Accomplishments:

Besides taking up webspace, LoveHKFilm.com has accomplished a few minor things. These are those things.

• LoveHKFilm.com opened 2005 as the number one Asian film site on Alexa.com, a popular traffic ranking service for webmasters and interested parties all over the World Wide Web. What this means to the average joe: probably nothing. Still, it sounds pretty neat. After a good sixteen month reign, we finally fell to #2 in April of 2006. Sometime towards the end of 2006, we ended up back at #1. Frankly, we have no idea how this works, but we'd like to say: thank you, Alexa.
• For the six day period from January 10th to January 15th in 2005, LoveHKFilm.com donated all commissions from its YesAsia.com support links to aid the Tsunami Relief effort in Asia and East Africa. A total of $353.84 was donated on January 16th, 2005 to the Red Cross International Response Fund.
• On January 13th, 2005, the Webmaster made a live television appearance on Screen Savers, a daily program airing on the TechTV/G4 network, to talk about Asian Cinema in 2005. What this accomplishment actually means is debatable, but it happened. For proof, go here. An extra interview with the Webmaster is located here.
• For the six day period from September 13th to September 19th in 2005, LoveHKFilm.com donated all commissions from its YesAsia.com support links to aid those on the U.S. Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane Katrina. A total of $217.73 was donated on September 19th, 2005 to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
• For the six day period from June 2nd to September 7th, 2006, LoveHKFilm.com donated all commissions from its YesAsia.com support links to aid those affected by the Indonesia Earthquake. A total of $178.62 was earned through the links. We eventually rounded up and donated a full $200.00 to Red Cross Relief Efforts in the region.
• For the eight day period from May 19th to May 27th, 2008, LoveHKFilm.com donated all commissions from its YesAsia.com links to aid those affected by the Sichuan Earthquake. Indonesia Earthquake. A total of $153.95 was earned through the links. True to form, we rounded up to $200.00 and donated it to the Red Cross China Earthquake Relief Fund.

Content:

Words:
You may notice the occasional snarky comment on this web site. If so, please do not assume that the writer is an evil, hateful being. No offense is intended by the words on this site, even if Wong Jing is the target. Please do not read into any pronoun use. No one here is a multiple personality, or admits to being one anyway. Also, the use of occasional third person narration has no inherent meaning. No one here is overly pompous, nor are they a professional athlete.

Images:
All images on this site were obtained in a manner befitting their use on the Internet. Pictures taken from studio sites are attributed whenever possible, and video captures are credited to the contributing distributor. As this is a site promoting and celebrating Hong Kong Cinema, we hope that the original parties find no malice in the usage of their intellectual property. In the event of any concerns, please contact the webmaster here.

If you'd like to take some of the images for your own personal use, we encourage you to go ahead and save those images to your hard drive. However, we respectfully request that you do not reference LoveHKFilm.com's web hosts to obtain the pictures for your own Internet ventures, be they personal webpages or forum posts. For more on this subject, go here.

Sadly, very few people actually listened to the above request. Subsequently, LoveHKFilm.com moved to a new webhost in March of 2004 that utilized hotlink protection, thereby preventing anyone from referencing LoveHKFilm.com's images to populate their own sites. While infuriating to many bloggers and forum posters worldwide, the move did prevent the Webmaster from filing for bankruptcy. There are mixed blessings everywhere.

Rights:
The content of this site is the sole property of he/she who wrote it and those who choose to read it. In that way it belongs to everyone. 

Usage:
Despite our feelings that our content belongs to everyone, that does not mean you are allowed to simply copy the content contained within and use it to populate your own websites, ebay auctions and/or webshrine to Cheung Tat-Ming. If you'd lke to use anything contained within, we respectfully request that you contact the webmaster here.

If you choose not to go through the above socially accepted channels to request usage of LoveHKFilm.com's content, you will not be fined or go to jail...yet. However, taking our content without permission and using it as you please will forever brand you as an insensitive, ungrateful human being, and the angels will weep for you. Basically, plagarism sucks.

By the way, cutting and pasting sentences out of our reviews then reassembling them as your own does not count as original work on your part. Your mother would be more proud of you if you actually worked for a living.

