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 »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
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 »
Fleeing by Night AKA Ye ben (2000) Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin, Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Read More »
Sex for Sale AKA Mian ju (1974) Tseng-Chai Chang, Han Chin, Tina Chin-Fei, Ti Ai
Lin, a handsome guy from a small village comes to Hong Kong to seek his fortune Read More »
A Sun AKA Yang guang pu zhao (2019) Mong-Hong Chung, Chien-Ho Wu, Yi-wen Chen, Samantha Shu-Chin Ko
A Sun follows a troubled family of four. A-Ho, the younger son, has always been a problematic child Read More »
Green Tea AKA Lü cha (2003) Yuan Zhang, Wen Jiang, Wei Zhao, Lijun Fang
Well, apparently Wu Fang (Wei Zhao) is a young lady on a mission. Read More »
True Colors (1986) Kirk Wong, Lung Ti, Brigitte Lin, Raymond Bak-Ming Wong
A criminal has come out of hiding only to find that his old partner has become a priest Read More »
Taking Father Home AKA Bei yazi de nanhai (2005) Liang Ying, Xiaopei Liu, Jie Wang, Yun Xu
A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father Read More »
Platform AKA Zhantai (2000) Zhangke Jia, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang
Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers Read More »
Three Sisters AKA San zimei (2012) Bing Wang
Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. Read More »
Full Alert AKA Go do gaai bei (1997) Ringo Lam, Ching Wan Lau, Francis Ng, Amanda Lee
Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested Read More »
The Kingdom and the Beauty AKA Jiang shan mei ren (1959) Han Hsiang Li, Dai Lin, Lei Zhao, King Hu
This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. Read More »
The Red Detachment of Women AKA Hong se niang zi jun (1961) Jin Xie, Qiang Chen, Niu Tie, Xin-Gang Wang
In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 1: Rust (2003) Bing Wang
Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions Read More »
The City of Lost Souls AKA Hyôryû-gai (2000) Takashi Miike, Teah, Michelle Reis, Kôji Kikkawa
Japanese-Brazilian Mario and Chinese hairdresser Kei are lovers. Read More »