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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

A Simple Life.

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A Hong Kong drama that felt more Japanese than a Chinese was this weeks Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre Film Club offering. A...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

As Tears Go By.

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Ah Wah and Ngor. Considered as a energetic reworking of Martin Scorsese’s 1975 classic Mean Streets Wong Kar-wai...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Fallen Angels.

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Wong Kar-wai has directed some of my favourite foreign movies including 2046 (2004) and In the Mood for Love (2000), which incident...

Monday, 21 November 2011

Sparrow

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Chief Sparrow Simon Yam The mysterious Kelly Lin. Sparrow" is Hong Kong street slang for "pickpocket" and t...

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Asian Movie Go Round.

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Recently Love Film have been bombarding me with various Asian films, that admittedly were on my rental list, which allows me to ramble on ab...

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Fulltime Killer

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For many years professional assassin O (Takashi Sorimachi) has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness, which only becomes wo...

Sunday, 5 September 2010

Vengeance

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The French Elvis (1960s) 1963 was the first of my three visits to Saint Tropez in the South of France during the 1960’s. It was there th...

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