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43 Laat Sau Wui Chun HELP!!! Regie: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai Land: Hongkong 2000. Produktion: Milkyway Image (Hong Kong) Annotation: The literal translation of the original Chi• Ltd. Buch: Wai Ka I ai, Yau Nai Hoi, Ben Wong. Regie: johnnieTo, nese title is 'Rescue Bravely, Treat Attentively!' Wai Ka Fai. Kamera: Cheng Siu Keung (HKSC). Musik: Raymond Wong. Schnitt: Law Wing Cheong, T. L. Yun. Ausstattung: Jerome Synopsis Fung. Bauten: Simon So. Kostüme: SilverCheung. Licht: Wu Kwok Lying in the wreckage of a deadly car accident is a Chu. Ton-Schnitt: Martin Chappell, May Mok. Regie Action-Sze- wounded man waiting for help. Joe appears and per• nen: Cheng Ka Seng. Ko-ordination Auto-Stunts: Bruce Law. Regie• forms surgery on the spot using broken glass as a scal• assistenz: Law Wing Cheong. Produzent: Tlffany Chen. Herstel• pel. He saves the man's life and then disappears... lungsleiter: Catherine Chan. This is the first day of work for Doctor Yan at Sir Kau Kei Darsteller: Ekin Cheng (Joe), lordan Chan (Jim), Ce< ilia Cheung Ho Charity Hospital's emergency department. Yan is (Yan), Raymond Wong, Hui Siu Hung, Lam Suet, Bonnie Wong, shocked to find her supervising doctor, Jim, jaded and Lam Kau, Emma Ong, Yvonne Ong, Baby Lau, Connie Leung, selfish. She wants to be a great doctor, but that doesn't Lao Siu Kuen. seem to be anyone's priority here. Format: 35mm, Cinemascope, Farbe. Länge: 89 Minuten, 24 Bil• An old man is taken to the emergency room after being der/Sekunde. struck by lightning. When everyone in the hospital leaves Sprache: Chinesisch (Kantonesisch). work, it is Yan who stays to help. Suddenly every doctor Uraufführung: 11. August 2000, Hongkong. from every department rushes back to treat the old man. Weltvertrieb: China Star Entertainment Group, Unit 503 C, It turns out he is the hospital's biggest donor - Sir Kau Mira mar Tower, 132 Nathan Road, TST, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Kei Ho. Tel.: (852) 23 13 18 88, Fax: (852) 21 91 98 88. Yan expresses her disappointment in Jim. She recalls once E-mail: [email protected] being taken to the hospital and being treated by two cool www.chinastar.com.hk doctors, Jim and Joe. Yan remembers fondly what Jim said at the time: "It's not easy to be a doctor." Jim's car• Anmerkung: Die wörtliche Übersetzung des chinesischen Origi• ing attitude back then contradicts what he is today. naltitels lautet 'Mutig retten, aufmerksam behandeln!' Sir Ho wants to reform the hospital and hands Yan the responsibility. Jim, moved by Yan's words, joins her to try Inhalt to make a difference. But soon his determination wears Nach einem lebensbedrohlichen Autounfall liegt ein schwerver• off once he encounters opposition from his colleagues letzter Mann in den Trümmern seines Autos und wartet auf Hilfe. and the management. Yan then remembers one person Joe taucht auf und operiert ihn vor Ort; eine zerbrochene Glas• who can help out - the legendary Joe who left the hospi• scheibe dient ihm als Skalpell. Er rettet dem Verwundeten das tal some time ago. Leben, verschwindet dann jedoch, ohne eine Spur zu hinterlas• Joe now runs an auto shop. The place looks and oper• sen... ates like an efficient emergency room. Yan tells Joe how Es ist der erste Arbeitstag für Dr. Yan am Sir Kau Kei Ho Charity the words, "It's not easy to be a doctor," inspired her. Hospital in der Notaufnahme. Yan ist schockiert, als sie bemerkt, After much persuasion Joe agrees to return to the hospi• daß der aufsichthabende Arzt, Jim, abgestumpft und selbstsüch• tal. tig ist. Sie möchte vor allem eine gute Ärztin werden, doch außer Sir Ho is struck by lightning again and falls into a coma. ihr scheint niemand diese Priorität zu