Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Vampire Who Admires Me (2008)Photobucket

Beginning scene, a couple has sex in a cemetery. The girl gets hurt and her blood wakes a vampire in the grave. The vampire grabs the girl and scratches the guy.

Macy (J.J. Jia) lives by herself but she has the six sense. Her dead grandmother speaks to her and the spirit lives with Macy in the apartment. Macy and BiBi (Ankie Beilke) is a young fashion model. They are doing a photo shoot with "young and dead" as the theme. The photographer asks to go to a real cemetery so they go to the producer, Mr. King's (Samuel Pang) ancestral home on East Dragon Island.


On the island Mr. King's house keeper is the guy that was scratched by the vampire. He is starting to look like a ghost himself. Mr. King and all his models have a party at night and he sleeps with the big boob model Chelsea (Natalie Meng). All the while, the house keeper tells Macy that a vampire has killed him and now he will turn into a vampire too. The house keeper also said that the king of vampires will be woken soon.


On the other side Sha Dan Wei (Roger Kwok) is a local cop helping a woman look for her daughter (which is the one taken by the vampire). The next morning one of the cops finds out Macy is an old classmate of his. They share information about the vampire. The cops go to ask the oldest local on the island about the king of vampires. He said that Grandpa King died 60 years ago. His son inherited all the money and bullied a family until their death. The family's daughter-in-law committed suicide in front of Grandpa King's grave and cursed him to roam as a vampire. Days later Grandpa King came out of the grave and killed his own family. Luckily there was a powerful monk on the island that sealed Grandpa King to his grave.


The seal is broken and the photographer choose Grandapa King's grave as the perfect spot for his theme. Grandpa King's awakes and all the vampires come out to feed. Vampires can be killed with fire and staked at the heart. While running away from Grandpa King Macy's cop friend gets scratched. While stuck between vampire and human form he straps himself to a gasoline canister and grabs Grandpa King. Sha Dan Wei shoots into the canister and the vampires both blow up.


Finally, Macy goes home safely. Unknowingly she brought back the hand of her dead friend and it was trying to get out.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Look For A Star (2009) Photobucket

Andy Lau narrates* legend has it that fortuitous is like a glass globe. The globe fell from the sky and shattered to pieces. People all around picked up the pieces. Some got more and some got less but no one can pick up all the pieces.

Sam Ching (Andy Lau) is an owner of a corporation that owns MGM Hotel in Shanghai. He flies to Shanghai with his secretary, Jo Kwok (Denise Ho) to conduct meetings for the hotel. He is a kind boss that tries to set up his long time driver Tim Ma (Lam Ka-Wah) with a girl and tries to help Jo find a boyfriend.

Sam meets Milan Sit (Shu Qi) while she was working in the hotel. Milan is a poor girl living in Shanghai that is an inspired tap dancer. She was substituting a casino dealer. Andy Lau happens to meet her in the elevator and on the Pak Ga Lok table. Andy finds Milan interesting for her tap dancing in the elevator and mistaking him for a gambling addict. Sam and Milan start a relationship together.

Time progresses, Jo meets a poor electrician in the hotel and falls in love with him. Tim falls in love with a Shanghaian with a child and Sam falls in love with Milan. Sam breaks it to Milan that he is the rich guy that owns MGM Hotel. Milan accepts him even though she knows that their social status will cause trouble.

He proposes to her but his financial advisors urge him have her sign an pre-nuptial agreement. Sam had three wifes before and one of them took half his fortune. Sam and Milan's relationship turns sour. At the same time Jo and Tim is having similar problems with their new found love. All three of them are in love with people that are lower in social status.

Sam, Jo and Tim decide to take their love to a reality tv show that specializes in bringing guests that are looking for their happiness. Jo and Tim's lovers came on the show and successfully got back together. However Milan did not show up as such she rejected Sam on public TV. Sam remember that Milan is a person that is true to everyone around her and doesn't care for money. Sam leaves the show and finds Milan at their first date spot. 

