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CJ7 (2008)
 | The latest comedy from Stephen Chow, CJ7 is a fantasy tale featuring state of the art visual effects. A poor laborer father (Chow) and his young son's lives are turned upside down when a fascinating and strange new pet enters their world. Amid the resulting comic mayhem, they ultimately learn a poignant lesson about the true nature of family and the things money can't buy.Full text
Plot summary written by: synopsis |
The Sparkle in the Dark (2008)
 | One night about twelve years ago, a big lorry crashed into the house of Siu Ho with high speed accidentally. Siu Ho's home disappeared in just a while. Siu Ho was the only survivor. However, the pain of being alone has deeply hurt him. To him, remaining alive seemed to be a punishment.
Siu Ho has grown into another person. He is peculiar and fierce. Until one day, he meets a man who has changed his life. This man calls himself as a private sol......Full text
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Lust, Caution (2007)
 | The trailer for Ang Lee’s latest was enticing enough to start with. A mixture of thriller/romance/action. However, I was every so slightly wary after seeing the plot outline - it sounded like a very predictable made-for-Hollywood film. Not the kind I’m usually into.
The film spurned talk and gained the Korean audience’s curiosity by its rumored
provocative sex scenes and news sources announced that the pre-screening was he......Full text
Review written by: Vivian Lee |
Summer Palace (2006)
 | It's not often you come across a Chinese Indie-style art house film in Korea.
Most of the smaller-budget ‘indie’ films I’ve seen here have been primarily
Japanese or European. Therefore, you can imagine my excitement at finding out
that there was going to be a Chinese film shown here in Seoul which didn’t belong in the martial arts/big blockbuster/action categories.
Director Lou Ye’s Summer Palace (2006), or Yi He Yuan in Chi......Full text
Review written by: Vivian Lee |
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
 | It is so refreshing to see a director (Wayne Wang) so courageously has his audience go through watching and listening to conversations in mixed dialogues accentuating the “human relationships and communications” that goes beyond common language!
There is an understand that masterfully is being established during the movie, interestingly enough, the old man (Henry O) fails to establish this with his daughter, but it is being establi......Full text
Review written by: Mr Vintner |
The Red Awn (2007)
 | Song Hai, a man in his 50s, returns to his hometown to reclaim his house and is told that he is officially dead – according to the local bureaucratic ministry. During Song’s five-year absence, his wife has died and his son Yongtao crossed him off the city registry. The rest of the film follows Song’s sincere efforts to resuscitate his fatherly image in his son’s mind. For Yongtao, understanding his father is also a process of growing up. Sometime......Full text
Plot summary written by: Thessaloniki Film Festival |
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