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~ 

Hail the Judge 九品芝麻官

 Released Year: 1994

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 包龍星 Sing

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 包有為 Wai 

徐錦江 Elvis Tsui as 雷豹 Pao

苑瓊丹 Kingdom Yuen as 三姑 Sam

鄒兆龍 Chow Cho Long as 常威 Wai

蔡少芬 Ada Choi as 如煙 Yin

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 戚秦氏 Qin

吳啟華 Ng Kai Wa as 方唐鏡 Keng

梁榮忠 Leung Weng Zhong as 吳廣得 Dak

鍾麗緹 Christy Chong as 吳好缇 Tai

 Story: 

Bao Sing is Bao Zheng’s corrupt descendant, who’s hated by the public for his money-digging ways. He has a change of heart when he sees rape victim Cheung Man get framed by other corrupt lawyers and officials, including legendary lawyer Fong Tong-Ken. Bao goes through hell when he tries to expose them, and soon he finds himself on the run with nephew Ng Man-Tat. They encounter all sorts of wacky characters, including Christy Chung as a circus performer/love interest and Ada Choi Siu-Fun as a classy prostitute/love interest.

 L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

First half of this movie is actually quite serious until Stephen Chow was sold in the hooker street, Kingdom Yuen is always the best supporting actress of Stephen Chow's movie when come to comedy part. As usual, Kingdom never wasted her gift and send us a lots of laughter~ Ada Choi and Christy Zhong is beautiful as always :)

Bruce Lee My Brother 李小龍

 Released Year: 2010

Directed by 葉偉民 Yip Wai Man & 文雋 Man Jun

 

Casted by:

李治廷 Aarif Rahman as 李小龍 Bruce Lee

謝婷婷 Jennifer Tse as 曹敏兒 Pearl Tso

梁家輝 Tony Leung as 李海泉 Lee Hoi Chuen
鍾麗緹 Christy Chung as 何愛榆 Grace Ho
張一山 Zhang Yi Shan as 劉連光 Lau Ting Kong

 Story:

Bruce Lee, My Brother is a dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. Based directly from the book "Memories of Lee Siu Loong", which is authored by Lee's siblings (Phoebe, Robert, Agnes and Peter),[3][4] it revolves around Bruce Lee's life as a rebellious adolescent in Hong Kong before he sets off for the USA and conquers the world at the age of 18 with only US$102 in his pocket.

As a young man, Bruce grew up in an affluent family. Entering the film industry at an early age, he gained fame as a child actor. Outside the home and studio, he was rebellious; he spent time engaging in street fights, dancing with lady friends, and hanging with his buddies, Kong and Unicorn, the latter a fellow child actor who would later appear in Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon. Invincible as he is as a street fighter, Bruce's romantic escapades are not as smooth and successful. He is head-over-heels in love with Pearl, only to realize his mate Kong shares the same passion. At a cha-cha dancing tournament, Kong tells Bruce his intentions of leaving Pearl so Bruce himself can have her, damaging their friendship. Bruce is unable to come to terms with Kong.

Against his father's wishes, Bruce studies the Wing Chun martial arts style instead of Tai-chi and tastes his first public triumph at a tournament with his kung fu skills. On the eve of his triumph, he learns that Kong has become a drug addict. The same boxer whom Bruce defeated at the ring informs him of his whereabouts. Bruce rumbles the drug lord's den together with Unicorn to rescue Kong, but the drug dealers confront them. Their actions cause a massive chase sequence; although Bruce and his friends survive, Kong would later die from his drug overdose. Bruce himself became the target of both the Triads and corrupted cops who want him in jail.

To save his life, Bruce's father has no choice but to send him off to San Francisco.

  L² Scored: 5/10

 

L² Comment:

Based on the real story of legendary Bruce Lee before he goes Hollywood. Aarif Rahman has the figure and body which is similar like Bruce, but maybe too pretty haha~ The whole story is a bit dull for me & Jennifer Tse is so fucking boring, she's like a blow doll with no expression on her face at all... The only suprise for me is Christy Chung, i can't find a single sexyness of hers in the movie, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Mermaid Got Married 人魚傳說

 Released Year: 1994

Directed by 羅文 Roman Tam

Casted by:

 郑伊健 Ekin Cheng as 阿志 Zhi

钟丽缇 Christy Chung as 小美 Mei

金城武 Takeshi Kaneshiro as Kenji

麦家琪 Teresa Mak as 公主 Princess

 郑则仕 Kent Cheng as 校长 Headmaster

 Story:

When Zhi is young he almost drown in sea but he was saved by a mermaid. Years later Zhi grows up and become a teacher. But he was bullied by his student especially Princess & Kenji and they make him fall into the sea. Once again mermaid Mei save his life and use her pearl to save his life. 

Zhi went back to his old life while Mei become a student and went after him for her pearl. During the period, Mei discovered she has fall in love with Zhi. To prove to Zhi that he can't be in love with her, she transform into mermaid again in front of him. But the transformation has caused the greedy headmaster and other teachers caught the mermaid for sales. But Mei was later on rescued by Zhi, Kenji & Princess. She was released into the sea, Zhi has then waited for her to return. On a wedding, Zhi saw a girl looks like Mei and he went up to her. In the same moment, the headmaster and teacher use water to splash her and hope she become mermaid but failed.

