Dragon Blade

Dragon Blade/ Celestial General, Heroic Army/ Tiān Jiāng Xióng Shī/ 天将雄狮/ 天將雄獅
/ Tin¹ Zeong³ Hung⁴ Si¹ (Chinese/English)
127 minutes

Huo An, a Hun, is a commander of the protection squad. Their aim is to keep the silk road a peaceful coexistence in the midst of a whole lot of warring tribes. One day, he and those under him are accused of smuggling gold and are put to work reconstructing the wild geese gate. When a roman army, lead by Lucius, fleeing along with a sickly young royal, arrives at the gate. Hou An takes him on in a sword battle, only to have the winner be a fierce sandstorm from behind. After giving them shelter, food and help for the boy, Hou An asks his new friends for a hand in rebuilding the gate in the short time left. they accomplish this in exchange for a hopeful escort of messengers to the Parthian Empire, to tell of the ploys of the scheming older brother, Tiberius. Hou An heads off to find additional help but with a betrayal at hand, He finds himself a prisoner of Tiberius instead. One risky jailbreak later, He finds Lucius in a terminal state and the great roman legion of Tiberious cutting off their escape.


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(Huo An/commander of Protection Squad) Jackie Chan (Yin Po) Choi Si-Won (Leng Yue/moon) Lin Peng (Xiu Qing/Huo An's Wife) Amanda Wang (Sun) Sammy Hung (Publius/young Roman Prince) Jozef Waite (Parthian Queen) Lorie Pester

(Huo Qubing/Han Chinese General) Feng Shaofeng (Christian) Vanness Wu (Eugene) James Lee Guy (Yan Tou) Xiao Yang (Mouse) Wang Taili (Lucius) John Cusack (Tiberius) Adrien Brody (Roman Queen) Sharni Vinson

(General Doramis) Paul Philip Clark (Shou Xia) Max Huang (General Sertor) Joel Adrian (General Statius) Harry Oram (Lucius' deputy Paullus) Philippe Joly (Deputy Gaius) Jai Day (Huo Qubing) William Feng

The Secret Angel

The Secret Angel/ 秘密天使 / Mìmì tiānshǐ ** (Korean-Chinese colab)
web drama 10 episodes.

Jang Woo Hyuk as Hwan

Interesting tale. Those 100 days flew by on speedy angel wings too!, Could be the reason I thought it seemed a little too short. I do hope I get to see more from the actors in this drama sometime soon. Favorite scene(s): The angel wings attack.. which was no more then a few light pounds on the death agent's chest.

Story about a clumsy angel who gives away her necklace to a dying human and then has to protect his life for 100 days from an agent of death.


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(angel L) Kim So Eun

Love in Disguise

Love in Disguise/ Lian ai tong gao **\ (Chinese)
Movie

Leehom Wang as Du Ming-Han

What a wonderful Romantic Comedy! A little kooky, a little sappy, and altogether, a good watch. Even the music was good.

For DMH, the vision of musical fluttering butterflies was all it took for him to realize he had bumped into his soulmate, a traditional music student called Song Xiao-Qing. So he quickly hatched a plan to disguise himself as country bumpkin, Duh, and enrolled to learn more about her and the music she loved.

"All The Things You Never Knew"
by Leehom Wang
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(Du Ming-Han/"duh") Yifei Liu -in- The Forbidden Kingdom

(Joan) Joan Chen -in- On Deadly Ground, Judge Dredd, The Last Emperor, Avatar

(?) Gary Mak -in- The Medallion

Lavender

Lavender/ 薰衣草 (Fan yi cho) ** (Hong Kong)
Movie 111 mins

Takeshi Kaneshiro as Angel Kelly Chen as Athena

A rather melancholy story, still it managed to end well for the girl. Fav scene(s): Facing the bull.

A girl, having lost her precious love to death, lives the life of a numb ghost.. just going through the rote of continued existence.. until one evening when an angel crashes onto her balcony. As there isn't a choice, she lets him stay until his wing is healed. Since he 'feeds' on love, and she doesn't give any, he meets the neighbor and through him, he gets a job at a strip joint, where love is given in plenty. Still, he resolves to try helping her before he has to leave.