Milan tells him that she really wants to come but is not ready for his world. Then she presents him with a ring and tells him that she is ready for him to join her world. Sam accepts.


Sunday, February 1, 2009

Legendary Assassin (2008)Photobucket

Bo (Wu Jing) is chowing down lots of food at a cafe. It makes him feel satisfied and alive to be able to eat. The restaurant owner walks by and gives him a bowling ball bag. He asks her if god would ever forgive them for what they've done. She tells him that it depends on how he look at things.

He takes the bag and goes to a rural Hong Kong Island. He hides outside a temple watching Chairman Ma (Kou Zhan Wen) and his bodyguards. In a quick swift Bo comes out and knocks the bodyguards down. Chairman Ma comes out with a big sword and continues a long fight scene with Bo. At the end Bo kills Ma and leaves the scene.

When Bo walks to dock, he hears that there is a level 8 typhoon and all the ferries are closed. He turns around to look for shelter and food. On a small street he sees Hiu Wor (Celina Jade) on a tree trying to get her cat down. Accidentally she slips and Bo saves her. Hiu Wor apologizes for the scare and ripping his shirt. She let's him into her house. She saw his bowling ball bag and asks him what he is doing in the island. He says that he is there on vacation and he teaches bowling.

She takes him to eat at the only place open during a typhoon. While eating fishball noodles they hear the radio about three bank robbers that got away now in suspicion of hiding in the island. She turns around and sees three suspicious guys eating noodles. She walks over and asks them for their IDs. The big ugly guy chokes her and Bo comes to save her. He knocks the guys up and another crazy fight scene.

At the end Bo beats down the three guys and the cops come. Hiu asks Bo to go to the police station with her. She is a cop and wanted him to leave a testimony. Everyone really likes Bo for saving Hiu and helping them solve a big case. Except, Tarzan (Sammy Leung) is jealous of Bo and picks on him. Everyone asks Bo to stay and eat dinner. Hiu is very nice to Bo and they wash dishes together then Bo teaches her to fight. They exchange tactics and have fun doing it.

All the while, Chairman Ma's men lead by Fat Wing(Lam Suet) came to the island to look for their boss. They found a headless Chairman Ma and one of his bodyguards says that the assassin was holding a bag. Mrs. Ma (Aoyama Noriko) calls to instruct Fat Wing that they have to find Chairman Ma's head. The men spread out to look for his head.

Hiu and Tarzan go out to inspect a complaint. They find several of Ma's men and Ma's headless body. They get into a fight and wins because Bo was secretly helping. They take the body back to the police station. Mrs. Ma finds out and tells Fat Wing to get the body back. Fat Wing and the followers invade the police station and left Bao (Alex Fong) dead.

More police come to the island to solve the case and they suspect Bo to be the assassin. Hiu inspected Bo's bag and found a bowling ball so they let him off the island. When he got to mainland Hong Kong Mrs. Ma's men were waiting for him. He accidentally drops the bag and the bowling ball rolls out and the inside the ball was Chairman Man's head.

Mrs. Ma kidnapps Hiu and trapes Bo back to the island. Mrs. Ma ties Hiu up and lines her men to wait for Bo. When Bo comes a hundred men attack him and they go into a long fist fight. Everyone is down even Bo. Mrs. Ma walks over with a Japanese sword. She wants to take his head but Hiu finally gets free and knocks Mrs. Ma. Behind Mrs. Ma goes out she stabs Bo. Before Bo passes out he says that the time he had with Hiu was the happiest he's ever had.

Hiu narrates. Bo has left and didn't leave anything. She's been researching why he killed Chairman Ma. She has found that Chairman Ma once kidnapped a doctor name Audrey White and at the end kills her.

