The empress and the warrior, shown in the mid 2008. I think should be around june, can't remember. So this movie is about the war era in china few thousand years ago. There is this small country(can't remember which one), always promote peace between countries, had to go to war to protect their own people. Donnie was one of the generals that committed many victories in the battle field. One day, the king died and the throne was passed to his daughter. Being a woman, it is not easy to rule a country, let alone during that war era. She picked up her sword and join the war, but in one of the most important battle, she convince the opposing country to stop the war and finally peace came between the 2 countries. But it don't last long, the empress fell in love with a shadow warrior that had been hiding for years, to avoid fighting. No matter what donnie said, she want to be with that shadown warrior, until one day. Another general wanted an revolution because the war had stopped, the soldiers can't stop fighting, he want to go to war again. Thus he sent assasins to kill the empress and the warrior. The empress escaped back to the kingdom, to settle things. Donnie helped, he faced thousands of soldiers alone and killed hundreds of them until he falls. The empress killed the rebelious general in a duel and unite the people back together. She returned to the warrior to find out that he is dead, she then vows to bring peace to the land until she falls dead.
This is a pretty average movie, the entire movie was too much about the love, the action part was a bit lagging. Yet, the 1 vs thousand of soldiers scene are cool. I mean, who can do that? I give it a 6 of 10.
Painted skin, shown in the september, somewhere after the chinese ghost fest. This movie was based one the famous ghost story novels. It is about love, again. Donnie, again, portrayed a general, but left the unit many years ago. He returned to the town he once stayed in, found out that his ex-lover married to his brother(not blood related). His brother saved a woman during the trip back to town after mission. His wife found out that woman has something weird, but can't describe what was wrong. The brother let her stay in his house, due to the fact that her parents are killed. After that woman came, many murder case started, the victims died in a hit, with the hearts being dug out. Donnie then met a demon slayer that claims there is a demon in town and the murder case somehow related to the demon she is after, thus help in the investigation. It was a demon's deed, a lizard demon. The girl that was saved, she was of no human, she is a fox demon. Disguised in a human skin, she had to eat humen's heart to maintain the skin. THe lizard demon then hunt for her, because he had a thing of her. Finally the wife found out this secret, in order to protect her husband, she agreed to drink a poison that was make her skin turned white, she had to claim that she is the demon, she is the murderer. The husband witness her saying those words in the town, to the citizens. He was stunned, donnie can't bear it any more, he brought her to a cave with the demon hunter. The whole army arrived, to get rid of the demon, which is the brother's wife, the fox demon tagged along. The brother can't make the decision, because he is the captain of the army, he had to kill his wife. But he can't kill his wife with him living, thus he committed suicide after killing her. Donnie's rage can't be controlled any more, he raised his blade and slash the fox demon. Seeing no blood spilled, not even a twitch on the face, proving her demon existence. The lizard appears and decide to kill everyone and then bring the fox demon away. Donnie and the demon hunter fought the lizard, finally killed it by using a very strong demon slaying sword to kill both demons, along with donnie. The blade shattered and revived everyone, the army, donnie, wife and the brother. Donnie then set on another journey to slay demons with the demon slayer.
This movie was actually better than the last one. I had to say that the action was still lagging in this movie, but the storyplot was interesting. Qi yu wu, an actor in singapore(chen xi in "little nonya") portray the lizard. The acting was pretty good, but still, the fight scene between him and donnie should be nice if donnie were to choreograph the action sequence. I'll give this movie an 7.5 of 10.
Ip man, shown in 19th december. Why I remember the date so correctly? BECAUSE THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT!!! I watched it 2 times in the cinema, 2 times on dvd and 3 times on my computer.
The story was based on the life story of grandmaster yip man(eep mun), the first martial artist to teach wing chun openly and make it all over the world. It was in 1930s, foshan of china. Foshan was said to be the home of martial arts, yip man practiced wing chun and love to spar with people. But he got no interest in opening a school. He spent his time with his wife, son, his good friend and the good old wooden dummy. Everything was ok until one day, some barbarians from the northern part came of foshan, to challenge every martial arts schools, all the masters lost. They finally headed to yip man's house, challenged yip man. With his wife approval, yip man accepted the challenged happily. He defeated the barbarians with no sweat broke. He then became a hero of foshan. Good things don't last, the Japanese invaded china and yip man's house was confiscated. He live a hard life with his wife and son, finally he found a job in a coal mine where he met many other martial arts masters. One of his friends went to a fighting ring, where people can challenge the Japanese karate black belts, win can get rice. But he lost and was killed in an accident. Yip man questioned and he went to the fighting ring, witness a shooting on a chinese martial artist who lost a fight against 3. He was pissed and went in the ring and request to challenge 10 karate black belts. He fought the 10 black belts and he almost cripple all of them, either they end up with a broken limbs or the face was beaten to a pulp where the mother can't even tell who he is. The Japanese general was impressed, hope he would be back for more fights, but yip mun refused. Yip mun's good friend, quan, was facing a trouble. His factory was threaten by robbers, who is the same barbarians that challenged many martial artists years ago. Yip mun was convinced to stay in the factory to work and teach wing chun to the workers at the same time. The robbers are back, not the factory workers fight with the robbers gang, yip mun arrived and beaten all of them. The barbarian was furious, he told the Japanese general about yip mun's location, yip mun was forced to go back with the Japanese to teach the Japanese wing chun. Yip mun refused but he want to fight with the General. Few days later, the arena was setted up, but the captain want yip mun to lose or he will shoot him, yip man just smiled. Yip mun appears in the arena and fought the general and defeated him. He was then shot, but not fatal. He was then brought away and finally stay in hong kong in 1940s, opened up a school that teaches wing chun and finally an assiociation. Many of his students are experts now, one of the most noted student of his, is bruce lee....
This movie is just simply great, I can't stop saying how good it is. The story was good, the story nicely brings out the feeling of the people, of course with the skills of the actors. The action, oh my god, the entire movie was action, fights here and there. Nice choreography by sammo hung! The music was by the same person who wrote music scores for death note, L change the world and dragon tiger gate, the music brings the tension to the maximum, cope with the action sequence and make it perfect. I give it 11 of 10, it is beyond any expectation. One thing I've heard is that there will be a sequel, about his life in HK, also introduced his student, bruce lee. Extra info, I'm learning wing chun too, my sifu was a student of yip zhun, son of yip mun.
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