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The Wesley's Mysterious File
''The Wesley's Mysterious File'' (衛斯理藍血人) is a 2002 Hong Kong action science fiction film directed by Andrew Lau starring Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan and Shu Qi. Hong Kong director Wong Jing also makes a cameo appearance. Summary The film tells the story of Wesley (Andy Lau) who works in San Francisco for a UN department investigating extra terrestrial sightings. When Fong (Rosamund Kwan) an alien from the Dark Blue Planet arrives in town seeking the remains of her brother, Wesley; Fong and two agents from a secret FBI alien department (Shu Qi and Roy Cheung) become entangled in a conspiracy involving the government departments and two different alien species. Cast *Andy Lau as Wesley *Rosamund Kwan as Fong Tin-ai *Shu Qi as Pak Sue *Wong Jing as Dr. Kwok *Mark Cheng as Kill *Almen Wong as Rape *Roy Cheung as Pak Kei-wai *Samuel Pang as Tan *Patrick Lung as Mr. Chu *Yo Yo Fong as Ling-ling *Thomas Hudak as Wilson *Beverly Hotsprings *Tré Shine *Vincent Zhao See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lau
Andrew Lau Wai-keung ( zh, t=劉偉強, born 4 April 1960) is a Hong Kong film director, producer, and cinematographer. Lau began his career in the 1980s and 1990s, serving as a cinematographer to filmmakers such as Ringo Lam, Wong Jing and Wong Kar-wai. In the 1990s, Lau decided to have more creative freedom as a cinematographer by becoming a film director and film producer, producer. Apart from making films in his native Hong Kong, Lau has also made films in China, Korea and the United States. A highly prolific filmmaker, Lau has made films in a variety of genres, and is most notable in the West for his Hong Kong action cinema, action and crime films which include the Young and Dangerous (series), ''Young and Dangerous'' film series, the ''Infernal Affairs'' trilogy (the latter co-directed together with Alan Mak (director), Alan Mak), and ''Revenge of the Green Dragons'' (executive produced by Martin Scorsese). Early life Andrew Lau was born 4 April 1960, and is one of six s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls With Guns
Girls with guns is a subgenre of action films and animation that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts. The genre typically involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action. Cinema The 1985 Hong Kong film '' Yes, Madam'', directed by Corey Yuen and starring Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock, was described by Lisa Funnel as the first "girls with guns" film. Other films of the subgenre were produced until 1994, featuring the likes of Yukari Oshima, Moon Lee, and Cynthia Khan. In the early 2000s, films part of what has been called a "girls with guns revival" cycle were produced. They included ''Martial Angels'' (2001), ''The Wesley's Mysterious File'' (2002) and '' So Close'' (2002). Anime The "girls-with-guns" subgenre has also permeated the anime space. Some examples include ''Black Lagoon'', ''Bubblegum Crisis'', ''Dirty Pair'', ''Gunsmith Cats'', ''Gunslinger Girl'', ''Lycoris Recoil'', '' Noir'', ''Madlax'', and '' El Cazador''. Other examples of "girls with gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Science Fiction Action Films
Hong may refer to: Places *Høng, a town in Denmark *Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China *Hong, Nigeria *Hong River in China and Vietnam *Lake Hong in China Surnames *Hong (Chinese name) *Hong (Korean name) Organizations *Hong (business), general term for a 19th–20th century trading company based in Hong Kong, Macau or Canton *Hongmen (洪門), a Chinese fraternal organization Creatures *Hamsa (bird), a mythical bird also known was hong *Hong (rainbow-dragon) ''Hong'' or ''jiang'' () is a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology, comparable with rainbow serpent legends in various cultures and mythologies. Chinese "rainbow" names Chinese has three "rainbow" words, regular ''hong'' , literary ''didong'' , ..., a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology * ''Hong'' (genus), a genus of ladybird {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Cantonese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Films
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows: 2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar milestone, surpassing the previous year's record of two eight-hundred-million-dollar films. It also surpasses the previous years record of having the most ticket sales in a single year (fueled by the success of various sequels and the first Spider-Man movie). Events * March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo that was used until December 2011 to celebrate its 90th anniversary. * May – '' The Pianist'' directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. * May 3–5 – '' Spider-Man'' is the first film to make $100+ million during its opening weekend in the US unadjusted to inflation. * May 16 – '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' opens in theaters. Although a huge success, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallen Lo
Gallen Lo Ka-leung () is a Hong Kong actor and singer who primarily acts in television series. He is sometimes credited as King Gallen or Law Ka-Leung. Career Lo started his television career in 1984 at ATV. He received short-term success in acting ATV and singing theme songs for some ATV series. Lo left ATV for rival TVB, but his career did not bloom until 1996, when he was cast in the series ''Old Time Buddy'' in 1997 and ''Secret of the Heart'' in 1998. Lo won TVB's Best Actor Award three times (1997, 1998, 2002). In 2003, Lo left TVB and started to focusing on acting and making commercials in Mainland China. On February 24, 2021, Lo has finished another drama shooting in Mainland China and shared on his Weibo commemorating the completion of his 100th TV series in his career. Personal life Lo married with Clare Fong Man-yee, a woman with whom he worked in a non-acting role at TVB, in 1998. Their son was born in 1999. The couple divorced in 2007. On 30 Jan 2009, he was en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 'W' Files
