For the most part, Taiwanese film industry is well known for its romantic films, dramas or comedies. Maybe only a handful films, if that, from the country would come to mind when thinking about entertaining action films that could stand toe-to-toe with its other continental cousins. Director Hung Tzu-hsuan, with his debut feature film “The Scoundrels”, aims to rejuvenate the Taiwanese action genre.
“The Scoundrels” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Hot-headed Liao Wen-jui used to be a popular basketball player considered to be the next big thing in the sport. After a massive brawl at a game that effectively ended his career and resulted in a fan being hospitalised and Liao being stuck with the massive hospital bills as compensation, he has a phenomenal fall from grace, which forces him to take on any jobs to make ends meet. He soon finds himself working for a carjacking gang led by Hsiao-hei,...
“The Scoundrels” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Hot-headed Liao Wen-jui used to be a popular basketball player considered to be the next big thing in the sport. After a massive brawl at a game that effectively ended his career and resulted in a fan being hospitalised and Liao being stuck with the massive hospital bills as compensation, he has a phenomenal fall from grace, which forces him to take on any jobs to make ends meet. He soon finds himself working for a carjacking gang led by Hsiao-hei,...
- 7/3/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The turn of the Chinese movie industry towards the sci-fi genre continues, this time with a much less extravagant approach than “Wandering Earth”, which focuses on social commentary rather than action, in an effort that has already netted Best Film at Fantasporto and Best Sci-Fi at Cinequest and Phoenix Film Festival to the production. Let us take things from the beginning, though.
In a future where all the energy the Earth uses is solar, disaster ensues as soon as the Sun shuts down, leaving the whole world without any source of power. Freelance astronomer Sun Yang, who had predicted that this would happen, finds himself escaping the riots that ensue as soon as the disaster becomes public knowledge, with his neighbor, Chen Mu. Their destination is District Four, where refugee camps have been set. The trip though, is anything but smooth, while humanity’s future is put in jeopardy.
Wen Ren...
In a future where all the energy the Earth uses is solar, disaster ensues as soon as the Sun shuts down, leaving the whole world without any source of power. Freelance astronomer Sun Yang, who had predicted that this would happen, finds himself escaping the riots that ensue as soon as the disaster becomes public knowledge, with his neighbor, Chen Mu. Their destination is District Four, where refugee camps have been set. The trip though, is anything but smooth, while humanity’s future is put in jeopardy.
Wen Ren...
- 5/8/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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