setzen. This only hardens Joe's determination to bring the emer• Ein alter Man wird in die Notaufnahme gebracht: Er wurde von gency room back on track. But everyone besides Yan einem Blitzschlag getroffen. Alle haben bereits aufgehört zu ar• and Jim refuses to cooperate. Even a patient's suicide in beiten und gehen nach Hause, nur Yan bleibt zurück und hilft. protest of the hospital's negligence fails to get anyone's Doch auf einmal eilen die Ärzte aller Stationen zurück und küm• attention. mern sich um den alten Patienten. Es stellt sich heraus, daß der Joe, Jim and Yan decide to set an example in the emer• alte Mann Sir Kau Kei Ho ist, der das Krankenhauses finanziell gency room. They work extra hours and do extra chores großzügig unterstützt. Yan sagt Jim, wie enttäuscht sie von seiner hoping people around will be moved by their commit- Haltung ist. Sie erzählt ihm, wie sie einst ins Krankenhaus ge• ment. But eventually they collapse from overwork. bracht und von zwei engagierten Ärzten behandelt wurde, Jim A set of quadruplets is taken to the hospital after a seri• und Joe. Yan erinnert sich voller Wehmut, daß Jim ihr damals ous car accident. Everyone at the emergency room is gesagt hatte: „Es ist nicht leicht, Arzt zu sein." Jims fürsorgliche shocked to learn that they are the younger brothers of Einstellung von damals steht in starkem Kontrast zu seiner jetzi• the earlier suicide. When all but one of them has a chance gen Haltung. of surviving, Joe and his team take organs from the de• Sir Ho möchte das Krankenhaus reformieren und übergibt Yan ceased to perform organ transplants. The operation is a die Leitung. Jim zeigt sich von Yans Worten sehr gerührt und success. schließt sich ihren Bemühungen an, Veränderungen durchzuset• Management uses the incident to put Joe's managerial zen. Seine Überzeugung nutzt sich jedoch bald ab, als seine Kol• ability into question. The emergency room staff resign in legen und das Management des Krankenhauses nicht mitziehen. protest, and beat up their superiors on the way out. Eve• Da erinnert sich Yan an eine Person, die ihnen helfen könnte: der ryone except Yan leaves the hospital and takes on jobs legendäre Joe, der das Krankenhaus vor einiger Zeit verlassen of various sorts. hatte. A heavy rainstorm knocks out power in the city. Yan is Joe leitet mittlerweile eine Autowerkstatt, die einer effizienten trapped in her car after a serious collision. Joe, Jim and Notaufnahme in Aussehen und Organisation in nichts nachsteht. others rush out to help although they are no longer full- Yan erzählt Joe, wie die Worte „Es ist nicht leicht, Arzt zu sein." time doctors. In the midst of the rescue, Joe is hit by a sie damals inspiriert haben. Nach umfangreicher Überzeugungs• car and sustains a critical injury. arbeit willigt Joe ein, wieder im Krankenhaus zu arbeiten. Jim, Yan and the others try to treat Joe in a pitch black Sir Ho wird abermals vom Blitz getroffen und fällt ins Koma. Die• operating room. When the back-up generator dies, Sir ser Vorfall verstärkt Joes Willen, die Notaufnahme wieder auf Vor• Ho awakens from a coma and suggests using lightning dermann zu bringen. Jedoch verweigern alle außer Yan und Jim to revive Jim. Yan volunteers her body as a resistor to ihre Kooperation. Nicht einmal der Selbstmord eines Patienten, reduce the electrical charge that hits Joe. der auf die Nachlässigkeit des Krankenhauspersonals zurückzu• ZAP! Surrounded in a spectacular halo, Joe is cured and führen ist, erregt besondere Aufmerksamkeit. flies in mid-air with Yan. Embracing. Kissing. Looking Joe, Jim und Yan beschließen, mit gutem Beispiel voranzugehen. from below, Joe realizes the girl he's in love with has her Sie machen Überstunden und übernehmen Extraschichten in der heart set on his best