But actually that girl is Mei and this time she managed to control herself and able to be with Zhi forever...

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

I used to love this film a lot, i still do especially when Faye's Wong "Tian Shi" sang throughout the whole film. The storyline is predictable but the "romance" feel is there and quite good. Christy Chung looks so lovely and sweet that time, love her :)

The Bodyguard from Beijing 中南海保鑣

Released Year: 1994
Directed by 元奎 Corey Yuen

Casted by:
李連杰 Jet Li as 許正陽 Allan
鍾麗緹 Christy Chung as 楊倩兒 Michelle
鄭則仕 Kent Cheng as 肥波 Charlie
倪星 Collin Chou as 王建軍 Wang Weng Jun
梁榮忠 Leung Wing Chung as 阿強 Ken
伍衛國 Ng Wai Kok as 宋世昌 James
Story:

Known by few, there exists an elite corp of international bodyguards based in China. Allan Hui Ching-yeung is one of their most promising members known for his highly unorthodox methods, such as pointing a gun at a client's head. Although his methods are anti-trust building, his decisions are usually right.

When a wealthy man's girlfriend, Michelle Yeung becomes the only surviving (of three) witness of a mob murder, Allan is hired to deal with the many attempts on her life. After isolating her completely in her penthouse with her young nephew and two Hong Kong policemen, Charlie Leung Kam-Po and Ken, he has to deal with her anger at being sequestered.

Meantime the mob boss becomes desperate to off this last witness to her murder before his upcoming court date. He hires a deadly Chinese assassin Wang Wen Jun and calls in sick to postpone the court date. All the while Michelle goes berserk as she is not allowed any freedom (such as going to the mall) with Allan being equally fed up at not being able to join the Chinese Premier's bodyguard detail in Southern China. Michelle eventually storms out of the estate. This turns ugly as the mall is crawling with mob assassins dressed as mall clerks, custodians, patrons, and police officers.

After a massive shoot-out inside the mall killing all would-be assassins, they manage to get out to the car. However, an assassin posing as a police officer comes to shoot her with a pistol in his jacket pocket. Fortunately, Charlie stops him and is shot twice in his bulletproof vest. In response, Allan fires several shots from the car killing the perpetrator. The plot gets ugly as the "police officer" turns out to be the younger brother of the Chinese Assassin, who helped save him from a bullet while they were both serving in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He abducts the body from the police morgue killing five forensic centre guards with a tri-bladed bayonet. Burying the body and tossing paper money into the flames, he swears vengeance against the bodyguard.

Meanwhile back at the penthouse, Michelle finally begins to understand that her bodyguards care for her. After apologizing to Allan, she finds that she is falling for him and tries to seduce him. Allan also has some feelings towards Michelle as she tries to seduce him, but held his feelings. Finally, things come to a climax when the a group of assassins and Jun storm the house. Fighting in the house, Allan holds the advantage of being familiar with the house's layout. He takes out most of the assailants leaving only Jun standing but not before they severely wound the two policemen.

With no one left to stop them, Jun and the bodyguard engage in a long hand to hand fight, trashing most of the house. During the melee, the boyfriend enters the house just as Jun recovers his gun. Michelle breaks cover to hold up a stumbling Allan who had been bayoneted in the left lung. Jun points the gun at all three of them asking her to choose who should die first. The boyfriend makes an offer to double whatever he was being paid for the hit in exchange for her life which the assassin refuses. He says his brother was shot seven times, and he intends to put seven bullets into somebody as retribution but then adds, "Perhaps you could pay someone to take the bullet for her?". Allan steps forward as Jun fires a shot at Michelle.

The shot hits Allan in the chest causing him to fall back into Michelle's arms. "One down, six more to go." Jun says and fires again. Impossibly Michelle tries to shield Allan with her body only to have him struggle up pushing her away. The bullet hits him in the back spinning him around. As he spins toward Jun, he uses the last of his strength to pull the bayonet from his chest and throw it into the assassin's neck. The scene ends with Michelle holding the convulsing Allan and crying inconsolably.

With the danger over and the court concluded, we see Michelle and her boyfriend driving to the Chinese/Hong Kong border. The boyfriend, James, was given a note by Allan stating that he needs to be there for her. At the border they try to get Allan to stay in Hong Kong with them. However they are barred from setting foot on Chinese soil pass the checkpoint. As per his wishes, two items were left for them in Hong Kong. The first was the trunk full of money paid by James to Allan which he wills to the police chief. In it is a note, that the money is for his son's education and that the chief shouldn't gamble anymore. Lastly there was a small box for Michelle. The box had his watch which were usually swapped between persons as mementos of the person. Michelle remembers and cries 'Allan' as his car drives away from the border checkpoint back into China.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This is a good film, no matter how many times i watch it, i still like it a lot. The scene that i like the most will be the one in shopping mall when Jet Li rescue Christy from being assassinate. I got so gan cheong everytime~ lol... And the scene when Christy try to seduce him on bed~ phew, that one is good too. But too bad our super action star Jet Li never has any bed scene before in all of his movie, what a waste~

