Sometimes love is the crime.
Imagine Lethal Weapon if Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were ex-boyfriends.
Plot
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Keywords: city-name-in-title, crime-boss, dark-secret, dead-girl, death-of-friend, desperation, empty-world, escape-attempt, funeral, german-woman
In a world filled with secrets, solving a mystery can be murder.
Paul Soames: The heart is never neutral.
Plot
The hostel caters to young travelers moving through the Los Angeles area on their way to countries around the world. Some guests stay only a day or two, most times just overnight. The owner is a former world traveler herself, but at her age, she's now content to have the world come to her doorstep The transient aspect of The Venice Beach Hostel gives it the opportunity to swap out characters every week. This revolving door of characters keeps the show fresh with new personalities, new conflicts, and up-to-the-moment issues that affect young people around the world - religion, nationalism, fanaticism, love, sex, responsibility, politics... lost luggage. It's all rolled into one fast-paced show, packed with sharp dialog and characters. The young workers who manage The Venice Beach Hostel are themselves from various countries like England, Japan, Mexico, America, etc. Each character brings with them the baggage of their civilization. Though not deliberately metaphorical, The Venice Beach Hostel does seem like a microcosm of the world, albeit a comical one.
Plot
Tyrone Johnson is in jail. As a result his sister Yolanda, an exotic dancer, inherits Tyrone's struggling hair salon business. She first sees the shop as a burden and waste of her time and puts the shop up for sale. But Yolanda eventually sees that the beauty biz could be a better future than the stripping biz, and changes her mind, angering the buyer, who retaliates with a vengeance. Yolanda decides to get her exotic dancing girlfriends together in order to keep the shop open... with a twist.
Keywords: african-american, attitude, beauty-shop, booty, butt, exotic-dancer, ghetto, hair, hood, independent-woman
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Tung/Torres ('Dion Lam' (qv)), a vicious Filipino-Chinese drug dealer in Hong Kong, is caught by Chief Inspector Leung ('Waise Lee' (qv)). Cynthia ('Yukari Ôshima') and Lung ('Robin Shou' (qv)) is tasked to deport him back to the Philippines for prosecution. But once they arrive, Dion is rescued by his boss/godfather, Tiger ('Subas Herrero' (qv)), leaving Cyntha and Lung with more than their responsibility to deal with Sgt. Franco ('Phillip Ko' (qv)), their Manila counterpart. Tiger, the coldly ambitious leader of the local gang, who builds an empire of crimes in Manila, has determined to eliminate anyone who will hinder his way of making money. They include Lung and Cynthia, Sgt. Franco and his partner, Billy ('Ronnie Ricketts' (qv)), and Tiger's rival gang leader Mr. Tang ('Franco Guerrero' (qv)). Between Lung and Sgt. Franco, it is a case of conflict at first sight; However, when Billy and Cynthia are brutally killed in the line of duty by the deadliest killers sent by Tung and Tiger, Lung and Franco finally get together and will stop at nothing to launch a mission against the baron and to fight for justice with unexpectedly violent results.
Keywords: balisong, baseball, bomb-squad, corrupt-police, criminal, drug-syndicate, hitman, hitwoman, hongkong-philippines, interpol
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, abdication, actual-animal-killed, adultery
He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change.
Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Words are important.::Pu Yi, at 15: Why are words important?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
Pu Yi, at 15: Where are your ancestors buried?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: In Scotland, your majesty.::Pu Yi, at 15: But then, where's your skirt? In your country, men wear short skirts, do they not?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: No, your majesty, Scotmen do not wear skirts. They wear kilts.
Pu Yi, at 15: Who is this George Washington?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: A famous American, your majesty. A revolutionary general, the first American president.::Pu Yi, at 15: Ah, like Mr. Lenin in Russia?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Not quite.::Pu Yi, at 15: Does he have a car?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: He lived a long time ago, your majesty.::Pu Yi, at 15: *I* want a car.
Pu Yi, at 15: Is it true, Mr. Johnston, that many people out there have had their heads cut off?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: It is true, your majesty. Many heads have been chopped off. It does stop them thinking.
Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned, and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he's the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front door. I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on Earth.
Pu Yi, at 15: [in heavily accented English] I know that you know that I know that you know that that is a dialogue between Confucius and Chuang Tzu.
The Governor: [Confronting Puyi in the prison gardens, where Puyi works alone] Perhaps you think we're here to teach men to lie in a new way?::The Governor: [Puyi continues working as if trying to ignore the Governor] Why did you sign every accusation made against you? I didn't stop you from killing yourself to see you like this! Someone who will sign anything to please his enemies... to please me!::The Governor: [Puyi continues working] You knew about a lot of things in Manchukuo... even the secret agreements. But you couldn't possibly have known about the Japanese biological warfare experiments in Harbin! Could you? So why did you sign these papers?::Emperor Pu Yi: I was responsible for everything.::The Governor: You are responsible for what you do! All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you're the worst of all!::Emperor Pu Yi: [sighs] Why can you not leave me alone? You saved my life to make me a puppet in your own play. You saved me because I am useful to you.::The Governor: Is that so terrible? To be useful?
