Recent reviews

• 

  The Inspector Wears Skirts 3: Raid on Royal Casino Marine 1990

  ★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

• 

  The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987

  Watched 23 Jan 2025

  The most important “truth” disclosed in The Emperors Naked Army Marches On , directed by Kazuo Hara, is not the historical fact that two soldiers were killed by their comrades in the Japanese army in New Guinea just at the end of WWII — and probably eaten — after their realization of existing cannibalism among the Japanese soldiers, but the PERFORMANCE before the camera by Kenzo Okuzaki, the survivor who insisted on extracting memory from his old comrades., even by…

Popular reviews

• 

  Run and Kill 1993

  Watched 03 Dec 2021 1

  You can't get 100% of the extravagant thrill of this crazy film if you don't watch the Cantonese version dubbed by Kent Cheng himself saying :
  「燒死你個X樣！」x 7
  「爆死你個X樣好！」x 17.857
  「炸死你個X樣！」x 3
  「個X樣死咗未？」x 13

  Kent Cheng is one among many "best actors" in Hong Kong, but his performance (once again) proves that he is irreplaceable in his works
  。。
  ( 0 )

• 

  Hail the Judge 1994

  ★★★★ Watched 13 May 2022

  1. This film seems a response to Justice, My Foot! (dir. Jonnie To, 1992), where Chow's characters in both films turn from a corrupt judicial position to the opposite. The cunning "lawyer" Fong in this film is like Chow's character Song in Justice, My Foot!. It is interesting that the results of the court battles in these films depend on the protagonists' eloquence and other tricks, instead of evidence or due process.

  Such an utilitarian approach may be a modern…

Following