| Feng Shui | |
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Feng Shui DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Chito Roño |
| Produced by | Tess V. Fuentes Charo Santos-Concio Malou N. Santos |
| Written by | Roy C. Iglesias Chito S. Roño |
| Starring | Kris Aquino |
| Music by | Carmina Cuya |
| Cinematography | Neil Daza |
| Editing by | Vito Cajili |
| Distributed by | Star Cinema |
| Release date(s) | 15 September 2004 (Philippines) |
| Country | Philippines |
| Language | Filipino, English |
| Box office | Php 137.56 million |
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. The Hollywood version of the movie is still frozen and it is unknown if Star Cinema have decided to have a contract with Hollywood
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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. The movie starts with Joy (Kris Aquino), a typical mother riding a bus; she then is awoken as the bus stops and passengers leave. She notices Evart Mendoza (Emil Sandoval) leaving 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. 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 tricycle driver. He who checks himself in the hanged bagua thinking it is an ordinary mirror and returns the groceries Joy left. Joy then shows the bagua 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 learns of 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 Evart Mendoza (who left the bagua in the bus) 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 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 Lady. He advises Joy to reject the offers of good luck so that it won't bring bad luck amongst her friends and people close to her.
Alice then is killed by a drunken man (Who got enraged for slamming the door on his face) by pushing her off out of the window and falling on bottles of Red Horse (Alice was born in the year of the horse). All the ghosts from Aling Biring to Alice to Evart as well as Lotus Lady now haunt Joy's home and her families. Joy asks Thelma to go and take her children. Inton then is killed by Louie (Nonie Buencamino) after trying to escape with his "other" woman who was the wife of his. Joy then again gets lucky by being saved from death as Louie killed himself instead of killing her. Thelma and Joy's children then die after a fatal accident, 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 arrives at her home being given another offer by a lawyer. She rejects it and destroys the bagua in the process. She finds out that Thelma and her children survived the accident, but she was wrong. She then finds out that they are dead after her husband joins the pair, leaving Joy's fate unknown. The movie ends with a new family moving in the subdivision, with twin girls finding the bagua (most likely magically fixed by the Lotus Lady or the one Joy destroyed was a replica) and showing it to their parents (Jenine Desiderio and Froilan Sales), while the Lotus Lady is watching them in the window.