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Daniel Wu

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Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan, 1999 and 2000)
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Benny Chan

Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan, 1999 and 2000)

23 Sep 2023 5 min read
Go Away, Mr. Tumor (Han Yan, 2015)
Han Yan

Go Away, Mr. Tumor (Han Yan, 2015)

The goofy, cutsy, CGI-driven, Chinese fantasy cancer melodrama we didn’t know we needed. The clash of tones in Go Away, Mr. Tumor I imagine would be unbearable for most, especially audiences trained on Hollywood rules about tonal and generic consistency, but it was a smash hit in China and
03 Sep 2015 3 min read
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To, 2014)
Johnnie To

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To, 2014)

Beginning one year after the first film ends, financial analyst Cheng Zixin (Gao Yuanyuan) is still engaged to the winner of that film’s love triangle, reformed alcoholic Qihong (Daniel Wu) (recall that for her he quit drinking and built a skyscraper in the shape of her silhouette). They communicate
15 Nov 2014 4 min read
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