Tempting Heart (心動 -1999)

Starring:
Takeshi Kaneshiro - Ho-jun
Gigi Leung - Sheo-rou
Karen Mok - Chen-Li
Sylvia Chang - Cheryl
Leon Dai - Ho-jun (middle age)
Elaine Jin - Sheo-rou's mom
Jo Kuk
Audrey Mak
William So Wing Hong - Screenwriter (as William So)
Michael Tong
Cher Yeung

Sylvia Chang plays a director who intends to make a romance film and begins to wonder about the role fate plays in relationships. She ends up re-examining her own first love in a completely different light. The story is set in two different periods of time, one in the 1970s where Gigi plays the teenage girl of Sylvia Chang and the other in the 1990s where Sylvia plays her own role.

Takeshi Kaneshiro plays the role of a shy teenager who falls in love with Gigi Leung. Their relationship turns intimate but faces objections from their parents. Karen Mok plays Chen-li, the best friend of Gigi, whom Gigi confides in and tells all her problems.

This teenage love soon fizzled and Ho-jun turns to marry Chen-li. Chen-li then reveals that she is a homosexual and they both love the same girl-Xiao rou. Ho-jun meets Xiao rou on a trip to Japan and upon knowing that Ho-jun was already married, Xiao rou returned home and got engaged herself. Ho jun manages a last attempt to reunite with Xiao rou by flying to Hong Kong and telling her that he is already a divorcee but to no avail.

It was years later, that Xiao Rou found out that Ho-jun's wife was actually Chen-li. She discovered this only after Chen-li had died. Chen-li left a message for Xiao-rou asking her for forgiveness. As Xiao rou prepared to fly back to Hong Kong from Japan, she received a present from Ho-jun. Inside the box,were photographs, each taken while Ho-jun was thinking about Xiao-rou of their brief and bright moments of happiness.



Geez! I was not expecting the ending. Come on! I was really a happy camper until this movie left me feeling......"blah". Let me describe it to you. It's like waking up to dark clouds hanging over your head and life seems like it can't seem to be any worse than it is.

Don't get me wrong. This movie was totally awesome. So how can I say that even if the end of the movie was torture? Well. Hmm? I really, really, really wanted a happy ending. Instead, I'm bawling my eyes out after she opens the box that Ho-jun gives her after she gets on the plane. God in Heaven! This story, I thought, through all the sad moments would eventually leave a wonderful light on my soul. Instead, my heart was broken, and I felt that love was a dream.

Beautifully mastered movie. Takeshi-kun totally rocked my world again. I'm tellin' ya, the man is amazing. Totally amazing actor that just....well....okay, if I just happened to see him one day on the street, I'd drop everything and molest the man.

*sigh*

Don't watch this movie if you are already not in the frame of mind. It's a tearful movie. The tone is that of love lost and never regained. Memories of your first love will invade your soul and reap whatever is left of your happy mood.

Kaneshiro Takeshi

"Can I have him to go, please?"

Better Than Sex (Ai qing ling yao -2002)

Starring:
Michael Wong
Ginny Liu
Leon Dai
Sheng Chen
Tomohisa Kagami
Hsiao-Ying
Zhen-Ya Wu
Chen-Hsi Li


The bright 17 year-old Taiwanese teenager Lin Zhuzhuang (Michael Wong) was always a bit different from his peers because a very important part of his body was always bigger than theirs. This fact caused him to develop a special often nerve-wrecking curiousity towards sex. After he makes the acquaintance with book shop owner Mr Zheng (Bobby Chen), he creates a love for A books that extends to such immense proportions that even school assistant (Huang Chia) can only look up in disbelief. He starts to totally isolate himself from other people and regards Mr Zheng as his only friend. Even Lin Xiao ying (Liu Honghua) who is secretly in love with him and furtively serves him tea eggs every morning does not seem to catch his attention.


One day Mr Zheng sadly passes away and leaves behind a key and a house number for him. When he arrives at the relevant address he finds a hidden loop hole through which he can peep into a room that is occupied by two young female police officers (Dai Liren and Zhi Tian Ai Zi). It is then that Zhuzhuang discovers that Mr Zheng had an abnormal tendency for sex fantasies. He also realizes that sex is not a replacement for love. He gives up his passion for A books and sets out to find his true love(Source Avistaz.com)

I don't think I really liked this movie. I mean it had some funny and cute moments but in the entire movie it kept cutting back and forth and it had too many stories to keep up with. I really thought it was about the high school boy and his discovery of love and sex but instead it kept flipping to a bunch of hooligans, a film crew from Japan, and then the boy.

There was just too much put into the fire and it didn't seem to keep with the theme of the story. I wasn't entirely sure if I really wanted to watch the whole thing but kept watching thinking that there was a point to this......not really.

So watch it if you want be forewarned......you might get lost into the fiasco.

Oh, the only good part of the story was when the boy explained to his teacher about his "problem" and they used a balloon to describe his actions. If you don't understand what I mean, that part is worth watching and it happens to be relatively close to the beginning of the movie. LOL! I have to admit I laughed pretty good through that....................