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    19 Nominations for HK awards

    Red Cliff II does well too with 13
    Kung fu thriller leads Hong Kong award nominations
    By MIN LEE
    Associated Press
    2010-02-09 06:00 PM

    An action thriller about kung fu masters protecting modern China's founding father Sun Yat-sen has garnered 19 nominations at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards, including best movie, best director and best leading actor.

    Besides "Bodyguards and Assassins," the other top contenders among nominees announced Tuesday are John Woo's historical epic "Red Cliff II" _ with 13 nominations _ and the police thriller "Overheard," which has six.

    The three movies are competing for best picture honors against Jackie Chan's "Shinjuku Incident" and "KJ: Music and Life" _ a documentary about a Hong Kong music prodigy.

    Chan's drama about an illegal Chinese immigrant turned gangster in Japan hasn't received much attention because director Derek Yee, worried about the violence in the movie, didn't release the film in mainland China.

    In the best director category, Woo will face off against Yee, "Bodyguards and Assassins" creator Teddy Chan, "Overheard" filmmakers Alan Mak and Felix Chong, and Ann Hui, who made the family drama "Night and Fog."

    Hong Kong's Simon Yam is double nominated in the best actor contest. The veteran is in contention for playing a physically abusive husband in "Night and Fog" and a cobbler in "Echoes of the Rainbow." Yam's competitors are Wang Xueqi from "Bodyguards and Assassins," Lau Ching-wan from "Overheard" and Aaron Kwok, who portrayed a policeman turned murder suspect in "Murderer."

    China's Zhang Jingchu, who played Yam's wife in "Night and Fog," is up for best actress, along with Wai Ying-hong from "At the End of Daybreak," Shu Qi from "Look for a Star," Sandra Ng from "Echoes from the Rainbow" and Zhao Wei, who portrayed the Chinese folk hero Hua Mulan.

    The annual awards will be announced on April 18.
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    I just saw Bodyguards and Assassins & enjoyed it should do well at the Hong Kong Film Awards....
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    ok finally saw it...and donnie should eat his words about that parkour scene, didnt even touch the pubic hair of casino royal...it was all just very basic running and jumping and wires. nothing special nothing that even came in the realm of what i consider one of the best foot chase scene ever filmed in a movie period. probably in the top 3. so donnie eat your words with hot sauce.

    as for the movie i actually liked donnies character the best his had the most layers and was the most complex i wish the actors would have shaved there heads, the ones who wore wearing fake wigs, made their heads look gigantic and comical. also liked the character of the old rich business man, and i felt for him the most he wanted china to be free but not at the cost of his own family and i could kinda see that. his friend who was all self righteous i hated him, because from what they showed he had no family he had nothing to lose, so he could talk all that freedom bull**** because the reality was he wasnt sacrificing anything but himself. old man had his wealth and family both put on the line. and donnies story was really good too, enjoyed both of them....the story as a whole was kinda blah, a little too patriotic for me. i wish it would have dwelved in more with all the arrangment of characters. 3.5 out of 5

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    It is not necessary for Donnie to run against incoming horse.

    true. Donnie wanted to keep Dr. Sun alive and tried to stall the chief assassin a bit.

    but use something else to stall the horse, a trap, a gun, fire, sands---something

    way too dramatic

    iron fan man would be gone or dead already and kept standing up --

    shaolin tall monk would be gone already but came back--

    way too dramatic

    in real life, they would be gone already--

    yes, the movie keeps you on your heel till the last moment when Dr, Sun aboarded a ship to be away from HK.

    yes many people would die before you see the establishment of the first republic in asia

    next year 2011 will be the centenial or hundred years anniversary for 1911--

    but more down to earth approach would have make the movie more real

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    the merchant lost his son

    many more chinese sons and daughters will be lost before the revolution is over

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    the nationalist flag was white sun in the blue sky

    now we added red blood all over the ground representing the blood shed and sacrifice of many--

    so blue sky white sun and whole ground red--

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    Didn't notice this thread until today.

    Saw the movie when it was released. Didn't see the previews for the movie and I thought my girlfriend was going to drag me to a historical film. I knew something was up when all the kung fu cliches started showing up, leading up to the chase/fight scene which took up half of the movie.

    Wow, what a surprise. Not really a "pure" kung fu movie yet one of the best kung fu movies I've seen in a long time.

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    #1 Film of Merit.

    There's video if you follow the link.
    Recommended five films on HK Film Critics Society Awards
    2010-03-22 14:17 BJT

    The Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards held their 16th annual ceremony on March 3rd. On today's edition of Countdown we recommend five of the Films of Merit.

