Love Unto Wastes (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) VCD
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Two Taiwanese girls, Jade (Elaine Jin) and Suk-ling (Tsai Chin) come to Hong Kong and befriend Hong Kong model Billie (Irene Wan). All of them share the same quest for fame. They come across a handsome young man Jean Cheung (Tony Leung) and he immediately falls for the gorgeous Billie. After celebrating Jade's birthday, Suk-ling is murdered on her way home. Sergeant Lan (Chow Yun Fat), a lonely divorcee, starts to investigate the case and gets to know these three young people. The love triangle among Jade, Billie, and Jean marks Love Unto Wastes as a romance, but the unresolved murder case enriches the film with a mysterious dimension, making it a title worth revisiting 20 years after its making.
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| Product Title: | Love Unto Wastes (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) 地下情 (VCD) (香港版) 地下情 (VCD) (香港版) 地下情 / 追い詰められた殺意 （香港版） Love Unto Wastes (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Actor) | Chow Yun Fat (Actor) | Irene Wan (Actor) | Elaine Kam (Actor) | Tsai Chin | Chow Sau Lan | Yu Tsang | William Cheung 梁 朝偉 (Actor) | 周潤發 (Actor) | 溫碧霞 (Actor) | 金燕玲 (Actor) | 蔡琴 | 周秀蘭 | 俞琤 | 張 叔平 梁 朝伟 (Actor) | 周润发 (Actor) | 温碧霞 (Actor) | 金燕玲 (Actor) | 蔡琴 | 周秀兰 | 俞琤 | 张 叔平 梁朝偉（トニー・レオン） (Actor) | 周潤發 （チョウ・ユンファ） (Actor) | 温碧霞（アイリーン・ワン） (Actor) | 金燕玲（イレイン・カム） (Actor) | 蔡琴（ツァイ・チン） | Chow Sau Lan | Yu Tsang | 張叔平 양조위 (Actor) | 주윤발 (Actor) | Irene Wan (Actor) | Elaine Kam (Actor) | Tsai Chin | Chow Sau Lan | Yu Tsang | William Cheung |
| Director: | Stanley Kwan 關錦鵬 关锦鹏 關錦鵬 （スタンリー・クァン） Kwan Stanley |
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| Release Date: | 2007-01-02 |
| Language: | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Disc Format(s): | VCD |
| Duration: | 97 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Joy Sales (HK) |
| Other Information: | 2VCDs |
| Package Weight: | 80 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1000004562 |
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Director: Stanley Kwan
少女阮貝兒(溫碧霞 飾)及來自臺灣的廖玉屏(金燕玲 飾)和趙淑玲(蔡琴 飾)皆以成名為人生目的。她們在酒吧認識米鋪少東張樹海(梁朝偉 飾)。張被阮的外表吸引，兩人很快共墮愛河並同居。廖生日，四人一起過了熱鬧的一天。一夜，廖深夜返家，發現趙被劫殺，悲痛不已。探長藍振強(周潤發 飾)負責調查這宗命案。廖與趙雖是好友，但趙對她卻事事隱瞞。張陪廖回家，廖觸景傷情，張盡力安慰，兩人發生關係。三人捧著趙的骨灰和存摺送還她臺灣鄉下的家人。廖發覺懷了張的孩子，阮大為震驚，張卻不知如何取捨。廖和阮均決定離開張，她們這時才發現自己最愛的人就是自己。
Billie Yuen(Irene Wan) and her two friends Jade Screen Lau(Elaine Jin) and Jane Chiu(Tsai Chin) who came from Taiwan, share the same ideal to become famous. The three women met Tony Cheung (Tony Leung) who is the son of a rice wholesaler at a bar. Tony was madly clung to the indifferent dressing Billie and then they cohabit. The four friends spent a good night at Jade's home, celebrating her birthday. One night, when Jade came home late, Jane was found being murdered. Jade was filled with great sorrow. The three friends received Sergeant Lan's (Chow Yun Fat) inquiry individually. Jade felt depressed since her best friend conceals everything. Tony accompanied Jade back home, the sight stroke a chord in her heart and Tony tried hard to comfort her, then they had sex. Jade was pregnant, it shocked Billie, whereas Tony felt difficult to choose. Finally both Jade and Billie left Tony and the three noticed the one they love the most is-themselves.
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The question is asked: "What breaks our hearts?" There's no one answer, but this movie comes close: as tender as regret, as insubstantial as smoke it breezes by with barely a whisper and leaves a stain on your heart. Stanley Kwan's second movie is at once eloquent, tragic, halting, and humorous as it tries to map out what makes us hurt.
Three female friends from Taiwan share an apartment in Hong Kong: Chiu Suk-ling (Cai Qin) a shovel-faced singer whose lack of good looks is compensated by a nurturing den mother personality; Liu (Elaine Jin who played Hsu Qi's mother in Gorgeous and Nic Tse's mother in Metade Fumaca) is an actress out of work for two years and trying to find a way back into the business; and Billie Yuen (Irene Wan) a young model whose career is just starting to take off. Like drifting asteroids, Jean Cheung (Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who keeps chirping, "Call me Tony,") and Chow Yun-fat (the closest a Hong Kong film has come to replicating Columbo) are pulled gently into the women's orbit and everything is idyllic, until a murder freezes the warm human connections between men and women. Kwan doesn't pick out the murderer, he doesn't point fingers, pull out his hair or try to explain. When men and women fall in love, someone gets hurt. Sometimes killed. There's a dewy freshness to the performances here. Elaine Jin, Cai Qin, Tony Leung, Chow Yun-fat and Stanley Kwan are all in the first bloom of their careers and they seem as innocent and wide-eyed as newborn babes. The considerable, cancerous evil one of them brings to the table is all the more shocking in light of this. The women are at once as comprehensible and impenetrable as the women we've come to expect from Stanley Kwan. Tony Leung is adorable as a jug-eared nouveau yuppie, and Chow Yun-fat is a bottomless well of compassion, forgiveness and human understanding. Tracing the lives and loves of Hong Kong yuppies, Stanley Kwan maps a delicate topography that moves from Hong Kong high rises and clubs, to crumbling go-downs; from Hong Kong to Taiwan and back again. Without roots, but not without feelings, his actors are like beautiful, perfect peaches. It hurts to watch the way they bruise themselves. Stephen Teo, the noted Hong Kong film critic, considers this Kwan's breakthrough film, and despite a few stiff edits and line-readings, one can see his point. by Grady Hendrix |
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