Bo narrates. He leaves the bowling ball bag infront of Audrey White's grave and says that this was the only thing he could do for her because she had saved his life.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Hansel and Gretel (2007) Photobucket

Eun-Su (Cheon Jeong Myeong) is driving in a country road to visit his dying mother. He gets a phone call from his girlfriend wanting to discuss about her recent pregnancy. She wants him to take responsibility and he was trying to avoid the subject. He gets into a car accident.

When he awakes he finds a little girl name Yeong-Hye (Shim Eun Keyong) by his side. It was dark and no where to get help so Eun-Su follows Yeong-Hye to her house in the middle of the forest. The house was a huge cottage in the middle of the forest. It had toys, cookies and decorations like Christmas. Eun-Su finds Man-Bok (Eun Won Jae) the brother, Jeong-Sun (Jin Ji Hye) the youngest sister, and two parents living in the house. The family looks very odd and seems to be hiding a big secret. The parents seem very nervous but always polite.

Eun-Su tries to leave to go home but fails to get out of the forest. The second day Eun-Su finds the parents are gone and leaves him with the kids. Eun-Su senses there is someone in the attic and goes to investigate. He finds the "mom" scared and dirty. Turns out she is not the children's mother. Her and her husband was brought to the house when their car broke down. They couldn't leave the forest and now the children has taken her husband. A day later Eun-Su finds the "mom" in the attic but her body has turned into porcelain. He finds evidence that the "father" was chopped up as meat for supper.

Eun-Su finds a book on the floor, it was Hansel and Gretel. It turns out that the children was born in 1960s and the house they are in was once an orphanage. They were abused by a man they called father. This man left the children in filth and used them to make money. He locked the older children or those that he deemed useless in a room to starve. He would beat the children to death and sexually abuse the girls. During Christmas a charity came with a man dressed as Santa Claus. Santa said that if they imagined it anything they wish would happen. He also gave them candy and the book Hansel and Gretel.

Man-bok had supernatural powers and when he thought hard he could make things move. He thought that it was Santa Claus that brought them this power. The children kills the orphanage father by pushing him in the oven.

For 40 years the children has been looking for parents that would take care of them. The children would force people to stay with them in the house but when they try to leave the children would kill them. The children was cursed by their abused childhood and was forever stuck in the age of a child. They are forever looking for grown-ups that were caring and wanted them.

Finally they decide to let Eun-Su leave because he was the only one that cared for them. For everyone that stayed at the house the children would create a story and draw it in a notebook. However the story ends in the notebook would happen in real life. The only way to get out was to burn the notebook with his story.

Eun-Su burns the book and suddenly wakes up on the freeway. He goes home and decides to have the baby with his girlfriend. He ends up being a good father and husband. He constantly tries to find news of the children because he felt sad for them.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Martial Butterfly Lover (2008) Photobucket

Narrator explains that legend has it that the story of Shan-Pak and Ying-Tai is reincarnation of Weaving Goddess and the Cowherd. They are destined to relive their tradegic love story for ten lives. One live of which is Liang Chun-Shan and Zhu Yan-Gi.

Zhu Yan-Gi (Charlene Choi) is a daugther of a weathy winery owner. She dressed up as a young man to enroll in the all-male Soul Ease Clan to learn marital arts. Her childhood friend Ma (Hu Ge) escorts her to the martial school. In the beginning she hates the eldest brother, Chu-Shan (Wu Jun) for picking on her. When he begins teaching her martial arts they start to have respect for each other. Yan-Gi does really cute things like drawing butterflies on Chu-Shan's sword and drinking for Chu-Shan in a match. 

