Jimmy Wang Yu stars in his first major modern-day role, in the same year he revolutionized martial arts cinema in One-Armed Swordsman. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
Wolf Devil Woman (1982) Ling Chang, Feng Shih, Yu-Hsiang Chang
A woman who was raised by wolves seeks revenge on Red Devil, the villain who ordered the murder of her parents. Read More »
The Best of Times (2001) Tso-chi Chang, Wing Fan, Meng-Chieh Kao, Wan-mei Yu
Although their characters and temperaments couldn’t be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. Read More »
Deep in the Heart (2014) Yukun Xin, Weimin Huo, Xiaotian Wang, Yun Luo
A young man tries to get away from his family’s overwhelming power, but when he accidentally kills a local thug Read More »
Run Away (1985) Tung Wang, Ju-Feng Ma, Emily Y. Chang, Bing-Chen Teng
Adapted from a short story by famed Taiwanese novelist, Chen Yu Hang, Run Away is set in the famine stricken Read More »
The Beheaded 1000 (1991) Shan-Hsi Ting, Joey Wang, Jimmy Wang Yu, Monica Chan
An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus. Read More »
My Flying Wife (1991) Sing-Pui O, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Li Yu, Fennie Yuen
A woman who is in debt to loan sharks is about to commit suicide to escape her debts. Read More »
The Women From The Lake of Scented Souls (1993) Fei Xie, Gaowa Siqin, Yujuan Wu, Baoguo Chen
If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Read More »
Temptress Moon (1996) Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Li Gong, Kevin Lin
Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Read More »
A City of Sadness (1989) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung Young Chen
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers. Read More »
Still Life (2006) Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han
Against the backdrop of the mammoth Three Gorges Dam engineering project in the declining city of Fengjie Read More »
The Hole (1998) Ming-liang Tsai, Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. Read More »
Cheerful Wind (1981) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Fei Fei Feng, Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan
A romance develops between a blind man and a photographer. Read More »
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Hsiang Hsi, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh
Produced by the Japanese Shochiku Company, this Taiwanese drama follows the lives of two generations of Taipei residents. Read More »
Nuan (2003) Jianqi Huo, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »