Army volunteers train for places in China’s 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
Oxhide AKA Niu pi (2005) Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu
Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait Read More »
Break Through the Wu River AKA Tu po wu jiang (1961) Ang Li, Shutian Li, Chunmian Yu
By the end of 1934, the Red Army in the vanguard of the first Army and Qin Zhang Read More »
The Days AKA Dongchun de rizi (1993) Xiaoshuai Wang, Xiaodong Liu, Ye Lou, Hong Yu
The Days is Wang Xiaoshuai’s 1993 debut. Filmed in black-and-white, The Days follows Read More »
Lost and Found AKA Tin ngai hoi gok (1996) Chi-Ngai Lee, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Kelly Chen, Michael Wong
Lam meets Mr. Worm, the chief of a lost-and-found company Read More »
The Singing Thief AKA Da dao ge wang (1969) Cheh Chang, Lily Ho, Jimmy Lin Chong, Chia Essie Lin
A jewel thief decides to turn over a new leaf. He starts anew as a professional singer. Read More »
Five Girls and a Rope AKA Wu ge nu zi he yi gen sheng zi (1990) Hung-Wei Yeh, Jing Ai, Shih Chang, Ying Chang
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. Read More »
The Devil’s Mirror AKA Feng lei mo jing (1972) Chung Sun, Pei-Pei Shu, Dan Lau, Chia Chien Li
The Jiuxian Witch and her Bloody Ghouls Clan are planning domination of the Martial Arts world. Read More »
Love Education AKA Xiang ai xiang qin (2017) Sylvia Chang, Zhuangzhuang Tian, Yueting Lang
A dying old lady reminisces about her happier moments. Read More »
Moonlight Boy AKA Yue guang shao nian (1993) Wei-Yen Yu, Te-Chien Hou, Elaine Jin, Yuan-Chi Lu
The titular boy in the moonlight is actually the young spirit of a man Read More »
Kill Zone 2 AKA Saat po long 2 (2015) Soi Cheang, Tony Jaa, Jing Wu, Simon Yam
Hong Kong police officer Kit (Wu Jing) goes undercover in order to catch Mr. Hung (Louis Koo) Read More »
Murmur of the Hearts AKA Nian nian (2015) Sylvia Chang, Isabella Leong, Lawrence Ko, Hsiao-chuan Chang
An artist reunites with her brother after the two were separated years ago when she left Liudau, an island off of Taiwan. Read More »
Summer Palace AKA Yihe yuan (2006) Ye Lou, Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai
Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. Read More »
On the Beat AKA Min jing gu shi (1995) Ying Ning, Li Jian, Liu Ying Shu, Liangui Wang
Take crime out of police work, and what’s left is procedures. Read More »
Battle of Wits AKA Mo gong (2006) Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung, Andy Lau, Sung-Ki Ahn, Zhiwen Wang
In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes Read More »