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Dead Time

Soekarno


            1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom out from street stalls; the Rolling Stones are in town along with tourists and American sailors fresh from Vietnam. They join British and Australian soldiers checking out the prostitutes and gambling dens en route to their own war in Borneo.The famous Straits are filled with ships from around the world; and militant union demonstrations and race riots sweep the streets. The Cold War is hot in the tropics; Chinese gangs prosper; and people die as the city is hit by terrorist bombs.The Malayan Emergency is over but has added new scars to the memories of colonial rule and the Japanese occupation during WW2. The sun may have set on the Empire, but British and Australian troops are still in the middle of an intense four-year jungle war in neighbouring Borneo, while in one year, terrorists will set off more than 29 bombs in Singapore itself. And then there are the Americans, and that war in Vietnam.This is the city of Sam Callaghan (Don Hany), Patricia Cheng (Joan Chen), the CIA's Conrad Harrison (Michael Dorman) and the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency.Sam Callaghan runs a sporadic import/export business with his Malayan partner Kang, but agrees to help neighbour Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is killed while working on a case. Patricia may not be a detective, but she knows she needs a good investigator with contacts in the Chinese and Malay communities, as well as among US/British ex-pats. Sam is all of that. But, after a childhood in a POW camp and a chequered career in military intelligence during the Malay Emergency, he is also carrying a lot of baggage.However, he does enjoy a mutually satisfactory and discreet relationship with Claire Simpson (Maeve Dermody), the lonely and bored wife of an ex-pat oil company executive.This then starts for Sam, as a case-by-case part-time job, and eventually he is effectively working almost full-time at the Cheng Detective Agency. The agency's cases range from the usual (straying spouses and petty fraudsters) to events with international implications and complications. Sam's contacts from his military days are useful - but they start to drag him back into a dark world that he would prefer to leave behind.
    

Serangoon Road

Impetigore

5 Cowok Jagoan: Rise of the Zombies

The Forbidden Door

The Queen of Black Magic


            Indonesian immigrant Sugiman ("Iman" for short), a single parent, has a bad dream featuring violence and blood. His disobedient son Joko spends too much time with the flaky grown-up Adi, and his sister Sumiati has run away from her job as a domestic helper and wants to go home to Indonesia. Sugiman turns to his construction-firm boss Sarip, Adi's father, for help and learns that he can buy his sister an illegal passage on a boat - at a price. In the meantime, he needs to keep Sumiati away from the police, so he hides her in a cheap hotel.The next-door room in the hotel is rented by Rico, a Filipino fixer who is under constant pressure to send money home to his mother. He works with his buddy Marzuki for big-boss Datuk, and has 'borrowed' some cash from the till to meet his immediate needs. But Datuk wants his money back ...For policeman Hassan, married with two small kids, money is always short. He has a small protection racket going with some shopkeepers and is always open to bribes from minor wrongdoers to let them off with a caution. When his boss James assigns him a new-recruit partner, Hussein, he's friendly to the new boy but tries to hide the fact that he's on the take. But Hussein is outraged when he finds out about the bribes, and turns out to be quite neurotic about bringing law-breakers to justice ...When Datuk's men catch Marzuki and he leads them to Rico, the commotion brings Hassan and Hussein to the scene. Outside the hotel, Hassan runs into Sumiati, who can't explain why she doesn't have a passport. A call brings Sugiman to save his sister from the cops. Meanwhile Datuk has secretly recorded police chief James's demands for kick-backs. And before anyone really knows what's happening, all hell has broken loose.
    

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