Ashes Of Time Redux Movie

Synopsis

ASHES OF TIME is inspired by characters from Louis Cha’s novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes. It centers on a man named Ouyang Feng. Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to carry out contract killings. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of his solitude.

Director : Wong Kar Wai
Cast : Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung

Glamorous Youth Movie

CHAN Kin-hong (Nelson YUNG) has an identical name with the notorious headlined man in Hong Kong, but the life of this passive and aimless schoolboy is far too normal. His father (Tai Pao) is a fan of martial arts fictions, and his mother (Letty LO) only loves Korean soap opera. He has already lost his fantasy on family and relationship. The literature class of the melancholic Mr. ZANG is perhaps his only sweet in life.
Raised in a single family, Kaka (Louise WONG) is used to the hysteria of her depressed mother. An injured cabbage patch doll might break their dead silence in the house. The two good friends of CHAN Kin-hong are facing their own problem: Dai-hong (KWOK Hiu-fai) is having a hard time in sex life; Spiderman (Cameron LAU) values dignity more than anything else. Spiderman strives hard and climbs high, but after all, he is not the American hero, but a tiny spider struggling on the skyscrapers in Hong Kong.
The only friend that Mr. ZANG (Joey LEUNG) has in school is the Principal (PAI Piao), their friendship fades away as Mr. ZANG dies. And life goes on, Mainland China has become a paradise for CHAN Kin-hong. Who knows an endless path leads to paradise or hell?

Director : Philip Yung
Cast : Tai Bo, Nelson YUNG, Louise WONG, Sherry LEE, HUI So-ying

The Way We Are Movie

Synopsis

This is a nonchalant story of decent folks living in an isolated “new” town distanced by poverty.
Onn is a high school graduate, the only child of widowed Kwai, who lives and studies in Tin Shui Wai, a new town bordering China and remote by Hong Kong standard. He is no wise kid with flying colors but he grew up with keen awareness of what his mother has been up against in defense of their family of two.
Kwai is the kind who throws her despair behind and never dodges what it takes to move on in work and life. She works in a supermarket, actually a neighborhood grocery, at very limited salary, and that keeps her from the costly family gatherings which she could barely afford. But behind their infrequent encounters Kwai has a pair of caring brothers who owe their education to a sister who truncated her schooling to make money for the family’s future.

Director : Ann Hui
Cast : Idy Chan, Paw Hee Ching, Clifton Ko, Leung Juno

Permanent Residence Movie

Synopsis

The second film from the producer/screenwriter/co-director of City Without Baseball takes the Hong Kong gay film into even bolder territory. It explores in complete abandon and full nudity the life story of a young man who pursues an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and who contemplates on the mortality of his loved ones. Remaining independent, yet extravagantly shot in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Thailand, Australia and Israel under the confident cinematography of veteran Herman Yau, Permanent Residence exudes a deep understanding and sensibility towards the important issues involved in loving, living and dying.

Director : Scud
Cast : Sean Li, Osman Hung, Jackie chow, Lau Yu Hong

Drifting Flower Movie

Synopsis

Taiwanese director Zero Chou (Spider Lilies) offers up three subtle, interwoven lesbian tales of the lost and found nature of love. The first segment opens with a fragile domestic bliss cobbled together by Jing, and her younger sister Meigo. Butch accordionist Chalkie upsets the balance by falling for Jing and inspiring Meigo’s first big crush. The middle story belongs to Lily, a patient endlessly searching in her disintegrating memory for her lost lover. The final segment follows Chalkie, coming of age with best pal and coming to terms with her repulsion at her own budding body and her complicated feelings for girls. Selected by the Berlin International Film Festival, HKIFF and Tokyo Int’l Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Director : Zero Chou
Cast : Serena Fang, Chao Yi Lan, Lu Yi-Ching, Sam Wang