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...that weren't plot enough--and it's plenty--the script by Alan Mak and Felix Chong gives Ming a mystery-novelist wife (Sammi Cheng) and Yan a pretty shrink (Kelly Chen), an ex-girlfriend and a young daughter. At the center, though, is the wary dance of Yan and Ming, each man serving two masters, each character luring the viewer to sympathize with his charade and hope that somehow both can survive. Leung, who played the warrior-lover in Hero, and Lau, Hong Kong's top pop star and movie magnet, are terrific as smart men, ruthlessly loyal, feeling...
...filmmaker Louis Tan's editing room right now. They are a one-band, underground entertainment conglomerate, earning vast amounts of street cred instead of big bucks. And whether they like it or not, mainstream acceptance is on its way. Last month, the band performed alongside Countess of Canto-pop Sammi Cheng when she sold out the 20,000-seat Hong Kong Coliseum 11 nights...
...Chen Kaige's 1993 drama Farewell My Concubine. In Hong Kong virtually every star does double duty as singer and actor, from suave baritone Jacky Cheung to Beijing beauty Faye Wong. Last year's box-office sensation was the romantic comedy Needing You, whose two stars, Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng, are at the top of Cantopop royalty. Lau, 40, has been acting (often in tough-guy roles) or singing (here he's Mellow Man) for 20 years. Cheng, 29, is the new princess of Cantopop--last year she sold more than a million albums--whose fame has translated into...
...fung is too busy to worry about being too busy. This summer, like last summer, he produced and co-directed two hit movies. The first, in June, was the comedy Love on a Diet, a follow-up to his 2000 smash Needing You..., both starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng; it grossed a robust $5 million. Soon after, he opened the gun drama Fulltime Killer, with Lau as a preening, delirious assassin; so far, the film has taken in $3 million. With his creative partner, Wai Ka-fai, To runs Hong Kong's premier indie production company, Milkyway Image...
...RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence. Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise...