Sound of Colors (film)
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Directed by | Joe Ma |
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Based on | Sound of Colors by Jimmy Liao |
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Production company | Jet Tone Films production |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Sound of Colors (Chinese: 地下鐵) is a 2003 Hong Kong romance film directed by Joe Ma. It is an adaptation of the Taiwanese children's picture book of the same name by Jimmy Liao.
Cast
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Ho Chui-Ming — the untrustworthy owner of a dating agency who inextricably goes blind
- Miriam Yeung as Cheung Hoi-Yeuk — a kind blind woman who visits a dating agency in search for love
- Chang Chen as Zhong Cheng — an advertising company sales representative in Taipei whose love letter gets sent to an incorrect address
- Dong Jie as Dong Lie — a Shanghainese businesswoman who receives the love letter
- Wing Fan — angel who sets up Zhong Cheng and Dong Lie
Reception
Yen Sun-lun for the Taipei Times wrote, "Unfortunately, the film has turned out to be a colourful and beautiful picture that looks like an extended version of a music video. It may be creative in creating characters and plot for the originally thinly-plotted illustration book and the performances are on the whole OK, but the result is less than the sum of its parts."[1] Ken Eisner for Variety wrote, "Tale of overlapping love stories, “Sound of Colors” finally lacks the complexity or zip to make it shine as brightly as it otherwise could."[2] Chan Ka-ming for the Hong Kong Film Critics Society said, "Granted there is some Joe Ma humour, but the tumbling pursuit is nothing but the channeling of Wong Kar-wai."[3]
Analysis
賓尼 for the Hong Kong Film Critics Society wrote that the film's happy ending differs from other films of the period, whose cynical themes act as a reflection of Hong Kong's anxieties of the post
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Notes |
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2003 | Golden Bauhinia Awards | Best Actress | Miriam Yeung | Nominated | [5] |
2004 | Hundred Flowers Awards | Best Picture | Sound of Colors | Nominated | [6] |
Best Actress | Dong Jie | Nominated | [6] | ||
Chinese Film Media Awards | Best Actor | Tony Leung Chiu-wai | Nominated | [7] |
See also
- Turn Left, Turn Right — 2003 Hong Kong romance film also adapted from a Jimmy Liao book
References
- ^ Yu, Sen-lun (26 December 2003). "A sugar-coated holiday flick". Taipei Times. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ Eisner, Ken (16 December 2004). "Sound Of Colors". Variety. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ Chan, Ka Ming (15 December 2003). "The Three Crossovers of Sound of Colors". Hong Kong Film Critics Society (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ 賓尼 (29 December 2003). "再三細味《地下鐵》". 香港電影評論學會 (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ "歷屆金紫荊獎得獎名單>第八屆". Archived from the original on 20 January 2009.
- ^ a b (in Chinese) Nominees of 27th Hundred Flowers Awards 9 Sep 2004.
- ^ "Mar. 19, 2004: News From Abroad". UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. 19 March 2004. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
External links
- Sound of Colors at IMDb
- Sound of Colors at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase