Award-winning directors Derek Yee (One Nite in Mongkok) and Peter Chan (Perhaps Love) collaborate in a film about the drug trade, as director and producer respectively. A high-quality work that stands out from the abundant crime flicks produced in Hong Kong recently, Protege features three of Hong Kong’s most popular actors – Andy Lau as [...]

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The female duo Twins, consisting of Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi, have achieved great popularity as singers and as movie stars in the past six years. While each of them have starred in quite a few movies in recent years, they have not participated together in the same film project since Twins Effect II. Now [...]

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When the protagonist of Han Hyung Mo’s 1956 masterpiece Madame Freedom opened herself to Western culture and started dating another man, it was enough to shock the country. Half a century has passed, and adultery has become a common enough occurrence to serve as the center of A Day For An Affair. The film [...]

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Need a place to die? Come to Moodori!
Creepy, kooky, and full of gallows humor, black comedy Moodori is the inventive debut feature from director Lee Hyeong Seon, who previously worked in television. Starring veterans Park In Hwan, Choi Joo Bong, and Seo Hee Seung and actress Seo Yeong Hee (To Sir With Love), this minor [...]

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Directed by Heo In Moo (Love so Divine), Herb sensitively looks into the life of a young woman with the mind of a child. Much like Marathon, the film centers on a mother’s love for her child. Gang Hye Jung has continuously challenged herself with a wide range of roles in films like Old Boy, [...]

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In the kung fu films of yore, the world was only big enough for one martial arts master who must defeat everyone else to claim his title. But times have changed, and in a small village in Chungcheong province, we have not one but two masters. And they have the same name! Master Kim (Choi [...]

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SELaplana >> Movie & TV Series >> M – Title >>Mapado, one of the biggest surprises of 2005, featured a solid story, a few talented theater-trained actors, and especially five vicious grandmas. Two years later, we’re back for a second serving, Mapado 2: All About the Hemp & Widows. After abandoning his detective roots, Chung [...]

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The reasons why every summer Korean horrors populate the big screen can be traced down to the success of Park Ki Hyung’s Whispering Corridors, and of course the enormous influence Nakata Hideo’s Ring had on Asian horror films. But Korea’s homegrown horror genre dates back a lot further, and there are gems to be found [...]

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Bringing together Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Mainland China stars, Love Start Take Place is China’s first trendy musical TV drama. The series stars Singapore singer-songwriter Yida Huang in his acting debut and Mainland newcomer Yang Ziting. Employing a “drama within a drama” format, Love Start Take Place follows the blooming romance of the [...]

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2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the 1997 Hong Kong Handover, when the territory was returned to Mainland Chinese rule. Dubbed a “Handover film” along with Barbara Wong’s Wonder Women and Samson Chiu’s Mr. Cinema, Law Wing Cheong’s Hooked On You gently revisits those momentous ten years through the lives of normal everyday Hong Kongers. [...]

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