Chinese Box /
Chinese Box: John, a British journalist living in Hong Kong, falls in love with Vivian, a bartender with a jaded past. Vivian is eager to secure her position in Hong Kong society and wants her successful boyfriend Chang to marry her. When Chang proves to be indecisive about their relationship, Vivia...
| Uniform Title: | Chinese box (Motion picture : 1997) |
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. In English, with optional subtitles in English and Spanish (both films). |
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[United States] :
Lions Gate Home Entertainment,
[2003]
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| Edition: | Unrated director's cut. |
| Series: | Lions Gate signature series.
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| Summary: | Chinese Box: John, a British journalist living in Hong Kong, falls in love with Vivian, a bartender with a jaded past. Vivian is eager to secure her position in Hong Kong society and wants her successful boyfriend Chang to marry her. When Chang proves to be indecisive about their relationship, Vivian turns to John. Giving into their feelings for a brief but passionate affair, they now face inevitable change and unexpected obstacles. Life is cheap: "[A] surreal, violent, and darkly comic look at the seamy underside of life in Hong Kong. A young man of Chinese/Japanese heritage (Spencer Nakasako) working at a racetrack in San Francisco is hired by gangsters to deliver a briefcase to the Big Boss (Lo Wai), a notorious leader of Hong Kong's organized crime syndicate. Dressed in western clothes and proclaiming himself 'The Man with No Name,' the courier arrives in Hong Kong with the briefcase chained to his wrist, but this doesn't stop a group of enterprising young hoodlums from stealing it from him. As he searches for his precious cargo, the man tries desperately to rendezvous with the Big Boss, only to hear a dizzying variety of excuses from his second-in-command (Lam Chung) as to why the Boss can't or won't see him. The courier also has to deal with his elderly Uncle Cheng (Cheng Kwan Ming), who would rather show off his latest dance routines than help his nephew save his own neck"--allmovie.com. |
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| Item Description: | Chinese Box originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Life is cheap ... but toilet paper is expensive originally released as a motion picture in 1991. Aspect ratio 16x9 (widescreen). Special features: disc 1. Director commentary ; Wayne Wang's 1997 Home movies documentary -- disc 2. Wayne Wang's feature prequel: Life is cheap ... but toiler paper is expensive ; Director commentary. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby surround. |
| Audience: | Unrated (Chinese box). Self-imposed "A" rating (Life is cheap). |
| Production Credits: | Chinese Box: music by Graeme Revell ; editd by Christopher Tellefsen ; director of photography, Vilko Filac̆ ; story by Jean Claude Carrière, Paul Theroux, Wayne Wang. Life is cheap: Forever Profit Investments presents a Far East Stars production ; a Wayne Wang film ; directed by Wayne Wang ; producer, Winnie Fredriksz ; co-directed & written by Spencer Nakasako ; story by Amir M. Mokri, Spencer Nakasako, Wayne Wang ; director of photography, Amir M. Mokri ; music by Mark Adler ; editors, Chris Sanderson, Sandy Nervig. |
| ISBN: | 158817770X |