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The film tells the story of Mari Hirakawa, a half-Japanese, half-Chinese young woman living in a karate dojo where her father still teaches. Moreover, her life is in a mess, as she is a real slacker with a dead end job. As a child, she was forced to practice karate by her father, but after losing a competition, she gave up practicing altogether. To make things worse, she also has a relationship with a married man who still lives with his wife. One day, her father dies, leaving her with the dojo. She sees this as an opportunity to subdivide it into small apartments so she can rent them out and become a landlady. However, she soon discovers that she actually owns only 49%, and a disgraced ex-student, Chan Keung inherits the remaining 51%. After getting out of prison, Chan Keung moves in and starts to teach karate, which brings more conflict into her messy life.

The film tells the story of Mari Hirakawa, a half-Japanese, half-Chinese young woman living in a karate dojo where her father still teaches. Moreover, her life is in a mess, as she is a real slacker with a dead end job. As a child, she was forced to practice karate by her father, but after losing a competition, she gave up practicing altogether. To make things worse, she also has a relationship with a married man who still lives with his wife. One day, her father dies, leaving her with the dojo. She sees this as an opportunity to subdivide it into small apartments so she can rent them out and become a landlady. However, she soon discovers that she actually owns only 49%, and a disgraced ex-student, Chan Keung inherits the remaining 51%. After getting out of prison, Chan Keung moves in and starts to teach karate, which brings more conflict into her messy life.

One of the fascinating things about Hong Kong cinema during its prime was its ability to go beyond what at times would be acceptable and really push the boundaries of good taste. The result could be some incredibly visceral images that could leave the viewer speechless. Whilst the end products themselves may not have always been particularly good, you would at least be left having a strong opinion about what you had experienced. Sometimes this ability did not always create something edifying and the worst excesses and prejudices would be revealed. This leads us to “Body Weapon” a movie that certainly will create a reaction.

Madame Chan (Angie Cheung) has a dilemma, being in love with both Wu (Vincent Zhao) and Sam (Stephen Au), fellow officers in the Hong Kong Police. After a scandal, she is ordered to choose between them, ultimately marrying Sam. On her wedding night,...

“The Empty Hands” is a martial arts themed drama that proves that there is much more to karate than just seeing people get thrown around in the dojo.

The Empty Hands screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival, that will be on March 9th to 18th.

The film tells the story of Mari Hirakawa, a half-Japanese, half-Chinese young woman living in a karate dojo where her father still teaches. Moreover, her life is in a mess, as she is a real slacker with a dead end job. As a child, she was forced to practice karate by her father, but after losing a competition, she gave up practicing altogether. To make things worse, she also has a relationship with a married man who still lives with his wife.

One day, her father dies, leaving her with the dojo. She sees this as an opportunity to subdivide it into small apartments so...

There is a thrilling selection of Chinese-language titles at Filmart this year. Liz Shackleton picks out some of the most promising.

With very few Hong Kong or mainland Chinese sellers making the journey to this year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Filmart offers a chance for buyers to catch up with the Chinese-language titles that will be rolled out in the region for the rest of the year.

After serving up the biggest film of the Chinese New Year holiday — Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong — China’s Sparkle Roll Media has launched a Hong Kong-based sales arm that is selling Ding Sheng’s reboot of the A Better Tomorrow series.

Other high-profile action titles new to market include Distribution Workshop’s Extraordinary Mission, from the creative teams behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard series, and Huayi Brothers’ crime drama Explosion, starring Duan Yihong.

Previously announced...

Exclusive: Martial arts drama has been picked up by Hong Kong outfit Golden Scene.

Hong Kong’s Golden Scene has picked up international rights to martial arts drama The Empty Hands, directed by and starring Chapman To [pictured].

Produced by To and Tang Wai But, the film tells the story of a young girl whose only wish is to sell her father’s karate dojo when he dies, but discovers that 51% of the business was left to one of his worst pupils.

Currently in post-production, the film is scripted by To and Erica Li. To also stars with Stephy Tang, Yasuaki Kurata and Stephen Au.

Golden Scene is also selling Amos Why’s second feature, Napping Kid, basedon Mann Shin’s novel about the kidnapping of a confidential computer file. Currently in post-production, the film stars Cecilia So, Ng Siu Hin, David Siu and Candy Cheung.

Other titles on Golden Scene’s Filmart slate include Wong Chun’s award-winning...