tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60390059092901088242024-02-18T21:46:26.840-05:00Hmong Chick who watches Asian cinema (besides Indian)Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-28513153696662526902011-07-07T12:38:00.002-04:002011-07-07T12:39:48.518-04:00C-movie: Divergence (2005)
Synopsis - IMDB
A cop, a lawyer, and an assassin cross paths after the murder of a federal witness and the kidnapping of a famous pop star.
Did I ever mention that Daniel Wu is so adorable and my favorite Hong Kong actor?
He's so versatile. Gorgeous.
I know about his background. People criticize him for not being Chinese enough since he grew up in America but since I'm not Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-15345809606597415472011-07-07T12:26:00.003-04:002011-07-13T12:37:55.534-04:00Kmovie - I Saw The Devil (2010)
Synopsis - IMDB
Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-18533895238204721122011-06-24T15:34:00.000-04:002011-06-24T15:34:17.688-04:00The lost history of Bruce Lee
Most of us know him as the kung fu movie star with the Beatles haircut and the mind-blowing physical prowess. What we’ve forgotten is that Bruce Lee had
the spirit of a true ’60s radical as he reshaped a hidebound Eastern art into a brash form of self-expression and shattered popular conceptions of Asian men. And his thrilling crusade began here.
By Charles Russo
Bruce Lee was born in San Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-63836824482257868512011-05-18T13:52:00.000-04:002011-05-18T13:52:13.073-04:002 Filipino movies I saw recently
One of my Pinay friends wanted me to start watching Tagalog movies so she sent me a few to watch. Now since I've seen a handful, she started to send me more.
This time, a few of the movies have hot and sexy Derek Ramsay!!! He is hawt!
You can always attract me with hot, sexy men with six-pack abs :D
And I Love You So (2009)
Synopsis
Photos - pinoysgottalent, Google
Lara (Bea Alonzo), aNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-22031938350189149012011-01-12T21:20:00.000-05:002011-01-12T21:20:14.774-05:00Kmovie - The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Synopsis - IMDB
Photos - Mannowhere.com
An ex-special agent CHA Tae-shik's only connection to the rest of the world is a little girl, So-mi, who lives nearby. Her mother, Hyo-jeong smuggles drugs from a drug trafficking organization and entrusts Tae-shik with the product, without letting him know. The traffickers find out about her smuggling and kidnap both Hyo-jeong and So-mi. The gang Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-58994797999350190842011-01-07T10:23:00.000-05:002011-01-07T10:23:10.791-05:00Kmovie - Typhoon (2005)
Synopsis - IMDB
Photos - MovieXclusive
Myung-sin, who has become a pirate, lives with hatred in his heart and endures the hardships, seeks revenge on the two nations, North and South Korea, using nuclear waste that has the devastating power of plutonium. Se-jong, a South Korean naval officer departs with his team of elite forces to prevent Sin's master plan of Nuclear Typhoon. Born under the Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-21306333739062199142010-12-23T23:44:00.002-05:002010-12-24T09:19:54.381-05:00Fmovie - Batanes (2007)
Synopsis - Wiki
Photos - Google
Pam (Iza Calzado) meets Rico (Joem Bascon) an Ivatan, and decides to leave her stressful life in the city to follow him to Batanes to meet his parents Boy and Lydia (Bembol Roco and Daria Ramirez, respectively) and marry him. Pam tries to adapt to the Ivatan way of life but hates the sea that Rico loves so much. Her hatred for the sea intensifies when her Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-3955704051830431092010-12-21T16:16:00.000-05:002010-12-21T16:16:54.575-05:00Cmovie - Devil Face Angel Heart (2002)
Synopsis - IMDB
Photos - Google
Lon is an assassin who is deformed. The only man he can trust is his brother, Kwan. When Lon kills a police officer, the officer's partner tries to go after him, but lets him go after seeing his face. Meanwhile, Lon falls for Wendy, the girlfriend of Lon's sadistic boss, Dragon. When Lon agrees to kill Dragon for Wendy, it's a setup. After the kill, Lon is hit Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-38141227842513040152010-12-15T11:43:00.002-05:002010-12-23T23:47:20.914-05:00Cmovie - Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
Synopsis
A continuation of the 1995 television series Fist of Fury, Donnie Yen reprises his role as Chen Zhen, a role made famous by Bruce Lee in "Fist Of Fury" (1972). The film is set seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-70873391722615945942010-11-22T14:17:00.001-05:002010-12-15T15:50:20.310-05:00Cmovie - Mad Detective (2007)
Synopsis
Detective Bun (Lau Ching Wan) was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief’s farewell party. Branded as ‘mad’ and discharged from the force, he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May (Kelly Lin) ever since. Strangely, Bun has the ability to ‘see’ a person’s inner personality, their subconscious desires, Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-61176038236585664662010-11-17T13:55:00.001-05:002010-11-17T14:07:12.818-05:00Thai horror filmsLate in posting, I know!!!! I watched a string of Asian horror films and haven't blogged about it!!
