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Tag Archives: Mandarin
The Bedevilled AKA Sum moh (1975) Wei Lo, Reiko Ike, Chun-Hsiung Ko, James Tien
In a small town, the only son of the local influential family is found dead Read More »
Task Force AKA Yit huet jui keung (1997) Patrick Leung, Leo Ku, Charlie Yeung, Eric Tsang
Patrick Leung (Beyond Hypothermia, Somebody Up There Likes Me) directed this Hong Kong action-crime comedy-drama Read More »
The Boys from Fengkuei AKA Feng gui lai de ren (1983) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chun-Fang Chang, Shih Chang, Grace Chen
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village Read More »
Dong (2006) Zhangke Jia, Xiaodong Liu, Sanming Han
China’s greatest living filmmaker Jia Zhangke (Platform, The World) travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong Read More »
Visible Secret AKA You ling ren jian (2001) Ann Hui, Eason Chan, Qi Shu, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
An unemployed hairdresser and a strange nurse, meet at a club and start a romance. Read More »
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon AKA Gat seng gung ziu (1990) Johnnie To, Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Nina Li Chi
Remake of Eddie Murphy’s “Coming To America”. Bo is HK’s richest man, and everyone fawns over him, nicknaming him Tycoon. Read More »
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt AKA Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin
Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
The Spring River Flows East AKA Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (1947) Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng, Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai
1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
Tough Beauty and the Sloppy Slop AKA No hoi wai lung (1995) Bun Yuen, Biao Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Monsour Del Rosario
Three high-octane cops–an unorthodox one from Hong Kong, a straitlaced one from the Mainland Read More »
Bloody Morning AKA Xuese Qingchen (1992) Shaohong Li, Zhaohui Gong, Yajie Hu, Lu Hui
The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because Read More »
The Warrior and the Wolf AKA Lang zai ji (2009) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Joe Odagiri, Maggie Q, Tsung-Hua To
The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. Read More »
Lust, Caution AKA Se, jie (2007) Ang Lee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai Read More »
Osmanthus Alley AKA Gui hua xiang (1987) Kun-Hou Chen, Hsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Simon Yam
Ti Hung’s parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Read More »
Dreaming the Reality AKA Meng xing xue wei ting (1991) Chun-Ku Lu, Sibelle Hu, Moon Lee, Yukari Ôshima
An expert assassin – trained since childhood to be the perfect killer – loses her memory during a mission in Thailand Read More »