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...SENTENCED. YE XIANG, hotel assistant manager, and MING ZHU, madam; to life in prison for providing prostitutes to nearly 300 visiting Japanese construction-firm employees in September; in Zhuhai, China. The sex party, which reportedly included assignations in elevators and other public areas, occurred on what China considers the 72nd anniversary of its World War II occupation by Japan. China has requested the extradition of three Japanese citizens it claims "clearly requested sexual services," but the two countries don't have an extradition treaty...
...those who missed the first IA or failed to take detailed notes of it, a little primer is in order. Ming (Andy Lau) is a triad spy who infiltrates the police force, while Yan (an unusually harried Tony Leung) is a cop under cover with the triads. Each tries to root out the other during the compact, brutally tense first film; Ming, who likes working with the good guys so much that he wants to sever all of his criminal ties, blows away Yan, and walks away scot-free. (Not in the mainland China version, however. Nervous censors there forced...
...original. But IA3 directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak solve that potential casting problem by shifting the third film back and forth in time, a few months before the first IA and a few months after its end, when a seemingly free-and-clear Ming rejoins the cops. With Yan, Wong and Sam shimmering across the screen like walking phantoms, IA3 begins to take on the atmosphere of a ghost story, an impression that is reinforced when paranoid Ming starts seeing what seem like actual ghosts. Is he going nuts?or is he just confused, like much of the audience...
...close-cropped Andy Lau plays Ming as a man slowly discovering his own hollowness, but Leung's Yan, all nerves and charm, steals the film again, while Tsang and Wong shine in their brief appearances. Newcomers Leon Lai, as a possibly dirty cop, and mainlander Chen Daoming, as an imperially cold smuggler, fit seamlessly into the action. Only Kelly Chen, as the psychiatrist who connects Ming and Yan, falls flat...
...Tampa, Fla.; Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco; and America West Arena in Phoenix, Ariz., among others. So why is Toyota, a Japanese company with U.S. offices in Torrance, Calif., the nameplate for the new Toyota Center arena in Houston? For one 7-ft. 5-in. reason: Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets star from Shanghai. Toyota opened a new plant in Tianjin, China, and hopes millions of Yao fans will soon be Corolla fans...