friend... Hoffnung, daß ihre Kollegen sich ein Beispiel nehmen. Schließ• lich brechen sie jedoch aus Überarbeitung zusammen. About the film Eines Tages werden Vierlinge nach einem schweren Autounfall Producer/director/writer Johnnie To Kei-Fung and Wai ins Krankenhaus gebracht. Alle in der Notaufnahme sind schok- Ka-Fai are familiar names to audiences abroad for their kiert, als sich herausstellt, daß es die jüngeren Brüder des daring and innovative Milkyway pictures. In 2000, the Selbstmordopfers sind. Als nur noch eines der vier Kinder lebt, duo set out to focus on more commercial projects. As entnehmen Joe und sein Team den verstorbenen Kindern Orga• the Hong Kong film industry has slowly recovered in the ne, um das eine Kind zu retten. Die Operation ist erfolgreich. last year, this change-of-direction represents an effort to Die Krankenhausleitung benutzt diesen Fall, um Joes Führungs• lure local audiences back to movie theaters again. With qualitäten in Zweifel zu ziehen. Die Notaufnahme tritt geschlos• the No. 1 hit Needing You..., To and Wai have been suc• sen zurück und verprügelt die Vorgesetzten auf dem Weg aus cessful so far. The film has taken in more than 35 million dem Krankenhaus. Alle außer Yan verlassen das Krankenhaus und Hong Kong dollars, and spawned a romantic fairy tale nehmen verschiedene andere Jobs an. for the new millennium. Ein Wirbelsturm verursacht einen Stromausfall in der ganzen Stadt. It is not difficult to explain the phenomenal success of Nach einem schweren Autounfall ist Yan in ihrem Auto einge• Needing You... The film features two popular talents and sperrt. Joe, Jim und die anderen eilen ihr zu Hilfe, obwohl sie an urban metropolitan setting that today's white-collar- nicht mehr als Ärzte arbeiten. Während der Bergung wird Joe workers can identify with. But as To sees it, the comeclic von einem Auto angefahren und schwer verletzt. nature of Needing You... is what contributes to its popu• Jim, Yan und das OP-Team versuchen Joe trotz des Stromausfalls larity. "In Hong Kong, comedy can cross over different in einem stockfinsterem Operationsraum zu behandeln.
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    VHD Index - 02 9/29/04 4:43 PM Page 715 Alternative Titles Index While it's true that we couldn't include every Asian cult flick in this slim little vol- ume—heck, there's dozens being dug out of vaults and slapped onto video as you read this—the one you're looking for just might be in here under a title you didn't know about. Most of these films have been released under more than one title, and while we've done our best to use the one that's most likely to be familiar, that doesn't guarantee you aren't trying to find Crippled Avengers and don't know we've got it as The Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms. And so, we've gathered as many alternative titles as we can find, including their original language title(s), and arranged them in alphabetical order in this index to help you out. Remember, English language articles ("a", "an", "the") are ignored in the sort, but foreign articles are NOT ignored. Hey, my Japanese is a little rusty, and some languages just don't have articles. A Fei Zheng Chuan Aau Chin Adventure of Gargan- Ai Shang Wo Ba An Zhan See Days of Being Wild See Running out of tuas See Gimme Gimme See Running out of (1990) Time (1999) See War of the Gargan- (2001) Time (1999) tuas (1966) A Foo Aau Chin 2 Ai Yu Cheng An Zhan 2 See A Fighter’s Blues See Running out of Adventure of Shaolin See A War Named See Running out of (2000) Time 2 (2001) See Five Elements of Desire (2000) Time 2 (2001) Kung Fu (1978) A Gai Waak Ang Kwong Ang Aau Dut Air Battle of the Big See Project A (1983) Kwong Ying Ji Dut See The Longest Nite The Adventures of Cha- Monsters: Gamera vs.