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When “Naked Killer” starring Chingmy Yau came out in 1992 and became a cult favorite, producer and scripter Wong Jing followed it up with “Naked Weapon” in 2002 ten years later starring Maggie Q. Fast forward another ten years, the prolific filmmaker Wong resurfaced with another installment of his erotic girls-with-guns thriller “Naked Soldier” this time starring Jennifer Tse and Sammo Hung in the lead.

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The film kicks off with Interpol Agent Ck Lung (Sammo Hung) leading his men to a mansion which ends with a huge drug bust and making headlines everywhere. Next up we see him cooking Christmas dinner for his whole family but before they have a chance to eat, a group of gunmen fronted by Madame Rose (Ellen Chan) storms in and shoots at everyone. Lung fights hard with his enemies and gets shot in the chest.

Stars: Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Louis Fan, Barbie Hsu, Ye Liu, Eddie Cheung, Gong Beibi, Carlos Chan, Flora Chan, Ankie Black, Ken Hung, Felix Lok | Written by Larry Cohen | Directed by Benny Chan

Engineer Grace Wong is kidnapped by thugs looking for her brother. Though her captors have destroyed the telephone in the room she is being held captive in, Grace is able to use her technical skills to repair the phone enough to call a random number. She gets through to slightly hapless debt collector Bob and implores him for help, setting Bob off on a mission to save a complete stranger from a mysterious group of conspirators, putting his life and relationship with his estranged son in danger.

This Chinese-Hong Kong remake of Cellular (and based on the same script by Larry Cohen) hits a lot of the right notes to make a satisfactory, dynamic thriller. Benny Chan...

Naked Soldier Trailer, Naked Soldier Poster. Marco Mak‘s Naked Soldier (2012) movie trailer, movie poster stars Jennifer Tse, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Philip Ng, Ankie Beilke, and Andy On. Naked Soldier‘s plot synopsis: “Interpol agent Ck Long busted a billion-dollar drug deal fifteen years ago. The cartel has avenged itself by hiring Madame Rose’s organization of assassins [...]

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What's old is new again. Exactly two decades ago, notorious filmmaker Wong Jing produced Naked Killer, a "Girls With Guns" film that became a Hong Kong cult classic due to its graphic violence and explicit sexual nature.  He then followed it up a decade later with Naked Weapon, an unrelated film but containing similar themes.  Now he's at it once again in this decade with Naked Soldier and while times have changed, the level of sex and violence continues to stay the same.   The director is Marco Mak with Corey Yuen serving as action director.  In the cast is Jenn Tse, Sammo Hung, Anthony Wong, Philip Ng, Ankie Beilke, Lena Lin, Andy On, Luxia Jiang and Ellen Chan.Interpol agent Ck Long busted a billion-dollar...

Director Benny Chan's (Invisible Target) action thriller Connected (an adaptation of the 2004 Hollywood film 'Cellular') is up for pre-order on DVD. The pic, a big hit with Asian audiences stars Hong Kong's Louis Koo (Rob-b-Hood) as the everyman hero - while as the film's black-clad villain, Liu Ye (Blood Brothers) exudes over-the-top entertaining menace. Rounding out the cast are Nick Cheung (Exiled) as a stalwart traffic cop, with Louis Fan (The Moss), Eddie Cheung (Election), Tvb actor Wong Cho Lam and model Ankie Beilke. This is Chan back at his very best.

Director Benny Chan's (Invisible Target) action thriller Connected (an adaptation of the 2004 Hollywood film 'Cellular') is up for pre-order on DVD. The pic, a big hit with Asian audiences stars Hong Kong's Louis Koo (Rob-b-Hood) as the everyman hero - while as the film's black-clad villain, Liu Ye (Blood Brothers) exudes over-the-top entertaining menace. Rounding out the cast are Nick Cheung (Exiled) as a stalwart traffic cop, with Louis Fan (The Moss), Eddie Cheung (Election), Tvb actor Wong Cho Lam and model Ankie Beilke. This is Chan back at his very best.

In the Us, we've got vampires coming and going -- the great Let the Right One In came out a couple of weeks ago, and the much-anticipated Twilight is due in just over two weeks. In Hong Kong, prolific filmmaker Wong Jing got a horror-comedy version of the classic Chinese hopping vampire into local cinemas just in time for Halloween. As producer and writer, he filled the cast of The Vampire Who Admires Me with beautiful real-life models (Jj Jia, Ankie Beilke, Maggie Li, Tanya Ng) wearing bikini tops and a police station's new female boss (Jo Koo) shoehorned into a tight olive tank top as her official uniform. What else do you need?

Kozo at LoveHKFilm says that something more than "a slapped-together script, lazy situations and unfunny jokes" would have been nice. To be fair, he suggests the models-turned-actresses should be given a pass for their "unremarkable acting...