After years of depression in Hong-Kong film industry, "Trivisa" is like an announcement of a new era in Hong-Kong movies, demonstrating the return of Hong-Kong’s gangster film. With great parallel plot lines and perfect editing, this film renovates our imagination about the certain genre, like "Internal Affairs" did in 2002.
The background story is the Hong Kong reunification in 1997, which made society very unstable. In that crazy and changing era, three main characters, who are also known as the three Kings of Thieves, encounter their own decisions of lives separately, making them consider the possibility of working together for the very first time. The parallel storyline shows each character’s struggle and experience with very delicate structure that makes every twist and tension in the film perfectly strike into people’s heart.
Legendary Johnnie To was the producer, and he allowed three young directors to write their screenplay individually, and then he put them together as an extremely complex masterpiece. These three directors: LOONG Man Hong, Thomas NG and MAK Tin-shu, successfully transfer the traditional excitement of Hong-Kong film to their new souls of cinema.
Release Dates
Germany 12 February 2016 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Hong Kong 21 March 2016 (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
Hong Kong 7 April 2016
USA 30 April 2016 (San Francisco International Film Festival)
USA 4 June 2016 (Seattle International Film Festival)
Taiwan 30 June 2016 (Taipei Film Festival)
Taiwan 22 July 2016
Switzerland 24 September 2016 (Zurich Film Festival)
Austria 25 October 2016 (Vienna International Film Festival)
Taiwan 23 November 2016 (Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival)
Release date: 2016-09-05 (Venice Film Festival) / 2016-12-09 (Taiwan)
The story is about a pair of young immigrants, who leave Burma to go to Thailand, fall in love and start to realize the differences between them. Based on a true story of director Midi Z’s sister and her friends, the film shows the true hardships of immigrant labors and their small dreams, which is a rare topic for the whole Chinese-speaking film industry.
"Special Encounter," a romantic film, based on a South Korean comic book "Botox" by Mina Kwang, was produced by China's film studios, including Wanda Pictures, and starring Chinese mainland actress Yan Ni and Taiwan actor Calvin Tu.
The story was such a mess LOL It felt like instead of having a good writer and director helming the series, a cat was playing with the remote control, constantly pushing the FFW and RW buttons... that's how stupid the development was with the main couple hooking up and breaking up on and on ... for breakfast, lunch and supper :P
But watching Kai Kai in a rom-com for the first time was a pleasure and Chen Joe's character was quite hilarious most of the time. Also having Kimi resurrected on screen was such a bittersweet experience...
So all in all, even though the drama is ridiculous story wise, I still thoroughly enjoyed it and I was always excited waiting for new episodes (not to mention waiting for more than a year for it to actually start airing).
I'll miss my daily dose of Kai Kai *sigh*
6/10
Director: Isaku Sakanishi
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After years of depression in Hong-Kong film industry, "Trivisa" is like an announcement of a new era in Hong-Kong movies, demonstrating the return of Hong-Kong’s gangster film. With great parallel plot lines and perfect editing, this film renovates our imagination about the certain genre, like "Internal Affairs" did in 2002.
The background story is the Hong Kong reunification in 1997, which made society very unstable. In that crazy and changing era, three main characters, who are also known as the three Kings of Thieves, encounter their own decisions of lives separately, making them consider the possibility of working together for the very first time. The parallel storyline shows each character’s struggle and experience with very delicate structure that makes every twist and tension in the film perfectly strike into people’s heart.
Legendary Johnnie To was the producer, and he allowed three young directors to write their screenplay individually, and then he put them together as an extremely complex masterpiece. These three directors: LOONG Man Hong, Thomas NG and MAK Tin-shu, successfully transfer the traditional excitement of Hong-Kong film to their new souls of cinema.
Release Dates
Germany 12 February 2016 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Hong Kong 21 March 2016 (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
Hong Kong 7 April 2016
USA 30 April 2016 (San Francisco International Film Festival)
USA 4 June 2016 (Seattle International Film Festival)
Taiwan 30 June 2016 (Taipei Film Festival)
Taiwan 22 July 2016
Switzerland 24 September 2016 (Zurich Film Festival)
Austria 25 October 2016 (Vienna International Film Festival)
Taiwan 23 November 2016 (Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival)
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The story is about a pair of young immigrants, who leave Burma to go to Thailand, fall in love and start to realize the differences between them. Based on a true story of director Midi Z’s sister and her friends, the film shows the true hardships of immigrant labors and their small dreams, which is a rare topic for the whole Chinese-speaking film industry.
TRAILER:
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Guo Jingfei as Ren Chuan
Lei Mi
Chen Wenqi as Liao Yafan
Wang Kaiyi as young Fang Mu
TEASER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ccMQiYE2bg
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MAIN CAST:
黄轩 Huang Xuan
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苗苗 Miao Miao '
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钟楚曦 Elane Zhong
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杨采钰 Yang Caiyu
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SUPPORTING CAST:
李晓峰 Li Xiao Feng
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王天辰 Wang Tian Chen
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王可如 Wang Keru
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隋源 Suijun Drolma
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MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB0c-D2Yh_c
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But watching Kai Kai in a rom-com for the first time was a pleasure and Chen Joe's character was quite hilarious most of the time. Also having Kimi resurrected on screen was such a bittersweet experience...
So all in all, even though the drama is ridiculous story wise, I still thoroughly enjoyed it and I was always excited waiting for new episodes (not to mention waiting for more than a year for it to actually start airing).
I'll miss my daily dose of Kai Kai *sigh*
6/10
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