Feng Shui (film)
Feng Shui is a 2004 Filipino horror movie starring Kris Aquino about an old bagua mirror that showers luck and prosperity to its owner and brings death to those near her. The film grossed Php 137.56 million. The film was a blockbuster hit in 2004, second to Now That I Have You which starred John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo. The Hollywood version of the movie is still frozen and unknown if Star Cinema have already decided in having a contract with Hollywood.
The movie opens with some videos of Chinatown's lucky charms and Buddha statues as well as statues of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and other saints then the movie starts with Joy (Kris Aquino); a typical mother riding a bus, she then is awoken as the bus stops and passengers leave the bus. She notices a man (Emil Sandoval) who leaves a mysterious package on his seat. Failing to return it to the man, she proceeds to the local bakery to buy bread and shows the package to Aling Biring; the owner of the local bakery. Aling Biring tells Joy that it is a Bagua and is believed to be lucky by the Chinese. Joy arrives home and is ignored by her drunken husband, Inton (Jay Manalo). She then is visited by Mang Nestor (Leo Gamboa); her own tricycle driver who checks himself at the hanged Bagua thinking it as an ordinary mirror and returns the groceries Joy left. Joy then shows it to her friends; Alice (Lotlot De Leon) and Thelma (Ilonah Jean) and then experiences good luck with her winning almost everything from raffles to job promotions. She later finds out the death of Aling Biring who haunted Joy, Aling Biring is then known to die of Leptospirosis. She, Alice and Thelma check Aling Biring's birth date and discovers she was born under the year of the rat, Leptospirosis is caused by contact with a rat's urine or feces. They also learn that the man who left the Bagua in the bus, Evart Mendoza, was born in the year of the rabbit and was killed by a Rabbit Liner bus. She then finds out the death of Mang Nestor as well as death of two bodyguards but before that she got lucky; Joy accepted an inheritance. She visits a Chinese master, Hsui Liao (Joonee Gamboa) and he tells them about the legend of Lotus Girl, he then advices Joy to reject the offers of good luck so that it wouldn't bring bad luck amongst her friends and people close to her. Alice then is killed by a drunk man by pushing her off out of the window and falling on a bottle of Red Horse (Alice was born in the year of the Horse). All the ghosts from Aling Biring to Alice to the mysterious man who left the Bagua as well as Lotus Girl now haunt Joy's home and her families. Joy asks Thelma to go and take her children. Joy's husband then is killed by a man (Nonie Buencamino) after trying to escape with his other woman who was the wife of the killer. Joy then again gets lucky by being saved from death as the man killed himself instead of killing Joy. Thelma and Joy's children then die after a fatal accident, they died by crashing in front of a truck full of cows and chicken (Joy's children and Thelma were born under the year of the Ox and Rooster). Joy then arrives at her home being offered another offer by a lawyer she then rejects it, she finds out that Thelma and her children survived the fatal accident but she was wrong. She then finds out that they are dead after her husband joins the pair. The movie ends with a new family moving in the subdivision, with twin girls finding the bagua and showing it to their parents (Jenine Desiderio and Froilan Sales).
Characters:
Kris Aquino as Joy Ramirez
Jay Manalo as Inton Ramirez
Lotlot De Leon as Alice
Ilonah Jean as Thelma
John Vladimir Manalo as Denton Ramirez
Cherry Pie Picache as Lily Mendoza
Noni Buencamino as Louie
Joonee Gamboa as Hsui Liao
Gerard Pizzaras as Teodoro
Emil Sandoval as Evart Mendoza
Daria Ramirez as Mother-In-Law
Jenny Miller as Dina
Luz Fernandez as Aling Biring
Jenine Desiderio as Wife Neighbor
Froilan Sales as Husband Neighbor
Ma Consolacion Llavanes as Lotus Feet
Denise Joaquin as Denise
Directed by Chito Roño
Produced by Tess V. Fuentes
Charo Santos-Concio
Malou N. Santos
Written by Roy C. Iglesias
Chito S. Roño
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