East Meets West
2011 · 100 MIN · IMDB 3.8 · 295 VOTES · DIR. Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai
Overview
Tens of millennia ago, eight gods who ceaselessly fought each other were exiled to earth. For generations, they have been reincarnated as mere mortals, and they won't be allowed back to heaven until they've learned to coexist in harmony. Then in today's Hong Kong, a mortuary beautician and her has-been singer dad are chased for a huge sum of money they don't owe. Turns out her materialistic stepmom has taken a tycoon's advance payment on the false promise of organizing a concert that she can't deliver. The family is therefore forced to go on the run, and along the way they meet an assortment of quirky people, including a mute baker, a kung fu cab driver, an aspiring musician and her crafty sidekick. Through a series of comic misadventures, the seven of them come to realize that they used to be gods and have a mission in this life, but...who is the eighth god that has yet to rejoin them?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,257 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:10 William Tunstall-Pendoe
00:04:27 - Hey Hey! - don't follow me
00:07:30 ok! I'm going to Betting Center
00:10:57 staying in Art Capital hoping to be discovered
00:14:19 Bravo
00:16:53 but somehow he came back to life again
00:19:57 this song is called My Talent is Bullshit
00:24:15 I got from a pair of scissors
00:27:06 any filial affection from the back of my head?
00:30:47 including the woman standing behind you
00:34:47 My friend is calling me, I'm off
00:37:23 Hey...!
00:40:12 it gives people the wrong impression
00:47:15 my baby!
00:50:46 Heee, he is in love with my double! Haha
00:53:58 What are you doing?
00:56:18 Those seven oriental gods
01:01:06 Why did you save someone like him? just leave him to die
01:06:53 why did you sponsor this competition?
01:10:40 In the whole time I've known her
01:16:14 for last eighty eight thousand and eight hundred eighty eight lives
01:20:58 See you next life
01:29:13 I'll get in there and kill her
02:00:01 the university of Cambridge