Among the films made by Hong Kong director Li Rengang, the highest score is 1998's "I Love You", who uses fairy tales as the external core, but tells a real tragedy, and the chaotic relationship between men and women intertwined with blood makes it listed as "one of the top ten perverted love stories in Hong Kong".
The second highest-scoring movie is the movie "Star Moon Fairy Tale" starring Zhang Guorong and Japanese actress Takako Tokiwa in 1999, with a Douban score of 8.0. But unlike the former, it is a fairy tale that is consistent in appearance.
This is also the first time that Takako Tokiwa has starred in a Hong Kong film, and it is an honor to be able to cooperate with her brother Zhang Guorong, but I love it when I see her appearance. Later, she collaborated with Andy Lau on "A Hu", also directed by Li Rengang, and the tradition of seeing faces has always been there.
And Yang Ziqiong, who played the role of Zhang Guorong's sister in the film, had the opportunity to cooperate in "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" in 1993, but Yang Ziqiong did not have a schedule at that time, and this time "Star Moon Fairy Tale" can also be regarded as making up for the regret of the last time.
01, Tatsuya and Hitomi
At the beginning of the film, Tatsuya (Zhang Guorong) and his Japanese girlfriend Hitomi (Takako Tokiwa) propose to the beach, presenting us with a fairytale beauty, because Tatsuya is the manager of the Hong Kong hotel, in order to support his career, she came to Hong Kong from Japan to accompany him.
Another girl who has gone away for a foreign lover, just like the Japanese woman who followed her husband to Hong Kong in "Away To Autumn Hate", that is, Maggie Cheung's mother in the film.
But unfortunately soon Happy Ji was sad, Tatsuya picked up Hitomi on the way back, the phone rang behind the car, he used his hand to reach the phone, the result was that the phone was not enough, almost hit the oncoming vehicle, Tatsuya hurriedly hit the steering wheel, but still failed to stop the tragedy.
Seeing this, I can't help but ask, didn't the traffic police uncle tell you not to answer the phone when driving?
This is arguably the biggest failure of the whole movie, which driver in real life would put his phone in the back seat? What driver obviously can't reach it and grabs his phone behind his back while hitting the steering wheel? Do you think you're a gibbon?
And the most metaphysical thing is that the co-pilot sits such a big person, like a wood, watching the boyfriend can't reach the mobile phone and don't help him, there is really enough dog blood.
But after this buggy clip, the plot began to gradually become wonderful and normal.
02、 Da also returned?
After Tatsuya's death, Hitomi returns to Hong Kong where he works to pack up his things, and next door is "Tatsuya" who is trading drugs with the gang boss Gao Jie, yes, the one in Taiwan who does not speak, and is very gang gangster temperament.
But halfway through, the police suddenly appeared, the transaction was forced to be suspended, "Tatsuya" ran down the first floor, just in time to bump into Hitomi holding Tatsuya's thing, and "Tatsuya" in order to get rid of the police, pretending to be her boyfriend, kissed her in person, Hitomi tearful eyes, thinking that Tatsuya was resurrected, and then deepened this "coincidental kiss".
I have to say that Takako Tokiwa is really beautiful, she is the kind of beauty of Hong Kong mixed with Japan, and her eyebrows have the style and charm of Cecilia Cheung and Li Jiaxin; she laughs quite asa's delicacy, does not laugh but has the alienation of Meng Jiahui, and cries with the Chuchu of Nagano Bud.
The Japanese of the neon sisters and the retro beauty of the Hong Kong sisters are mixed together, and it is the little fairy, Takako Tokiwa.
In 2019's "Want to See You", Xu Guanghan played two roles of Li Ziwei and Wang Yisheng, which was widely acclaimed, but in the "Star moon fairy tale" 20 years ago, the brother was also a person who played two corners of Daye and Jiabao.
It turned out that he was not Tatsuya, he was Shi Jiabao, an undercover agent arranged by the police to be next to the drug lord, but he misunderstood that Hitomi wanted to sleep with him, so he did not refuse him to kiss himself, so he took her back to his house and prepared for a one-night stand.
After this time, Hitomi really reacted, he is not Tatsuya, Jiabao can't see the woman crying and runs away, leaving her in his own home, but there is a big word on the door of Jiabao, but it also implies a past that belongs to Jiabao.
Jiabao and policeman Liao Qizhi have been good brothers for many years, he is the "needle" that Liao personally put into the drug dealer, and the two agreed that the next time the drug dealer and Jie Ge trade, they will be wiped out.
However, at the scene of the transaction, there was an accident, everyone died, only the family treasure escaped, he had nowhere to go, only to find Hitomi's house.
Hitomi's landlady has been introducing her boyfriend, seeing that her husband just died and widowed is too pitiful, but seeing her take the man home, she changed her face, and immediately scolded her righteously, your husband just died you look for a man?
You also know that her husband just died, so you can't wait to give her your nephew? Good for a large double standard site.
However, the landlady saw that da also looked exactly like the family treasure and was scared away.
03, the end of the family treasure
Under Hitomi's bitter pleading, Jiabao promised her to let her dream for a day, pretending to be Tatsuya and pretending that Tatsuya was not dead.
Hitomi made him his favorite dishes like before, washed his hair, and went to see a movie together, after the two walked out of the movie theater, Jiabao accidentally blew a cigarette on Hitomi's face as before, and for a while, Hitomi really thought that she had returned to her first encounter with Jiabao.
But the police did not give up the pursuit of the family treasure, once the family treasure returned to his home with hitomi, originally wanted to find a disc, but found the killer hiding in his home.
Previously, Jiabao and Liao suspected that Gao Sir was an internal ghost, but after this killer incident, he began to suspect the good brother Liao, plus there was also Liao's transaction on the disc.
I have to say that Zhang Guorong really distinguishes the two roles of Daye and Jiabao very well, and Daye is gentle and elegant, wearing gold wire glasses and meticulous; while Jiabao is a full soldier, with undercover iron blood, and hand-brotherhood.
So in the scene of the second transaction, it was simply Zhang Guorong's acting skills that exploded, he saw the gunshots, thought that his undercover career was going to end, he was very proud to catch the drug dealer Jin Ye, but when he found that his colleagues shot at him, the whole person was unbelievably stunned, and he did not dare or want to believe that he was betrayed.
And when he knew that it was a good brother and Jin Ye colluding to pit themselves, Jiabao was even more angry and desperate, at first he thought that Liao would be a good policeman here, but he did not expect to be all the way with the anti-drug police played in "Disciple".
In "Discipleship", in order to make a meritorious contribution, Liao put his hand into the doorknob and wanted to open the door to catch the drug dealer, only to be seen by the drug dealer and cut off his salty pig hand with his own hands, which was simply my psychological shadow.
But fortunately, Liao did not have a good ending in this film, Jiabao and Gao Sir joined forces to make a scene, Jiabao kidnapped him, and Gao Sir was responsible for his words, and finally the truth was revealed.
Jiabao has been wronged and has won the upper position, but he does not want to be a policeman, he cannot face the intricate nepotism of interests, nor can he face the betrayal of his father who is his daughter.
04. Family treasure and pupil
When Jiabao took Hitomi to escape with them, the two came to a life-saving love affair with Fenghua Xueyue, and on the way, they also took refuge in the shop of Jiabao's sister (Yang Ziqiong), but this sister was not the "Jiabao" sister, the sister of his dead ex-girlfriend, and also his former colleague, that is, the police.
You say that these two people are not a perfect match, a dead boyfriend, a dead girlfriend, not together is simply intolerable.
However, before the sister could say anything about her relationship with Jiabao, Hitomi knew, because from her sister's disappointment but pretending to be happy to face Jiabao's girlfriend, that is, she could feel in her own eyes that her sister liked Jiabao.
Before Yang Ziqiong did not appear, I had been fascinated by Takako Tokiwa's beautiful face, but as soon as she appeared, my whole eyes could not be removed, she scattered her hair at will, and the photos captured by Hitomi's film camera were all full of style;
Leaning against the stakes at sunset, smoking a lady's cigarette alone, the smoke swirling around her heroic cheeks, the misty eyes and the light of the sunset intertwined, simply stunning the years!
However, the sister is very aware of Jiabao's feelings for Hitomi, so she also encourages Jiabao to treat her well, but unfortunately Hitomi's feelings for him still have the meaning of a stand-in, so in the end Hitomi left Jiabao and returned to Japan.
But as I said, it's a fairy tale that is consistent, so Hitomi still came back to Hong Kong and returned to Bao's side.
The two are just like the scene where Tatsuya proposes to Hitomi at the beginning of the film, except that Hitomi said: My name is Hitomi, please give more advice;
Jiabao replied: My name is Shi Jiabao, and I have a lot of advice.
The two seem to have forgotten the past, tacitly choosing to start over, a beginning without Daye, Jiabao is no longer a stand-in for Daye, Shi Jiabao is Shi Jiabao, Hitomi loves him, but it has nothing to do with Daye. (Author: Song Juhan)