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A lighthearted love story with a charming dose of fairy tale, the delightful Vivian Hsu plays a girl who is completely enamoured with shoes. One day, she meets her "Smiling Dentist" prince charming and they seem destined for a happily ever after journey... but do they? Debut feature one of the hottest new award-winning director in Taiwan with characters who will stay with you long after the film is over.
Based on real people and events, CHUNG Chun Tao, or Ah Tao, was born in Taishan, China. Her foster-father died during the Japanese Occupation and her foster-mother sent her to work as a servant for the Leung family. She has been in service there for 4 generations lasting 60 years. During this time, some members of the Leung family passed away and some emigrated. For the past decade, Ah Tao lived with Roger, the only family member left in Hong Kong.
Since her teenage years, CHUNG Chun-Tao has worked as an amah – a servant – for the Leung family. Known as Ah Tao, she witnessed every aspect of the family's life. Now, after 60 years of service, she is looking after Roger, who works in the film industry and is the only member of the family still resident in Hong Kong. One day Roger comes home from work to find that Ah Tao has suffered a stroke. He rushes her to hospital, where she announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
Roger researches the possibilities and finds her a room in an establishment run by an old friend. Ah Tao moves in and begins acquainting herself with a new 'family': the brisk but fundamentally kindly supervisor Ms Choi and a motley crew of elderly residents, including the dapper Uncle Kin, the jealous Auntie Kam, the erudite 'Headmaster' and the good-hearted dialysis patient Mui Gu. Giving ever more time and attention to Ah Tao's needs and pleasures, Roger comes to realise how much she means to him. Roger's mother visits from California and suggests reclaiming an apartment building the family owns to provide Ah Tao with a final home of her own. But Ah Tao's health begins to deteriorate rapidly … |
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2011 68th Venice Film Festival
2011 48th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
2011 15th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2012 18th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
2012 6th Asian Film Awards
2012 The 31st Hong Kong Film Awards
2012
2012
2012
2012 10th Paris Cinema International Film Festival (PCIFF)
2012
2012
2013
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"Law's Tea House" is out-of-date. Shopkeeper Dragon and chef Tiger are already late fifties old men who have waited for their paralyzed kung-fu master Law Sun to wake up for 30 years. Property company messenger Cheung is ineffective in work, aimless in life. Cheung used to be a kung-fu enthusiast but had been forced to give up due to suffering from asthma. Cheung's passion in kung-fu revives after Tiger fights off the bully gang for him and he also encounters adorable lass Kwai. Cheung gets involved in the dispute of the young proprietor Mang's retrieval of properties including "Law's Tea House" during which Cheung accidentally triggers Law Sun to wake up. Law Sun's return brings back vigor for "Law's Tea House" to resume "Law's Martial Club". He trains Dragon, Tiger and Cheung severely to fight for their lost dignity.
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2011
2010
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An intense drama on the portrayal of brotherhood, BROTHERS depicts the mistrust and feud between two brothers through the eyes of an investigating police officer. Despite their close relationship, Yiu and Shun were separated at a young age due to a decision made by their father.? Years later they meet again when the family runs into crisis where Yiu, inspired by his fathers last words, manipulates a series of setups which endangers Shuns life, so as to achieve his goal.
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2008
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Anna (Karena Lam) seems to have a great life for both love and career in Singapore, until she has to move so Shanghai. There she meets her ex-boyfriend, Ouyang (Lu Yi) and his wife, Si Yu (Karena Lam) who looks exactly like her. Love for her ex-beau rekindles and she decides to switch identites with her doppelganger for 3 days. Si Yu then flies to Singapore where she lives with Billy (Tender Huang), Anna’s current boyfriend. Anna gradually realizes that Ouyang is no longer the man she used to love and desperately wants her old life in Singapore back, but her alternate self has plans of her own too…
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2007
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The film examines love in our postmodern society. In this oddball romantic comedy, Man works as a clerk in a shipping company. His life is truly non-eventful and dull, until he meets the beautiful but highly arrogant Karen. By day, Karen is a marketing manager. When the sun is down, she frequents clubs and discos to fill her time and search for company. Mans affection towards Karen is obvious, but she thinks of him as nothing more than a friend, someone whom she can always rely on though not someone she will care for in return. After a series of failed relationships with men who do not care for her, Karen tries to find consolation in Man, but the tide has changed, so has Mans heart ...
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2006
9th Shanghai International Film Festival
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
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