Zero or Die?
eskaze FM
Saturday, 7 August 2010
' Last Air Bender ' - ' Tekken ' and ' 9 Temples '
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka to restore balance to their war-torn world.
Based on the fighting game series of the same name. The film follows rebellious teenage fighter Jin Kazama (Jon Foo) in his attempts to enter the Iron Fist Tournament to avenge the loss of his mother, Jun Kazama, by confronting his father, Kazuya Mishima (Ian Anthony Dale) and his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), the latters of whom he thought were responsible for her death. In the year 2039, after World Wars destroy much of civilisation as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. To placate the seething masses of this dystopia, Mishima sponsors the King of Iron Fist Tournament, or Tekken, in which fighters battle until one is left standing, who in turn will receive a lifetime of stardom and wealth. We are introduced to this violent world through the eyes of Jin Kazama.
9 Temples" is a story about one man's journey to make amends in order to correct his bad karma by visiting 9 temples in 7 days. The journey leads him and his companion into series of unexpected and horrific revelations. Upon his mother's request, Nat, a young architect unwillingly takes a journey to visit 9 temples in order to change back his karma. Accompanied by Poon, his beautiful columnist girlfriend and Sujitto, a young novice monk, the three characters have different purposes through the journey. They later realise that they were ordained to make this trip collectively and one person's fate can affect the other, and the horrendous acts of their previous lives begin to reveal themselves one by one.