RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Cast
Roger Kwok
Bernice Liu
Michelle Yim
Liu On Lai
Paul Chun
Derek Kwok
Benz Hui
Sandy Lau

Synopsis
Registered nurse CHAI CHUEN (Michelle Yim) is the eldest of the three Chai siblings. Her sister, CHAI SUM (Annie Liu), and brother, CHAI CHEUNG (Kwok Chun On), are gynecologist and pediatrician respectively by training. CHUEN’s husband, KOT YAT-TO (Paul Chun), is also a doctor. Together, the four run a clinic whose business every clinic wants. CHUEN and SUM have very different ways of handling people and things. This not only makes people around them confused as to whose suggestion to follow, but also results in rounds after rounds of hilarious episodes. Although CHUEN is the head of the family, it is SUM people in the clinic listen to when professional advice is required. CHEUNG is constantly caught between his two sisters, who go as far as meddling in his love affairs! CHEUNG is determined to run after the clinic’s new nurse, LUI YING-HUNG (Bernice Liu), no matter what his sisters say and not for a moment expecting that this will turn his life upside down. Later, he is arrested. When he realizes HUNG is an undercover cop trying to get information about a drug abuse case, the clinic is already at the edge of closing down…

Story (Translation by aZnangel)
‘Family Style’ dedicated medical clinic is ran by the Chai’s family three siblings after the death of their parents. Oldest sister CHAI CHUEN (Michelle Yim) deals with all the administrative management of the clinic. Second sister and an obstetrician CHAI YUI (Annie Liu) has high expectations on all people and situations. Third brother and a pediatrician CHAI JEUNG (Roger Kwok) is frivolous. The three siblings treat their colleagues just like family.

In addition to the three siblings there is retired surgeon oldest brother-in-law (Paul Chun), the accomplished plastic surgeon (Derek Kwok), The heads over heels for the second sister through years (Benz Hui), the undercover pretty nurse (Bernice Liu) and the next generation family physicians and clinic staff. The complicated and subtle relationships causes different small life stories. The so-called “doctors cannot be self-doctor”, the group of elite physicians have to face their own personality flaws, human weaknesses and if you want a cure, what kind of effective strategy do you have?

The daily battle of wits in the clinic between the sisters CHUEN and YUI leaves little brother JEUNG stuck in the middle with a headache. In the early years, oldest sister CHUEN was forced to give up her doctor career and becomes a nurse to look after the family. She paid for her two younger siblings’ medical education with the money earned. When the siblings started their own family practice, the two sisters had conflicts and arguments due to their different statuses. Often questions like “Are you the older sister or am I the older sister?” and “Are you the doctor or am I the doctor?” comes up in the arguments.

THE CHARACTER CHART
- Michelle Yim <==> Paul Chun (husband-wife)
- Sandy Lau, Kwok Kwan <==> Michelle Yim, Paul Chun (parent-children)
- Roger Kwok <==> Michelle Yim (brother-sister)
- Roger Kwok <==> Michelle Yim (brother-sister)
- Roger Kwok <==> Bernice Liu (bickering couple)
- Roger Kwok <==> Derek Kwok (college friends-colleagues)
- Annie Liu On Lai <==> Michelle Yim, Roger Kwok (siblings)
- Annie Liu On Lai <==> Auston Lam (mother-son)
- Benz Hui ==> Annie Liu On Lai (101 marriage proposals)
- Derek Kwok <==> Derek Kwok (brother-sister in law)
- Derek Kwok <==> Auston Lam (uncle-nephew)
- Derek Kwok <==> Benz Hui (cousins)

