Jasmine Women/Mo li hua kai (Hou Yong, 2004)

[SalParadise]

Warning: If you are thinking of buying this film from yesasia http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/c ... 004340738/ (Zoke Culture): DON'T. The image is not too bad, but the English subtitles are awful. I mean really awful.

As far as the film goes: It's very good. The fantastic DOP Hou Yong makes his second film, 13 years after his first, and this film is just gorgeous.

Note: The film is based on a novel by the author Tong Su, who also wrote 'Raise the Red Lantern'.

Let's hope a Korean or Japanese company releases this with good English subtitles.

[htdm]

The subtitles on the Hong Kong release are fine and the image is much better than either of the mainland versions.

[SalParadise]

cheers