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Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister. Lee enters a kung fu competition in an attempt to fight his way to the dealer's headquarters with the help of some friends.
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Two New York City police officers (Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello), set out on a mission to rescue a millionaire's daughter, who has been kidnapped by a drug lord in Hong Kong.
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In Hong Kong in 1949, Mark Elliott (William Holden) is an American reporter covering the Chinese civil war. Undergoing a trial separation from his wife, he meets the beautiful Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones), a widowed physician from mainland China. As the pair fall in love, they encounter disapproval from both her family and his friends about their interracial romance. Although the film was a commercial success upon release, the casting of Jones in an Asian role has since been criticized.
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When American artist Robert Lomax (William Holden) first meets beautiful Chinese native Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan) aboard a ferry, she claims to be the virginal daughter of a prominent man. But when Robert spots her again in a Hong Kong brothel, she admits she is actually a prostitute. As Suzie models for Robert's paintings, their friendship deepens into love, to the disapproval of Robert's crusty British friend O'Neill (Laurence Naismith) and his daughter, Kay (Sylvia Syms), who fancies Robert.
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Cool government operative James Bond (Roger Moore) searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), a hit man so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland), and together they track Scaramanga to a tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
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Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. He's also got his eye on a mysterious woman in a blond wig (Brigitte Lin), oblivious of the fact she's a drug dealer. The second half shows Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl (Faye Wong) at a local lunch counter.
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During the last months of Britain's control of Hong Kong, journalist John (Jeremy Irons) discovers he has only a few months to live. He decides to use the time to pursue his friend Vivian (Gong Li), who is already engaged to another man. Realizing he has never truly engaged with Hong Kong in his 15 years there, John begins walking with a video camera, recording street life and interviewing people like street vendor Jean (Maggie Cheung), in an effort to capture the real Hong Kong before he dies.
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In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldier's Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong.
Vivi is a new addition to our Hello! Hong Kong Team. She is originally from Indonesia and has been living in Hong Kong for the past 3 years. Her work experience in the information, communication, and media-related field made her a great addition to our Hello! Hong Kong Tours admin team.
Vivi is very active and loves hiking and eating out with her family and friends. It’s already the middle of 2020 and the world is still fighting its invisible enemy. Perhaps you are wondering, how does a very active lady cope during this time. Below is her corona diary.
All smiles from Vivi at the Tiger head hiking trail in Lantau
Pre-pandemic time, the Admin team was busy answering inquiries, managing bookings, and coordinating with our customers and tour guides. Now, that this pandemic has put a stop to travel and we have more time on our hands, what keeps you busy?
We are very blessed to be working still during this pandemic. Laura, our director is using this downtime to ramp up our efforts in making the company better, improving our website’s contents, finding ideas for future work and collaborations, so we can better prepare for when the world opens up and people are traveling again. When I’m not working, I love going hiking and exploring parts of Hong Kong we’ve never been before with my husband and friends. Even after being in HK for more than 3 years, there are so many places we haven’t been! We have also been cooking and bbq-ing more and on nice days, we would sometimes go to the beach.
Now that Hong Kong is observing social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the virus, what is the place that you miss visiting to the most and why?
We are lucky that most places in Hong Kong remained open, most restaurants were still open then, just with social distancing measures in place but if I have to say one place that I missed that was closed, it was probably the cinemas, it’s always a fun outing activity with friends but now, no problem because everything is open again!
We know that you also suffer from wanderlust. When this Pandemic is finally over, and you can go anywhere where will your wanderlust take you?
The first place for me to go back to when this is all over will be Bali. We go there a lot as it is also my husband’s favourite’s place, it is very convenient for us and we love everything about it. We would also like to go back to Greece.
What is the one thing that you this very unfortunate event has taught you and why?
Our need for human connections, when we put a pause on things that we got going in life, we reconnect more with our family and friends. Maybe we should do that even when the world resumes with all its activities, we should always touch base on what’s important in life. Like the saying “stop and smell the roses”. It’s also amazing to see that when we’re not doing anything, staying home, we’re actually giving a chance for the world to heal itself. Maybe this pandemic is a way of nature telling us that we should sometimes pause, rethink our ways of life and take more care of the world where we live in.
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Nearly 25 years after seeing his father killed by Hong Kong crime boss Raymond Zhang (Philip Chan Yan Kin), Chad Wagner (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is living in Los Angeles as a flourishing yet peaceful martial arts trainer. But Chad has a twin brother, Alex (also Van Damme), who suddenly reunites with his less-aggressive sibling and wants to avenge their father's death. As the pair plan their payback against Zhang, they also struggle to overcome their personal differences.
