Wong Kar Wai’s love story follows two different but equally bizarre romances set against the backdrop of 90′s Hong Kong. The film is split into two parts, the first follows Police Officer #223 the victim of a recent breakup. Every day he buys a tin of pineapples with the expiration date 1st May his thinking [...]
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Chungking Express
Posted in Film reviews, Personal Professional Development, tagged chungking, express on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kintaro Walks Japan
Posted in Film reviews, Personal Professional Development, tagged japan, journey, kintaro, walks on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Those of you that know me well will acknowledge my obsession with anything and everything Japanese. The way these people live is pure excitement for me, right down to the mundanities they face every day. How they eat, how the sleep, how they take a bath it’s all just brilliant and that’s just the surface. If you delve [...]
‘Kakera’ aka ‘A Piece of our Life’
Posted in Film reviews, Personal Professional Development, tagged Kakera, piece of our lives, review on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is a big time of change for Japanese cinema as the role of women in the industry is changing fast. No longer are Japanese women content with being in front of the camera. We are seeing more and more female directors and writers coming into their own and showing they can succeed in what was a male dominated industry. Director Momoko Ando [...]
Sophie’s Revenge
Posted in Film reviews, Personal Professional Development, tagged revenge, review, sophie's on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conforming to the usual fun-filled predictability of most romantic comedies, the big budget looks and laugh out loud humour of Yimeng Jin’s, ‘Sophies Revenge’ shows us that what hollywood can do East Asia can match. Zhang Ziyi plays Sophie, a fanatical young author in turmoil after a break up with her fiance Jeff (Korean actor So Ji-sub). [...]
