1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
Tag Archives: China
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 »
Blush / Hong fen (1994) Shaohong Li, Ji Wang, Zhiwen Wang, Saifei He
The film charts the fortunes of two women who loved each other as sisters Read More »
Legend of Tianyun Mountain / Tian yun shan chuan qi (1980) Jin Xie, Jianlan Shi, Fuli Wang, Shi Wei-Jian
The film describes the frustrated experience and love of Pan Laowu Read More »
Frozen / Jidu hanleng (1996) Xiaoshuai Wang, Hongsheng Jia, Xiaoqing Ma, Yu Bai
A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. Read More »
Drifters / Er di (2003) Xiaoshuai Wang, Yihong Duan, Yan Shu, Zhi-Liang Wang
The young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. Read More »
Beijing Bicycle / Shiqi sui de dan che (2001) Xiaoshuai Wang, Lin Cui, Xun Zhou, Bin Li
Beijing: young men in packs, machismo, class divisions, violence, and indifference. Read More »