Acknowledgements:

Many must be thanked for their contribution to making this site possible:

Lee Wong, for loving the cinema.

Barry Long, co-author of Hong Kong Babylon, deserves either the credit or the blame for fostering webmaster Ross Chen's love of Hong Kong Cinema.

Sanney Leung, of HK Entertainment News in Review, has provided much insight and support in getting this site off the ground.

Peter Chan Ho-Sun, who was charitable with his time and opinions, and helped further the webmaster's experience with Hong Kong film.

Stephanie Badii, for believing.

Joseph Fierro, of the former Hong Kong Cinema Website, laid the groundwork for any HK Cinema website currently in existence.

Ryan Law, webmaster of the Hong Kong Movie Database at www.hkmdb.com. His web site is the definitive web resource to Hong Kong movies. We bow to his continuing work and dedication.

Ken Akamatsu, for inspiring the site name and for providing much fan service in his hilarious and quite perverted manga Love Hina. 

Sammi Cheng, for being Sammi Cheng. 

And, everyone on the Sponsor Page.

Special thanks to the following people:
Linus Chen, Becky Bernhardt, Kyle Cornelius, Diep Derstine, Rick Diloreto, Frank Djeng, Todd Jones, Charlie Lai, David Mitchell, Karen and Leo Pesce, Kozo Shimasaki, Tom Schirmer, Patty and Sam Ting, Louie Tran, James and Sofia Trejo, Midori and Hiroki Wada, Marc Walkow.

The following books were extremely helpful:
- David Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000)
- Frederic Dannen and Barry Long, Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East (Hyperion/Miramax 1997)
- Stefan Hammond and Mike Wilkins, Sex and Zen & A Bullet to the Head (New York: Fireside: 1996)
- Lisa Oldham Stokes and Michael Hoover, City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema (London: Verso, 1999)
- Stephen Teo, Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions (London: British film Institute, 1997)
- Esther C.M. Yau, At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World (University of Minneapolis Press, 2001)

About the Webmaster:

     Webmaster Ross Chen was born in 1973.
     Long a fan of movies, Chen's first actual Hong Kong Cinema experience came with a little movie called A Better Tomorrow. However, it wasn't until he attended New York University in 1993 that he began to consume Hong Kong Cinema in mass quantities. He continues to watch movies from all over the world, though he reserves a special place in his heart for Hong Kong Cinema.
     Ross Chen has been employed at various positions, including video store clerk, product buyer, employee manager, network administrator, web designer and aimless free agent. None of those jobs was particularly fulfilling, but he retains a certain degree of interest in all of them.
     For fun, Chen enjoys writing, reading, watching film, and generally maintaining a low profile. He's also an avid basketball fan, though the dismal showing of his local team, the Golden State Warriors, has driven him into a fan coma.
     In 2002, Chen rediscovered writing. He hopes to write on a regular basis, and even possibly pursue it as a career. LoveHKFilm.com was created by him in hopes of continuing to watch and write about Hong Kong film. When reviewing film, he goes by the pseudonym Kozo. His other aliases are unprintable. 
     In 2005, Chen was hired by YesAsia.com to be a Senior English Editor. Despite his employment by the leading online Asian Entertainment retailer, he pledges to maintain an impartial stance when reviewing Hong Kong Cinema. In other words, he will continue to be as mean as he possibly can. He currently resides in Hong Kong, where he tries to stay out of trouble, though his degree of success is debatable. His resume in stored here on the site. Drop him a line by emailing him here.

Reportedly, this is a photo of the Webmaster and
his greatest fan. Sources cannot confirm which is which.

Web Site Staff:

Webmaster
Ross Chen

Reviewers
Ross Chen
Calvin McMillin
Lee Wong
Kevin Ma

Consulting Editor
Sanney Leung

Web Designer
Computer Angel

Contributing Writers
Yin Szeto

Former Contributors
Chris Simpson
Greg Maier
David Harris
Adam Laidig
Stuart McDonald
Jennifer Marley
Ria Caronongan
James Percy
Aaron Jones
Lilia Lopez

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