Info
* Roger Kwok will be playing a pediatrician. Along Roger’s side are newbies Auston Lam (“The Voice”), Sandy Lau (Miss Hong Kong 2009 Winner), Kirby Lam (Kitty in “Beauty Knows No Pain”), and Annie Liu On Lai.
* Annie Liu On Lai was from 1977′s TVB’s 6th Acting Class. She was married to HK well-known photographer, Alain Yip, who later became a monk in May 2010.
* Michelle Yim, Annie, and Roger will play siblings.
* Roger will play a pediatrician.
* Auston will play Annie’s son, a first-year medical student.
* Michelle Yim, Annie Liu, and Roger Kwok will play siblings.
* Paul and Michelle are husband and wife.
* Paul Chun will play Kot Yat To (葛一刀).
* Michelle will play Chai Chuen (齊荃), a member of a family of doctors. She will play a doctor who is charitable in thought and deed..
* Annie will play Chai Sam (齊芯), a gynecologist. Her husband is a doctor without borders who accidentally goes missing. She is a widow. She will be pursued by Benz Hui.
* Roger will play Chai Cheung (齊彰), a silly and righteous pediatrician.
* Auston Lam will play Tong Ka Yim (湯嘉嚴), Annie’s stepson, who is a first-year medical student.
* Bernice Liu will play Lui Ying Hung (呂櫻紅), an undercover cop working at the family clinic.
* Roger and Bernice will have a romantic storyline.
* Derek Kwok will play Tong Kam Bo (湯甘保), Annie’s brother-in-law, who is a gynecologist. He later becomes a doctor of cosmetics. He is a player.
* Benz Hui will play Ching Cheung Kim (程祥劍), a sweet-talking doctor, who is all talk and no action.
* Roger, Derek, and Benz are friends.
* Sandy Lau will play Kot Kei (葛琦), Paul and Michelle’s eldest daughter, who is a medical intern. She is very hardworking and has high standards. She will have a romantic storyline with Derek.
* Kirby Lam will play Kot Fai (葛暉), Paul and Michelle’s youngest daughter.

source from: asianuniverse

RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Cast
Roger Kwok
Fala Chen
Sharon Chan
Louis Yuen
Yoyo Chen
Koni Lui
Raymond Cho
Ben Wong
Oscar Leung
Kitty Yuen

Synopsis
Emperor CHAI SUEN (Roger Kwok) visited the deep mountains to seek martial arts expert CHUNG MO YIM’s (Fala Chen) assistance to revive the Chai Empire. SUEN anxiously blurted out that he can do anything for her in return. Later after completing the task, YIM opens her big mouth and requests that she wants to be the Empress, but SUEN had just promised to give the title to the naturally beautiful HA YING CHEUN (Sharon Chan). SUEN’s legal adviser AN YING (Louis Yuen) quickly comes up with a plan to separate the two into the East and West palaces to temporarily prevent any disputes. In fact, YIM only wanted to be the Empress so she can help Emperor Chai take care of the country’s affairs. CHEUN, however, watches closely for an opportunity to take revenge. The two Queens uses gentle methods and force to battle one another. Emperor Chai loves CHEUN for her beauty, but in hope for a prosperous future of his country, he also did not dare to offend the strategic YIM. He even takes advantage of her innocent true love several times. (aZnangel)

Info
- Roger is Emperor Chai Suen, Fala Chen and Sharon Chan are his wives
- Fala is Chung Mo Yim, a skilled martial artists with a disfigured face.
- Sharon is Ha Ying Cheun, nicknamed the Beautiful Concubine.
- Fala and Sharon are love rivals.
- Yoyo is the Emperor’s concubine and Ben Wong’s lover.
- Louis and Koni are lovers.
- Fala is the ‘See Jeh’ of Koni and Kitty.
- Raymond Cho is Ben’s older brother.

source from: asianuniverse

RELEASE DATE MAY 30, 2011

Cast:
Kevin Cheng
Myolie Wu
Sam Lee
Sharon Chan
Joyce Tang
Jazz Lam
Mandy Wong
Eddie Kwan

Synopsis
Seven years ago, LAW LIK AH or LA LAW (Kevin Cheng) was the legend in the legal industry and can fight a lawsuit without asking morality or by unfair means. Because he was often in a mix of pursuing fame and condemned conscience, LA LAW eventually became psychologically imbalance and vanished in the legal industry. Seven years later, LA LAW makes a comeback and chooses to use law to protect justice as a way to rescue himself – who previously buries his conscience. LA establishes a residential legal consultant center in Sham Siu Po to help the residents fight injustice.

When LA’s professionalism and morals are inconsistent, he rather careless about fame and fortune and give up on the lawsuit. On the contrary, attorney WONG SI FU (Myolie Wu) engages herself in the high class society for a better life. She has the self-confidence to balance the pursuit of fame, fortune and legal justice. This has always been her goal.

