Amy’s Favorite Films of 2015
Oh, let’s do this~ I don’t wanna stress about watching movies during the holidays. It’s time. Time for End of the Year lists, but also time to segregate my list… just like I did...
Tagged: country: hong kong
Little Big Master (Hong Kong Film)
The true story of a private school teacher that leaves her good-earning job to help the five remaining students of a tiny kindergarten of a poor district that’s about to get shut down.
100 Songs of Chinese Music
A list of 100 songs, 100 different artists, 100 different albums of music that’s labeled ‘Chinese.’
Chinese Odyssey 2002
Is it possible to write a nonsensical story with a purpose? Jeffrey Lau’s early millennium period comedy -sometimes wuxia sometimes musical- of ‘imprisoned’ Imperial siblings that meet their destined lovers in the outcasts of a tiny village during the Ming dynasty seems to prove it.
John Woo’s The Crossing 2 Trailer with English Subtitles
John Woo’s passion project is concluding with the release of the The Crossing II, the culmination of the sinking of the Taiping steamer in 1949, continuing the stories of three couples on board.
Monster Hunt
An orphan with a crippled leg gets impregnated by a Queen Monster and gets aided by a female Monster Hunter who just wants to make a quick buck with a baby turnip monster.
Faye Wong – The Breeze Blows Gently
Faye Wong is in charge of the main theme song for the upcoming Chinese comedy Lost in Hong Kong (港囧) with The Breeze Blows Gently (清风徐来), a song written and composed by Zhao Yingjun (赵英俊).
It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong: Interview with Emily Ting
I love films that become love letters to the cities they shoot in, so when I got the chance to catch Emily Ting’s first fictional feature length, I got to ask her about the making of the film and what makes an expat not an immigrant.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin Trailer with English Subtitles
The kidnapped daughter of a general is trained to become an assassin by a Daoist nun, and sent to kill her fated betrothed cousin in this historical action drama.