Yan-Gi always had a dream of a man with his back turned in a middle of a flower field but doesn't know who he is. 
Yan-Gi is very bad at martial arts even with Chu-Shan's help. They both work very hard to keep Yan-Gi in school. The head herbal teacher, Herb Head (Harlem Yu), is the only one that knows Yan-Gi is a girl. He lets her stay in his herbs room and becomes her confidante. He has her help him test a new drug he made that allows a person to fake death. A person appears dead but comes back to live after taking a certain herb. Herb Head takes the drug and everyone at school thinks he is dead. The second day Yan-Gi goes to the mountain to find the herb but falls unconsciences because of dehidration. Chu-Shan gets worried and goes to look for her. He finds her and when he tries to revive her Chu-Shan finds out Yan-Gi is a woman. 

After that day they start flirting and falling for each other. That's when they found out Yan-Gi's family has been in trouble with corrupted governments and that's why they sent her to the martial school. Ma has been helping conspire with another government offical to save Yan-Gi's family. Ma is madly in love with Yan-Gi. Yan-Gi's father forces her to marry Ma because Ma saved the family. 

She gets locked up because she wouldn't marry Ma. Chu-Shan gets extremely wounded by Ma's men trying to see Yan-Gi. When he got to Yan-Gi she stabs him in the chest because she wanted to him to forget their love. She has to marry Ma or Ma would send his men to kill her parents and Chu-Shan. 

Herb Head perfects his drug and sneaks to see Yan-Gi. Herb Head tells her to take the drug and she will come back to live after 3 days. When everyone thinks she is dead, she can run away with Chu-Shan. Before Herb Head could savely leave the premises to tell Chu-Shan the plan Herb Head gets killed by Ma's men. 

Yan-Gi drinks the drug on the day of her wedding. Everyone thinks she is dead. Chu-Shan is so heart broken he goes to Yan-Gi's funeral to retrieve her body. Ma fights Chu-Shan at the funeral. Chu-Shan is so hurt he's about to die. Seeing this Ma lets him go with Yan-Gi's body. 

Chu-Shan takes her to a field of flowers and digs a grave big enough for the both of them. He lays next to her and tells her he always dreamed of being with her in the flower field. When the martial brothers find the pair laying in the grave, out of grieve, they start buring the grave. That is when Yan-Gi wakes up from her fake death. When she sees Chu-Shan dead laying next to her. She says that butterflies should be in pairs and not lonely. She closes her eyes and is buried along with Chu-Shan. 

The end scene, Yan-Gi and Chu-Shan is happy holding hands in the flower field.



Friday, December 19, 2008

Painted Skin (2008)Photobucket

During an invasion General Wang Sheng(Chen Kun) saves Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun) and takes her home. Except General did not really save Xiao Wei. She was a demon that feeds off human hearts. She wears a beautiful human skin to cover her demon face and the hearts keep her skin fresh.

General's wife Pei Rong (Vicki Zhao) treats Xiao Wei like a sister. The three of them live together happily and Xiao Wei starts to fall for in love with the General. The General has feelings for Xiao Wei too.

Pei Rong starts to suspect Xiao Wei is a demon because when she arrived there was cases of heart-taking murders and Xiao Wei's hand miraculously heals after an accident. Pei Rong asks Pang Yong(Donnie Yen)for help.

Pang Yong was an ex-general that ran away from the army when he became tired of war. He was the General's superior and Pei Rong's ex-lover. He came back after being missing for years to see Pei Rong.

Pang Yong recruits a decedent of a family of "ghost busters", Xia Bing (Betty Sun), to help him fight Xiao Wei. No one would believe that the sweet Xiao Wei was a demon and they couldn't find any hard evidence.

Xiao Wei finally takes off her skin in front of Pei Rong and she was made up of worms. Xiao Wei asks Pei Rong to leave the General. Pei Rong made a deal to drink poison and tell everyone herself was the demon so Xiao Wei would not hurt anyone.

The General loves his wife so much that he doesn't care whether she is the demon or not. He saw that she was dying and kills himself. Xiao Wei saw that the General had such a devotion to love and everything she worked for was useless she decides to trade her life for his life. She spits out her life energy and gives it to the General. Once Xiao Wei dies everyone that was under her poison comes back to life.