Heung joh chow heung yau chow

Turn Left, Turn Right (1994)

They are both convinced that a sudden passion has joined them Such certainty is beautiful but uncertainty is more beautiful still Since they have never met before they are sure that there had been nothing between them.

But what's the word from the streets, staircases and hallways ---------- perhaps they have passed by each other a million times

This poem perfectly encapsulates the essence of the movie. A movie about coincidence, connections about second and third and fourth chances. A movie about the power of destiny and yet at the same time about the power of uncertainty.

Moments and opportunities pass by us and often we fail to look at them, but they may come back to us. Hopeless or Hopeful, a romantic will always find a way.

Review written by artist jayakumar jrain.

Heung joh chow heung yau chow (Turn Left, Turn Right) is a heart-warming love story. There I said it. o0o0ps I gotta write a minimum of 10 lines? Alright, here goes.

It's a story of two person, who met in school & then lost contact, then met some few years after, only to lost contact again. Weird, but fascinating! They only know each other by their school identification number, they don't know other info i.e whereabouts, much less their favorite food, color, etc..etc.. Even the phone number they exchanged got lost.

Little did they know that they were destined to be together! They don't even know that they were very close to each other wherever they went. Say, when she was standing in a train, he was sitting down while reading a newspaper. Such a coincidence! Watch as they 'worked' hard to find each other. They did the same thing, i.e the way they talk, the way they they think, even their interests are the same too! The ending is too unbelievable but an original, nonetheless! I don't think audiences can figure out the ending!

My impression of Turn Left, Turn Right was that it was light comedy without much substance. That being said, although the story is too "romanticised" to be realistic and the plot lacks depth, the movie still provided light and amusing humour. Laugh out loud moments can be found within this film, but if you come expecting too much from this movie, you'll leave severely disappointed. My views may differ from the views of whom this movie is targeted towards, as i am unfamiliar to the Asian movie scene and discovered this movie by chance. Though i have to say for myself that i enjoyed myself whilst watching this film, as at times mindless fluff can be very entertaining if you're in the mood.

Can this romance take place in another city besides Taipei? I am thinking about Paris, Prague, Venice, Istanbul, New York, St Petersburg, Sevilla (sorry, not London)… Tokyo? Probable but not very likely. In Asia, except Taipei, no city can provide suitable soil to let this seemingly mushy love story to germinate. I find it funny to see a young Japanese gal or guy reading Wislawa Szymborska's poetry in Polish language in Ueno Park. (Hong Kong? Oh, please don't ruin the whole enchilada.)

Takeshi Kaneshiro is definitely the baffled violinist but can someone think of some other actresses? Gigi is good absolutely but someone else may bring along different chemistry with TK.

The story is a mathematic and science illustrations. "Symmetry" was the word popped up in my mind when I finished the first ten minutes and "binary" is the next. What happens to them is like two magnetic iron pieces: both of them keep using the same side towards each other either always north or always south, so south and north cannot meet and stick together. Only twice, one side is south, another is north so they met, once at the park, another at the collapsed apartments. And what's the probability? I need to count the number of times they met but missed against the two times they met... difficult calculation. One more thing, symmetrically, both of them got a comical and clingy suitor: Dr. Wu and Ruby.

Jimmy Liao is pictorial poetic, he writes poetry with his illustrations. Pitifully, the movie adaptation more or less cannot totally grasp the air or spirit of his book.

I very like this movie, Turn Left Turn Right. The genre romantic movie about boy meet girl, boy love girl, separated and meet again. But this Hong Kong movie is different and unique. Before, my favorite romantic movie ever is Serendipity (2001, directed by Peter Chelsom, starring John Cussack and Kate Beckinsale), see how funny when they seeking each other, from New York to Los Angeles. But now my salute to Johnny To (the director of Turn Left Turn Right)and Takeshi Kaneshiro-Gigi Leung (of course two leading player for this movie). See the desperately about Takeshi and Gigi when they only two time meet in 13 years! The fate, the meeting, and the love, are written from Sky. Remember, Jesus Christ says, when two people want something, anything, and pray together, so the Lord will blessed them! Amen.