Sealed With A Kiss (1999) Review

The first few years since the establishment of Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd. production in 1996 largely consisted of crime genres until Derek Chiu’s Sealed With A Kiss <甜言蜜語> marked the production company’s first foray into romantic-drama genre.

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Sealed With A Kiss 甜言蜜語 (1999) Review

The first few years since the establishment of Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd. production in 1996 largely consisted of crime genres until Derek Chiu’s Sealed With A Kiss <甜言蜜語> marked the production company’s first foray into romantic-drama genre.

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Expect The Unexpected (1998) Review

Patrick Yau’s follow-up to The Longest Nite <暗花>, which released only a few months apart sees the director incorporating the familiar Hong Kong cop-drama tropes with Milkyway’s house-style pessimistic undertones in Expect The Unexpected <非常突然>.

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Expect The Unexpected 非常突然 (1998) Review

Patrick Yau’s follow-up to The Longest Nite <暗花>, which released only a few months apart sees the director incorporating the familiar Hong Kong cop-drama tropes with Milkyway’s house-style pessimistic undertones in Expect The Unexpected <非常突然>.

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A Hero Never Dies (1998) Review

Imagine if Johnnie To is given the free reign to direct A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色>, the result would be something like A Hero Never Dies <真心英雄>. Like the seminal 1986 action-film classic, Johnnie To explores the popular “heroic bloodshed” subgenre and made it his own in an unabashedly operatic and quirky overtone.

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