Tempting Heart (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

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CAST: Kaneshiro Takeshi, Gigi Leung, Karen Mok and more.
DIRECTED BY: Sylvia Chang
HONG KONG MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://www.hkmdb.com/db/reviews/show_
review.mhtml?id=3090
TYPE OF MOVIE: Comedy, Romance
DURATION: 122 minutes
NOTE:  Viewed the Universe version with English Subtitles.

Cheryl is Hong Kong-based film director. She uses the story of her first true love as the basis for her next project. As she tells the tale to a screenwriter, Cheryl relives old from a time of innocence. Ho-jun is a shy youngster, more interested in his guitar than school. A chance encounter between Ho-jun and Sheo-rou leads to a first sweet taste of romance. However, an innocent adventure turns sour when Sheo-rou’s mother discovers that the young couple have spent the night together at a hotel…

DVD EXTRAS:

- Three trailers for the movie
- Information on Kaneshiro, Leung and Mok. KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I know of

DVD REVIEW:

This movie is about a love triangle with a twist.  Without revealing too much about this love triangle I will talk more about the background of the story.

The movie takes place in two time periods.  One is in the mid-1970’s, showing how everyone met and interacted with each other.  The other half takes place in the late 1990’s with a writer using her own experience as a movie but not telling her co-writers it has to do with her.

While writing this movie, she never was able to understand the male character’s perspective and then she started to realize it later on.

The DVD video is beautiful and the sound is good but it’s a dialogue movie, so no special use of surround sound.  The special features are three different trailers of this movie and character information.

“Tempting Heart” Is a romantic, sad and interesting story that many romantic viewers and those who had someone they love but chose a different path that kept you apart.  For those expecting the typical romantic movie, this is not it.  This one is more about romance but with a twist and for some people it can be a reality.

It is finally great to see an HK movie that is different from the norm and also past the 120 minute mark!

THE MOVIE: A
THE DVD EXTRAS: C
THE DVD OVERALL: B