Opening This Week: January 15 - 21, 2005 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
January 21, 2005
China (mainland)
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Yi Shi Er Niao / One Stone and Two Birds
(Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005)
Three guys have been managing a remote post for six years and suddenly they are visited by many strangers - a mysterious young lady, a high ranking official being sentenced to exile, a starving bandit, an old man with a cart of treasure, a ruthless killer, a corpse smuggler...
Written by LIN Man-Hsu, Directed by CHU Yin-Ping, starring Jacky WU, Ruby LIN, NG Man-Tat, Xue Cun, Eric TSANG, CHEN Long, GAO Hu, NoNo.
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Xiao Li Tao Sheng (lit.: Flee from Laugh)
(Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005)
A young comedian starts enjoying his new life as a social climber. People around him decide to teach him a lesson. He is tricked into a bet - in seven days he must cure a man who is unable to laugh, otherwise he will loss his new restaurant...
Directed by CHANG Zheng, starring LI Zhiqiang, WANG Si-Yi, HAO Haimin, LI Jiacun, JIANG Hong, LIU Yuan.
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Gui Mei (lit.: Ghost Sisters)
(Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005)
Based on a short story from the classic Chinese novel collection Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, it tells a tale of a young scholar and the sprits of two dead girls.
Directed by XU Xiaojian, starring WAN Tin-Chiu, YI Ren, WU Ma, Teresa Mak.
Hong Kong
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Hai Nan Ji Fan (lit.: Hainan Chicken Rice) / Rice Rhapsody
(Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005)
Single mother Jen runs a restaurant, which is known for its Hainan Chicken Rice. She is dying to have a grandson but two of her three sons don't like girls. Fortunately, her youngest son starts to date a French girl. Jen thinks everything is getting better until her friend Kim Chui (played by TV Chef Martin Yan) invents a new dish, which literally takes away her customers...
Directed by Sylvia CHANG, Martin YAN, TAN Lepham, Melanie LAURENT, Craig TOH, Alvin CHIANG, Andy MOK, Maggie Q.
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PTU Nü Jing - Ou Ran Xian Jing (lit.: Policewomen of PTU: Accidental Entrapment) / PTU 2
(Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005)
A cocktail part is underway in Hong Kong. Among the guests, there are a rich doctor and his sexy female companion, a Japanese policewoman, a Japanese man selling stolen goods, a hitman from Germany, an undercover policewoman being after illegal trade and a female member of the PTU of the Hong Kong Police. Even as a group of total strangers, they have met in the morning of that day. A series of events happen among them because they do not trust each other... This is not a sequel to Johnnie To's PTU, even thought its English title is PTU 2.
Directed by LEUNG Hung-Wah, starring Anya, Kristy YEUNG, Hanabi KIM, WANG Man-Tak, Terence YIN, Andrew LIEN, EO2.
Taiwan