fatt's spirit ask for his wife's forgiveness and finally left.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Troublesome night series of movie is kinda popular in Hong Kong & mostly all the actors & actresses are from TVB. For thi 5th movie, storyline is consider still ok, but the excitement/horror part can be better actually...

The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake 竞雄女侠·秋瑾

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yao

Casted by:

黄奕 Crystal Huang as 秋瑾 Qiu Jin

杜宇航 Du Yu Hang as 徐锡麟 Xu Xi Lin
黄秋生 Anthony Wong as 李钟岳 Yue
郑嘉颖 Kevin Cheng as 王廷钧 Jun
夏文汐 Patricia Ha as 吴芝瑛 Ying   

 Story:

Life of Qiu Jin begins in a rich family and she was married to Jun who is also rich, but she decided to went over to Japan and learn about the woman's right. She came back and fought for it and helped Lin on a revolutionary. But in the end she was arrested and chopped off her head. 

  L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Crystal Huang still not my fav actress after i watched her bullshit comedy. Though this is a serious movie and she's quite good, but it did not change my impression of her :P Overall the movie is quite good to talk about Qiu Jin's legendary, but some parts are a bit boring...

The Untold Story 八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽

Released Year: 1993
Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Chow

Casted by:
黃秋生 Anthony Wong as 王志恆/ 陳子良 Hang
李修賢 Danny Lee as 李Sir Lee
關寶慧 Emily Kwan as 小寶 Bao
劉兆銘 Liu Zhao Min as 鄭臨 Lam
成奎安 Sing Kwai An as 鄭鉢 Buu
李華月 Julie Lee as 會計小姐 Receptionist
Story:

The story opens with Wong Chi Hang fleeing the Hong Kong police, who are after him for murder. He winds up in Macau, where he takes a job as a cook at the 8 Immortals restaurant. After getting busted for cheating at a game of Mah Jong, Wong kills the owner and the family, taking over the restaurant himself. Meanwhile, the police, led by Officer Lee are called out to a local beach. It seems that a bag of decomposing body parts has washed ashore.

The police begin to suspect Wong has both something to do with the washed up body parts and the disappearance of the family. Wong continues to gleefully murder any of his employees who suspect what might be going on . . . disposing of their bodies in a most interesting way. Wong is captured near the middle of the film and placed in jail.

The cops need a confession, so they place him in a cell with a relative of one of his victims in the hopes that he can beat it out of Wong. The prison scenes are just as disturbing as the murders that have occurred earlier in the film - perhaps more so. What makes them truly unsettling is not merely the violence, but the fact that the viewer begins to sympathize with Wong. It's hard to watch him suffer at the hands of the police and the felons around him and not feel some kind of empathy, despite the fact that he's a brutal murderer . . . and therein lies the true strength of this film.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This movie is based on a true story which happen in Macau during 1985. The whole movie is very violence and bloody~ Anthony Wong definitely did a great job for bringing this psycho character out from the movie, therefore this has won him the best actor in the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The pace is not bad, except the part when the police try to solve the case, it looks dumb actually. And the way they torture the suspect is really over too, whether its true or not... it's indirectly warn us not to do bad things and go inside jail... lol~ They have film total of 3 movies from this... i'm so gonna search for the other 2...

Troublesome Night 20 阴阳路20: 降頭

Released Year: 2007
Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yau

Casted by:
郑浩南 Mark Cheng as 张乐民 Rockman
邵美琪 Maggie Shiu as 嘉碧 Bik
林雪 Lam Suet as 琛 Sum
黄德斌 Kenny Huang as 林超 Chiu
古宇 Kris Gu as 诺文 Lockman
腾子萱 Teng Tzu Hsuan as 林依丽 Elli
刘锦玲 Lau Kam Ling as 陈莉莉 Lily Chan
Story:

Few years ago, detective Rockman shot a criminal Chiu in Bangkok and cause him to loss his pain feeling. Rockman also involve in an affair with Elli who came from Shen Zhen and dance in a Go Go bar at bangkok. They have relationship but Rockman left her later while promising he will come back later.

Years later, Rockman's wife Bik was casted a black magic. Their son also die after cursed by the black magic. Rockman & Sum expected is Chiu who came back for revenge. They try to search him but failed. Later on Rockman admitted his affair and suspect Elli is the black magic caster. But after investigating, Elli never left Thailand and enter to Hong Kong before.

Rockman & Sum bring Bik to see a black magic caster to release Bik's black magic. When they thought everything is over, the black magic came back to hurt Bik again. The truth is, Elli's admire in Bangkok, Lockman has come for revenge. Seeing Elli suffering from the love torture, Lockman decided to learn black magic and come to kill Rockman. He's the one who casted the black magic to Bik and her son; while buying the materials from Chiu.

They arrested Chiu and Chiu offer Rockman to help Bik released her from the black magic. Rockman sneak Chiu out from the police station but was traced by Sum. On a fight, Chiu used black magic to cast Bik against them but Rockman managed to defeat them while Sum was killed. After collecting all materials, they start to do black magic, but Lockman's head fly in to attack. Luckily, in the end, Lockman's head touched the materials and released Bik's black magic.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

This is quite good, horror + a bit of erotic feeling, kinda eerriee in the whole film. Teng Tzu Hsuan is so hot, her boobs are nice and seems yummy.

Overall the storyline and the make up thingy is quite good. The only fake part is when Maggie Shiu vomit out all the centipedes, that part is a bit weird lo~ graphic not nice enough~ lol.