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June 2009

 

     
   
     
     
     
 

Opening This Week: June 20 - 26, 2009 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 26, 2009

 

 

Short of Love

Glamorous Youth

Images: BIG Pictures, Hong Kong Star X Media, Local Production, Digital Jungle Production..

 
   

A financially downsized fund manager decides to find real love as an average guy in Short for Love.

 

Three Hong Kong boys are growing up in Glamorous Youth.

 

These are two low-budget films released in Hong Kong this week.

 

Other new releases:

 

China:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (USA)

Hong Kong:
Diario de Una Ninfómana / Diary of a Sex Addict (Spain)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (USA)

Taiwan:
Cover boy: L'Ultima Rivoluzione (Italy)
La fille de Monaco / The Girl from Monaco (France)
One Million Yen Girl (Japan)

 

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Opening This Week: June 13 - 19, 2009 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 19, 2009

 

 

Duo Da Shi A

The Magic Aster

Images: Jiangsu Province Entertainment Industry Group Co., Ltd., Jia Wen Zhong Ya, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, CETV.

 
   

Duo Da Shi A (What's the Big Deal) is a comedy about stories of several individual. A young man is contracted to build a prop tank, his realtor girlfriend is bothered by her work and an editor-in-chief has to come out the money to for a donation he promised.

 

The Magic Aster is an animated movie tells the protector of Iris Mountain, works with the woman he is in love with, to take back the stolen sacred Iris Flower.

 

 

Other new releases:

 

China:
none

Hong Kong:
Crossing Over (USA)
Hannah Montana: The Movie (USA)
The Haunting in Connecticut (USA)
Last Chance Harvey (USA)
Musta Jää / Black Ice (Finland / Germany)
Nobody to Watch Over Me (Japan)
Scandal Makers (South Korea)

Taiwan:
Cover boy: L'Ultima Rivoluzione (Italy)
La fille de Monaco / The Girl from Monaco (France)
One Million Yen Girl (Japan)

 

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Opening This Week: June 6 - 12, 2009 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 12, 2009

 

 

Plastic City

Kill Bride

Images: Tian Gong Zhi Ye, Sheng Shi Hua Huo, Gullane Filmes, Bitters End, Novo Films, Sundream Motion Pictures, Xstream Pictures.

 
   

Kill Bride is a comedy about a soon to be 30 girl's pursuit of a fairytale romance.

 

Plastic City tells the story of a young man his father, leader of an underground counterfeit goods empire in Sao Paolo.

 

Other new releases:
 

China:
Terminator Salvation (USA / Germany / UK / Italy)

Hong Kong:
252: Signal of Life (Japan)
Coco avant Chanel (France)
Duplicity (USA / Germany)

Taiwan:
Blood: The Last Vampire (Hong Kong / Japan / France / Argentina)
Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T'Aime / I Have Love You So Long (France)
Faubourg 36 / Paris 36 (France)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (USA / UK)
Teeth (USA)

 

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Opening This Week: May 30 - June 5, 2009 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 5, 2009

 

 

Blood: The Last Vampire

Image: East Wing Holdings, SAJ.

 
   

A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon is disguise...
 

Opened this week in Hong Kong, Blood: The Last Vampire is a live-action remake of the same title Japanese animation.

 

In Taiwan, two mainland Chinese made films are released - The Equation of Love and Death, about a story of how lives of five total strangers are tangled together by a mystiques death, and Qing Zang Xian (The Qinghai-Tibet Railroad), a dramatized retelling of the construction of the Railroad.

 

 

Other new releases:
 

China:
none

Hong Kong:
Food, Inc. (USA)
Home (France0
Star Trek (USA)

Taiwan:
The Equation of Love and Death (China / Hong Kong)
Qing Zang Xian (China)
Captain Abu Raed (Jordan)
Dalai Lama Renaissance (USA)
Duplicity (USA / Germany)
The Hangover (USA / Germany)
Home (France)
Je te Mangerais (France)
Shonen Merikensack (Japan)

 

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