
Part II, called “Remnants,” and is set in a shantytown whose living conditions mirror the dilapidation of the state-run factories seen in Part I. Read More »
Tag Archives: China
If You Are the One 2 (2010) Xiaogang Feng

Wealthy middle-aged entrepreneur Qin and beautiful flight attendant Xiaoxiao Liang question their relationship Read More »
The Wild Goose Lake (2019) Yi’nan Diao, Ge Hu

A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam. Read More »
The Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) Sijie Dai

Two youths sent for a Maoist “re-education” in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor’s granddaughter. Read More »
Love and Bruises (2011) Ye Lou, Corinne Yam, Tahar Rahim, Jalil Lespert

A female Beijing student living in Paris accidentally meets a French construction worker. Read More »
If You Are the One (2008) Xiaogang Feng, You Ge, Shu Qi, Wei Fan

After making a killing, Fen returns to China a rich man. Read More »
Peacock / Kong que (2005) Changwei Gu, Jing An, Li Feng

The story is set in the 1970s in a small town in China. A middle aged couple has three children. Read More »
Farewell My Concubine / Ba wang bie ji (1993) Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong

In 1924, young Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) begins training at the Beijing Opera House Read More »
Taking Father Home / Bei yazi de nanhai (2005) Liang Ying, Xiaopei Liu, Jie Wang, Yun Xu

A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father Read More »
Xiao cheng zhi chun / Spring in a Small Town (1948) Mu Fei, Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi

Following WWII and with China brought to it’s knees by the actions of the Japanese Read More »
The Spring River Flows East / Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (1947) Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng, Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai

1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
Martial Arts of Shaolin / Nan bei Shao Lin (1986) Chia-Liang Liu, Jet Li, Jianqiang Hu, Qiuyan Huang

Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler Read More »
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt / Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin

Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
Connected / Bo chi tung wah (2008) Benny Chan, Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung

Bob’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector Read More »
Not One Less / Yi ge dou bu neng shao (1999) Yimou Zhang, Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month Read More »