Pa-la Pa-la ying ji fa (2001)

Director:

Jingle Ma

Release Date:

26 July 2001 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Musical | Comedy | Romance | Drama

Plot:

Phillip, a dance instructor who holds a class devoted to the latest dance craze, Para Para. While in Shanghai...

Plot Keywords:

Dance | Para Para | Love | Color Blind | Chinese

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Aaron Kwok	...	Philip Wong Kam Sing
Cecilia Cheung	...	Yee / Yuriko
Ah-Niu	...	Henry Ko
Niu Tien	...	Yam Fei Fei (Yuriko's Mother)
Kazuhiko Nishimura	...	Shunichi Kukukawa

Also Known As:

Ba la ba la ying zhi hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Para Para Sakura (International: English title)

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | Japanese | Mandarin

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U | Hong Kong:IIA | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Shanghai, China

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Soundtrack:

The only colour

Entertaining movie fare

Para Para Sakura was a rather surprising movie for me. Entertaining and light, it mixes a good blend of drama and comedy. The dancing scenes are quite good and as always, the beautiful Cecilia Cheung shines. Aaron Kwok delivers a good performance as well and is probably one of his most emotionally diverse roles he has ever done. Very good though the ending seemed a little off to me, definitely worth a watch.