AKA:
A-1
Chinese:
A-1 頭條
Year:
2004
Director:
Gordon Chan Car-Seung, Chung Kai-Cheong
Producer:
Gordon Chan Car-Seung, Fruit Chan Gor, Jimmy Law Kwok-Keung, Stephen Lam
Writer:
Gordon Chan Car-Seung, Chung Kai-Cheong
Action:
Dante Lam Chiu-Yin, Bruce Law Lai-Yin
Cast:
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Angelica Lee Sum-Kit, Edison Chen, Eric Kot Man-Fai, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Gordon Lam Ka-Tung, Lo Wai-Luk, Joel Chan, Sophie Wong Siu-Yin, Miao Chung-Jun, Dante Lam Chiu-Yin, Cara Chan
The Skinny:
An interesting...
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’I Miss You’ (我好想你, Wǒ hǎoxiǎng nǐ) is included in Taiwanese indie band sodagreen (苏打绿, sū dá lǜ) ‘s eponymous album, released on June 17th. The band’s vocalist Wu Qingfeng (吴青峰, Wú Qīngfēng) aka Wu Tsing-Fong said he wrote this song five years ago and experienced an emotional meltdown when recording it. This year, this song was...
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Composer: Yang Minghuang
Lyrics: Huang Guilan
Singer: Zhang Jie
Lyrics (Original Chinese, Pinyin Romanization, and English Translation):
我的天空...
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Zhao Wei (赵薇, Zhào wēi) aka Vicki Zhao‘s first movie So Young has been a hit with (致我们终将逝去的青春, Zhì wǒmen zhōngjiāng shìqù de qīngchūn). Chinese audiences and a Chinese box office success, which in turn helped its theme song “To Youth (致青春, Zhì qīngchūn) ” by Wang Fei (王菲, wáng fēi) aka Faye Wong go viral. At time of translation,...
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