Author: amy
Triad Election
We all know power corrupts, so when Brother Lam Lok’s two-year term as the Wo Shing Wo chairman is up — without chances of re-election — he begins shuffling his influences to bend the rules to his favor, even if it’s by using his Brothers.
Election (2005)
Wo Shing Wo members, Lam Lok and Big D, face off for the chance to be the newest chairman. However, before that, one of them must retrieve the Dragon Head Baton. All of a sudden it’s a game of mouse against mouse, when brothers of the same society fight one another for the chance at power.
Toshi Densetsu no Onna
Literally translated to Urban Legend Woman, Toshi Densetsu no Onna is a Japanese drama following detective Tsukiko Otonashi, an avid fan of Japanese urban legends. She encounters one murder case after another to then discover what logically really happened.
ThunderCats (2011) – Season 1
With animation done by Studio 4C, the look and feel of Thundercats goes beyond a regular cartoon, revamping the story and making it darker.
Seediq Bale
This historical epic — the most expensive Taiwanese movie ever made at $25M USD and directed by Wei Te-Sheng — depicts the Wushe Incident, in which the Taiwanese aborigines rose against the Japanese, killing over 130 of them.
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection – 4-Disc Bluray
I will tell you this, there’s no better home release for Battle Royale than this one.
Crowd Lu – Good Morning, Good Evening Concert – 6-Disc
Shot at the Taipei Arena on December 18th 2010, Lu ran a marathon gig that lasted from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. — all 12 hours of pure Crowd Lu happiness, resulting in this 3-disc concert set.
You Are the Apple of my Eye
Taiwan’s biggest surprise of 2011 — also being pretty popular in Hong Kong and Singapore — a romantic drama called You Are the Apple of my Eye. But what’s so amazingly appealing about a simple romantic drama involving teenagers, you say?
Game Change
Ah… politics — American politics — hate to love ’em, love to hate ’em. But how delicious they are with a little gossipy insight, huh?