Jan Dara 晚孃 จัน ดารา

Released Year: 2001
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr

Casted by:
Suwinit Panjamawat as Jan Dara (Youngster)
Santisuk Promsiri as Khun Luang
鍾麗緹 Christy Chung as Boonlueang
Wipawee Charoenpura as Waad
Eakarat Sarsukh as Jan Dara (Adult)Story:

When Jan Dara was born, his mother died after the birth. Jan's father Khun Luang cursed him and called him Dara which is known as bastard. As Jan Dara grow up, Khun abused him and even have sex with maids in front of him. Luckily Aunty Waad was there to take care of him. Later on Waad married with Khun and gave birth to Kaew.

Since young, Khun has taught Kaew to look down at Jan and treat him badly. Until the year when Jan Dara become 13, Khun married another woman Boonlueang who become the new stepmother for Jan. In this year, Jan also experience about sex with the maids, Khen and Pek. Pek is the maid for Kaew. When Kaew discovered that Pek is pregnant with Khen's baby, Pek is chase out from the family.

During his time with Boonlueang, Jan learn how to write and gained more knowledge. But when one time he saw Boonlueang bathing, he was seduced and later on have sex with his stepmother. But Kaew is a lesbian who love her maid Pek. She tried to set up a trap to accuse Khen of raping her, but Jan took his responsibility and was send away by his father.

When Jan has grow up as an adult, he was arrange back to marry Kaew who has got pregnant. Jan continued to have sex with Boonluaeng and when discover by Khun. But Khun didn't do anything because he's already useless in performing sex. And Kaew have been having sex with Boonlueang as well.

On the day of his wedding, Jan has sex with maid in his father study room. He was sad because his mother portrait is there. He found that he will never get released from this sex things which he has been doing. And by the end of the movie, Jan discovered his mother got pregnant of him after a gang raped.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Love this movie because all the actors and actresses are good looking in real person. Christy Chung is really hot and Suwinit is damn cute. But the 3 points less from the perfect will be on the story line which is a bit lengthy and boring.

Samsara 色戒

Released Year: 2001
Directed by Pan Nalin

Casted by:
Shawn Ku as Tashi
鍾麗緹 Christy Chung as Pema
Neelesha BaVora as Sujata

Story:

Tashi has been send by his parents to become a Lama monk since he was five, years old and he has been become a monk for 12 years. The final 3 years, he has been doing a mediation in a mountain hole to find out the truth way of become a god. His master and other monk brought him out.

When he's back to the temple, he too was send to do some job together with other Lama for the citizens ceremonies. During one event, he accidentally saw a lady breast-feeding her son. He was shocked but quickly fall in love with woman breast. At night, he got wet dream which worried his best monk-friend Sonam. While in one event, Tashi met a beautiful girl name Pema and has wet dream once again. This time, Sonam decided to tell the senior master regarding Tashi's behavior. Tashi was then queried about Amibudha's life before he become a monk. Amibudha has had his normal life which Tashi think he deserves to try. Therefore, he left the temple and live as a normal person and work for his own living.

Tashi work for Pema's family, they have sex in the padi-field but was caught. Pema's father agreed to let them get marry and they later on gave birth to a son whom they name him as Karma. But they were bullied by a local buyer and tried to pressed down their selling price. To earn more, Tashi and his father-in-law went to the Tibet City by themselves and managed to sell their goods in a good price. But by doing this, they brought in a lot of modern things which make Pema and others uncomfortable.

One night, Tashi & Pema's padi was on fire. Tashi thought the local bullied did it and try toargue with them but was beat to hell. He was too hurt to do business in city, therefore Pema went this time. There was this one indian worker who work for them, Sujata. Sujata's erotic look fancied Tashi, She went to have sex with Tashi when Pema is away. Tashi later on regret on his misbehavior. At this moment, he saw Sonam. Sonam told him that senior master has passed away and request him to go back to the temple and become a Lama again.

Tashi thought about his life as a normal person and know that he has been suffered enough so he decided to become a Lama again. He met Pema on his way, Pema told his about Amibudha's wife when Amibudha is still not a monk. Abandoned his wife and become a monk, Amibudha's wife has live a suffer life to raise their kid and become a married woman without a husband. The sad story confused Tashi and he cried. But in the end, he chose to end his samsara and become a Lama again.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Personally i gave 3 points to Christy's nice boobs, 2 points to Neelesha's huge boobs and another 2.5 to the story line only. I'm sorry to say that the story is ok but the ending was not good. Why did Tashi think he has suffered enough? Seriously, i can't feel it in the movie despite he feel regret on betraying his wife and have sex with another woman. Does this enough to make him give up on his samsara? gosh~

And the way Pema talks about Amibudha's wife life is a bit touching and i think its quite good. Who would ever thought about how the wife feeling when her husband chose to become a monk and left the whole family behind? I'm not querie about Amibudha's decision becoz i respect this God, but i just dont understand. I think as a man, you must be responsible towards your families. Well, this is just my opinion...