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Another one off the DVD pile! Jiang Hu (江湖) is a 2004 HK gangster movie featuring Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Edison Chen and Shawn Yue, directed by Wong Ching-Po.
The movie has two storylines, one about a pair of young punks who are trying to prove themselves in the gangster world and another about two gang bosses who are fighting for power against eachother and unruly underbosses.
The film is reasonably well made, but in th...Read more
I really enjoyed Royston Tan's '881' when I saw it on DVD last year. When I heard he was doing another movie with cast members Mindee Ong, Yi Qiwu and Liu Lingling named '12 Lotus' 《十二莲花》 I was totally looking forward to seeing it!
'881' was a HUGE hit in the Singapore market, but I had heard that ...Read more
'Shinjuku Incident' (新宿事件) is Jackie Chan's latest film, costarring
Daniel Wu, in which he makes a departure from his martial arts-based action formula and instead goes for a more gritty story about illegal Chinese immigrants working in Tokyo's underworld. The film is mostly filmed on location in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, and cent...Read more
What I think will be the last HKIFF blog (for the next few days at least!)
On Monday night was a big Red Carpet at the Culture Center in Tsim Sha Tsui. They had a BIG set up for this event - it was the Red Carpet Premiere...Read more
After the pre-party for "The Sniper" (神槍手), we went to the premiere media event in the HKCEC.
The Sniper features Richie Ren, Huang Xiaoming and this other actor who you may have heard of... his name is Edison Chen... as a result of a bit of a news story about him, this movie's release was pushed back from May 2008 to March 2009. ...Read more
Last Tuesday was quite busy. after Filmart, I went to the office for about 40 minutes then grabbed a bus for the Kowloon side to go see The Hollywood Reporter (THR)'s special HKIFF event at the W. Hotel. In addition to giving a special prize at the Asian Film Awards the night before, THR Publisher Eric Mika was also holding an event marking THR's 'Next Gen' of Asia. Here's an article explaining a bit more about the awards they were handing out:
Last Tuesday I stopped by the HKIFF's 'Filmart' business trade fair section briefly to check it out.
Filmart is a place where film buyers and distributors of existing or up coming films can go to meet eachother and make deals and also where projects for up coming films can find financing, etc. So its actually a cool way to see what's out and whats in the pipeline.
And its a testament to the rate at which this site is growing to say you couldn't walk more than 5 m...Read more
Last Tuesday evening etween The Hollywood Reporter Next Gen thing and the main red carpet event for that night, "The Sniper" world premiere, Simon and I stopped by the cocktail PRE-red carpet party for 'The Sniper' held at JJ's in the Hyatt Regency.
We were disappointed to find we were the only people who got there on time! For...Read more
Mancy blogged about this the other day. I just saw it and had to blog it too.
Someone put up a video clip on Youtube of Pharrell Williams trying to convince the employees at a Paris Airport McDonalds to open up early so he could get some food before his connecting flight back to the US:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4chHBO_RTA
Pretty hilarious... in fact I knew Pharrell was a McDonalds fan before this too... f...Read more
On Monday Night I went back down to the Convention Center for the 3rd Asian Film Awards. Long time Etchy blog readers will remember my star laden photos from last year's event.
Warning, this blog has an INSANE number of photos... I recommend you skim read! ;-)
This year was similar, except I didn't have the all-access pass... so no super close up red carpet photos this time. Doh! :-P
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