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Peter Chan Capsule Reviews
Peter Chan

Peter Chan Capsule Reviews

Perhaps Love (2005) — May 6, 2014 Kaneshiro Takeshi goes to China to make a movie for Jacky Cheung. It’s a musical and co-stars Zhou Xun, the story of the film being that she and Kaneshiro had been in love, but now she has amnesia and has forgotten him and
08 Feb 2018 3 min read
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Father (Peter Chan, 1993)
Peter Chan

He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Father (Peter Chan, 1993)

Peter Chan Ho-sun’s 1993 comedy is a variation on Back to the Future, with Tony Leung (Chiu-wai) sent back 30 years to see what his father, Tony Leung (Ka-fai), was like when he was young, though it presents a very different take on the past and our relation to
29 Jul 2014 3 min read
Wuxia (Peter Chan, 2011)
Peter Chan

Wuxia (Peter Chan, 2011)

Known in the US as Dragon, the actual title of Peter Chan’s 2011 film is Wuxia, the name of a genre of both film and literature, a word that is a compound of “wu” (military) and “xia” (chivalry, more or less). Wuxia stories are stories of warrior heroes, knights-errant,
25 Apr 2014 3 min read
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)
Peter Chan

Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)

A descendant of Pál Fejős’s 1928 Lonesome, about two people who find love in the urban crowd and then lose it. The crowd here is Hong Kong in 1986 and the people are Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai. Freshly emigrated from Northern China, Lai barely speaks Cantonese or English
01 Jan 2014 3 min read
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