Dai sing siu si (2004)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Wilson Yip

Writers:

Chi-kin Kwok (writer)
Leon Lai (writer)

Release Date:

12 February 2004 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

A romantic drama set in Shanghai.

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Leon Lai	...	Zhou Qian
Faye Wong	...	Xin Xiaoyue
Jianbin Chen	...	Meng Si cun
Na-yeong Lee
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Xiao Hai
Jiang Yi Hong
Li Tang Zhou Yue

Also Known As:

Da cheng xiao shi (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Leaving Me, Loving You (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

Hong Kong:94 min

Country:

China

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U

Filming Locations:

Shanghai, China

Company:

China Film

Trivia:

The first Hong Kong film to use wholly digital processes, include color correction and calibration. According to a newspaper interview with Ko Fai, the founder of FATface production Hong Kong.

Soundtrack:

Fireworks of two people

Left me, Hating it

This review will contain no spoilers, as there actual events or incidents of any note or interest take place throughout the film. Instead, your senses are gradually numbed by cliché after cliché and a soundtrack that makes elevator muzak sound like Handel's Messiah. Leon Lai takes the lead role and proves his acting chops are even less credible than his non existent vocal "talents", and the remarkable lack of chemistry between himself and Faye Wong utterly tears the bottom out of this already rather unseaworthy love Boat. Good points about the film ? Leon's driver in the film steals every scene he is in by default, as he isn't quite as unforgivably wooden as the stars of the show. There is an old man with a kind face. Rather a pathetic attempt at finding the film's merits I must admit, but the best I can do. So there you have it. A romantic drama without romance or drama. Starring an singing actor who can neither act nor sing. Script ? Screenplay ? I'm not sure they thought of that before they finished shooting. I went to see this film at a special valentine's day showing, but it made me seriously consider leaving my girlfriend, and going to live a hermit's existence in a cave just on the implausible offchance that anything in my future affairs of the heart might remind me of this seemingly everlasting dullathon.