Strawberry Cliff

Strawberry Cliff
Strawberry Cliff
Traditional Chinese	贖命
Simplified Chinese	赎命
Hanyu Pinyin	Shú Mìng
Jyutping	Suk6 Ming6
Directed by	Chris Chow
Written by	Chris Chow
Produced by	Lu Cien-hioe; Lee Chi-ngai; Tang Hong-keung
Starring	Eason Chan; Leslie-Anne Huff; Roy Werner; Kimberly Estrada
Cinematography	Teruhisa Yoshida
Edited by	Daniel Martinico
Music by	Youki Yamamoto
Production; companies	Irresistible Films; Hong Kong Film Development Fund
Distributed by	Edko Films
Release date	1 December 2011;
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	English

Strawberry Cliff is a 2011 Hong Kong thriller film written and directed by Chris Chow, who has participated in writing scripts for films such as Fearless and Blood: The Last Vampire. It stars Eason Chan and Leslie-Anne Huff and was filmed in both Hong Kong and Los Angeles. The film also features Eason Chan in his first English language role and Chris Chow in his directorial debut.

Plot

Kate has a supernatural power, that with one look, she can tell a person's time of death without any mistake. One day in a restaurant in Seattle, she meets Jason who is going to die a few hours later. She made a deal with Jason that if he reincarnates to his next life, he will tell her about it and let her know what is reincarnation.

That night, as Kate predicted, Jason died and that last moment before he dies, he saw a horrible image.

Days later, Kate receives a "reincarnation" phone call. Frightened, she follows the phone caller's instruction and leaves from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and there she meets Daren. Daren is a bartender, because he has an "incomplete spirit", he feels depressed. Darren and Kate investigate about the journey of reincarnation and found out the truth of the horrible image that Jason saw before his death.

Kate finds out that her father, the first person whose death she ever predicted, was the cause of all the deaths occurring around her. She was stricken with health problems since her birth and was never supposed to live. So her father, once dead, has been killing people around her to preserve Kate's life. "Others' lives aren't as important as yours" he would say.

The final scene shows Jean, the third person who shares a mind with Jason and Darren, finally meeting Kate. Jean tells her the tale of the strawberry cliff, emphasizing on how sweet death is.

Cast

Eason Chan as Darren
Leslie-Anne Huff as Kate
Roy Werner as Kate's father
Kimberly Estrada as Maggie Johnston
Anthony Chaput as Jason
Antonella Monceau as Jeanne
David Alan Graf as Doctor
Eli Klien as Young Jason
Brian Maslow as Travel Agent
David Oxley as George
Lee Perkins as Grouchy Customer
Shawna Sutherland as Gabriella
Bogdan Szumilas as Homeless man

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