    No.5 "Shinjuku Incident"

    The 2009 crime/drama stars Jackie Chan and is directed by Derek Yee. Chan plays a Chinese tractor mechanic nicknamed Steelhead, who enters Japan illegally in search of his fiancee, Xiu Xiu, played by Xu Jinglei. He finds out that Xiu Xiu married a Tokyo gang leader. The desperate Steelhead encounters a Chinese woman named Lilly and becomes involved in gang combat.

    No.4 "Prince of Tears"

    "Prince of Tears" is a historical drama by Hong Kong director Yon Fan, starring Taiwan idol Joseph Chang and Wing Fan. It tells of the love, hate and separation of four young people in 1950's Taiwan. It took the director five years to accomplish the epic and the movie was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice Film Festival.

    No.3 "Written By"

    "Written By" is a Hong Kong fantasy film co-written, produced, and directed by Wai Ka-Fai, and starring Lau Ching-Wan and Kelly Lin. Lau plays a lawyer killed in an accident, leaving behind his wife and daughter. He is resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel, where he finds himself a grieving husband who lost his family and his sight during a car accident, living in an alternate reality.

    No.2 "Overheard"

    It's a Hong Kong crime thriller starring Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu as a trio of police officers conducting surveillance on a public company, where a man, nicknamed "Boss" is the chief suspect. When crucial information on a surging share was intercepted, a moment of greed led the team into cross fire between police and the boss. Greed is one of the original sins, and is the central theme of the movie.

    No.1 "Bodyguards And Assassins"

    In 1905, Sun Yat-Sen, the pioneer of Chinese Democratic revolution, intends to come to Hong Kong to discuss plans for revolution with fellow Tong-meng-hui members to overthrow the corrupt and crumbling Qing Dynasty. Empress Dowager Cixi sends a group of assassins to kill Sun. And a group of revolutionists from all walks of life get together to protect Sun. Produced by Peter Chan and directed by Teddy Chen, the action drama features an all-star cast including Donnie Yen, Tong Leung, Leon Lai, Zhou Xun and Nicholas Tse.
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    To be showcased at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 2nd.

    I was going to put this on our Asian Film Festivals thread, but then decided to put it here as there weren't any other martial arts films of note.
    FILMS/ BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS

    Shi yue wei cheng

    World Cinema
    Hong Kong/China, 2009, 138 minutes

    SHOWTIMES

    Sun, May 02 / 6:45 / Castro / BODY02C
    CREDITS

    dir
    Teddy Chen

    prod
    Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Huang Jianxin

    scr
    Chun Tin-nam, Guo Junli, Wu Bing, James Yuen

    cam
    Arthur Wong

    editor
    Derek Hui

    mus
    Chan Kwong-wing, Peter Kam

    cast
    Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Leon Lai, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Simon Yam, Wang Xueqi

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    We Distribution Ltd, 8/F Hay Nien Building, 1 Tai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. FAX: 852-2366-0661. EMAIL: sales@wedistribution.com.

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    CAUSES
    Politics & Government Reform

    Bodyguards and Assassins

    Hong Kong circa 1906 existed in a strange political limbo, ruled by the British Empire but nestled alongside dynastic China. While the ancient Qing Dynasty was turning its back on the ever-encroaching modern world, many Chinese were embracing the ideas of republicanism and democracy, and Hong Kong’s in-betweenness made it a freewheeling haven for political exiles and revolutionaries. Bodyguards and Assassins tells the story of a 1906 visit to Hong Kong by exile, revolutionary and future “Father of the Nation” Sun Yat-sen. The Empress Dowager orders his assassination, Sun’s Hong Kong followers determine to protect him and thus is an epic born. This is an action movie as only Hong Kong can do it, with tremendous panache, a wide streak of sentimentality and, of course, spine-snapping martial arts combat. The film is a glorious vision of a teeming, ramshackle, turn-of-the-century Hong Kong, achieved with massive sets, seamless computer graphics and a huge all-star cast of absolutely terrific actors (and about a million extras). Anchoring the sprawling dramatis personae is the great Wang Xueqi (whose filmography extends back to some of the great Chinese Fifth Generation films) as businessman-turned-revolutionary Li Yutang. The first half of the movie is an intricate political thriller, as the various factions maneuver into position and plenty of foreshadowing plot points click into place; the second half is, well, just plain thrilling. It’s a rousing, electrifying mix of history, revolution and kung fu.

    —Tod Booth

    Presented in association with Center for Asian American Media. North American Premiere.
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    To be showcased at the Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 6th.

    S.F. gets it first.
    THURSDAY, MAY 6 | CLOSING NIGHT CELEBRATION | PROGRAM 61 | 7:00 PM | A/JAT
    BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS
    DATE: THURSDAY, MAY 6
    TIME: 7:00 PM
    VENUE: A/JAT
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    BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS (Shi yue wei cheng)
    (Hong Kong, 2009) Dir.: Teddy Chan; Scr.: Tin Nam Chun, Junli Guo, Bing Wu, James Yuen
    35mm, 139 min., color, narrative, in Mandarin w/ E.S.

    BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, this year’s Festival Closing Night attraction, continues the trend of history-grounded works we’ve seen from Hong Kong filmmakers of Festivals past: Stanley Kwan’s ROUGE (Festival 1992) observes Hong Kong’s urbanization through the filter of a courtesan’s ghost seventy years removed from the present day; Mabel Cheung’s THE SOONG SISTERS (Festival 1998) offers a dizzying overview of history courtesy of three socialites whose lives intertwine with world events; while works such as Wayne Wang’s LIFE IS CHEAP…BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE (Festival 2004) casts a wary eye on Hong Kong’s post-1997 handover from the Great Britain. Director Chen’s latest, a liberal retelling of revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen’s fateful 1906 trip to Hong Kong to rally squabbling factions against the Qing Dynasty, is certainly one of Hong Kong’s most lavish tellings of its history, even more so than last year’s Donnie Yen starrer IP MAN (2008). Imagining a Hong Kong not unlike the wild wild West, Chen and company deliver a tense, taut tale that paints history through the eyes of opposing forces as well as those of ordinary people goaded into extraordinary acts of bravery and heroism.

    In the days leading up to Sun’s April 16, 1906 trip to Hong Kong, Qing Dynasty operatives, under orders from the Empress Dowager Cixi, organize to assassinate Sun (referred to as “Sun Wei”). Meanwhile, the revolutionaries led by Chen Shaobai (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and businessman Li Yutang (Wang Zueqi) race to assemble a team of bodyguards to safeguard Sun on his perilous yet fateful meeting with fellow Tongmenghui members to overthrow the Qing. This being a Hong Kong action movie first and foremost, complications leading up to Sun’s arrival ensue: rebel forces led by exiles Qing general Fang Tian (Simon Yam) are ambushed by Qing assassins; British police led by police chief Smith (Eric Tsang) threaten a shut-down of Li’s newspaper, a major sounding-board for revolutionary foment; and Chen himself is kidnapped by Qing agents in the wake of the attack on general Fang’s men. The fate of the revolutionaries, rendered in a series of striking cinematic set-pieces, offers a prelude to the main act that dominates the film’s entire third act: on the fateful day of Sun’s arrival, the remaining revolutionaries, including Li’s headstrong son Chongguang (Wang Po-Chieh), his trusty sedan driver (Nicholas Tse), Fang Tian’s orphaned daughter Hong (Li Yuchun), an outcast Shaolin monk who goes by the nickname “Stinky Tofu” (Mengke Bateer), a police officer bent on redemption after his gambling addiction costs him his family (Donnie Yen), and Liu Yubai (Leon Lai), a highly-skilled martial artist whose specialty is the Iron Fan, organize a risky decoy maneuver in constant threat by the very skilled and ruthless legion of Qing assassins.

    At turns lavish and kinetic, BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS recalls recent forays into Hong Kong’s history and star-crossed relationship with its British colonizers (Ronnie Yu’s 2006 FEARLESS starring Jet Li is one recent example), and offers multiple opportunities for many of its stars to shine, however briefly. As a work of history, the merits of its accuracy is secondary to depictions of heroism expected of the fanboy crowd — we’re guessing that the opportunity to see Donnie Yen, Li Yuchun, Mengke Bateer, and Leon Lai lay spectacular waste to Qing assassins will meet with rousing approval from tonight’s audience. Yet in the end, BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS finds a knowing kinship with John Woo’s recent epic RED CLIFF, another slow-burning action epic that takes care to cultivate a special bond between its myriad characters and its audience. In that respect, the revolutionaries — not to mention director Chen — will have succeeded, splendidly.

    — Abraham Ferrer

    BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS
    DATE: THURSDAY, MAY 6
    TIME: 7:00 PM
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    BodyGuards and Assassins

    Now this is an awesome movie....really awesome.

    Donnie Yen, and Cung Le.

    check it out

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilZ2Qe2wUhw
    Hung Sing Boyz, we gottit on lock down
    when he's around quick to ground and pound a clown
    Bruh we thought you knew better
    when it comes to head huntin, ain't no one can do it better

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    we've been there done that

    we've discussed this film for almost a year: http://kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53158

    got up your search fu man. and it was lame

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    Thumbs up

    It is an action packed film

    it keeps you on toes till the very end.

    i still think some realism into some of characters may make the tales more real or down to earth.

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    Which DVD version should I get?
    Psalms 144:1
    Praise be my Lord my Rock,
    He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !

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    TTT you mofus !
    Psalms 144:1
    Praise be my Lord my Rock,
    He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !

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    B&A is our new sweepstakes!

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