Film-Book dot Com (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
The first items the viewer will notice when first watching Red Cliff are the sets for the film and the amount of attention placed on design and detail in the Imperial Court of the Eastern Han Dynasty and throughout the remainder of film. It will remind many of The Last Emperor, The House of the [...]
AvatarBG RSS Syndicator (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Sweet Rain Suw�to rein: Shinigami no seido �����: ������� ��������: ����: �������,�����,������� ������: 2008 �������: ������ �����������: 113 ������ �������: Takeshi Kaneshiro Manami Konishi Junko Fuji Mitsuru Fukikoshi Takuya Ishida Ken Mitsuishi Jun Murakami Erika Okuda ��������: Masaya Kakei ���������: Masaya Kakei,Kotaro Isaka �������: 6.9/10 288 votes ��������: Kaneshiro plays a Grim Reaper who...
Surviving the Recession (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Win a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan China! Now till 31 Jan 09 Contest details: Simply take a photo with any of the three RED CLIFF II character costumes display (Tony Leung as Zhou Yu, Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang or Lin Chiling as Xiao Qiao) at Plaza Singapura (at Main Entrance) and answer the following question: Plaza Singapura is the official mall for RED CLIFF II, which opens on 9 January 2009....
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
Reviewed by Joel Pearce Quote: "If you're going to pick up Chungking Express , the Blu-Ray disc is the way to go. It has a sharpness, grainy look, black level detail, and color separation that's impossible on DVD."
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
Criterion’s first foray into Blu-Ray technology brings maximum clarity to Wong Kar-wai’s neon-streaked urban universe.
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
One day, a few years ago in New York City, I was standing around with a group of art students when one demanded we rush to the Angelika because “the new Wong Kar-wai film is showing and he’s suuuchhh a genius!” Imagine the look I got when I asked, “What’s the movie?” I didn’t know anything about Wong, and I still don’t, really. But I do know this: a genius he’s not. His 1994 Chungking Express is divided...
Fridae - News Features (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
If you hang around California Fitness in Zhongxiao East Road in Taipei, you may bump into Hugo Zhang � a beefy, sunny big boy with poster boy looks. He may be HIV+ but he doesn't let the illness get him down.
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
When a person's time has come, a death god is sent to earth to observe for seven days and assess the person's life. After a week has passed, he determines whether the person lives or dies. Music-loving death god Chiba's (Takeshi Kaneshiro) latest assignment in the mortal world is a meek 27-year-old office lady (Konishi Manami) who lives a life so quiet and uneventful that even she doesn't see
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
International Eye CandyNovember 26th, 2008Yes, kids, it's cold and snowy and wet here in Canada, weather we refer to locally as "shitty" and which inspires us all to stay indoors, eat prepackaged foods and watch movies. Movies? Yes, you figured out where I'm going next you clever sod, it's time for our fortnightly trawl through the pages of for a new installment of International Eye Candy! It's an...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Good news for fans of Japanese film as a couple big titles are getting the English-friendly treatment. First up, Accuracy of Death - the Takeshi Kaneshiro starring remake of Death Takes A Holiday , later remade in Hollywood as Meet Joe Black - has arrived with minimal fanfare and even less advance notice on English subtitled DVD in Hong Kong. This one just popped up as available today with no advance...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Twitch have the new teaser for the second part of RED CLIFF, the Chinese-language John Woo epic about the Three Kingdoms period in Ancient China. The film stars Tony Leung (2046) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) and is currently the most successful movie ever in China. Check the teaser out HERE. I'll be honest, I made my girlfriend come and see the first part of RED CLIFF with me and...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Film review: Gorgeous action choreography from Ching Siu-Tung features but the film is a drawn-out affair. Characters are only sporadically sympathetic and a love triangle fails to convince.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Over the last decade, we have been offered a bevy of outrageously luscious Asian period dramas ( ) that have painted China as a version of Oz in which a fabulous gay wedding is permanently under way.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Three massive Asian stars team up for this Chinese hero epic - Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro - but even their combined charisma can't lift its heavy weather. Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan, the film is a speculative reimagining of an unsolved crime in 19th-century Chinese history: in 1870, a regional governor was assassinated and the culprit never found. Chan portrays this man as a soldier...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Inspired by the true story of a Liangjiang governor's assassination in 1870, this epic of Chinese warfare is notable for a performance by Jet Li that does not involve rapid-fire chopsocky moves.
