Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Wu’

Cop on a Mission (2001)

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Small time cop, Mike (Daniel Wu) is thrown head first into a vicious gun battle during a robbery. Mike got a little itchy with his trigger finger and murdered two men. After being suspended from duty Mike spends his time playing video games in arcades instead of drinking like the others. One night Mike is challenged to a video game against a wealthy man. Mike beats him 9 times in a row..

Mike soon finds out that this wealthy man is actually one of the four kings of the triad underworld. The Hung Hing leader – Tin (Eric Tsang), takes a shine to Mike. Although Mike takes more of a shine to Tins wife, Pauline. Read the rest of this entry »

Blood Brothers (2007)

Plot: “Blood Brothers” is the story of three friends, Fong and two brothers; Kang and Hu. They leave their old village lives behind in the slums of the mainland. They travel to Shanghai where they seek wealth and a better live for themselves as well as their families.

Kang manages to score them job working in one of the most swanky night clubs in Shanghai “Paradise”. Paradise is owned by successful movie producer Hong, but Hong also leads a double life as highly feared crime lord who rules Shanghai with deadly enforcers.

The group of friends find themselves tested as become enforcers for Hong. Wealth and power comes their way at a price, a price so grand it could only be paid in blood.

Let the gangster’s paradise of lust, loyalty and betrayal begin… Read the rest of this entry »

Beyond Our Ken (2004)

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Plot: Shirley (Hong Tao) a karaoke waitress leads a perfectly normal love life with her fireman boyfriend – Ken (Daniel Wu). One day she is confronted by Chan Wai-Ching (Gillian Chung), Ching is Ken’s ex-girlfriend.

She tells her Shirley that Ken is a bad guy. She tell’s her when they were a couple, Ken took nude photographs of her. Soon after taking the pictures he dumps her and posts the photograph’s over the internet. This soon get’s out of control when it turns out that those photo’s caused Ching to loose her job as a teacher.

Ching no longer cares about Ken, but she want’s those photo’s back, She convinces Shirley to help her sneak into Ken’s apartment and destroy these photo’s which are stored on his computer. Shirley agree’s to help as she feel’s she might be led down the path.

Together they plot against Ken and it only looks like they’ve skimmed the surface. Read the rest of this entry »

Beauty and the Breast (2002)

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Plot: Mario (Francis Ng) and Harper (Daniel Wu) are two womanizers who are fascinated with breasts, they have terms and a boob-olgy. They are both personal assistants for a Chairman of an Ointment company. Brother Fat (Matt Chow) is the chairman of the “Piggy Oil” Company. In a bid to modernize his company Fat is convinced by his new senior executives (two big breasted women by the names of Catalina & Lilliana) releasing a new product through the company “Boobie Boosters”, an ointment which enhances the breast tissues.

These two new entry’s to the company become an annoyance to the other women workers. Yuki (Michelle Reis) and her friends Ada (Amanda Strang) & Amy (Halina Lam) find themselves intimidated by the executives. Amy is currently dating Harper, although she is clearly aware that he us eyeing bigger breasted women.

Mario is propositioned into a bet from Fat, woo Yuki into sleeping with him within three weeks and he’ll buy him a BMW, if he fails he’ll loose three months salary.

Mario (aka Playboy No.1) uses the sympathy card on Yuki playing her into believing that he’s dying from a brain tumor. Gullible Yuki is keen on healing Mario and tricks him into visiting her father, a great herbal doctor, who can sense the illness in his patients just by feeling their pulse.

Yuki’s father breaks the news to her and she is furious. To get revenge on the womanizer she takes her revenge against by pouring her fathers own herbal powder know as the ‘Royal Recipe’, which guarantee’s breast development, where as the Boobie Boosters turn out to have some bad side-effects. Read the rest of this entry »

Young and Dangerous: The Prequel (1998)

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Plot: When school students; Ho-Nam (Nicholas Tse), Pau-Pan (Tsui Ka-Ho) and Chow-Pan (Benjamin Yuen) are kicked out school and are constantly being bullied by the local triad gangs, they have no choice to join them. The gangs friend Chicken (Sam Lee) introduces them to Brother Bee (Ng Chi-Hung), a nobale and resecpted member of the Hung Hing.

The boys are then introduced to the glorious sights of the underworld, going to night clubs, massage parlours and bath houses. All these things can’t last though Brother Bee decides to test the new blood by having them attack a rival gang leader – Bill. After carefully planning the attack out, the boys enjoy up having to attack the gang leader with bamboo canes rather than the much preferred ‘Triad Choppers’, after taking a few good stabs at Bill they final manage to kill him, but their luck turns against them when members of his ‘Tung Sing’ gang are waiting for Ho-Nam.

Ho-Nam and his friends barely manage to escape, but the consequences for their actions are yet to be dealt with when Bill’s brother – Sun Cha seeks vengeance against Ho-Nam. Read the rest of this entry »

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