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{{Infobox film
| name = So Close
| name = So Close
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| alt =
| alt =
| caption = Film poster
| caption = Film poster
| film name = {{Film name| traditional = 夕陽天使
| native_name = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes| t = 夕陽天使
| simplified = 夕阳天使
| s = 夕阳天使
| pinyin = Xīyáng Tiānshǐ
| p = Xīyáng Tiānshǐ
| jyutping = Zik6-joeng4 Tin1-si2}}
| j = Zik6-joeng4 Tin1-si2}}
| director = [[Corey Yuen]]
| director = [[Corey Yuen]]
| producer = Chui Bo-chu
| producer = [[Po-Chu Chui]]
| writer = [[Jeffrey Lau]]
| writer = [[Jeffrey Lau]]
| starring =
| starring = [[Shu Qi]]<br>[[Karen Mok]]<br>[[Song Seung-heon]]<br>[[Zhao Wei]]
{{plainlist|
* [[Shu Qi]]
* [[Vicki Zhao]]
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* [[Karen Mok]]
* [[Song Seung-heon]]
}}
| music = Sam Kao<br>Kenjo Tan
| music = Sam Kao<br>Kenjo Tan
| cinematography = Venus Keung<br>Chan Chi-ying
| cinematography = Venus Keung<br>Chan Chi-ying
| editing = [[Cheung Ka-fai (film editor)|Cheung Ka-fai]]
| editing = [[Cheung Ka-fai (film editor)|Cheung Ka-fai]]
| studio = Eastern Film Production (HK)
| studio = [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia]]<ref name=hkmdb /><br />Eastern Film Production (HK)
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br>[[Sony Pictures Classics]]<br>(US)
| distributor = [[Sony Pictures Releasing|Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International]]
| released = {{film date|2002|9|6|df=yes}}
| released = {{film date|2002|9|6|df=yes}}
| runtime = 110 minutes
| runtime = 110 minutes
| country = Hong Kong<br>United States
| country = Hong Kong
| language = Cantonese
| language = Cantonese
| budget =
| budget =
| gross = HK$880,332<ref name=hkmdb>{{cite web|title=So Close (2002)|url=http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10044&display_set=eng|publisher=[[Hong Kong Movie Database]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref>
| gross = HK$880,332<ref name=hkmdb>{{cite web|title=So Close (2002)|url=http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10044&display_set=eng|publisher=[[Hong Kong Movie Database]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref>
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'''''So Close''''' is a 2002 Hong Kong action film directed by [[Corey Yuen]], starring [[Shu Qi]], [[Karen Mok]] and [[Zhao Wei]]. The film's English title is derived from [[The Carpenters]]' song "[[(They Long to Be) Close to You|Close to You]]", which has a prominent role in the film.


'''''So Close''''' is a 2002 [[Hong Kong]] action film directed by [[Corey Yuen]] and starring [[Shu Qi]], [[Zhao Wei]] and [[Karen Mok]].
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==Plot==

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Lynn and her sister Sue are computer hackers, assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to gain an advantage over their rivals and law enforcement agents. At the beginning of the film, they infiltrate a high security building and assassinate Chow Lui, the chairman of a top company in Hong Kong.
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The film's English title is derived from [[The Carpenters]]' song "[[(They Long to Be) Close to You|Close to You]]", which has a prominent role in the film.

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== Plot ==
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Lynn and her sister Sue are [[computer hackers]], assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to gain an advantage over their rivals and law enforcement agents. At the beginning of the film, they infiltrate a high security building and assassinate Chow Lui, the chairman of a top company in China.


After their successful mission, a police inspector named Kong Yat-hung is assigned to investigate the case and she manages to track down the assassins. In the meantime, Chow Lui's younger brother Chow Nung, who hired Lynn and Sue to kill his brother so that he can become the chairman, wants to kill the assassins to silence them. The cat-and-mouse chase becomes more complicated as both the police and the thugs are out to get Lynn and Sue.
After their successful mission, a police inspector named Kong Yat-hung is assigned to investigate the case and she manages to track down the assassins. In the meantime, Chow Lui's younger brother Chow Nung, who hired Lynn and Sue to kill his brother so that he can become the chairman, wants to kill the assassins to silence them. The cat-and-mouse chase becomes more complicated as both the police and the thugs are out to get Lynn and Sue.
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Sue has always been playing the role of the assistant by staying on the computer and helping to disable the security systems and giving instructions on navigating the area, while Lynn, who is older and more experienced, does all the field work. Sue is jealous and thinks that Lynn refuses to let her participate more actively because she is less adept, but actually Lynn is trying to protect her sister from danger. Their relationship becomes strained when Lynn falls in love with her friend's cousin Yen and wants to give up her job and marry Yen. Sue intends to continue her career as a [[contract killer]] so that she can prove that she is as good as her sister.
Sue has always been playing the role of the assistant by staying on the computer and helping to disable the security systems and giving instructions on navigating the area, while Lynn, who is older and more experienced, does all the field work. Sue is jealous and thinks that Lynn refuses to let her participate more actively because she is less adept, but actually Lynn is trying to protect her sister from danger. Their relationship becomes strained when Lynn falls in love with her friend's cousin Yen and wants to give up her job and marry Yen. Sue intends to continue her career as a [[contract killer]] so that she can prove that she is as good as her sister.


