One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose Chinese title Romance Riddle may hold better clues as to how this film developed, being […]
May is a martial artist and Chinese medicine practitioner who resides in a temple in Omei mountain. Under the threat of her lovelorn master, Misery, she decides to seek the help of infamous womanizer, Tiger Hung, who she had helped earlier, in order to experience heartbreak and master the “Heartbroken Sword” technique to defeat her.
During the Soong Dynasty, a beautiful woman named Liu is searching for a husband, but is unable to find one until she hears the avant-garde poetry of Chan. Soon the two are married and Chan discovers that his new bride is violently temperamental and insanely jealous, who limits his activities and lifestyle. When a princess […]
A man kills an assassin by accident and when he gets out of prison, the victim’s brother attempts to avenge his death.
Li Tian is the leader of the grand thieves in Tang. In their search for the kylin horn, they become embroiled in the political turmoil brewing among supporters of the previous dynasty and the royal court. Under the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the nation and its people prospered but hiding behind the veil of peace […]