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Contract Lover

Contract Lover/ Hup yeu ching yan ** (Hong Kong)
Movie

Bingbing Fan as Joe Richie Ren as Fat

A Fellow from a traditionally-minded family tries to find a way to get his westernized open *cof* minded, girlfriend accepted by hiring another girl to seem 'worse'. Unfortunately, things go a bit awry with plans when the family takes a liking to her.


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(Joe) Bingbing Fan -in- Sophie's Revenge

() Alfred Cheung -in- The Medallion, The Accidental Spy, Twin Dragons

() >Wah Yuen -in- Looking for Jackie, Kung Fu Hustle,

My Wife is 18

My Wife is 18/ Ngo liu poh lut gau ching ** (Hong Kong)
Movie

Ekin Cheng as Cheung

funny story, reminiscent of My Little Bride. On the whole though, I thought it was better. I really enjoyed the fun-loving-meets set-in-ways personalities of the two main characters.

Guy is under pressure from his grandmother to marry, and also by the university who will not pass his thesis, allowing him the degree he desires. He meets the 18 year old that grandma set him up with, outside, and at first it was a simple 'no-way'.. but they do marry, agreeing to divorce one year later. Trying to be careful lest they are discovered together, the tribulation of living together, and trying to be of help with one-another's love interests. eventually leads to discovering a mutual attraction between them.



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(Ms. Lau) Stephanie Che -in- Every Dog Has His Date

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The Art Of Seduction

The Art Of Seduction/ Yuhokui Gisul ** (Korean)
movie 100mins

Park Soo Jin as Hee Jin

Funny movie. Fav scene(s): Guy pouncing on the girl to keep her from thrashing while getting a shot at the hospital.

Guy and girl players attract and try to play one another.



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(Hyun Soo) Shin Sung Rok-in- One Mom and Three Dads

(Hee Jin) Park Soo Jin -in- My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox, Boys Before Flowers, Get Karl! Oh Soo Jung

(So Yeon) Im Hyun Kyung -in- Smile Again

(Sung Il) Lee Sang Yeob -in- Can't Lose

(?) Kim Ki Bang -in- Boys Before Flowers, Lovers, My Lovely Sam-Soon, She's On Duty

() Kwon Hyuk/Kwon Moon Chul -in- When It's At Night, Someone Special, Powerful Opponents

Magic To Win

Magic To Win (Chinese)
movie

Wu Chun as Ling Feng

Not a romance or a comedy, but quite a bit of magical fantasy. Fav character(s): the white-haired stage magician

A volleyball player in a school familiar with magic, accidentally receives power from one of the professors at the school and so she sets out to make a little cash from the suddenly powerful ability. Unbeknownst to her, there is a fire mage out to open the portal of time and is waging magical battles on the other 3 masters in an effort to accumulate their powers.


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() Wu Chun -in- Romantic Princess, Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu(hana kimi)

Sophie's Revenge

Sophie's Revenge/ Fei Chang Wan Mei ** (Chinese)
Movie

Ziyi Zhang as Sophie

Kinda cute. looved Sophie's sheep costume! Didn't care much for the mask though. The rival's causing her to break a leg was a little too over the top, I thought. Still, having the levelheadedness, even in the face of her own relationship issues, to tell Sophie about Gordon's seriousness, did something toward an apology of sorts.

Sophie, a cartoon artist, plots revenge on her recent ex-boyfriend, in an effort to regain his interest as well as to publish the effort in a new comic series. At a party, she runs into Gordon, who seems just unhappy with the new pairing as she is herself, so she partners with him to implement her revenge plan. But her partner has a secret.


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Love Undercover

Love Undercover 1 ** (chinese)
movie

Daniel Wu as Hoi

Cute Romantic comedy of a slightly campy feel. The guy was rather cute the rest were just oddballs.