Kong Yat-hung tracks down Sue in a bakery, where Sue is buying a birthday cake, and this leads to a frantic car chase. When Sue realises that she is being cornered by the police, she calls Lynn at home and asks her sister for help. At the same time, Chow Nung's assassins break into the house and kill Lynn and frame Kong Yat-hung for the murder. Sue escapes from the police and finds out the true identities of her sister's killers from the CCTVs in the house. She goes to see Kong Yat-hung and offers to help her clear her name, but Kong must assist her in avenging her sister. Left with no choice, Kong Yat-hung agrees to team up with Sue to hunt down and kill Chow Nung and his henchmen.
Kong Yat-hung tracks down Sue in a bakery, where Sue is buying a birthday cake, and this leads to a frantic car chase. When Sue realises that she is being cornered by the police, she calls Lynn at home and asks her sister for help. At the same time, Chow Nung's assassins break into the house and kill Lynn and frame Kong Yat-hung for the murder. Sue escapes from the police and finds out the true identities of her sister's killers from the CCTVs in the house. She rescues Kong Yat-hung from custody and offers to help her clear her name, but Kong must assist her in avenging her sister. Left with no choice, Kong Yat-hung agrees to team up with Sue to hunt down and kill Chow Nung and his henchmen. Over the course of planning the counter-attack, Sue and Kong Yat-hung bond.

Sue and Kong Yat-hung succeed in defeating Chow Nung. Both of them agree that if not due to the nature of their line of work (one a police and the other a criminal), they might have been best friends. With that, they part ways.

Sue visits Lynn's grave, thanking her for everything that her sister had done, and she can now take care of herself. She promises Lynn that she will tell Yen the whole ordeal, knowing that Yen is “the guy Lynn loves the most”. The film ends with a scene where Yen is still waiting for Lynn at a restaurant which they had promised to meet.


==Cast==
==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Shu Qi]] as Lynn
* [[Shu Qi]] as Lynn
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* [[Karen Mok]] as Kong Yat-hung
* [[Zhao Wei]] as Sue
* [[Zhao Wei]] as Sue
* [[Karen Mok]] as Kong Yat-hung
* [[Song Seung-heon]] as Yen
* [[Song Seung-heon]] as Yen
* Michael Wai as Ma Siu-ma
* Michael Wai as Ma Siu-ma
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* Keung Hak-shing as Lee Hong-fai
* Keung Hak-shing as Lee Hong-fai
* Adam Chan
* Adam Chan
* Tanigaki Kenji
* [[Kenji Tanigaki]]
* Lam Kwok-git
* Lam Kwok-git
{{colend}}


==Reception==
==Reception==
''So Close'' holds an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 37 reviews on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]<ref>{{cite web|title=So Close (2003)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/so_close/|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> and an average score of 66/100 based on 18 reviews on [[Metacritic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=So Close|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/so-close|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref>
''So Close'' holds an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 37 reviews on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]<ref>{{cite web|title=So Close (2003)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/so_close/|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> and an average score of 66/100 based on 18 reviews on [[Metacritic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=So Close|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/so-close|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref>


==Awards & Nominations==
==Awards and nominations==
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==See also==
== See also ==
* [[Girls with guns]]
* [[Girls with guns]]


==References==
== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


==External links==
== External links ==
* {{imdb title|id=0300620}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0300620}}
* {{Amg movie|278026|So Close}}
* {{Amg movie|278026|So Close}}


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Latest revision as of 19:44, 13 May 2024

So Close
Film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese夕陽天使
Simplified Chinese夕阳天使
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīyáng Tiānshǐ
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingZik6-joeng4 Tin1-si2
Directed byCorey Yuen
Written byJeffrey Lau
Produced byPo-Chu Chui
Starring
CinematographyVenus Keung
Chan Chi-ying
Edited byCheung Ka-fai
Music bySam Kao
Kenjo Tan
Production
companies
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia[1]
Eastern Film Production (HK)
Distributed byColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International
Release date
  • 6 September 2002 (2002-09-06)
Running time
110 minutes
LandHongkong
SpracheCantonese
Box officeHK$880,332[1]

So Close is a 2002 Hong Kong action film directed by Corey Yuen and starring Shu Qi, Zhao Wei and Karen Mok.

