A Long Vacation
Posted 5-7-08
We took a long vacation from this website thanks to that Italy trip, Internet problems, jet lag and work. Now we're back with the first of what we'll be calling our Red Cliff Update Series. Basically, each update will have a new Red Cliff poster and even more reviews. The question is how many reviews we can muster by the time we run out of Red Cliff pictures. The suspense is almost ghastly.

On to the reviews: Kozo looks at Happy Funeral, the first PTU movie Tactical Unit - The Code, and the Japanese medical thriller The Glorious Team Batista. Sanjuro checks out that Jackie Chan-Jet Li movie The Forbidden Kingdom, LMFDean9 watches Seven Days, starring that woman from Lost; and JMaruyama visits the past to watch the 2001 Japanese drama All About Lily Chou-Chou.

Next time: Johnnie To's Sparrow.

10th Udine Far East Film Festival
Posted 4-16-08
It runs from the 18th to the 26th, and it features some fine Hong Kong films, including the yet-to-show-in-HK Sparrow and the first PTU TV movie, both from some guy named Johnnie To. For a change, LoveHKFilm will look at Hong Kong film from a place not called Hong Kong or California, because that's where we're going. What we do there is anyone's guess, but it'll probably involve seeing movies, sleeping, and seeing even more movies. If there's extra time, we'll sleep. As you can probably guess, it's our dream vacation. Read about the 10th Far East Film Festival here. Knowing Italian would help.

Now we're up to 13! Score.
Posted 4-16-08
Last week, we said we would publish 10 reviews in 10 days. Well, we actually managed 13 in just 7 days, which basically means that we hit this one out of the park. I would be happier at this achievement, but it's been tarnished by the fact that we were only able to do it thanks to some timely injections of Human Growth Hormone. Congress has just served us with a subpoena.

Oh yeah, the reviews: Hong Kong commercial releases Run Papa Run and Love is Elsewhere, plus the Hong Kong and Taiwan chapters in the Eric Tsang-produced Winds of September trilogy. Reviews of the Korean film Love Exposure and the Japanese film Welcome to the Quiet Room round out this update. See you after Italy.

Warlords wins everything
Posted 4-13-08
Congratulations to Warlords, which took home more awards than any film truly deserves at the27th Hong Kong Film Awards. The results were handed out on April 13th, 2008, and among the winners were Jet Li, Peter Chan, cinematographer Arthur Wong, and a bunch of other people that we can't remember. We'd like to thank Hong Kong Cinema, Media Asia, and everyone's mothers.

7 down, 3 to go
Posted 4-12-08
A few days ago, this site promised it would publish 10 reviews in 10 days. Well, we're already up to 7. This accomplishment is obviously of massive importance.

Away, this time there are reviews of HK horror flick scare 2 die, plus the Korean film Resurrection of the Butterfly, the award-winning Japanese film I Just Didn't Do It, and the Taiwanese lesbian double feature: Drifting Flowers and Candy Rain.

10 Days, 10 Reviews
Posted 4-09-08
We've been quiet for a while, but in the next 10 days, we will publish at least 10 reviews. Guaranteed. The insanity kicks off today with reviews of Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon and the Korean film My Father. Yep, that's only two reviews right there, but there will be at least eight more during the next 10 days. If not, you can all have your money back.

Also, you might want to tune in early next week for the results of the latest Hong Kong Film Awards. We're betting on black.

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Newer Hong Kong Reviews:
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- Bullet & Brain
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- An Empress and the Warriors
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- L For Love, L For Lies
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- Love is Elsewhere
- Lust, Caution
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- Magic Boy
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- The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
- Protégé
- Run Papa Run
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- Sparrow
- Tactical Unit - The Code
- Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
- Triangle
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- Undercover
- The Warlords
- The Way We Are
- Who's Next
- Wonder Women
- Yes, I Can See Dead People

Newer China reviews:
- The Assembly
- Call For Love
- Lost in Beijing
- Love in the City
- The Magic Gourd
- The Sun Also Rises
- Two Stupid Eggs

Newer Taiwan reviews:
- Candy Rain
- Drifting Flowers
- Island Etude
- Keeping Watch
- The Most Distant Course
- Summer's Tail
- Winds of September - The Taiwan Chapter

Newer Japan reviews:
- All About Lily Chou-Chou
- Always - Sunset on Third Street
- Bugmaster
- Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust
- Christmas on July 24th Avenue
- Dog in a Sidecar
- Dororo
- Freesia
- Gegege no Kitaro
- Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- The Glorious Team Batista
- Heavenly Forest
- Hero
- Hula Girls
- I Just Didn't Do It
- Into the Faraway Sky
- The Inugamis
- L: Change the World
- Like a Dragon
- The Many Faces of Chika
- Memories of Tomorrow
- Midnight Eagle
- Monkey Magic
- Rainbow Song
- Sakuran
- Sukiyaki Western Django
- Talk, Talk, Talk
- Tokyo Serendipity
- Tokyo Tower
- Udon
- Unfair: The Movie
- Vexille
- Waiting in the Dark
- Waters
- Welcome to the Quiet Room
- Yellow Tears

Newer Korea reviews:
- Attack on the Pin-Up Boys
- Breath
- Black House
- D-War
- A Day for an Affair
- For Eternal Hearts
- Going By The Book
- Hot for Teacher
- Hwang Jin Yi (2007)
- I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
- Like a Virgin
- Love Exposure
- M
- My Boss My Student
- My Father
- My Wife is a Gangster 3
- The President's Last Bang
- Resurrection of the Butterfly
- The Restless
- Seducing Mr. Perfect
- Seven Days
- Soo
- Swindler in My Mom's House
- The Worst Guy Ever

Other PanAsia reviews:
- Anna and Anna
- Chocolate
- DOA: Dead or Alive
- The Forbidden Kingdom
- Jade Warrior
- Just Follow Law
- My Blueberry Nights
- Rush Hour 3
- War

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