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Q U I C K V I E W
Shogun and Little Kitchen (1992)
Ng Man Tat runs a restaurant in the courtyard of his tenement apartment. His
uncle, Yuen Biao, helps out when his nephew is injured and becomes a celebrity
thanks to his acrobatic approach as a cook. After he's hired away by a corporation,
Ng Man Tat and the other tenants are left to try and fight off a nasty developer.
Leon Lai lends a hand as a rich boy in hiding from his family.
Ronny Yu directed a very warm-hearted and appealing comedy that sneaks in a little
social commentary about the oft-ignored and disenfranchised poor. The message
must have been quite timely in a Hong Kong undergoing upheaval in the early 1990's.
For the DVD, Mei Ah decided to zoom in on a letterboxed print in order to fill
the screen. The result is a severely cropped picture that also suffers from a
below-average source print. The burned-in subtitles are sometimes cut off at
the sides. Until an improved edition appears, this will have to do, but don't
let that caveat keep you away. (08/24/02)
written by peter a. martin
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