Remakes of international films are popular these days. Making a story script that already exists for the audience of another culture can sometimes be more promising than the originals. Remakes can be highly entertaining in any genre, as long as you create a new love for an old story.
Here we have a list of the top 10 successful Chinese Movies inspired by Hollywood:
1. Infernal Affairs (2002)
Remake: The Departed (2006)
A young police officer has been sent undercover in the local mafia. A young mafia member infiltrates the police. Years later, they both race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
2. Bride Wars (2015)
Remake: Bride Wars (American 2009)
Two brides-to-be keep their friendship at stake when they battle it out for the perfect wedding scheduled on the same day. The remake received critical responses saying an uninspired remake of an uninspired original.
3. Only You (2015)
A remake of Only You (American film 1994, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei)
A woman, unhappy with her fiance, travels to Italy and finds her true love, but all she knows about him is his name.
4. Connected (2008)
The remake of the American film Cellular 2004
Connected tells the story of a single father who receives distressing phone calls from a woman who got kidnapped by a gang of corrupt Interpol agents who have a hidden agenda.
5. The Eye ( By Pang Brothers, 2002)
Remake: The Eye (by David Moreau, 2008)
It is a Horror-Thriller movie where a blind girl gets a cornea transplant. After receiving the eyes, she starts seeing some entities that predict violent deaths. The biggest asset of the Pang Brothers' The Eye has technical fluidity and masterful direction, which David Moreau failed to adapt.
6. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Remake: Tortilla Soup (2001)
A film by Ang Lee is a comedy-drama. It is a classic tale of frustrations and relationship woes of Mater Chef Chu as he shares his culinary skills and tends to his three unmarried daughters. Maria Ripoli adapted the story as Tortilla Soup and its remarks to the Mexican-American family. She managed to present an equally entertaining film having equally magnificent food photography.
7. What Women Want (2011)
A Remake of What Women Want 2000
Due to an accident, Sun Zigang, an ad agency creative director, gets the ability to hear women's thoughts. It helps him when he gets a new competition with Li Yilong.
8. 12 Citizens (2015)
A remake of the American Drama Twelve Angry Men (1957)
A controversial case breaks out where a young man from a rich-adopted family murdered his birth father. An experiment was held in the form of a virtual court inside a college to discuss the topic. During the process, 12 Chinese people got together and discussed the case like a jury. The main character asks complex and thought-provoking questions for people to begin to think critically. The movie sheds light on social issues and tries to provoke an alternative perspective through conversations. It is a comedy film that is serious in content but entertaining in form.
9. My Best Friend's Wedding (2016)
A remake of the American film My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
A successful fashion editor realizes she has feelings for her childhood best friend, who invited her to his lavish London Wedding. She goes to win him over but fails because he loves his fiance.
10. A simple Noodle Story (2009)
A Remake of an American film Blood Simple (1984)
An abusive owner of a noodle shop in China plans to murder his wife and her lover but gets intertwined, leading to double-crosses and fatalities.
