As I write this column there are three large plastic bins next to my desk labeled “Hanford Chinese Community Reunion.” I spent the good part of the morning perusing through
There s an audacious scene in Vengeance, a Johnny Hallyday thriller set in Hong Kong and Macao, that may remind you of Burnham Wood advancing on Macbeth s castle. In the play men carried shrubbery to hide behind. In Johnnie To s movie they hide behind huge bales of scrap paper. A fierce wind fills the air with flying paper. The bales advance across a field as a wall thump, thump on Hallyday and the three local hit men he s hired to obtain revenge on the killers of his grandson and son-in-law, and a grave wound to his daughter
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Hallyday, who is a French combination of Elvis Presley and Charles Bronson, plays a chef who owns a restaurant on the Champs Elysses. Summoned to Hong Kong by the devastating news, he has an unspecified background in violence but doesn t know the lay of the land. He moves with admirable speed to repair that. Walking down a corridor in his hotel, he happens upon three professional hit men in the act of killing their boss s unfaithful mistres