Chinese title
Romantic Cherry Blossom
Foreign title
Para Para Sakura
More Chinese titles
Ba la ba la sakura no hua
More foreign titles
Ang kwong ang kwong ying ji dut
Ba la ba la ying zhi hua ..... (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Genre
Romance / Drama / Dance / Comedy
Country/Region
Hong Kong
Language
Cantonese
Colors
Color Black and White
Mix
Dubbing
Grade
Singapore:PG Hong Kong:IIA
Cast
Director Director
Ma Chor Seng Jingle Ma
Cast Actor
Aaron Kwok .... .Philip Wong Kam Sing
Cecilia Cheung .... .Yee/Yuriko
Ah-Niu Ah-Niu .... .Henry Ko
Tien Niu Niu Tien .... .Yam Fei Fei (Yuriko's Mother)
Kazuhiko Nishimura .... .Shunichi Kukukawa
Release Date
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
July 26, 2001
Malaysia
Malaysia
July 26, 2001
Singapore
Singapore
July 26, 2001
Production and Distribution
Production Company
Golden Harvest Pictures (China) Ltd. [China]
Tianshan Film Studio Tianshan Film Studio [China]
Synopsis
WANG JIN SHENG (Aaron Kwok), a dance teacher at a large health dance center in Shanghai, was born with severe color blindness and is forced to live in a gray world without any color, which, coupled with an old traumatic relationship, has made him hesitant to fall in love. One day, Wong Kam-Shing goes to the street to promote a health dance center. While performing the latest popular Kung Fu Dance, he encounters Lok Yee (Cecilia Cheung), who has become a member of the promotional team. Lok Yee and Wong Kam Seng dance in close proximity to each other on the street. The two people, who have never met before, dance in perfect harmony, leaving a deep impression on each other, and the most amazing thing is that Lok Yee gives Wong Kam Seng a feeling of "color".
A long lost joy suddenly appeared like a dream. Later, the two met again on the street, and it was Wang Jinsheng who saved the day and drove away the people who were harassing Le Er. But Le'er disappeared into the crowd again in an instant. A few days later, Lok comes to the dance center and invites Wang Jinsheng to accompany her to Suzhou. Lok Er reveals to him that she is a Sino-Japanese hybrid who left Japan for Shanghai in order to escape her marriage. After Lok's persuasion and his favorable impression of her, Wang finally agrees. So the two of them embarked on a joyful vacation.
Le's cheerful and lively character gradually makes Wang Jinsheng's colorless world become colorful; a romantic love sprouts unconsciously, but it is a pity that Le's desire is for a sensational emotion, and Wang Jinsheng, who is a simple person, is not Le's ideal man, in her mind, the real splendid love should be like the cherry blossoms in front of the Meiji Jingu Shrine, which is intense and remorseless. At the end of the vacation, Le'er decided to return to Japan to get married. After Lele left, Wang Jinsheng fell back to the original lifeless black-and-white world. He remembered the Meiji Jingu Shrine that Lele had mentioned in the past, and decided to go to Japan to pursue true love for himself.......
Behind the Scenes
Ma Chucheng's movies have always been a simple romance, such as "Starry Starry Night," "Summer Mockingjay," and "The Starry Night of the Merry Men," and "The Starry Night of the Merry Men. For example, "Summer's Mamaku Tea", such as this "Romantic Cherry Blossom". The film grafts the two art forms of dance and film, giving full play to Aaron Kwok's personal characteristics, plus the large-scale group dance scenes that appear several times in the film with modern dynamic dance music, all of which set the tone for the creation of a romantic effect. The romance in Ma's film is simple but never mediocre, just like the design in this film, the hero is a colorist, so there are countless possibilities of romantic communication between the colored and the colorless, but such a feeling must be wonderful, maybe the director's background in photography is the reason why he has such a sensitivity to color.
Behind the scenes
Fashionable men and women wield gorgeous youth
Ma Chucheng is an aesthetically-pleasing director, with each shot and lighting used with care to present a beautiful picture in a smooth narrative. Aaron Kwok, who has always been sunny, healthy and full of emotions, this time portrays an infatuated man. Aaron Kwok sings and dances in the film, performing at the highest level and singing the film's theme song "The Only Color". The popular Cecilia Cheung has already cooperated with director Ma for three times, and her outstanding acting skills and bright youthfulness have made Cecilia Cheung's interpretation of the refreshing young girl Le Er in "Romancing the Cherry Blossom" passionate and touching.
