GiGi Wong Movies
- 2008
- PG
West Lake Restaurant in the city of Changsha illustrates the dynamic of the booming Chinese economy as director Chen Weijun examines the pronounced shifts of fortune and population in his home country, and the people who occupy every end of the spectrum. The Guinness-certified biggest Chinese restaurant in the world, the five-thousand seat West Lake Restaurant is owned and operated by the Mrs. Qin Linz. A hungry entrepreneur, Mrs. Linz was working in a quarry when she was twelve, and now presides over a profitable empire that caters largely to the growing Chinese middle class. Some of her employees show the same ambition as she did as a young girl, others are simply desperate. Mrs. Linz does her best to keep morale up her staff, hosting singing, dancing, and cooking competitions designed to playfully counterbalance the sometimes heavy workload. The kitchen prepares approximately 150 ducks a day, and their flawless precision is sure to inspire awe in foodies everywhere. But the kitchen isn't the only focus here, because as Weijun highlights the ways in which Mrs. Linz's personal and professional lives have merged, the viewer is invited to see life in contemporary China from a variety of distinctly different perspectives. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2005
A former doctor believes he may have found a connection to the woman he loved and lost in this romantic melodrama. Ko (Andy Lau) is a young doctor married to Zi-qing (Charlene Choi), but while he has a beautiful and caring wife, Ko’s career is time consuming and he doesn’t get to spend as much time with his spouse as he’d like. After Ko breaks a dinner date with Zi-qing, she’s driving home when her car is struck by another driver; she dies shortly afterward. Shattered by the news, Ko leaves behind his career as a doctor and takes a job driving an ambulance. When Ko answers an emergency call at a car crash, he finds himself looking after Tse Yuen-sam (Charlie Young), a school teacher who recently received a heart transplant. Zi-qing donated her internal organs for transplant, and Ko senses that Yuen-sam now carries the heart of his late wife. Eager to know more about Yuen-sam, Ko finds her home and reads her diary, learning that her love life has not been happy – she was married to a dress designer who was having an affair with a model, and Yuen-sam confronted him with the news, he opted to divorce her and take up with Amber Xu. Having saved Yuen-sam’s life, he now takes it upon himself to help her find the kind of happiness he lost when Zi-qing died. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andy Lau, Charlie Young, (more)