Unable to shoot a gun and receiving low grades in academy, the girl is put with a dull partner at a lost items desk. Because of her general cluelessness, she is chosen to go undercover as a waitress in order to place a bugged ketchup bottle at the table of the son of a kingpin (retired). Then a girl shows up to break up with the guy and the undercover ditz is hit with the bottle. The guy first offers to help her, she refuses, then meets with her the next evening, obviously attracted... and its mutual.. so she is asked to break-up with the guy and allow a replacement to step in. but its just not as simply done... is it?


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(Fong Lai Kuen) Miriam Yeung Chin Wah -in- Love Undercover 2

Rent a Girlfriend Home For New Years

Rent a Girlfriend Home For New Years ** (Chinese)
24 episodes

Du Chun as Sun Yi Wei Xue Jia Ning as Chu Xiao Xiao

A little dragged out, the acting wasn't terribly wow... or perhaps it was the script, and it was also rather predictable.. tp the point of wondering just when the 'one year later' was going to be posted... but not really all that bad for a lightish romance. I say that with an -ish because although the story did have a single nice kiss, and comfort of sleeping 'together'... there wasn't really any chemistry going on. Fav Character(s): Little Uncle's Nephew...who seemed the first to really 'get it'. and grandma...who I think deserves "Most Mischievous Support" for her playing the 'I'm sick so you'll stay' card.

Yi Wei, desperate to appease his family for the holiday, hires a Girlfriend... a girl who is rather desperate for money to help solve her mother's trouble with loan sharks. One fib turns into another as the holiday extends. In being intro'd to the loving 'traditionally-minded' family, she stretches boundaries and not only causes upheaval, but draws open tightly shuttered windows between the family members and draws them closer together. And then, on the day of their engagement, not only does an ex-girlfriend show up, but so do the loan sharks.


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Every Dog Has His Date

Every Dog Has His Date/ 完美情人/ Yuen mei ching yan ** (Chinese)
movie

Romantic comedy, humor is a bit rough, but then, so is both the 'dog' and the guy he switches with. Something, however small, to be said for the dog's worthy intentions.

A loyal dog, frightened of the thunder, escapes the car and 'runs' through a props designer's workshop/home... the shopman, incensed at the gifts left on his floor, chases the dog through the rain to the river where timely lightning hits a pole and drops wires into the water, electrocuting both and causing a switch to take place. The unconscious dog is then found on the road and is carried far from home, leaving the guy to learn human life and love while trying to help his former owner.


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Love You You

Love You You ** (Chinese)
Movie 91 mins

Eddie Peng as You Lele Angela Yeung Wing as Xia Mi

All in all it was a good story, and fine acting. Trying to make it all a bit longer by randomly inserting scenes of the two's everyday (to give their relationship solidity, I suppose) made it seem a little lacking in substance to me. I guess when you have only so much time to make the film in.. you need to cut corners somewhere. but I'm not sure the cuts that were made, did the film much credit.

A lip reader wishing to keep her job takes on an investigation to prove the guilt of a young man running an island hotel business. Turns out the guy is trying his best to keep the hotel in business, but not as his brother would have anyone believe.


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Holy Pearl

Holy Pearl/ Nu Wa Chuan Shuo Zhi Ling Zhu ** (Chinese)
32 episodes

This is a drama remake, kinda, of a Japanese anime/manga called Inu Yasha. It was pretty good even with all of the changes. I felt sorry for the king, he was so hopelessly smitten. several sad deaths occur throughout.. and a couple of reflections as well. Favorite character(s): Wu Dao the dragon king.

Two goddess's descend from the heaven's to help the humans keep the peace with the demons of the world. They are sworn not to fall in love, and yet they do. Both the king of the human city, and the king of the demons fall for Xian Yue and are both rejected. Instead, she has fallen for a half-dragon, This rather drives the human king a bit bonkers, and the demon king becomes furious for revenge, Xian Yue has been dead for many years by the time modern era girl, Ding Yao arrives through the wheel, and its her mistake when, confronted, she destroys the anti-demon jar on the flagstones, scattering the magical pearls across the realm. She then embarks on a quest with Wen Tian to gather the needed pearls before Shi You Ming can use them to reconstruct another jar and crown himself emperor of the 3 realms.



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