I think I watched way too many and I'm not scared at all!
Now it's time for the Thai horrors I've seen and will post the other languages at another time.
Dorm (2006)
Source
In Thailand, the young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to study harder and have less entertainmentNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-25477795229008418862010-11-11T10:57:00.002-05:002010-11-17T13:56:42.106-05:00Korean horror filmsLate in posting, I know!!!! I watched a string of Asian horror films and haven't blogged about it!!
I think I watched way too many and I'm not scared at all!
Right now, I'm just listing the Korean horrors I've seen and will post the other languages at another time.
ACACIA (20003)
Source
Unable to have children of their own, married couple Mi-sook and Do-il adopt a young boy named Lee Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-69880877543682473132010-10-28T10:00:00.000-04:002010-10-28T10:00:41.662-04:00The Detective (2007)
Photos - Google
Synopsis - YesAsia
Holding shop from a small dinky office, near-sighted, debt-ridden private detective Tam (Aaron Kwok) talks big, but does small business. He gets an interesting new job when hard-drinking friend Lung (Shing Fui Oi) shows up one day with the picture of a woman whom he claims is trying to kill him. Unable to locate the woman, Tam starts looking up her Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-86907285314856561812010-08-27T15:34:00.004-04:002010-10-28T10:22:13.012-04:00Vmovie - The Rebel (2007)
Synopsis - Wikipedia
Photos - Google
Vietnam in 1922 is under colonial French ruling, and anti-French rebellions by peasants have emerged all over the country. In response, the French have activated units of Vietnamese secret agents to track and destroy the rebels. One agent is Le Van Cuong. Although branded with a perfect track record, Cuong's inner conscience is troubled by the sea of Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-70024778033753469712010-08-23T10:50:00.001-04:002010-09-17T00:22:37.133-04:00Kmovie - The Good The Bad The Weird (2008)
Source - Yahoo
Photos - Google
Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules and many different ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. The train's diverse passengers and imminent danger with guns and knives everywhere serves as a microcosm of the turbulent times. Do-won is a bounty hunter who tracks down any criminals with rewards on their Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-21197978604628670242010-08-18T13:51:00.005-04:002010-12-22T19:22:12.560-05:00Cmovie - New Police Story (2004)
Synopsis - IMDB
Photos - Google
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. A young man with a troubled past pretends to be a police officer working on the case with Wing, to get him back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revengeNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-30087782677165304602010-08-18T13:22:00.001-04:002010-09-16T13:30:55.031-04:00Cmovie - Dragon Tiger Gate (2006)
Synopsis - Heroic Cinema
Photos - Google
Tiger Wong is a highly skilled martial artist with a strong sense of justice. While eating at a floating restaurant, he chances upon a bully. Unable to stand by and watch him terrorize the victims he defeats the bully using his special move - Dragon Slaying Leg Eighteen. At the same time, he unwittingly grabs a gold medal. It turns out that this gold Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-53985270949737918142010-08-13T12:14:00.000-04:002010-08-13T12:14:35.366-04:00Cmovie - Blood Brothers (2007)
Synopsis - Amazon
Photos - Google
Blood Brothers is set in 1930s Shanghai, a flourishing modern-day Babylon, replete with warlords, politicians, wealthy industrialists, courtesans and gangsters. Three innocent young brothers, Kang (Liu Ye, Curse of the Golden Flower ), Fung (Daniel Wu, Around the World in 80 Days ) and Xiao Hu (Tony Yang), arrive in this seeming paradise in search of a better Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-68179685775977763912010-08-10T11:17:00.001-04:002010-08-10T11:17:38.924-04:00Cmovie - Goddess of Mercy (2006)
