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.
點指兵兵 [Dian zhi bing bing / Cops and Robbers] (Kwok-Ming Cheung, 1979)
Jul
15
蠱 [Gu / Bewitched] (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1981)
Jun
30
Exorcising demons. DP: Hsin-Yeh Li.
“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
“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.”
花樣年華 [Fa yeung nin wah / In the Mood for Love] (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
Mar
17
Irish-American Heritage Month
A close-up of a pea-green phone with Mrs. Chan's (Maggie Cheung) hands resting on the receiver. Her dress is a bright green, with an abstract graphic in white. DPs: Christopher Doyle, Pun Leung Kwan & Ping Bin Lee.
Green for Irish-American Heritage Month (USA)
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行者 [Jingang Jing / Walker] (Tsai Ming-liang, 2012)
Dec
8
बोधि
The monk (Kang-sheng Lee) walking Hong Kong. DP: Tsai Ming-liang.
玉羅剎 [Yu luo cha / The Jade Raksha] (Meng-Hua Ho, 1968)
Jul
20
peanuts
Leng Chiu-han's hand (Pei-Pei Cheng) holds up a roasted peanut in the shell. On the table several more peanuts, empty shells, wine cups, and chopsticks. DP: Kuo-Hsiang Lin.
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.
