On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
Song at Midnight AKA Ye ban ge sheng (1937) Weibang Ma-Xu, Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin
China’s first horror film, this is loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera. Read More »
Electric Shadows AKA Meng ying tong nian (2004) Jiang Xiao, Yu Xia, Haibin Li, Yijing Zhang
For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Read More »
The Singing Killer AKA Xiao sha xing (1970) Cheh Chang, David Chiang, Ping Wang, Tina Chin-Fei
David Chiang plays Johnny, a reformed criminal turned pop headliner at a hip club in Hong Kong. Read More »
East Palace, West Palace (1996) Yuan Zhang, Si Han, Jun Hu, Jing Ye
In China, homosexuality isn’t illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for “hooliganism”. Read More »
The Road Home (1999) Yimou Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng
City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. Read More »
Little Red Flowers (2006) Yuan Zhang, Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen
Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. Read More »
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) Joan Chen, Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 Read More »
The Horse Thief (1986) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan, Daiba, Jiji Dan, Drashi
The story of Norbu, a horse thief, who is thrown out of his tribe in an effort to purge it of evil. Read More »
Lost in Beijing (2007) Yu Li, Bingbing Fan, Dawei Tong, Tony Ka Fai Leung
Lin Dong and Wang Mei are a childless couple in Beijing, wealthy, approaching middle age. Read More »
Everlasting Regret (2005) Stanley Kwan, Sammi Cheng, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jun Hu
A person’s life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Read More »
The Venus Tear Diamond (1971) Umetsugu Inoue, Lily Ho, Yun Ling, Chih Hsien Po
Legendary jewel thieves “Nocturnal Earl” (Ling Yun) and “Fragrant Night” (Lily Ho) are set on a collision Read More »
Ameera (2014) Honghui Xu, Collin Chou, So Won Ham, Micheal Han
The film tells the female agent Ameera after a failed mission, private life crisis, conspiracy Read More »
The Drummer (2007) Kenneth Bi, Jaycee Chan, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Angelica Lee
When Sid insults a powerful triad boss, his father sends him to Taiwan for safety. Read More »
Hunting List (1994) Yen-Ping Chu, Ray Lui, Shu-fang Lu, Vivian Hsu
Chu Chi Kit returns to HK from Taiwan after many years in hiding Read More »