Synopsis - Rotten Tomatoes
Photos - Google
Yang Rui falls in love for the cleaning woman who works in a taekwando gym, only to later discover she's an undercover cop named An Xin. An is in hiding from drug smugglers who have a score to settle with her - a raid she led resulted in the death of one of the smuggler's parents. To complicate matters further, An was previously romantically involved Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-81081267364983376332010-08-10T10:18:00.001-04:002010-08-10T10:18:27.097-04:00Cmovie - 49 Days (2006)
Synopsis - Amazon
Photos - Google
Lau Sing (Stephen Fung) as a successful entrepeneur of a medicinal company. He must leave his wife and children for a number of years while he goes off to make his fortune, and his business a success. His business is medicinal herbs: some from various plants and animals which indeed makes him very successful. However, he has a scheming business partner whom he Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-1753812598657847232010-08-03T15:59:00.000-04:002010-08-03T15:59:41.129-04:00Cmovie - Heavenly Mission (2006)
Synopsis - YesAsia
Photos - Google
Young and Dangerous icon Ekin Cheng steps into a new triad role in his latest film, Heavenly Mission. Directed by James Yuen (Crazy N' The City), Heavenly Mission pits Ekin Cheng in a dangerous game of wits and bullets against Alex Fong (One Nite in Mongkok) and Stephen Fung (House of Fury). The film also features an impressively star-studded supporting castNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-46641764449524230452010-08-03T15:28:00.002-04:002010-08-13T12:21:44.201-04:00Cmovie - Little Big Soldier (2010)
Synopsis - Fandago
Photos - Google
Two rivals strike up a wary friendship in this blend of historical drama, action and comedy starring international martial arts star Jackie Chan. It's 227 B.C., and during the era of the warring states, a fifty-something Liang soldier (Jackie Chan) captures a wounded Wei general (Wang Leehom) in the wake of a battle. The soldier's goal in taking the general Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-42436725691904178412010-08-03T15:17:00.001-04:002010-08-03T15:32:24.780-04:00Kmovie - Romantic Island (2008)
Synopsis - AsianMediaWiki
Photos - Google
A poor but vivacious lady, Soo-Jin (Lee Su-Kyeong) takes a vacation to an exotic island for the first time, totally free from work and her family. A rich but cold-hearted gentleman, Jae-Hyuk (Lee Seon-Gyun), secretly visits the island for his estranged fathers funeral. Jae-Hyuk bumps into Soo-Jin at a hotel and attracted by her lively spirit, Jae-Hyuk Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-47029962468604523362010-07-22T15:29:00.001-04:002010-07-22T15:42:59.803-04:00Hong Kong/Chinese movies I seen latelyAnother list of what I been watching lately
An Empress and the Warriors
Enjoyed it overall, not disappointed. Donnie Yen rules! But gotta say it's more of a Kelly Chen movie :) Girls rock!
Breaking News
Highly disappointed. Attempted to watch it 3 times and fell asleep in between movie. Overall, a bore.
Gen X Cops
Really enjoyed it. Really like the eye candy! Yummy!! Stephen Fung - my firstNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039005909290108824.post-91574604979259437322010-07-07T14:17:00.001-04:002010-07-07T14:28:08.964-04:00Hong Kong films I've seen latelyEven though I watch Asian films, I don't write detailed reviews about them. There are plenty of sites for that.
I am just going to list a few from the top of my head that I've seen.
14 Blades (2010)
Although it didn't get good reviews, I enjoyed it a lot! The fighting and storyline was interesting to me. Donnie Yen is awesome. The only disappointing thing is Vicki Zhao being a damsel in Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0