Still waiting for IVL/Celestial release for that. Since they stopped butchering their films with 5.1 remixes I’d actually buy their dvd… if they just fucking released it.
Then something weird from Japan. A sequel to Shaolin Soccer… Yes, I said from Japan.
“Here’s what we know: it’s the announcement of Shaolin Shoujo, a sequel to Stephen Chow’s action-comedy Shaolin Soccer. It’s a purely Japanese film - with Chow on board as producer - starring Kou Shibasaki and directed by Odoro Daisousasen’s Katsuyuki Motohiro with the sports setting moved away from soccer and into the world of lacrosse.”
I almost made a thread for the first *Keitai Deka film (ケータイ 刑事 THE MOVIE) last year when it was released. Now there’s a sequel coming. I don’t know if these films are any good but they look like they could be some silly fun. Based on TV show.
There was this movie where a man came in to this town and two local brothers started to fight him.Then it was lunch time so they all ate together then started fighting again. They fought till dinner and then the brothers mom came and jumped in the fight and told the man that the boys had to eat and invited him to eat.While they where eating they realized they were fighting the same bad guy and team up to fight him .After breakfast the next morning.
You don’t find reviews about contempoary HK cinema.
I’m considering to order Sweet Revenge [ Nick Cheung, Anthony Wong, Fan Bing-Bing ] and House of the Invisibles [ Lam Suet, Wayne Lai, Ken Wong ], but there’s no text about them; though cinema release.
Oh yeah, it’s good. Not great but good. I first saw it when I was about your age and didn’t like it, if fact I nearly hated it. I was expecting John Woo meets Basic Instinct and I didn’t quite get that. The film is very campy but fun. I later started liking it more and now I watch it every now and then. Just don’t expect any A-grade artsploitation like the japanese 70’s exploitation films.
The HKL dvd is excellent. Uncut “director’s cut”, good transfer, good audio, audio commentary with director Clarence Fok and someone (Jude Poyer maybe?) and more than an hour worth of great interviews with Simon Yam, Clarence Fok and and Wong Jing. Plus the usual trailers and text infos. And the menus are some of the best I’ve ever seen.
Good film (and a huge classic) and an excellent dvd. Needs to be in any HK collectors collection. Money well spent Max
I should add that there’s hardly any nudity in the film. Not that it’s a bad thing but some viewers may be disappointed when neither of the leading ladys show any skin. But it’s a good thing actually, I like Chingmy Yau and I don’t think she ever did any actual nudity although she was a Cat III regular. She also appears in Raped by an Angel, again alongside Simon Yam. It’s a pretty good film (better than Naked Killer) combining sexual content (again hardly any skin), great romantic comedy (no kidding) and some violent action. A combination only early 90’s Hong Kong could produce. It being a Wong Jing production I’m quite sure there’s some very lowbrow jokes but I can’t really recall any right now. The film is also know as Naked Killer 2, but in fact the films are not related in any way and I suspect “Naked Killer 2” was just a marketing trick and not any of the film’s original HK titles.
You know, I once had a dream I was in Rome with Chingmy Yau. She was wearing this jacket:
