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Directors:
Johnnie To
Ka-Fai Wai
Writers:
Ka-Fai Wai (written by) &
Nai-Hoi Yau (written by) ...
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Release Date:
25 January 2003 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A martial arts and Chinese medicine expert, Midget leads the famous 'Ngor Mei' clan in China. One day... more | add synopsis
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Silly but kind of oddly sweet more (3 total)

Cast

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Sammi Cheng ... May
Louis Koo ... Tiger Hung
Suet Lam ... Fatty (as Lam Suet)
Bingbing Li ... Li Mo Shau (as Li Bing Bing)
Emotion Cheung ... Hung's Aide (as Emotion)
Belinda Hamnett ... Cat (as Hamnett, Belinda)
Nan Zhou ... Tiger's PRC Employee (as Zhou Nan)
Ko Ko
Yong You ... Tiger's PRC Employee (as You Hang)
Hua Wei ... Omei's 4th Sister Disciple (as Wei Hua)
Wah Yuen ... Tiger's Father
Fung Li ... Tiger's Mother (as Li Fung)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bai nian hao he (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Love for All Seasons (Hong Kong: English title)
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Runtime:
Hong Kong:93 min
Country:
Hong Kong
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
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Silly but kind of oddly sweet, 16 August 2006
7/10
Author: sangepengyou from United States

Silly but kind of oddly sweet, this is typical lightweight romantic comedy that HK loves to make. It is also the type of film that Sammi Cheng seems most comfortable with-- playing the goofy, misfit who stumbles along an offbeat path to love. In this case, she is highly skilled but unworldly herbal healer and martial arts expert. The twist here is that she (May) must learn to love and feel its loss to achieve mastery in kung fu so that she can save the Omei temple from its former leader and her deadly intentions.

After curing Tiger, May realizes that he is the perfect man to "love her and leave her" and give her the power to defeat her foe. Grateful for the cure, Tiger agrees with her offbeat plan. But, as always, the best laid plans have an uncanny ability to go awry and what starts out as a simple, not-strings-attached agreement becomes more complicated that either bargained for.

Misfits are Sammi's strong suit and she is able to pull it all off from her naive/socially inept healer through her transformation to worldly woman with a kind of kooky charm. Koo's role isn't much of a stretch for him and he has played it many times before and since. But, together they do make a reasonably good odd-ball team.

On the whole, rather pleasant, lightweight fare with a couple of rather humorous scenes-- such as Sammi's dinner with the family. Not a continuous stream of belly laughs, but oddly sweet in its way.

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