LA and FU encounter through different cases, sometimes they insist on their own respective beliefs, sometimes they are fiercely against each other in court and sometimes they will also collaborate, having mutual admiration. Eventually the two develops a relationship, but because they have different philosophies, their relationship falls apart. LA cannot tolerate FU’s fighting justice for fame and fortunes. In order to pull her back into the right direction, LA does not hesitate to become enemies with her and sacrifice himself to save her. As a result, they fall into a ‘lovers, but cannot love’ ending. (Translation by aZnangel)

Official Synopsis
LAW LIK-AH (Kevin Cheng) used to fight for personal fame and gain in the law field. After setting up a Legal Advice Centre with his cousin GEORGE MIKE JR. (Lam Chi Sin) and his good friend TING KA-FU (Sam Lee) in Sham Shui Po, LIK-AH changes his mind and realizes that law is not a privilege of the rich. By helping the grassroots to fight against injustice with unconventional tactics, LIK-AH becomes the People’s Hero of Sham Shui Po. Also working as a barrister, WONG SZ-FU (Myolie Wu) used to admire LIK-AH for his invincible performance in the field but she starts to look down upon him for he has been reduced to a ghetto lawyer. However, after a few court cases with him, the two start to appreciate and fall in love with each other. Trying to become one the elite practitioners in town, SZ-FU seizes every chance to get close to the renowned barrister TSEUNG PAK-KEI (Shek Sau). PAK-KEI enjoys playing tricks with law and SZ-FU is accidentally embroiled in a lawsuit because of him. In order to save SZ-FU, LIK-AH tries to challenge the law…

Info
- Kevin Cheng is a ghetto lawyer, named Law Lik Ah (LA Law).
- Myolie Wu is a lawyer, named Wong Si Fu.
- Joyce Tang is a housewife and later becomes an advisor. Falls in love with Kevin.
- Sam Lee is a social worker.
- Sharon Chan is a sex worker named Winne, has a relationship with Sam.
- Eddie Kwan is a police officer, that has a crush on Sharon.
- Kevin and Myolie will be a pair.
- Mandy Wong is Abby, she is a lawyer in training.
- Jazz Lam is a lawyer.

CHARACTER CHART
Myolie Wu <==> Kevin Cheng (friends and enemies)
Joyce Tang ==> Kevin Cheng (assistant)
Jazz Lam <==> Kevin Cheng (cousin brothers)
Sam Lee <==> Kevin Cheng (collaborates)
Sam Lee <==> Eddie Kwan (good friends)
Sam Lee <==> Sharon Chan (couple)
Sharon Chan <==> Myolie Wu (ex-colleagues)
Mandy Wong ==> Myolie Wu (assistant)
Myolie Wu ==> Sek Sau (ingratiating)
Myolie Wu ==> Stephen Wong (uses)
Stephen Wong <==> Sek Sau (mentor-student)

source from: asianuniverse

Summary : 13 years after the King Injo Revolt, the Chosun Dynasty is attacked by the Chung Dynasty of China. A young man named Na-mi leaves his demolished village to find his young sister, Ja-in, and her finance Su-koon, who were to wed on the very day of the attack. While on his mission to rescue her, he is being traced by Jushinta, a fierce Chung Warrior, and his band of malicious men who are out to stop him. Na-mi has but a day to rescue his sister before she is taken away to be a slave. When Na-mi finally finds his sister, Jushinta comes between them and a fierce battle between two of the finest warriors unfolds.

Genre : Comedy
Cast : Yoo Dong Geun, Yoon Jin Seo, Kim Jung Hoon , Oh Kwang Rok, Cha Hwa Yun, Song Jae Ho
Time : 100min
Release : 08/12/2011
Director : Park Joong-goo
Story : Jeong Min-kyeong ,Park Joong-goo

Summary : This movie will tell family story of working as a rookie secretary for an upright politician, going through rooting out all sorts of corruption and at the same time living a life as a father.
Previously known as “Punch Line”.

