films watched in 2025 (notes)

honestly i have been burnt out on movies for a few weeks now, always disappointed after finishing anything. this one was a pretty good distraction.

takeshi kaneshiro is so cute in this. i absolutely loved the segment of this movie that is just the retelling of chan kar-fu's novel. i enjoyed this much more than the previous kelly chen/takeshi kaneshiro movie "lost and found" from 1996.

the concept unnerved me when i was fifteen... i kind of wish this was just a more realitsic drama with a fantastical element of the stairs