The gambling film is synonymous with the Hong Kong movie industry. From “Games Gamblers Play” through to the “From Vegas to Macau” series, they encapsulate the desire for financial gain that would filter through society. Whist the films may often be violent, in the main they showed a glamour to the lifestyle even if the consequences could be dire. “No More Bets” from the mainland then comes across as a riposte to this with the dangers of online gambling and the devastation it causes at the forefront of its thriller narrative. Yet it is so much more than just a simple damnation, as Western audiences will discover as it arrives on their shores this month.
No More Bets will be screening in UK and Ireland cinemas starting September 8, courtesy of Trinity Asia
Sheng (Lay Zhang) after being rejected for promotion, takes up another opportunity in Singapore. After arriving, he and...
No More Bets will be screening in UK and Ireland cinemas starting September 8, courtesy of Trinity Asia
Sheng (Lay Zhang) after being rejected for promotion, takes up another opportunity in Singapore. After arriving, he and...
- 9/7/2023
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
Third installment of of Bona’s “China Victory Trilogy,” a series intended as “a gift to the Communist Party for its centenary, “Hidden Blade”, however, strays far away from the previous two installments, as it mostly follows noir, extremely stylized paths while the propaganda, although still present, is quite toned down.
Hidden Blade will screen exclusively on theaters starting February 17, courtesy of Wellgo USA
With the initial scenes taking place in the ‘present’, the story then makes an intense flashback to November 1937, the day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, moves to the intense bombings of Guangzhou that lasted for about a year, and then settles in Shanghai until August 1945. It is in the last setting the majority of the story unfolds, where we are introduced to the main characters. Mr He is the director of counter espionage for the Japanese authorities in the area, but in reality he...
Hidden Blade will screen exclusively on theaters starting February 17, courtesy of Wellgo USA
With the initial scenes taking place in the ‘present’, the story then makes an intense flashback to November 1937, the day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, moves to the intense bombings of Guangzhou that lasted for about a year, and then settles in Shanghai until August 1945. It is in the last setting the majority of the story unfolds, where we are introduced to the main characters. Mr He is the director of counter espionage for the Japanese authorities in the area, but in reality he...
- 2/11/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
"Extraordinary courage can change history." Well Go USA has revealed yet another official US trailer for Hidden Blade, a WWII Chinese spy thriller from filmmaker Cheng Er. This one already opened in China in January, and is landing in US theaters starting in February in a few more weeks. The film follows the story of a group of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain & America. During World War II, at the height of their war of resistance against Japan, a group of courageous citizens develops a top-secret underground espionage network at great peril to their own lives. Actor Tony Leung headlines Hidden Blade, along with Wang Yibo, Hiroyuki Mori, Chengpeng Dong, Zhou Xun, Eric Wang, and Huang Lei. I like how both of these trailers below feature no dialogue,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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