Carol Cheng Movies
- 1998
USA-trained Yang Xie (son of veteran director Xie Jin) helmed this Hong Kong-South Korean drama set during the mid-1960s at a Taiwan restaurant run by middle-aged Rong-rong (Hong Kong comedienne/actress Carol "Do Do" Cheng, who serves up authentic Guilin noodles. Flashbacks review Rong-rong's Guilin youth, followed by her romance with a KMT officer, her marriage, and her widowhood. In the present-day, Rong-rong seeks a husband for her niece, Xiu-hua. Other characters include an alcoholic mayor accused of sexual harassment, once-powerful landowner Half-Town Li (Zhang Zhong-di), and sluttish Chun, who eyes shy schoolteacher Lu (Kevin Lin). Adapted from the Kenneth Pai novel, Blossom Bridge. Shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Pusan Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
Jackie Chan returns to his adventuring Indiana Jones-esque Asian Hawk character with this rollicking action-adventure yarn. In this go-around, Jackie (aka the Asian Hawk) is looking for 240 tons of gold stolen by the Nazis and buried beneath the Sahara. Along the way, he teams up with a stuck-up archeologist named Ada (Carol Cheng), a Japanese tourist named Momoko (Shoko Ikeda), and Elsa (Eva Cobo De Garcia), the granddaughter of the Nazi captain who originally hid the booty. Opposing them is various groups of blackguards and mercenaries along with Adolf (Aldo Sanbrell) -- the last surviving soldier from the original company -- who is hell-bent on getting the gold himself. Soon, two of Jackie's companions find themselves sold into slavery while Jackie battles the baddies in a massive WWII-era wind tunnel. This film ran 100 percent over Chan's already lavish -- by Hong Kong standards -- budget, making it one of the most expensive films that industry has ever produced. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jackie Chan, Carol Cheng, (more)
Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To directed this all-star holiday comedy, another in a string of popular Lunar New Year entertainments for actor/producer Raymond Wong, who engineered the similar All's Well, Ends Well series. As usual, the plot line is just an excuse for a series of amusing cameos and comic routines, but provides a number of laughs as it tells the story of three brothers, the mincingly effeminate Fang Chien-lang (Chow Yun-fat), cartoonist Chien-sang (Jacky Cheung), and their middle-aged older sibling, Chien-hui (Wong). Chien-lang romances both a stewardess (Carol Cheng) and a hedonistic department store saleswoman (Cherie Chung) who has a boyfriend (Lawrence Cheng); Chien-sang falls for a jogger named Ying-ying (Fennie Yuen); and Chien-hui romances a Chinese opera singer (Petrina Fung) whom he isn't aware is the same person who has been crank-calling him. As a result of some telephone problems, all three brothers experience some wild ups and downs in their respective relationships before finally attaining romantic bliss following a climactic opera performance involving all the main characters. As with Wong's other holiday films, genre aficionados will have a field day spotting familiar faces, including Karl Maka and Teddy Robin Kwan in the audience, and City on Fire director Ringo Lam as Fung's husband. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
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