Just Married, Welcome to DongMakGol, Final Romance
Saturdays are never meant to be dull…
Fill up your Saturday nights with our fantastic movie line-up this April! Starting this 4th of April, viewers at home will be spoilt with choice of hit Asian movies.
“More great movies for your viewing pleasure!” says 8TV’s General Manager of Business Development, Brand Management, Marketing and Communication Ms Lam Swee Kim.
Tricky King
TX Date: 4 April 2009
Time: 8.30pm – 10.30pm
Tricky King is Hong Kong’s answer to Dumb and Dumber. Eric Kot plays Ohmygod, a schlemiel who loses his job and dignity to the King of Tricks.
He ends up working for the Supreme King of Tricks (a different person) as a disciple, along with several other apprentices. The bulk of the film follows the Supreme King and his crew as they are hired by Go Lumbus, to humiliate his half sister so she’ll be disowned. Ohmygod’s love interest, Dkny (Athena Chu), works as a nurse for Mr. Go, their father.
The film has a very cartoonish atmosphere and has a few successful parodies of popular films.
Casts: Athena Chu, Sherming Yiu, Mark Lui, Eric Kot, Ann Lee, Wong Jing, Nat Chan
Just Married
TX Date: 11 April 2009
Time: 8.30pm – 10.30pm
Popular comedian Anita Yuen teams with singer Emil Chau for Just Married, a pleasant comedy about the trials of newly weds. Anita Yuen is Kau Siu Suet, an advertising exec who meets and weds a nice guy, Kong Chi Wah (Emil Chau), but their blissful beginning doesn’t last for long! Wah’s mother Madam Kong (Lydia Shum) has hefty expectations for her new daughter-in-law, and she’s not about to let things slide. Persuaded by her less-than-charitable friends, Madam Kong challenges Suet for all she’s worth, until the beautiful new bride is tired and willing to give Wah up! But can Wah stand up to his mother to reclaim his true love?
Casts: Lydia Shum, Anita Yuen, Emil Chow & Christine Ng.
Welcome to DongMakGol
TX Date: 18 April 2009
Time: 8.30pm – 10.30pm
A U.S. Navy pilot, Neil Smith, is caught in a mysterious storm of butterflies and crash-lands his plane while flying over a remote part of Korea. He is found by local villagers who nurse him back to health. Time stands still in this village called Dongmakgol. They have no knowledge of modern technology, such as guns and grenades, and no one has any idea of the conflict raging in the outside world. Meanwhile, not far from the village, a platoon of North Korean and South Korean soldiers has an encounter, and the ensuing gunfight leaves most of them dead. The surviving soldiers, three from the North and two from the South, retreat from each side. The surviving North Korean soldiers, Rhee Soo-hwa (Jeong Jae-yeong), Chang Young-hee (Lim Ha-ryong), and Seo Taik-gi (Ryu Duk-hwan) are found by an odd village girl Yeo-il (Kang Hye-jeong) who appears to be mentally challenged. She leads them to the village, where to their astonishment, they find the two surviving South Korean soldiers Pyo Hyun-chul (Shin Ha-kyun) and Moon Sang-sang (Seo Jae-kyung) and the U.S. Navy pilot, Smith, already there. The intense standoff involving the soldiers from different sides left the villagers wondering just what all the fuss was about. The villagers do not have a clue that was is raging across their country and were only concerned about facing a famine that might affect the village. The bitter rivals decided to put their difference aside for the time being and agreed on a truce to help the villagers work their fields. The soldiers soon found themselves leaving the differences and the sins of the past behind and friendship blossomed between them. But good things do not last and outside forces threatened to destroy Dongmakgol.
Casts: Shin Ha Kyun & Gang Hye Jung.
Final Romance
TX Date: 25 April 2009
Time: 8.30pm – 10.30pm
Ah Dik (Edison Chen) and Jean (Amanda Strang) meet up in Japan to bury the ashes of Ah Dik’s brother and Jean’s sister, who were once lovers. Love soon blossoms between Jean and Ah Dik but their romance is shortlived when Jean’s father appears and abruptly takes her back to Hong Kong to be engaged to a doctor. Desperate to get Jean back, Ah Dik returns to Hong Kong and soon discovers that his brother’s death is somehow connected to Jean’s father.
Casts: Edison Chen, Amanda Strang, Sam Lee & Simon Yam.
Mark your calendars and do not forget to catch these exciting Asian delights this April, on 8TV for FREE starting at 8.30pm, every Saturday. 8TV is also available on Astro Channel 708.
Now, you can also catch your favourite 8TV programme on the go, simply log on to www.mobile.8tv.com.my on your mobile phone and enjoy!