One lesson I learned: Try not to bring your partner to watch a Japanese (or Korean for that matter) romance movie after her makeup workshop. Cynthia was weeping profusely throughout the movie, like the rest of the girls around us in the theater. I had no idea it was that emotional. The title sounds harmless. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Foreign'
I Give My First Love To You – Cry Baby, Cry!
October 23rd, 2010 3 Comments
Tags: Japanese Film · Mao Inoue · Masaki Okada
Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame – Intriguing!
October 16th, 2010 7 Comments
This post has been delayed for quite some time as I have a backlog of blog entries piling up by the day. But I have this quirky habit of documenting all the movies I have watched as I gave up collecting stubs that fade. Unless the movie is so bad that all I want is [...]
Tags: Andy Lau · Carina Lau · Chinese Film · Li Bingbing · Tony Leung Ka-fai · Wuxia
Heartbreaker – A Quality French Romantic Comedy
September 6th, 2010 No Comments
If you love romantic comedy, you ought not to miss this one. As far as the story goes, there are three categories of women in a relationship: (1) happy, (2) knowingly unhappy, and (3) unknowingly unhappy. The main character played by Romain Duris together with his sister and his brother-in-law have made a profession out [...]
Tags: French Film · Romain Duris · Vanessa Paradis
Snow Prince – What Hard Life This Little Boy Has
May 23rd, 2010 No Comments
This Japanese movie is going to make lots of girls tear, though not the quite the same way as “10 Promises to My Dog” as one would have expected. The story begins with a mysterious manuscript that arrives at the hands of a grandmother and her granddaughter. And the manuscript tells a story of a [...]
Tags: Japanese Film
Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos) – What A Way To Kick Start The EU Film Festival
May 7th, 2010 2 Comments
At the end of our last week’s blogger event, we were invited to attend the official opening event of the EU Film Festival. Later on, on the bulletin board of our Spanish language school, we found out that one could email the embassy to get oneself invited. I am surprised that we did not meet [...]
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar · Penélope Cruz · Spanish Film
My Rainy Days – Got Me Thinking Of Starting Anew
April 16th, 2010 4 Comments
I enjoy watching Japanese movies. Mainly because they often touch onto my emotional core. Perhaps it is something to do with dramas. Something to do with the way Japanese craft the stories. If there is one thing that got me thinking late at night, long after finished watching “My Rainy Days” (天使の恋), that would be: [...]
Tags: Japanese Film · Nozomi Sasaki
[●REC]² – The Spanish Horror Continues, Not As Shocking As The First One
April 8th, 2010 No Comments
One of the many good reasons to keep a diary is that you can relive a fragment of your past emotion on any given day. Like today. Reading what I wrote after watching [●REC] gives me chill. I did not remember that the first episode was that scary. Comparatively speaking, the sequel is less scary, the [...]
Tags: Spanish Film
Bodyguards And Assassins – One Shouldn’t Be Missed This Year, To Me
December 23rd, 2009 8 Comments
On the same day we were supposed to meet with our friend on his birthday to watch this film, I was reading “Superfreakonomics” in the morning. In this new chapter, it says we often complain about how the old days are better, but more often so it is not the case. After the film, I thought: What [...]
Tags: Chinese Film
The Storm Warriors – Huh? What The …
December 19th, 2009 6 Comments
For the record, I am a huge fan of the Wuxia genre. I am also a fan of the original Chinese comic book series “Fung Wan”. OK, where shall I begin with this second installment? Part one is my casual thoughts, which fans of the movie may disagree. Part two is my deeper albeit random [...]
Tags: Chinese Film · Wuxia
Don’t Look Back (Ne Te Retourne Pas) – An Ending Worths The Wait
December 15th, 2009 7 Comments
An European film staring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bullucci? No way I am going to miss it. At the opening of the movie, TK and Cynthia simultaneously from my right and left asked if “Don’t Look Back” is a horror show. Uh-oh. One tiny detail I have not researched, prior to the booking of the tickets. As [...]
Tags: Monica Bellucci · Sophie Marceau