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are accredited via a notation at the end of the review:
(Some Guy's
Name, Year)
A practical example:
(Elvis, 1965)
This means that
a reviewer named Elvis wrote the review, and 1965
was the year in which the review was written. We feel
that adding a year is necessary, as when a review is written
can easily affect the reviewer's subjectivity, objectivity
and choice of idiom. Also, reviews written before 1999 tend
to be poorly written because the writer probably only learned
to write recently.
Please keep in mind, all the reviews are the subjective opinions
of a sole reviewer and should not be viewed as any official
gospel. It's just one man or woman's opinion. Please
respect it. If you don't, well, that's your problem.
Dissenting opinions are welcome, unless they involve name
calling or come from people with an ax to grind. You know who you are.
Most
Current
HK and China Reviews:
2012
The Great Magician
Speed Angels
2011
1911
3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy
The 33D Invader
72 Martyrs
All's Well Ends Well 2011
Beach Spike
A Beautiful Life
Beginning of the Great Revival
Big Blue Lake
Chase Our Love
A Chinese Ghost Story
Choy Lee Fut
The Detective 2
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
East Meets West
The Flowers of War
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Fortune Buddies
Hi, Fidelity
Hong Kong Ghost Stories
The Killer Who Never Kills
Lan Kwai Fong
Legendary Amazons
Let's Go!
Life Without Principle
I Love Hong Kong
I Love Wing Chun
The Lost Bladesman
Love for Life
Love in Space
Love is the Only Answer
Love You You
Magic to Win
Men Suddenly in Love
Microsex Office
Mr. and Mrs. Incredible
Mr. and Mrs. Single
Mural
My Kingdom
Mysterious Island
Overheard 2
Punished
Rest on Your Shoulder
Shaolin
Sleepwalker
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Starry Starry Night
Strawberry Cliff
Summer Love Love
The Sword Identity
Treasure Hunt
Treasure Inn
Turning Point 2
The Warring States
What Women Want
White Vengeance
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake
Wu Xia
2010
72 Tenants of Prosperity
Adventure of the King
Aftershock
All About Love
All's Well End's Well Too 2010
Amphetamine
Bad Blood
Beauty on Duty!
Black Ransom
Break Up Club
Bruce Lee, My Brother
The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman
The Child's Eye
City Under Siege
Color Me Love
Confucius
Crossing Hennessy
Curse of the Deserted
Detective Dee and the
Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Don Quixote
Dream Home
The Drunkard
Ex
The Fantastic Water Babes
Fire of Conscience
Flirting Scholar 2
Frozen
Future X-Cops
Gallants
Girl$
Here Comes Fortune
If You Are The One 2
Ip Man 2
Hot Summer Days
The Jade and the Pearl
Just Another Pandora's Box
La Comédie Humaine
The Legend is Born - Ip Man
Legend of the Fist:
The Return of Chen Zhen
Let the Bullets Fly
Little Big Soldier
Love in a Puff
Lover's Discourse
Merry-Go-Round
Ocean Heaven
Once a Gangster
Perfect Wedding
Reign of Assassins
Revenge: A Love Story
The Road Less Traveled
Showtime
The Stool Pigeon
Triple Tap
True Legend
Vampire Warriors
Virtual Recall
Welcome to Shamatown
Womb Ghosts
2009
14 Blades
Accident
All's Well End's Well 2009
At the End of Daybreak
Basic Love
Bodyguards and Assassins
City of Life and Death
Echoes of the Rainbow
Fit Lover
The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks II
Give Love
Happily Ever After
I Corrupt All Cops
Jump
KJ
Kung Fu Chef
Kungfu Cyborg: Metallic Attraction
L-O-V-E
Lady Cop and Papa Crook
Look For a Star
Love At Seventh Sight
Love Connected
McDull Kung Fu Ding Ding Dong
The Message
Mulan
Murderer
Night and Fog
On His Majesty's Secret Service
Overheard
Permanent Residence
Plastic City
Poker King
Prince of Tears
Rebellion
Red Cliff II
Seven 2 One
Shinjuku Incident
Short of Love
The Sniper
Soundless Wind Chime
Split Second Murders
The Storm Warriors
Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms
To Live and Die in Mongkok
Tracing Shadow
The Treasure Hunter
Trick or Cheat
Turning Point
The Unbelievable
Vengeance
A Very Short Life
The Warrior and the Wolf
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About
the reviewers:
| Kozo | Kevin Ma |
| Calvin McMillin | LunaSea |
Kozo
Kozo was born in 1973. He grew into a skinny,
short lad until he reached the age of 19, whereupon he was
no longer short. He is highly respected in a few inconsequential
social circles, though he is despised the world over. We believe
he's simply misunderstood.
Kozo has been watching HK Cinema
since 1993, when UFO was just starting out and John Woo had
already left to make that sublime masterpiece Hard Target.
Despite many years of bad movies, box office depression, and
paparazzi terrorism, Kozo has continued to watch Hong Kong
movies with an enthusiasm best reserved for rooting for the
Golden State Warriors, which anyone will tell you is a hopeless
endeavor.
