Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
The Boxers Omen (1983) Chih-Hung Kuei, Phillip Ko, Shao-Yen Lin, Kar-Man Wai
While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
Green Hat (2004) Fendou Liu, Yitian Hai, Congxi Li, Haibin Li
In the old days in China, a male servant working in a brothel traditionally wore a green scarf. Read More »
River Without Buoys (1984) Tian-Ming Wu, Ronghua Hu, Wei Li, Baosen Song
Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Read More »
Postman (1995) Jianjun He, Jue Chen, Yuanzheng Feng, Zhixing Ge
Postman tells the Decalogue-like story of Xiao Dou, an introverted young postal worker who is suddenly promoted from installing mail boxes to delivering letters. Read More »
Girl From Hunan (1986) U Lan, Fei Xie, Renhua Na, Xiaoguang Deng, Zongxiang Guan
China, 1900. Xiaoxiao, a girl of about 12, comes to a mountain village for an arranged marriage with a two-year-old boy, Chunguan. Read More »
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Biography, Drama
This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »
The Sandwich Man (1983) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Jen Wan, Bor Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Drama
Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan’s Cold War period. Read More »
That Day on the Beach (1983) Edward Yang, Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Terry Hu, Drama
Two friends who have not seen each other for two years return. One is a powerful concert pianist back from a European tour and another has only started a brand new small business. Read More »
A Borrowed Life (1994) Nien-Jen Wu, Akio Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee, Drama
Sega, a Taiwanese born in the years of Japanese rule, felt nearer to Western nationality and culture compared to Mainland Chinese government who took over in 1945. Read More »
The World (2004) Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing, Drama
“The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital Read More »
The Stewardess (2002) Tak-Sam Leong, Sam Lee, San-san Lee, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Keung suffers from a recurring nightmare in which a woman in red chases him down a highway and tries to kill him with a plastic toy jet. Read More »
Keep cool (1997) Yimou Zhang, You Ge, Wen Jiang, Gang Jiao, Comedy, Thriller
A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker — who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover Read More »
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Ang Lee, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity Read More »