Product Title: Banquet At Hongmen (DVD) (China Version)
Artist Name(s): Jacklyn Wu | Kristy Yang | Hu Jun | Wang Kang | Xiao Rong Sheng | CHEN BAO PING | Guo Jun | Huang Wei Ming
Release Date: 2005-04-15
Language: Mandarin

Banquet at Hongmen is a HD Digital film in China catered for screening in digital cinema. The film is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while this historical figure’s loyal concubine is played by the Hong Kong beauty Kristy Yang. Actors playing the leader in the rivaling camp is no less captivating – the film features Xiao Rong Sheng and Jacklyn Wu Chien Lien as King and Queen.
The Conqueror of West Chu defeated the King of Han in a fierce battle and his staff advises him to get rid of this competitor once and for all. The Conqueror therefore invites the King of Han to join a Banquet at Hongmen, with assassins ambushing there… State-of-the-art technology is employed to visualize one of the greatest political conspiracies in Chinese history!

Director: Wuershan
Writers: An Changhe , Zhang Jiajia
Stars: Masanobu Andô, You Benchang and Liu Xiaoye
“The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman,” a dizzying period pop extravaganza from China, explodes with brio. Directed by Wuershan, a veteran of commercials who is making his feature debut, the film ricochets in a breakneck delirium from ham-fisted comedy to solemn revenge drama to antic martial-arts thriller, a crazy quilt of energy and style.
Partly midwifed by the director-producer Doug Liman, the movie comprises three interlocking stories linked to a vice. Ignorance is represented by the hapless butcher (Liu Xiaoye), who foolishly covets a courtesan (Kitty Zhang, evincing Anita Mui poise). Vengeance is embodied in the thief (the Japanese actor-director Masanobu Ando), undercover as a chef and on a mission of payback for his father’s murder. Covering greed is the swordsman (Ashton Xu), who covets a mystical blade. Their narratives — the thief’s is the most interesting — ultimately entwine, somehow connected by a black iron meat cleaver.

According to the press notes, there are philosophical underpinnings to this high-speed blender of a movie. But they are buried in stylistic indulgences of Western films: whiplash editing, electric guitars, hip-hop beats, overhead angles, candy-colored romantic interludes, split screens, animation, food-preparation montages, sepia sequences, even a swordfight rendered as a video game. In his embrace of American sensibilities, Wuershan seems to have mastered a Hollywood specialty: empty calories served loud, flashy and fast.

Source : nytimes

Opening:29 Dec 2011

Genre:Action, Adventure, MartialArts

Distributor:Golden Village Pictures

Director:Tsui Hark

Cast:Chen Kun, Jet Li, Kwan Lun-Mei, Li Yuchun, Mavis Fan,Zhou Xun

The bad guys are the eunuchs of the Imperial Court, who have created their own unaccountable secret police, armed with bizarre weapons and utterly ruthless in their quest for power and wealth. The good guys are led by a former general, stripped of his rank by the eunuchs, who set out to shield the innocent, right some wrongs and restore decency to the Imperial Court. And the ugly guys are a gang of cut-throat bandits who have caught scent of a hoard of hidden treasure. Their conflicts come to a head at Dragon Inn, a remote outpost in the desert at the very frontier of the kingdom. But nearby stands Dragon Gate, portal to a lost world under the sands and a vast sandstorm is bearing down on the region. The final battle to the death is fought out amid the traps and feints of a great lost city, and in the whirlwind which turns the desert into a maelstrom of choking sand.

Source : insing

This new film finds Jang in a particularly reflective mood, perhaps because it was the first screenplay he wrote after settling down and getting married. It’s a film about dying, but in a characteristic reversal he shoots it from a particularly sweet and earnest perspective. It’s a look at death through rose-colored glasses.

Romantic Heaven tells several stories at once, although the various characters all occupy more or less the same space, and sometimes interact with each other. Part one, “Mom,” focuses on the character of Mimi, played by promising debut actress Kim Ji-won. Mimi’s mother is battling cancer, and needs a bone marrow transplant if she is to have any hope of surviving. With great difficulty, doctors identify a potential donor, but then the man goes into flight after being accused of murder. Hoping to find him, Mimi becomes acquainted with the police detectives assigned to his case. Part two, “Wife,” concerns a lawyer named Min-gyu who has recently lost his spouse. Amidst his grief, he is distracted by the fact that he can’t find a bag that she had brought with her to the hospital, and which contained her personal diary. In the meantime, he is visited by an ex-convict who has a score to settle. Part three, “Girl,” focuses on Ji-wook, a taxi driver whose grandfather is on the verge of death. One day his grandmother tells him that for all of his life, her husband has been unable to forget a young woman he met in his youth.