Still Kozo forges on, trying to find
the good movies among the bad ones, and bad movies among the
purely awful ones. It is a quest he will continue until end
of time, or until English subtitles are removed from Hong
Kong Films. In the meantime, Kozo will continue to update
this site as his alter ego, Webmaster Ross Chen.
Kozo can be reached here.
All reviews were written by Kozo
unless marked otherwise. When Kozo shares space with another
reviewer, the review is marked with this symbol: ¥
Kozo has written 1443 reviews.
Kevin Ma
Kevin Ma was
born in the great city of Hong Kong in 1984. He moved to America
almost 9 years later, where he began to fall in love with
the art of cinema. No one understood why he would watch "My
Girl 2" more than once, but that's just how much he loved
films.
Kevin recently completed his Bachelor
of Arts degrees in Communcation and Film Studies at the University
of California Davis. During his undergraduate academic career,
he managed to learn about the many great national cinematic
traditions such as New German Cinema and the world of silent
films, but his greatest achievement of all was studying in
Japan as an exchange student for a year. Unfortunately, he
has still yet to pick up any knowledge about anime.
His favorite filmmakers span all
over the world, including Wong Kar Wai, Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu, Bong Joon Ho, among many others. Currently he is
exploring postgraduate education opportunities, one of which
include studying film production in his hometown.
Kevin previously went by the internet handle "LMFDean9" on this website, but he's since come to his senses and takes credit for his work.
Reviews
written by Kevin are indicated by this symbol: £
Kevin Ma has written 162 reviews.
Calvin McMillin
The late seventies gave birth
to Star Wars, disco and Calvin McMillin a.k.a. Sanjuro.
Calvin graduated Summa Cum Laude
from Oklahoma State University with credentials that would
make most of us jealous. His primary focus is writing, and
he's currently working on a novel that he hopes will one day
see publication. He favors the work of Raymond Chandler, Mark
Twain and Ma Wing-Sing, creator of the ever-popular comic
book Fung Wan.
Calvin's interest in Hong Kong
Cinema was spurred on by a little movie called Once Upon
a Time in China 2. Since then, he has diligently devoured
the works of the Tsui Hark, John Woo, Jackie Chan, Jet Li
and pretty much anyone else in HK Cinema who has some sort
of "name" recognition.
Calvin is also a big fan of the Monkey
King, and absolutely loathes Gen-Y Cop Edison Chen.
He's also rather ambivalent about LoveHKFilm.com
whipping boy Ekin Cheng. Despite that, his DVD collection
features many fine films starring A Man Called Ekin.
Reviews written by Calvin are indicated
by this symbol: §
Calvin McMillin has written 332 reviews.
LunaSea
Reviewer Lee Wong (a.k.a. LunaSea)
passed away in August of 2002. His contributions to this web
site—as well as his friendship to the Webmaster—can
never be repaid. His reviews will remain on this site indefinitely.
The following is his original
bio:
Luna Sea is both a legendary J-rock
band, and reviewer Lee Wong's nickname.
Lee is a Chinese-Italian in his early
twenties. In his short existence, he's lived on two continents
and in four different countries. An accomplished linguist,
he is currently studying Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, and fine-tuning
his Korean. His favorite pastimes include reading wuxia novels
and manga, listening to Japanese and Korean music, watching
just about every Asian film he can get his hands on, and most
importantly stuffing himself to death with dim-sum and sashimi,
"watered" down by a good bottle of soju.
While a big fan of arthouse films,
LunaSea watches just about everything. His favorite genres
are road movies, gangster comedies and realistic romantic
dramas. His favorite actors include Choi Min-Shik, Jeon Do-Yeon,
Bae Doo-Na, Ahn Sung-Ki, Song Kang-Ho, Koji Yakusho, Tony
Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Shu Qi and Zhang Ziyi. His
favorite directors change every three days, and at the moment
they are Hong Sang-Soo, Wong Kar-Wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Edward
Yang and Hou Hsiao-Gsien.
LunaSea's reviews will mostly
focus on Korean, Chinese (Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
and Japanese Cinema, but he is also a huge Bollywood fan,
loves anime and is increasingly interested in Thai Cinema.
Reviews written by LunaSea are indicated
by this symbol: ±
LunaSea has written 43 reviews.
Guest
Reviewers
LoveHKFilm.com
occasionally
has outside contributors to the review pages, though the current
roster is based more on potentially interested writers than
an actual army of self-proclaimed cinema journalists. At any
rate, the current line-up of people who have contributed
are listed here.
Reviews written by a Guest Reviewer
are indicated by this symbol: Œ
Guest Reviewers have written
84 reviews.
Contributers:
Paul Fox
Tim Youngs
JMaruyama (James Maruyama)
Magicvoice (Jennifer
Marley)
RainDog (Greg Maier)
Rudolph Tiemler
Ria Caronongan
David Harris
Adam Laidig
Stuart McDonald
Buddha's Grin (Lilia Lopez)
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