The Governor: [bidding farewell to Pu Yi as he is released from reform camp] You see, I will end up living in prison longer than you!
The Governor: [setting a recurring theme of imprisonment throughout the film] Open the door! Open the door! Open the door!... Open the door!
Chen Pao Shen: [as Puyi is heading off to become the Emperor of Manchukuo] If you go you betray your country!::Emperor Pu Yi: [pause, at a distance] Which country?
Tang or TANG may refer to:
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Hey you uptown jam-house mama
Such a superfly
Days go in dusty dreams
Nights with Doctor White
C-jams in Cadillacs
Help you to get your wings tonite
Number 3 takes to paradise
With the genuine snowbird eyes
I could see really easily
You got a monkey on your back
You ain't no better than a rat on crack
I could see really easily
Your tang is hungry
So hungry for that
Nose-candy, nose-candy
How to make your love come down without
Sonic dynamite
White girl you've gone too low
School boys callin' you Lady Snow
I could see...
[Chorus]
I can tell ya whatcha wanna
You're an uptown mama
Wanna-wanna-wanna
Superfly mama
Do a little bit of fuckin' tang
Try to sit down but you gotta dance
All you want is just a half a chance
All she wants is just a fun romance
I gotta pocket full of change let's get tanked
A pocket full of change let's get tanked
All you want is just half a chance
Come on lets dance sugar
Lets dance
Lets dance
I gotta lot of people that I'd like to thank
Suspended animation critical think tank
Shed a tear or maybe bust a rhyme
Know you love to have a real good time
You can stand out near the ocean line
I'll come to you and somewhere suffering second night
I was kicked out of my school social
No school social
School social
School social
Do a little bit of fuckin tang
Try to sit down but you gotta dance
All you want is just a half a chance
All he wants is just a fun romance
I gotta pocket full of change let's get tanked
A pocket full of change let's get tanked
All you want is half a chance
After all is said and done your still a vision
Complimentry drinks to you you've found your reason
And you won't hear it on the television see it on the radio
You won't hear it on the television see it on the radio...
no puedo dormir
de tanto pensar en ti
pues no puedo olvidar
aquella noche en el bar
te invite una cerveza
me dijiste que si
te invite otra cerveza
y te guacareaste en mi
y te limpie tu boquita
con muchisimo amor
y ahi yo me di cuenta
que te queria con pasion
y cuando iva a besarte
unos choleques llegaron
pero no se dieron cuenta
de que yo estaba preparado
uno saco una navaja
y con mis chacos se la tumbe
despues me llega otro cholo
y le avente un churike
nunca habia matado a alguien
se siente de lo mas cruel
y en este momento supe
que nuestro amor no puede ser
todo esto es muy cierto
ahi estaba el papa a un lado
ya lo peor ha sucedido
ahora sirvanme otro trago
no puedo creer
que me hallas dejado
aunque recordar
las palabras que me decias
que nuca me dejarias
pero me cuesta trabajo entenderte
pero aun quiero estar a tu lado
con ganas de abrasarte y besarte
pero se que eso no sucedera por que
tu ya has cambiado(2)
decias que mi mundo era aburrido
que no salia de mi rutina
pero si de enverdad me quisieras
eso no te importaria
pero te arrepentiras
de no volver conmigo
por que mi compa goku en supersayallin me ha convertido(2)
por favor vuelve a mi
de verdad te lo digo
quedate a caguamiar
ya he aprendido
yo ya no como
tantos chocorroles
ah ah ni tantos gansitos
solo tomo agua de tang
para que algun dia regreses conmigo
por que te necesito
es tarde ya
llego la hora de salir por la ciudad
de ir a buscar algun lugar donde pintear
prender el carro y nomirar atras
yo ir a bronco a gran velocidad
si es necesario matar por vivir
si es necesario poder estar sin ti
prefiero morir y no vivir
si no puedo disfrutar de ti oh caguama oh caguama
ya llevo diez bien entonado me siento para ir a bailar
por unas viejas ya tengo qur pasar
y a la cartera tengo que consultar
no traigo lana pero me da igual
si es necesario matar por vivir
si es necesario poder estar sin ti
prefiero morir y no vivir
si no puedo disfrutar de ti oh caguama oh caguama
que me pasa me siento pedrada me dan ganas de vomitar pero no hay pedo aun sigo contento por que mañana todo va a ser completamente igual
si es necesario matar por vivir
si es necesario poder estar sin ti
prefiero morir y no vivir
si no puedo disfrutar de ti oh caguama oh caguama