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...Lynn (Shu Qi) rests her head against the high back of her porcelain bathtub and reminisces about her happy days of youth?before she became a cold-blooded killer. Her sister Sue (Zhao Wei), clad in terry cloth hot pants and a skimpy tank top, comes in to ask for career advice. She isn't satisfied being the computer genius of the criminal duo, and wants to do some killing too. Lynn scoffingly kicks her with a long, soapy leg, setting off a wet kung fu fight that is saved from going soft-porn only by judicious editing...
...Corey Yuen's new movie So Close is corny, silly and a trifle predictable, but if you like gals doing remarkable kung fu, it's got three of them. Shu Qi and Zhao play sisters whose murder-ed father invented a system that can tap into every single camera on earth. As hired assassins, the sisters use this nifty gadget to help them track their unsuspecting victims. Karen Mok is a Hong Kong detective trying to stop them while simultaneously fighting the overpowering male chauvinism of the police force. (That the Hong Kong police force might be full of sexists...
...some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements. "For me," he says, "the drama takes precedence over the action." His favorite scene from So Close, one in which Shu Qi and Zhao quarrel, doesn't contain a single kick or punch: "On screen, you may not see a lot going on but there was a lot of emotion on the set." What he is happiest about, adds Yuen, is that the script made the three women "quite distinct" from...
...Working with three female leads was an emotional experience on and off camera. "It was a little troublesome," Yuen admits. The three were competitive but lax about training. "So I played a little trick on them. I filmed a Shu Qi scene and then edited it, put in music and enhanced the action so it looked really, really good. I didn't show it to her though: I showed it to the other girls. They took a look at the video and said 'Oh my gosh she's doing so well! Can we match that?' After that, everyone started training...
...predecessor's, Mashimaro merchandise is hot. For the new "pink-collar class"?trendy Chinese girls with a cell phone in one hand and a decaf skim latte in the other?Mashimaro key chains and earmuffs are must-haves. What's the appeal? "Good girls want to be 'bad,'" explains Shu Qiao, a grad student at Shanghai's Fudan University. "They want to be rebellious and make crude jokes...