拳精 [Quan jing / Spiritual Kung Fu] (Wei Lo, 1978)
Oct
3
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Jackie Chan balances three bowls and a small bench Jackie Chan style. DP: Jung-Shu Chen.
“Just when I really needed a raincoat, he returned to my side. It would be so great if it could rain forever.”
墮落天使 [Do lok tin si / Fallen Angels] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)
Aug
7
yellow
The killer's agent (Michelle Reis) rides an escalator in a yellow and black underground station. She wears an all-black outfit and yellow nail polish (via). DP: Christopher Doyle.
Yellow: a building or structure*
– Punkie
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow.
“We split up on April Fool's Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn't changed her mind by the time I've bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire.”
重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
Apr
28
freebie: April
Eating pineapple, expiration date May 1. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau.
A film set in April.
– He Zhiwu, Cop 223
破戒 [Po jie / Broken Oath] (Chang-hwa Jeong, 1977)
Feb
24
noodles
A large man at an eatery gulps down bowl after bowl of delicious noodles. He's at number seven with bowl eight ready to go. DPs: Tieh Wang & Yung-Lung Wang.