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Tag Archives: China
The Other Half AKA Ling yi ban (2006) Liang Ying, Xigui Chen, Gang Deng, Huibin Liu
Working as a secretary for a legal office, Xiaofen records clients detailing Read More »
Black Spot AKA Hei se zou lang (1994) Bruce Le, Rossieo Badin, Yuen-Man Cheng, Tao Chiang
A reformed former drug kingpin (Bruce Le) goes undercover to investigate Read More »
Zhou Yu’s Train AKA Zhou Yu de huo che (2002) Zhou Sun, Li Gong, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Honglei Sun
Zhou Yu, a ceramic decorative artist, travels twice a week from her hometown of San Ming to Chongyang Read More »
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) Pawo Choyning Dorji, Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung
An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia. Read More »
Connected AKA Bo chi tung wah (2008) Benny Chan, Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung
Bob’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector Read More »
The Story of Qiu Ju AKA Qiu Ju da guan si (1992) Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village Read More »
Life AKA Ren sheng (1984) Tian-Ming Wu, Lijing Zhou, Yufang Wu, Baocheng Gao
Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. Read More »
Walking on the Wild Side AKA Lai xiao zi (2006) Jie Han, Peijiang Bai, Qiang Guo, Jing Hou
Three young men go on the run from their dying mining town in Shanxi when they Read More »
Watermarks: Three Letters from China (2013) Luc Schaedler
Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people Read More »
Night Train AKA Ye Che (2007) Yi’nan Diao, Rongcai Fu, Chao Ji, Dan Liu
Wu Hongyan is a young woman working as a prison guard during executions of female convicts. Read More »
Martial Arts of Shaolin AKA Nan bei Shao Lin (1986) Chia-Liang Liu, Jet Li, Jianqiang Hu, Qiuyan Huang
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler Read More »
Memoria (2021) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul Read More »
The Winter of Three Hairs AKA San Mao liu lang ji (1949) Gong Yan, Ming Zhao, Mo Cheng, Longji Wang, Long Gongboan
San mao was an orphan in old Shanghai. He ate poster paste, slept in garbage truck, kept warm in ragged sacks in winter. Read More »
Longing for the Rain AKA Chunmeng (2013) Tian-yi Yang, Siyuan Zhao, Jia Fu, Pongpazroj Dej
Fang Lei, a Beijing housewife, is leading a peaceful and affluent life with her husband and daughter. Read More »