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That discovery last month made the Suitcase Murder one of Taiwan's juiciest crime stories, and it's only gotten raunchier since. The case landed on the desk of Taipei detective Shih Yi-ting, of the force's two-year-old Cybercrime Squad. Shih began by looking at Lin's computer and studying the records of his Internet provider. She discovered that on the night of his death, Feb. 3, Lin had been on line for 57 minutes starting around 6:00 p.m. The provider also revealed that Lin had visited a gay website and had entered a chat room...
...their daughter's graduation from law school. After all the family had been through, she felt she more than deserved a place alongside other proud parents enjoying the Columbia University ceremony. The journey would be the retired factory worker's first visit with her daughter Tong Yi in four years, her first taste of life outside China?and her first ride in an airplane...
...second group is the spawn of actor and martial arts instructor Yuen Siu-tin, also known as Simon Yuen. Five sons of Siu-tin have carved notable, knockabout careers in movie action: Wo-ping, Cheung-yan, Chun-yeung (a.k.a. Brandy), Sun-yi (Sunny) and Yat-choh. Among them, these two extended families have won 13 of the 18 Hong Kong Film Awards for best action choreography. Wo-ping got one for the epochal grudge matches between Donnie Yen and Jet Li in Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China...
...father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...
...MIGHT NOT Art films today are often slow films, and if Yi Yi's pulse were any slower it would merit not a review but an autopsy. At 2 hr. 53 min., it contains many scenes of silent staring into the middle distance--human disasters made statuesque and static...