It is in part four, “Romantic Heaven,” that the various threads are brought together and ultimately resolved. Sometimes in multi-strand stories of this type you can sense the hand of the director in tying up loose ends, but in this film God himself appears and pulls a few strings. Dressed in a white suit and portrayed in typically classy style by veteran actor Lee Soon-jae, God is not what you might expect for an all-powerful being, and neither is heaven. One of the most striking aspects of this film is the creative depiction of the afterlife, bathed in white but otherwise much simpler and more approachable than you might expect. (It compares favorably with Peter Jackson’s conception of heaven inThe Lovely Bones, with its fantastic landscapes and blinding colors that are so overwrought, they tip into ridiculousness.)

This is not Jang Jin at his peak — although some of the sequences are quite funny, the film as a whole feels a bit disorganized and lacking in focus. The various stories are resolved perhaps too neatly and sweetly to give the work any true sense of gravity. But in the end what you remember from Romantic Heaven is the imaginative and good-natured metaphysics of the work. It strikes you as a pretty good place to die, or else merely to inhabit for a couple hours.

source form: koreanfilm

The Journals of Musan follows North Korean refugee Jeong Seung-chul through his struggle anchoring himself to his new port of call, South Korea. He lives in a ramshackle apartment (one that appears not to be finished) with his friend Kyung-chul. Whereas Seung-chul is self-effacing, obsequious to everyone he meets, Kyung-chul is a hustler, trying to get cash however he can, be it making anti-North-Korean speeches, stealing clothes at a department store, or illegally funneling money back home for other North Korean refugees with a hefty surcharge. Seung-chul wants none of this, which will adversely affect the sole friendship Seung-chul has. Sure, there is a detective trying to help him obtain a job, but he seems more like a leader than a friend. And then there is the choir woman, Sook-young, whom he stalks early on in the film. His surveillance enables him to not only place himself in the pews of her church, but also in the bowels of a karaoke bar where she surreptitiously works. Her job is a secret because she doesn’t want anyone from her judgmental church to know she works in such a sinful place. She works there as a night manager to cover her mother’s hospital expenses. To compensate for the ethical quandary of a ‘Christian’ woman working in a place where she partly manages escorts, Sook-young brings the judgment she fears from her church on to the escorts, and later onto Seung-chul for his ‘lies’. As a result of all these cold relationships, Seung-chul is left holding onto a dog as the only example of tenderness in an otherwise cruel world.

Seung-chul is played as a constant sad sack, which can makes the film wear on the viewer a bit. His sunken posture symbolizes a beaten man. Yet, this film is based on a real life friend of director Park’s. The Journals of Musan is an extension of Park’s short 125 Jeon Seung-chul, which was also based on Park’s North Korean refugee friend. Park is asking us to empathize with the plight of the refugee in South Korea and how the many dehumanizing trials they face leads some to shut-off their own empathy as a survival mechanism. Park’s insistence to take on the very role of Seung-chul himself is further evidence of this effort to break the fourth wall for South Koreans who may watch, and judge, North Koreans from a distance. (A Park of all trades here, along with being the director and lead actor, he is also the producer and screenwriter.) Everyone Seung-chul meets is shown to have insincere intentions. Even Sook-young’s transition of solidarity with Seung-chul is tempered with doses of skepticism.

Like Lee Chang-dong, for whom Park was an assistant director on Poetry, Park is focusing The Journals of Musan on the life of a South Korean outcast. It is unfair to compare Park to a master such as Lee, so I won’t. What I see in Park’s debut, for which he won a whole slew of awards (the New Currents and FIPRESCI at Busan, the Golden Star at the Marrakech Film Festival, and the Tiger Award at Rotterdam), is promise, which is more than we can say for what he leads us to believe about the society that surrounds Seung-chul.

source form: koreanfilm