The film's English title is derived from The Carpenters' song "Close to You", which has a prominent role in the film.

Plot

[edit]

Lynn and her sister Sue are computer hackers, assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to gain an advantage over their rivals and law enforcement agents. At the beginning of the film, they infiltrate a high security building and assassinate Chow Lui, the chairman of a top company in China.

After their successful mission, a police inspector named Kong Yat-hung is assigned to investigate the case and she manages to track down the assassins. In the meantime, Chow Lui's younger brother Chow Nung, who hired Lynn and Sue to kill his brother so that he can become the chairman, wants to kill the assassins to silence them. The cat-and-mouse chase becomes more complicated as both the police and the thugs are out to get Lynn and Sue.

Sue has always been playing the role of the assistant by staying on the computer and helping to disable the security systems and giving instructions on navigating the area, while Lynn, who is older and more experienced, does all the field work. Sue is jealous and thinks that Lynn refuses to let her participate more actively because she is less adept, but actually Lynn is trying to protect her sister from danger. Their relationship becomes strained when Lynn falls in love with her friend's cousin Yen and wants to give up her job and marry Yen. Sue intends to continue her career as a contract killer so that she can prove that she is as good as her sister.

Kong Yat-hung tracks down Sue in a bakery, where Sue is buying a birthday cake, and this leads to a frantic car chase. When Sue realises that she is being cornered by the police, she calls Lynn at home and asks her sister for help. At the same time, Chow Nung's assassins break into the house and kill Lynn and frame Kong Yat-hung for the murder. Sue escapes from the police and finds out the true identities of her sister's killers from the CCTVs in the house. She rescues Kong Yat-hung from custody and offers to help her clear her name, but Kong must assist her in avenging her sister. Left with no choice, Kong Yat-hung agrees to team up with Sue to hunt down and kill Chow Nung and his henchmen. Over the course of planning the counter-attack, Sue and Kong Yat-hung bond.

Sue and Kong Yat-hung succeed in defeating Chow Nung. Both of them agree that if not due to the nature of their line of work (one a police and the other a criminal), they might have been best friends. With that, they part ways.

Sue visits Lynn's grave, thanking her for everything that her sister had done, and she can now take care of herself. She promises Lynn that she will tell Yen the whole ordeal, knowing that Yen is “the guy Lynn loves the most”. The film ends with a scene where Yen is still waiting for Lynn at a restaurant which they had promised to meet.

Cast

[edit]
  • Shu Qi as Lynn
  • Zhao Wei as Sue
  • Karen Mok as Kong Yat-hung
  • Song Seung-heon as Yen
  • Michael Wai as Ma Siu-ma
  • Kurata Yasuaki as Master
  • Deric Wan as Chow Nung
  • Shek Sau as Chow Lui
  • Josephine Lam as Alice Chow
  • Ben Lam as Ben
  • Ricardo Mamood as Peter
  • May Kwong as May
  • Henry Fong as Lynn and Sue's father
  • Paw Hee-ching as Lynn and Sue's mother
  • Tats Lau as Ghost King
  • Kam Hing-yin as Captain
  • Josie Ho as Ching
  • Jude Poyer as murderer
  • Dave Taylor as murderer
  • David John Saunders as murderer
  • Leon Head as murderer
  • Lam Seung-mo as Lai Kai-joe
  • Leo Ku as man in lift
  • Wong So-bik as May
  • Ben Yuen as Mr Yeung
  • Huang Kaisen as Wong Fat-chi
  • Victy Wong as bodyguard
  • Wong Wai-fai as bodyguard
  • So Wai-nam as bodyguard
  • Kong Foo-keung as robber
  • John Cheung as cop
  • Keung Hak-shing as Lee Hong-fai
  • Adam Chan
  • Kenji Tanigaki
  • Lam Kwok-git

Reception

[edit]

So Close holds an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 37 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes[2] and an average score of 66/100 based on 18 reviews on Metacritic.[3]

Awards and nominations

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Awards
Award Kategorie Name Outcome
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated
Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Choreography Corey Yuen
Jianyong Gao 		Nominated

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "So Close (2002)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  2. ^ "So Close (2003)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  3. ^ "So Close". Metacritic. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
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