Tokyo Raiders
by Jingle Ma
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Actor: Cecilia Cheung, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen, Tôru Nakamura, Tony Leung Chiu WaiDirector: Jingle Ma
Producer: David Chan
Producer: Lai Chun Chong
Producer: Patricia Cheng
Producer: Raymond Chow
Producer: Shek-Hong Chan
Writer: Felix Chong
Writer: Susan Chan
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Tai Seng
Movie Reviews of Tokyo Raiders
Movie Review: Pleasant Surprise
Summary: 5 Stars
This is really cool, comfortable, chewy pop movie. It has a great cast (I only know Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen and Cecilia Chung, but I understand the Japanese actors in this movie are pretty big in their own country.) It's an example of HK cinema at it's flashiest. I don't get why people think the story is so difficult. I mean, the movie has three (at least) double-crosses. I imagine any director would have a hard time with that, so Jingle Ma did what I think suited his style and just made them "secondary." You watch this movie for the great chemistry between the three leads, the great action and style, and Kelly:) The DVD includes a Making-Of thing that is actually very interesting. What can I say, I've watched this movie fifty times. A quick note, it only has Cantonese and English dubbing, so all you fellow Mandarin Chinese people out there try and find a different version. My ears have only kind of gotten used to the Cantonese after fifty viewings. Lastly, the first scene in this movie is alone worth the price of admission, with Tony beating up some Japanese baddies in style with this really weird but catchy J-Pop soundtrack in the back.
Summary of Tokyo Raiders
Tony Leung, star of Hong Kong action movies like Hard-Boiled and Bullet in the Head, stars in Tokyo Raiders along with pop stars Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen. When Macy (Chen) gets jilted at the altar in Las Vegas, she returns to Hong Kong to find her fiancé has disappeared--but in his apartment she finds Yung (Cheng), an interior decorator with surprising kung fu skills. Together they go to Japan, where they meet up with Lin (Leung), a private detective with an entourage of kung fu babes and stories that don't quite add up. From there, the plot gets more and more incomprehensible. It has something to do with counterfeit yen and a twisty series of double-crosses, but Tokyo Raiders is really about hip clothes and martial arts razzle-dazzle, all framed by the worst dubbed dialogue you've ever heard--sort of a Hong Kong version of The Mod Squad. Leung has demonstrated his acting chops in movies like Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love, but he can't make this silliness sound sensible. Still, the actors are sexy, the fight scenes are splashy (if a little confusing), and the movie never wastes too much time getting from one action sequence to the next. A chase that starts out on a motorized skateboard and ends up on a trailer truck hauling new cars is particularly entertaining. --Bret FetzerSimilar DVD Movies
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