Manchuria, 1928. During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Itami, a young Japanese man Read More »
Tag Archives: Ye Lou
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 »
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 »
Spring Fever AKA Chun feng chen zui de ye wan (2009) Ye Lou, Hao Qin, Sicheng Chen, Wei Wu
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled Read More »
Suzhou River AKA Su Zhou he (2000) Ye Lou, Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua
The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty Read More »
Weekend Lover (1995) Ye Lou, Nai An, Hongshen Jia, Xiaoqing Ma
The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Read More »
Fu cheng mi shi / Mystery (2012) Ye Lou, Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi, Feng Zu, Thriller, Crime, Drama
China’s enfant terrible Lou Ye returns after a five-year government ban on filmmaking with Mystery (2012), a rain-soaked melodrama set against the disconsolate mist of Wuhan’s impetuously erected industrial landscape. Opening with an explosive car crash, Ye’s latest is a tangled wreck of moral impasses and social inspection. Slicing through a sheet of unrelenting rainfall, two modified sports cars – driven by a group of insufferably affluent kids – race through the streets of the Hubei province capital. Their recklessness is dramatically halted, however, when they fail to notice a young woman who has wandered into the road.
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