The cherry blossom tree under the pretty girl dancing "romantic cherry blossom" in mid-April in Japan. Aaron Kwok, Cecilia Cheung, the male and female protagonists of the film in the cherry blossom in Tokyo Metropolitan Sayama Park, shooting a large scene with more than 20 Japanese girls **** dance. It was cherry blossom season, a lot of cherry blossom petals falling with the wind, all the people in such a beautiful scenery under the big dance PAPA PAPA dance, the picture is breathtaking. Aaron Kwok even praised Cecilia Cheung's dancing skills, compared with more than 20 professional dancers, it is no less. This remark immediately shamed Cecilia Cheung's face red, making the staff laugh.
Square night handsome forgetful
May 19, 8:00 pm, Shanghai Pudong Century Plaza, lights flashing, feathers flying, a group of brightly dressed young men and women dancing in the music, standing on top of the car leading the dance is dressed in floral vertical stripes of the clothes of Aaron Kwok. This is the shooting site of Golden Harvest's summer movie "Romantic Cherry Blossom".
Aaron Kwok can be called the best dancer in Hong Kong, and in this movie, he, who suffers from color deficiency, dances to express his feelings, but it's a breeze for Kwok, so he showed some excitement on the set and danced with great dedication. Whether in the audition or in the official start of shooting, sometimes the director has shouted to stop, he is still there jumping around, and when he realized it, he smiled and said, "I jumped a little bit forgetful."
Color hangs up in the heat of the moment and doesn't come off the set
When Aaron Kwok was filming "Romantic Cherry Blossom" in Shanghai, he shot a scene in which he threw a chair to vent his frustration over a breakup, and he accidentally cut his right thumb, which bled quite a bit and caused him to scream in pain.
When he was shooting a scene in which he was irritated after a breakup, he picked up a chair and was about to throw it to the ground when he accidentally cut his right thumb with a screw on the back of the chair, which caused a lot of blood to flow out of it. After the pain was relieved, I insisted on continuing to work because I was in a hurry to catch up with the movie."
Taste the green chicken
Seong plays a color-blind dance teacher who sees only black and white. By chance, he meets a Chinese-Japanese mixed-race woman named Gigi in Shanghai. At the time, there was no shortage of suitors around her, so she was encouraged by her boyfriend to fix him up. She asked him to go to Zhouzhuang, which is known as a water town, for dinner, and the two of them ordered green chicken and blue bean curd soup, which made people feel sick to their stomachs, but it was rare for Shing to eat it before and after the camera.
When he saw the green chicken and blue chicken during the filming, he didn't dare to eat them at first, but only after being persuaded by Cecilia Cheung and Ma Chor-shing to do so. Asked about those wacky food preparation method, Ma Chucheng said: we asked the master special, first let the chicken skin color, overnight with brine steamed, so the chicken skin color will be very uniform. As for the whole bowl of blue soup, it is filled with tofu and cabbage soup plus edible pigments, the two kinds of food are absolutely safe to eat, you do not have to worry.
Gorgeous Cherry Blossom Romance
The pre-production of "Romancing the Cherry Blossom" was done in Japan, and in the movie Phila eventually traveled to Japan, where he made his final assault on his beloved in a very special way in front of the Akechi Jingu Shrine in Japan. While in Japan, the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and the cast and crew got a great set of shots amidst the rosy cherry blossoms.
Director Ma explained that the cherry blossoms have an allusion in the movie. Cecilia Cheung once said to Aaron Kwok: love is divided into two kinds, one is the pine and cypress type, long flowing, evergreen trees; one is the cherry blossom type, bright to the extreme, but instantly pass away, you choose which one? Aaron Kwok didn't answer at the time, but eventually he fought for himself in front of the Meiji Jingu Shrine for a cherry blossom love. He said in a loud voice to Cecilia Cheung:Didn't you ask me a question, I now have the answer, I choose cherry blossoms!