Sean chooses most of the movies that we cover, and occasionally he chooses stuff that’s a little tough to find. But in the long run you don’t mind going through the hunt, because they’re still a romp.
In this episode we first take a look at The Killer, a film from 1989 directed by John Woo. It stars Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sally Yeh, and nobody’s motivation is what you think it is. Are people acting out of malice, avarice, guilt or something else?
From there we move to 2002 and So Close, directed by Corey Yuen and starring Shu Qi, Zhao Wei and Karen Mok. Once again, everyone has some deeply buried motives. Perhaps they’re so deep that they’re only released through subtext. You really have to “read between the lines” to understand what people are thinking. Or, you could just listen to this episode and we’ll tell you.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
In our next episode we remain in Asia to look at a pair of films that Sean calls “Modern-Day Kurosawa,” though they’re kind of in the middle of his oeuvre. (Hint: it’s because they’re set in the present day.) First it’ll be 1949’s Stray Dog, starring—surprise!—Toshiro Mifune. Then we look at High and Low, from 1963. Did you guess that it has Toshiro Mifune in it? That’s a good guess.