''The 'W' Files'' (衛斯理) is a 2003 Hong Kong science fantasy-action-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series ''Wisely Series'', starring Gallen Lo as Wisely. The series was first broadcast on TVB in Hong Kong from 2 June to 11 July 2003. The 30-episodes long series contains a total of eight different stories, set in China in the 1930s. Plot In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events. He meets a doctor named Pak So and she becomes his love interest, but they encounter several trials and tribulations to test their love before they finally get together. The series is divided into eight different stories, with Wisely and his team setting off to investigate and crack each mystery case. The stories are listed as follows: *''Paper Monkey'' (紙猴) *''Deadly Body Change'' (屍變) *''Charcoal'' (木炭) *''Searching Dreams'' (尋夢) *''Bug Suspec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tao
Michael Tao Dai Yu (, born 26 August 1963) is a Hong Kong television actor. Career Tao entered the acting industry in the 1980s, affiliating with TVB. It was during this period that Tao earned the name "Housewife Killer" due to his overwhelming popularity amongst housewives (who arguably constitute a majority of television viewing audiences in Hong Kong), solidifying his position as a first tier television actor in TVB. Tao later moved over to rival ATV in 1997 after problems over his contract with TVB. His ATV series Flaming Brothers defeated the TVB rival show at the time, a landmark for ATV. Apart from filming ATV series, Tao has also filmed in China and Singapore. He returned to TVB in 2004 and has starred in a number of television series since. Once again, problems with his contract resulted in Tao leaving TVB in 2009 and worked mostly in mainland China and occasionally in Hong Kong. In 2021, Tao gained popularity after numerous videos of him singing Andy Lau's 1996 song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Adventures Of Wisely
''The New Adventures of Wisely'' is a Singaporean adventure-science fiction television series adapted from the novel series ''Wisely Series'' by Ni Kuang. It was directed by Daisy Chan and starred Hong Kong actor Michael Tao as Wisely (or Wei Si Li), the main character. The series was first aired on Television Corporation of Singapore Channel 8 (now MediaCorp Channel 8) in Singapore in 1998. Plot The 30 episodes long series is divided into six segments, each involving a mystery case that Wisely has to solve. ;''Shadow'' (影子) Uncle Cai is accused of murdering a man who claimed that his shadow was after his life. Wisely investigates the mystery and learns that the shadow is the ghost of a man who committed suicide by throwing himself into a charcoal kiln. Once the shadow attaches himself to someone, he can control the person's movements and make him/her do things against his/her will. Wisely helps the shadow find a new "home", a rare piece of charcoal, and in return, the shadow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waise Lee
Waise Lee Chi-hung (born 19 December 1959) is a Hong Kong film and television actor best known for playing the roles of villains and antagonists in various films. Biography Lee graduated from TVB's Artist Training Academy in 1982 and was from the same batch as Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Francis Ng. He started acting in Hong Kong films in the 1980s and became famous for his role as the antagonist Tam Shing in John Woo's 1986 film ''A Better Tomorrow''. Since then Lee has made appearances in several films, including '' A Chinese Ghost Story II'' (1990), '' To Be Number One'' (1991), ''Powerful Four'' (1992). He also played the leading roles in ''The Big Heat'' (1988), '' Bullet in the Head'' (1990) and '' The Cat''. Lee is best known on television for his roles in television series produced by TVB, such as ''Mind Our Own Business'' (1993), ''Cold Blood Warm Heart'' (1996), ''Burning Flame'' (1998) and ''A Step into the Past'' (2001). Starting around 2001, Lee made less appearances in T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cat (1992 Film)
''The Cat'' (衛斯理之老貓 ''Wèisīlǐ Zhī Lǎomāo'', lit. "Wisely's Old Cat"), also known as ''The 1000 Years Cat'', is a 1992 Hong Kong science-fiction action film directed by Lam Ngai Kai, based on the novel ''Old Cat'', an installment of the ''Wisely Series'', by Ni Kuang. Produced by Golden Harvest and Paragon Films, the film stars Waise Lee, Christine Ng, and Gloria Yip. Its plot follows a trio of extraterrestrials, one of whom has the form of a cat, who team up with a novelist named Wisely to fight a malevolent alien that can possess humans. Plot Li Tung is awoken in the middle of the night by the sounds of his upstairs neighbor hammering something. He confronts his neighbor, and sees a girl holding a cat inside his neighbor's apartment. The next day, Tung sees the neighbor, the girl, and the cat departing in a moving van. Tung enters the neighbor's now-empty apartment, where he sees piles of newspaper on the floor, some of them bloodied. He lifts the papers and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hui
Samuel Hui Koon-kit (born 6 September 1948), usually known as Sam Hui, is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is credited with popularising Cantopop both via the infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular Cantonese rather than written vernacular Chinese in biting lyrics that addressed contemporary problems and concerns. Hui is considered by some to be the first major superstar of Cantopop, known as the God of Song. As an actor, he is well-known for portraying the main character "King Kong" in five installments of Aces Go Places film series. Early life Hui was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China in 1948. His parents were both musicians; his father was a traditional Chinese musician while his mother was a Chinese opera singer. In 1950, along with his three older brothers, Michael, Ricky, and Stanley, Hui and his parents arrived in Hong Kong as refugees in 1950, originally living in Diamond Hill. Hui graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
