Word: wais
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist he defeats in the film's first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
Berry's character is likewise shaped by history. The name Jinx may not have the come-hither connotations of Bond Girls past, but the character is in many ways a composite of her predecessors. She has the sass of Goldfinger's Pussy Galore and the kick-ass skills of Wai Lin from Tomorrow Never Dies. Put a gun in her handbag, add a murky agenda and you have a Bond Girl who's "one step further from the previous one," says Berry. "She's not just eye candy. She's feisty, a fighter...
...week EastWeek magazine was shut down by its media-mogul owner in response to the furor over a cover photo of a movie star photographed topless against her will during a 1990 kidnapping. The star is believed to be Carina Lau, whose long-time boyfriend is Tony Leung Chiu-wai, star of Wong Kar-wai?s rapturous romance ?In the Mood for Love...
...best romantic movies of the 80s and 90s: ?An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty,? ?Shanghai Blues,? ?Rouge,? ?Last Romance,? ?A Fishy Story,? ?The Bride With White Hair,? ?Red Rose White Rose,? ?Comrades: Almost a Love Story,? ?Fly Me to Polaris? and three or four moody-broodies from Kar-wai. But Hong Kong cinema didn?t earn its international cachet by dealing in delicate feelings and poignant renunciation. It got there with sex and violence, action and atrocity, deftly orchestrated mayhem - exactly the elements that the press continues to exploit long after the Golden Age of Hong Kong films got tarnished...
...wheel? Tse's former chauffeur Shing Kwok-ting, according to the original police report. Further investigation indicated otherwise: Tse had actually crashed the car, called Shing at home and at Shing's suggestion, Tse left the scene, allowing the chauffeur to ask the arresting officer, Lau Chi-wai, if he could "stand in" for Tse as the culprit. Shing and the officer then went to the Central Police station, where Lau asked him to fill out forms indicating that he was thedriver. According to press reports, Tse was driven from the scene by Cheung, his romantic link of the moment...