Articles in Asian Movie Reviews
Returner (2002) Movie Review
Sometimes there’s just no real reason for a movie to be in the first place. Take the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl”, and now take the Japanese movie “Returner”. Both films are clearly inspired by “The Matrix”, and one can spot the “inspiration” in the action sequences and special effects. Although [...]
March 18th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreViva Erotica (1996) Movie Review
For those familiar with Hong Kong cinema, the term “Cat III” conjures up images of sex for the sake of gratuitous sex. Hong Kong films that fall into the Cat III rating belong in the “erotica” department, which is separated into two distinctive subgenres: screwball sex farce comedy and dark violent thriller. The screwball sex [...]
March 15th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreWu Yen (2001) Movie Review
“Wu Yen” looks like a play turned into a movie, but without all the trappings of a “movie world” and everything associated with that. The film purports to tell the “real” story of the Qi Emperor and his rise to greatness, which gives it some ties to the new Jet Li movie “Hero”, which tells [...]
March 11th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreFreeze Me (2000) Movie Review
With “Freeze Me”, I’m reasonably certain writer/director Takashi Ishii is trying to make a statement about the hardships of being a woman in contemporary Japan, but the problem is that the film just isn’t very good. Harumi Inoue stars as Chihiro, a bank office worker who, 5 years earlier, was raped in her small hometown. [...]
March 11th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreBio Zombie (1998) Movie Review
More “Return of the Living Dead” than “Night of the Living Dead”, the Hong Kong salute to Zombies Attack film “Bio Zombie” is funnier and more effective than you would think at first glance. Only true fans of the genre will be able to appreciate the balance director Wilson Yip (”Skyline Cruisers”) and the writers [...]
March 8th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreArdor aka Deep Loves (2002) Movie Review
I wish I could tell you I didn’t know how “Ardor”, a South Korean movie about a wronged wife who herself enters into an affair, would end, but unfortunately I can’t. I had hoped that because “Ardor” is a South Korean movie it would refrain from treading the same trails numerous Bored Housewife Has Affair [...]
March 6th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MorePlatonic Sex (2001) Movie Review
It’s really up to you on how much of “Platonic Sex” you want to believe as truth and which parts you want to pass off as either exaggerations for the sake of artistic license or just downright self-serving lies. Based on her own best-selling memories, “Platonic Sex” follows the turbulent young life of Ai Iijima [...]
March 5th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreOwls’ Castle (1999) Movie Review
Having more in common with Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” than the Japanese ninja movie “Red Shadow”, Masahiro Shinoda’s “Owls’ Castle” has the look and feel of a movie “based on true events”. There is a lot of voiceover narration providing unnecessary background facts, and title cards pop up to shed light on the most mundane background [...]
March 4th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreSavior of the Soul (1991) Movie Review
“Savior of the Soul”, made in 1991, is the epitome of Hong Kong action cinema cranked out during that particular era. The modus operandi of films in this category involves juvenile high jinks in the name of comedy and hyperbolic swordplay in the name of action. It’s all done with a wink and a nod, [...]
February 28th, 2003 | Nix | 4 Comments | Read MoreThe Touch (2002) Movie Review
If Michelle Yeoh’s starring vehicle “The Touch” has parts of it that looks familiar, it’s probably not because it shares more than a few surface resemblances to the “Indiana Jones” movies as many reviewers have pointed out. The fact is, the “Indiana Jones” movies are only known to the older set, and it’s guys like [...]
February 27th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
Great news I'm looking forward to this one. 
youre welcome bmmb! The movie is gonna be great i hope they have a baby! 
ugh, someone send this guy(michael gonzalez) a keylogger or trojan. please. 
i dont thinkhe is that ugly! Now come ondont be so mean! and i repect your thoughts that was pretty ...
I love james even though he is the bad guy in the movie !! he plays his part very well ...
